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3×3: Max Jury on Michael Jordan, Joni Mitchell, and a Healthy Respect for Tacos

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Artist: Max Jury
Hometown: Des Moines, IA
Latest Album: Max Jury (Out June 3)
Personal Nicknames: MJ. A) Those are my initials B) It helps me pretend I'm Michael Jordan playing for the bulls '96-'97.

If you had to live the life of a character in a song, which song would you choose?
I'd love to live inside the album Hejira by Joni Mitchell. She went on a road trip across America (which she took all by herself) and stayed in random hotels and what not along the way. I'd really like to do something like that — I'm sure I could learn a lot about myself.

Where would you most like to live or visit that you haven't yet?
Japan! I'm really interested in visiting places outside of Western culture and I think Japan would just be so cool. The food, the nightlife, the art … everything. That's definitely on my bucket list.

What was the last thing that made you really mad?
I'm always losing things … even when I make an effort to keep a tab on them — sunglasses, wallets, lighters, clothes — it's very frustrating … but my own fault.

 

#tbt the matching tour – somewhere in Ireland with Bobby, King of Boys Town

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What's the best concert you've ever attended?
I saw the band Low play in a cemetery once, and that was real special albeit in a pretty morbid, dark way. I remember I went with my girlfriend at the time, and we were sitting amongst the headstones. Pretty creepy cool and, in a way, fitting for their music.

What was your favorite grade in school?
Sophomore year of high school … I was able to drive, made some new friends, started thinking about what I wanted out of life … It was a coming of age year for me .

What are you reading right now?
Love Is a Dog from Hell: Charles Bukowski. It's a collection of his poems for the 1970s, I think. I love his voice as a writer and particularly the way he writes about love. It's never sappy or overly sentimental, but can still knock the wind out of me.

 

A rare look at 2011 through the eyes of #crema at #53 it was a simpler time – before my meme addiction

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Whiskey, water, or wine?
At a different time in my life, I would have asked, "Any chance I could grab a whiskey and a wine?" But now I'm all about water.

North or South?
I'm an Iowa boy, so I'm going to say North. But my best friend lives in Chapel Hill and, whenever I go down and visit I find it pretty impossible to leave for a whole host of reasons — but, mostly, palmetto cheese.

Pizza or tacos?
Pizza. Not a huge taco guy. No disrespect to tacos, though.

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3×3: Freakwater on Tacos, Time Travel, and Actively Hating School Well into Adulthood

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Artist: Catherine Ann Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean (of Freakwater) 
Hometown: Louisville, KY; Chicago, IL; Asheville, NC 
Latest Album: Scheherazade 
Rejected Band Names: The Heart of Darkness, Dr. Peanut, My Little Cauliflower …


If you had to live the life of a character in a song, which song would you choose? 
C: "Pretty Boy Floyd"
J: "Jack and Diane"

Where would you most like to live or visit that you haven't yet? 
C: Iceland
J: With Leonard Cohen circa 1972 in his Greek Isle home

What was the last thing that made you really mad? 
C: Ignorant white people.
J: Willfully ignorant white people


What's the best concert you've ever attended? 
C: KISS when I was 12. Fucking awesome!
J: Prince on the Dirty Mind tour.

What was your favorite grade in school? 
C: I hate school.
J: I like that Catherine still actively hates school. I was also a hater of school and suffered massive bouts of nausea every morning just from the dread of it, but there were moments of peace in the third grade. My third grade classroom was in Central Florida and it had no AC, but it did have a small toilet closet attached to the room. I would go in the toilet closet, lie on the ground, and spoon the cool porcelain bowl. It was like a thunder jacket, for I would sometimes crane my neck in a way where I could read the logo on the back of bowl. Stansbury was printed in blue with a fancy cursive font. This was also the name of my teacher. The connection between the toilet and my teacher offered long moments of imagining my teacher as a toilet mogul.

What are you reading right now? 
C: Greil Marcus — Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations. Janet gave it to me for Christmas.
J: I am spliting my nights between the latest Jonathan Franzen book, Purity, and a fascinating book by Tamim Ansary named Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. It should be required reading. 

Whiskey, water, or wine? 
C: What time is it? 
J: Last night it was whiskey, wine, then water.

North or South? 
C: For food or politics?
J: Catherine asks a much needed clarifier. 

Pizza or tacos? 
C: Tacos
J: That's a tough call. I may have to say pizza only because I think it's more forgiving as far as preparation. I can eat bad pizza and still find enjoyment. A bad taco, not so much so.