20 Questions with Socalled

Were feelin’ Socalled aka Josh Dolgin these days. He/they’re playing the Big Smoke on May 19th at LuLu Lounge. Hailing from Montreal, it’s sexy and geeky and quirky and really nice on the ears all at the same time. And of course, ironic-chalk full of that shit. Anyway, he took the 20 Qs.

1. What is your dream of happiness?
Good health, constant inspiration, balance of bombast and tranquility, financial security, love, friendship, peacefulness, more even distribution of wealth.

2. Blonde or Brunette?
Brunette.

3. What is the quality you like most in a person?
Drive.

4. What do you fear most?
May 21, 2011, the end of the world.

5. 808s or 909s?
Both. And Linn.

6. What’s your biggest regret?
That I didn’t buy the incredible old Italian coffee machine from Club Social when they got a bigger one installed.

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?
Alchemia, Krakow, Poland.

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

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?
Tom Waits, Sidney Bechet, Om Kalthoum

10. What is your favorite decade in music?
40′s

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?
Blind, ’cause I like hearing a lot.

12. How old is too old?
99

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
Probably the same shit-hole apartment. With a Lexus parked out back.

14. Who’s your hero?
Fred Wesley

15. What’s your favourite colour?
Yeah right!!! Chartruse.

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?
That soccer-chant Black Eyed Peas joint with Usher.

17. Metallica or Madonna?
Metallica

18. What’s your most hated vice?
The magazine.

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?
Mordechai Gebirtig

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?
Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, the Alkoholiks, David Krakauer and Matt Haimowitz’ performance of Messian’s Quartet for the End of Time