Frozen sheep, cannibals, weeing in public and imaginary friends. Just an ordinary day in the world of Wolfmother...

21 July 2006

TOTP: Were any of you brought up by animals?
Miles: I had a lot of pets. A lot of them died. I had a sheep that froze.

TOTP: How? Why? Frozen sheep? What?
Miles: My parents bought a sheep and it was in a cold part of Australia and it froze one morning. It just froze solid.
Chris: How did you feel?
Miles: Well, I was a bit upset. My dad had to bury it.
Chris: That's terrible!
Miles: Yeah it was.
Chris: Was it still standing?
Miles: It was standing. Just standing there.
Chris: Was it drinking from something?
Miles: No, just standing there. It was a small sheep. It was a lamb.
Andrew, Miles, Chris: [Collective sigh]
Miles: And also a kangaroo ran up to an electric fence and it got stuck in a fence. And...
Chris: Miles and his horrific pet stories!

TOTP: Do you know anyone who was reared by animals?
Chris: Actually my dad has a friend whose parents were eaten by cannibals in New Guinea and he was raised by the tribe for a while. He went from a pretty suburban, white kind of lifestyle into... Well I guess he was a child, so he didn't really have anything to compare it to. But he was brought up by cannibals for a while. We've got some morbid stories.
Andrew: You're bringing out the worst in us.

TOTP: If you could choose any animal to raise you which animal would it be?
Miles: A sheep.
Andrew: A dingo.
Chris: I might go for a giraffe.

TOTP: Why a giraffe?
Chris: I don't know. I've just been interested in giraffes lately. How do they sleep and stuff?
Miles: Do they have neck issues?
Chris: They're cool and tall. I don't know.
Miles: You'd be able to climb up and ride around on a giraffe.

TOTP: Imagine a frozen giraffe. Imagine the fun you could have on that...
Chris: Yeah. How? I don't know?

TOTP: Now, if you were brought up by animals, would you mind the fact that you'd have to lick each other clean?
Chris: We saw a lot of movies of people licking themselves clean in the back of the bus. Someone insisted on having those on. It's like some personal hygiene show or something.
Miles: Yeah, I guess we're quite familiar with that now, after seeing so much of it.

TOTP: Is this a method of hygiene that you'd consider as a band?
Andrew: Don't look at me!

TOTP: When you were returned to civilised society. What would you miss about your wild life?
Miles: I guess the urination.
Andrew: [Sadly] Yeah.
Chris: We'd miss the ability to pee freely and clean each other at will.

TOTP: Have you ever had an invisible friend?
Andrew: No.

TOTP: So you had real friends?
Andrew: No, I wouldn't go that far. I sat next to a girl in class who used to talk to her chair. She told me that the chair was her friend.

TOTP: How did you react to that one, then?
Andrew: I was, like, curious. I just went along with it.
Miles: What was the chair's name?
Victim: I've no idea. Chair.

TOTP: What did she say to the chair?
Andrew: She'd just tell it her problems and talk about homework and things like that.

TOTP: You never felt like befriending a piece of furniture yourself?
Andrew: Uhhh. Yeah, maybe. I meet furniture all over the world. We're very well connected in certain areas of furniture. They quite like our music too. We're in the Top 10 at Ikea.
Chris: It's a new genre of furniture music.

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