What is the best book you ever read?
My friend Ethan got me into this habit where I only read the last page of a book and feel immediately disgusted or tricked by the entire thing, to the point where I just don’t read it at all. I kind of stopped doing that because you get to a really fatalistic point just understanding the endings of things. One of the only books that didn’t make me mad when I did this was Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red” cause it was so smart it probably predicted pretentious dickheads like myself pulling some kinda shit, and offered up a last page that made me want to read the whole thing backwards.

What are you allergic to?
Luckily, I don’t think I have any allergies to foods, medications or natural elements. How many people answer this question “Bullshit.” or better still “Mondays.”?? That would be hilarious!!

What’s your favorite piece of gear?
I try to think about gear as little as possible so that I don’t fall into the trap of thinking a certain type of gear will make a so-so song better. I do really love this small reel-to-reel tape player that I got a few years back and I use it on almost every recording I do.

Are you a cat person or a dog person?
Used to be a cat person, but when I started spending more time with Amber’s dog Kuma, my heart was changed forever.

If you could trade places with any person (dead or alive) for a day in their life, who would it be?
It would be good to trade places with yourself at some different point in your life and either tell yourself what’s going on in the future or see where you’re going to be ultimately. Or like trade places with yourself A WEEK OR TWO INTO THE FUTURE!! Just so you could come back and be like “Oh my god, things are going to be so incredibly subtly different soon!!” Or it would be cool to trade places with someone you don’t like at all and act the exact opposite of how they do to either tarnish their name or redeem their idiocy. But if none of that could happen I would just trade places with someone incredibly smart or incredibly excessive cause I can never figure out how people think so quickly or stay high as hell 24/7, yet they do.

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Even though he didn’t really adhere to the whole “shorter answers” aspect of this feature, we love Fred over here so I’m gonna post his responses anyway.

Fred and the rest of his Saturday Looks Good to Me bandmates will be putting out their new album One Kiss Ends It All on May 21.

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