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"THE LAST WORD"The ultimate questions on life, sex and death. This week, Smashing Pumpkins bassist D'arcy is grilled by Liz Evans.Q: LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
A: Lately it seems like I've been crying a lot. It's better now, but everyweek for the past four months there seems to be some traumatic thinghappening to the people around me. Like people finding out they have cancer,people dying, and people having strokes. Just one thing after another. Ifelt like I was losing my mind. And then my puppy died. She was just a yearold, and she was my baby. And I'm going to cry about right now if we talkabout it, so what's the next question?Q: LAST PERSON YOU FANTASIZED ABOUT?
A: My husband. I never get to see him! We've been together aboutthree-and-a-half years and married for a year-and-a-half. It's tough, butwe have a really good relationship and we're apart a lot cos he's in a bandtoo, but when we're together we have really good quality time, instead of usboth having nine-to-five jobs and coming home and hating life and taking itout on each other every day.Q: LAST TIME ALCOHOL MADE YOU SICK?
A: I'm not sure if it was food poisoning, alcohol poisoning, a hangover orall three. It was about a week ago at home. My husband's band are recordingtheir album at our home studio, and I was doing back-up vocals. They hada bottle of Jack Daniel's there, and I was saying how it didn't make youdrunk, just warm and cosy... and an hour later I was staggering all over theplace. I didn't throw up, but I was really, really sick the next day. Iusually drink wine or clear liquor.Q: LAST TIME YOU TOLD A LIE?
A: Hmmm. I think when people know me, I'm pretty much an open book. If Idon't want someone to know something, I don't lie. I just don't talk aboutit. Or I tell partial truths. I try hard to be honest, actually.Q: lAST BAND THAT BLEW YOU AWAY?
A: OK, I'll give you a plug, but it's the honest to God truth. Fulflej,from Richmond, Virginia, are on this label Scratchie that I have with James(Iha,Smashing Pumpkins guitarist) and my brother-in-law, and they are themost fucking real thing. The guys are all brilliant, they're at college andthe speak Chinese, and the singer is a diabetic black belt in karate.They're way out there and they're so proficient. I'm afraid that you peoplearen't going to get it, because I think you have to know something about thestructure of music to get them. They have really crazy time changes, andthey play some really, really long songs. But you wouldn't want to changethem at all. And I love Screaming Trees and Flaming Lips.Q: LAST PERSON WHO REALLY INSPIRED YOU?
A: The girl who's playing bass for David Bowie right now is amazing. She'sso proficient, but she's not this cold, studio technical person. She has somuch soul and she can sing like a motherfucker. When she plays, she and herbass guitar are like, one thing. So many times I feel completely stagnatedbut the bass and mostly I just wanted to sing when I was younger. Regularguitar intimidated me. This woman is so amazing, but I still don't know if Ifeel inspired enough to practice. I don't think I'll ever be like her. And Idon't think I'll ever sing much with Smashing Pumpkins. I was really pissedoff actually, cos I spent 24 hours getting the back-up vocals for the albumto match Billy's perfectly, and they were cut. I feel like I'm being usedsometimes. Like an enhancement for his voice or something. And it reallypisses me off.Q: LAST TIME YOU HAD A FIGHT WITH BILLY CORGAN?
A: Not for the longest time. It's really weird, most bands start off asbuddies and end up hating each other, and now we're really close friends.Communication's really hard,but even when you can't do that you just have toaccept people. It's really hard for me. I don't have a lot of close friendsbecause I have a very high standard of what I expect behaviourally, andloyalty-wise from people. But I know who I can count on.Q: LAST TIME YOU WERE BORED?
A: When you're on tour it's like, "hurry uup and wait". It's terrible, youfeel like you're going to lose your mind. So I just fall asleep if I getbored. I've done it during interviews, because the questions are so boring.I used to do it in geometry at school. I had this teacher with a monotonevoice, and now it's happening again. With interviews. I can't control it,it's like narcolepsy or something. I've tried talking to the band about itbut I don't think they really believe me, or understand. It's basically aconditioned response.Q: LAST TIME YOU WERE JEALOUS?
A: I don't really get jealous. Sometimes I get envious of someone I admire.But jealousy is so horrible. It possesses you. It's ugly, because it's soout of control.Q: LAST PIECE OF CLOTHING YOU BOUGHT?
A: I bought this silver shirt recently. I got it in New York, when I waspower shopping, for the 'Saturday Night Live' TV show, and it's veryuncomfortable. I ended up not wearing it, actually. If it's hot, the shirt'sreally hot, and if it's cold, it's really cold. If I tuck it into my jeans,it feels like somebody took a cookie and just crumbled it in my pants.Q: LAST REGRET?
A: I don't have many regrets. I can't really regret things because I havesuch a bad memory. I never wanted to come to Europe to do this press trip,but I didn't have an option. Still, that's not really a regret. I'll have togo back to my puppy soon cause I left her in the care of someone else.Whenever I go away, I come home to a pile of shit. You can't trust anybody.Being at work is more like being on vacation than being at home these day's.I had this assistant and she was whacked out of her mind on prescriptiondrugs......
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