20 Questions with JD Samson

30 Jun 2010

JD SAMSON is one-third of the electronic feminist punk band and performance project, Le Tigre. JD also played keyboards and sampler with Peaches on her “Impeach My Bush” world tour, and has DJ’ed internationally since 2001 throughout many different party scenes and music genres.

In 2007, MEN was begun as the DJ/ REMIX team of JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of the band Le Tigre.  Eventually, MEN became a live band focusing on the energy of live performance and the radical potential of dance music, with lyrics speaking to issues such as wartime economies, sexual compromise and demanding liberties. JD SAMSON is currently touring as a solo DJ, “Creating space for rad people to dance and smile and hold each other.” JD is a people pleaser DJ and can swing as many ways as needed to make an amazing party or club night. JD  answered the 20Q and gave us the best answers we’ve heard in a log time (possibly the best ever).

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1. What is your dream of happiness?

Living in the country with a happy and healthy family and having strong muscle

2. Blonde or Brunette?

Blunts.

3. What is the quality you like most in a man

Living in the country with a family and having strong muscles

4. What do you fear most?

Vomit.

5. 808s or 909s?

You caught me on a 909 day but yesterday i would have said 808

6. What’s your biggest regret?

Not going to medical school.

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?

Berlin in Chicago

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without

air

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?

I’d love to see Joan Armatrading again,

The Bush Tetras

and Justin Timberlake

10. What is your favorite decade in music?

Probably when the cavemen were grunting and banging rocks with their big sticks.

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?

I’d rather be deaf. I’m sick of listening.

12. How old is too old?

Never too old

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?

In the country with a family and strong muscles.

14. Who’s your hero?

Nana Udelson is my hero. She is my nana.

15. What’s your favourite colour?

I like gray.

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?

hey ya.

17. Metallica or Madonna?

You caught me on a metallica day but yesterday i would have said madonna

18. What’s your most hated vice?

Wanting all the girls to want to kiss me.

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?

I thought about this question for a couple days and it makes me depressed. Trying to decipher the hierarchy of tragedy in people is gross. A lot of bad shit has happened since life was created.

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life? –

phish madison square garden 2009,

light asylum on the top floor of the building i live in 2009

tribe 8 wetlands 1997