This interview was conducted in the summer of 1999 by Jess Latham.

Fawn Gehweiler

JESS: Fave music? I just got the new Stereolab CD, I highly recommend it!

FAWN: Yeah! I just got the new stereolab, too. I like the first half tho,’ the free-jazzy, tropicalia kind of stuff, more than the rest of the record…what else? I’ve been listening to a lot of ‘Os Mutantes’, and early ‘T-rex’, like all the elf songs, um, all the ‘Deviants’ reissues, Brian Eno-the ‘before and after science’ record, a lot of bootlegged CDs of crazy Japanese stuff, all that are like 220 b.p.m, created with sounds from video games, and samples from like Disney movies – that stuff makes me so happy when I’m working, and drives my roommates insane!

JESS: Fave movies?

FAWN: I like so many different movies it’s crazy – not very many lately though… I love the 60’s A.I.P pictures – ‘Wild in the Streets,’ ‘Psych Out,’ I still haven’t seen ‘Riot on Sunset Strip’ in it’s entirety (anybody with a copy-email me!), but that’s definitely one of them! ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’, for sure…almost every Godard movie ever – especially ‘Masculin Feminin’, ‘Weekend’, and ‘Alphaville’. all the late 70’s j.d. movies ‘Over the Edge’, ‘Little Darlings’, I just rented ‘Foxes’ with Jodie Foster and the girl from the runaways in it, but I haven’t watched it yet. I’m trying to see more stuff from the Czech new wave too – ‘Daisies’ is one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

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