MATERIAL WORLD - NME 12.91

MATERIALS

Jim : Crimpolene

Tim : Honey, massage oil, skin

WHAT ARE THE VIBES LIKE WITH YOU?

OK, thank you

WHAT DID YOU DO LAST NIGHT?

Jim : Got up, brushed teeth, fed cat

Tim : I can't remember, I was unconscious

WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING?

Jim : Wide Ranger

Tim : Quantum Psychology, Kundalini Yoga, Time's Arrow

WHAT'S IT LIKE BEING A POP STAR?

Jim : Very good

Tim : I've no idea. Ask one.

FAVOURITE SNACK

Jim : Dinner time

Tim : Love bites

FAVOURITE JOURNEY

Jim : To the centre of the earth

Tim : Coming home

WHAT DO YOU ALWAYS CARRY?

Jim : Shopping

Tim : Gravity

WHAT ARE YOU LIKE WHEN DRUNK?

Jim : Axe murderer

Tim : Benignly tearful

WHAT WOULD YOUR SPECIALIST SUBJECT BE ON MASTERMIND?

Jim : Green Green White Red Brown

Tim : The 39 Steps

FAVOURITE GAMES 

Jim : Mastermind

Tim : Hunt The Mars Bar, Pick Up The Orange. Potential game show.

FAVOURITE HEAVY METAL ACT 

Jim : Metallica, Stutter

Tim : Uranium

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?

Jim : Funny things

WHAT RECORDS MAKE YOU CRY?

Jim : Really bad ones

Tim : Julee Cruise, Mary Margaret O'Hara, "Green Onions"

WHAT RECORDS CAN MAKE YOU DANCE?

Jim : Ones that travel down your legs and make your legs jerk.

KEY FILMS IN YOUR LIFE

Jim : Jacob's Ladder, Blood Simple, Bambi

Tim : Sky West And Crooked

WHO DO YOU HATE?

Jim : Baddies

Tim : Goodies

PUNCHLINE TO FAVOURITE JOKE

Jim : "Never mind the porridge, who's nicked the f**king video?"

Tim : "The horror, the horror"

IRRITATIONS

Jim : Questions

Tim : Negative patterns

FAVE MANCUNIANS

Jim : Brown paper packages tied up with string

Tim : Bobby Charlton, Anthony Burgess, Morrissey, Ben

FAVE GUITAR SOLO

Jim : So low you can't hear it

Tim : Breakin' In My Heart - Tom Verlaine

NAME THREE GREAT SINGERS

Jim : Pavarotti, Domingo and the other one

Tim : Mary Margaret O'Hara, Patti Smith, Black Francis

NAME THREE OVER-RATED PERFORMERS

Jim : Jim, Tim and Larry

Tim : Van Morrisson, Elvis Costello, Paul Daniels, Kate Bush and Prince (Ha Ha)

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE FOR CHRISTMAS?

Jim : Lots of very expensive presents

Tim : Real love. Self-sacrifice

FAVE GADGETS

Jim : Remote control model of Cutty Sark

Tim : DAT-Organiser-Video-Walkman-thingy

HOW DO YOU RELAX?

Jim : Sleep

Tim : A large hammer

FAVE SPORTS

Jim : Mountaineering, hand-gliding, scuba-diving, parachuting, potholing

Tim : Hunt the Mars bar

WHAT NEWSPAPERS DO YOU READ?

None

FAVOURITE LAKE

Greg

MOST ROCK N ROLL THING YOU'VE DONE THIS WEEK

Jim : Threw my mother's colour portable out of the window

Tim : Rowed with the guitarist

FAVOURITE JAMESES

Jim : James songs, and gigs, and t-shirts

Tim : Joyce, Swaggart, Kirk

FAVE SMITHS SONGS

Jim : "We want to be Smi-i-iths crisps, we want to be Smi-i-iths crisps"

Tim : "Hammer and the Anvil"

WORST SONG YOU'VE EVER RECORDED

Jim : All of them

Tim : None of them

FAVE THING FROM THE BODY SHOP

Jim : Dodgy, recyclable plastic bags

Tim : Sexy massage oil

WHEN DID YOU LAST BREAK THE LAW?

Jim : It was him, honest

Tim : Yesterday

FAVOURITE TIPPLES

Jim : Drinking

Tim : Favourite what?

FAVOURITE DESSERTS

Jim : Sahara and Gobi probably

Tim : Chocolate ice cream, cheese cake

EARLIEST MEMORY

Jim : 3.15am

Tim: The beginning of life on Earth, pre Greenwich Mean Time

FAVE PUNK GROUPS 

Jim : Pistols, Clash, Old James

Tim : The Stooges

WHAT ARE YOU BAD AT?

Most things

FAVE KARAOKE TUNES

Jim : Never heard of them

Tim : Kara Oke. Some strange Japanese singer who never turns up for his own gigs

BEST ADVICE YOU'VE RECEIVED

Jim : What you need to do is try a cover version, have a hit then try one of your own

Tim : You're on your own. There are no rules

FAVE SMELLS

Jim : Number One, Number Six and 11

Tim : Necks, hips, geranium, hair, bodies

FAVE SEASIDE RESORTS

Jim : Anywhere sunny

Tim : Beirut

WHEN WAS YOUR LAST OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE?

Jim : Being born

Tim : Now. Are thoughts out of the body?

WHAT SCARES YOU?

Jim : Bogeymen and people shouting "Boo" loudly

Tim : Paranoia, no love life, help doctor

FIRST RECORD BOUGHT

Jim : Sit Down

Tim : Paddy McGinty's Goat

FAVE SOUNDTRACKS

Jim : My Mum's Sound of Music

Tim : Theme from Cuckoo Waltz

WHO WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SIT DOWN NEXT TO AND WHY?

Jim : The pilot

Tim : Robert Anton Wilson, Gordon Strachan, Jodie Foster, Ben, Martine, Kylie, Liz McColgan

FAVE MONTH

Jim : October

Tim : August

WHAT WOULD YOU FAX KENNY THOMAS?

Jim : Who?

Tim : A condom

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED?

Jim : Who?

Tim : As the one that got away

FAVE CLASSICAL MUSIC

Jim : Ask Saul this one

Tim : Nick Cave's "The Ship Song"

MOTTO

Jim : "Life's what you do when you can't sleep"

Tim : "Can you turn your guitar down Larry?"