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July in the Spotlight:: Halaka!

Israfel	Date: June 7, 2007 @ 5:33 PM That's right kiddoes...now is your chance. Put on your thinking caps and ask Halaka whatever your little heart desires! Post your questions here and I will include them in The Spotlight Interview of Halaka which will be posted in July.
Woof	Date: June 7, 2007 @ 8:39 PM Oh, my... 1. Where can I get Halaka merchandise? Like lunchboxes or trademark Halaka toys? 2. Being a fan feels more like joining a culture, than just liking the music. There seems to be a lot more going on with the band, than just giving us lots of songs to listen to. Is this intentional? 3. It's obvious in certain renditions of songs you've done, that there is a genuine reverence for carefully constructed melody and heartfelt emotional impact. Yet you seem not only comfortable with, but dedicated to, producing compositions that shatter the nerves and jar the senses. How have you reconciled those two extremes? 4. When all is said and done, what would you want to have written on your graves?
hate9wicket	Date: June 7, 2007 @ 10:12 PM ooh! yay! Since Halaka technically does not exist, I will reserve my questions for another time...ah...harump... When an idea strikes, is there some sort of klieg light that is turned on, or some sort of wrist watch alert enabled, so, sort of like the Super Friends of Saturday morning yore, the members assemble and in the intervening hours and possibly days...a work of sonic grotesqueness, is built and formed? I don't use that word loosely, I listen to a Halaka song, I do think of that Sherwood Anderson book, Winesburg, Ohio. Did any Y'all read that book?
evansorchid	Date: June 7, 2007 @ 10:16 PM If Halaka didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him - Voltaire
Israfel	Date: June 7, 2007 @ 10:18 PM But...Halaka is a them... not a him...and I am confused now...
Alstroph	Date: June 8, 2007 @ 1:49 PM We definitely have a question or some to ask of Halaka. Please stand by!
GTOriginal	Date: June 8, 2007 @ 7:13 PM May I ask a question?
HenriRoger	Date: June 8, 2007 @ 7:26 PM Who gave the Halaka name and why ? Do you like the Monty Pythons ? Is Franck Zappa an influence in your activities ?
Alwex	Date: June 9, 2007 @ 6:12 AM What are your biggest influences at the moment? what does your musical history look like? Do you have any beatz for sale?
DeadraveN	Date: June 9, 2007 @ 10:58 AM how do you decide how to distribute the instruments? how did you all meet? are you still pooping at Arby's? and most importantly of all, who's your favourite DM'er named DeadraveN?
DeadraveN	Date: June 9, 2007 @ 10:58 AM btw, this: "2. Being a fan feels more like joining a culture, than just liking the music. There seems to be a lot more going on with the band, than just giving us lots of songs to listen to. Is this intentional?" is a good one
vladb	Date: June 9, 2007 @ 6:19 PM You music sounds incredible organic, as if its creation was the most natural thing in the world. Is this something you set out to achieve and does it bare any resemblance to the truth…?
officernarc	Date: June 10, 2007 @ 4:40 AM what's been your strangest celebrity encounter?
imemine	Date: June 11, 2007 @ 8:48 AM Why butter? Do you know anyone named Todd? What is the meaning of life? Is there actually rocks in Rockville? That's a good start.
imemine	Date: June 11, 2007 @ 10:05 PM Is bologna better fried or cold? John Cage-------No butts about it! are butts optional? Method or madness? or both? Yes? Is Ham better with or without cheese? No? Okay for now----I have SO many questions!
PrincessTast...	Date: June 12, 2007 @ 1:03 PM What is the significance of the "billowing cloud of stump"? How were you able to predict that "Pluto's not a planet anymore"?
ndstgmoe	Date: June 12, 2007 @ 3:00 PM Oh boy. I wanna know about your recording process - what do you do live, what you overdub, what drugs you like, what gear you use (amps guitars recording devices microphones blah blibbity blah) You used to have a studio right? What was the setup like? Y'know, that type of thing...
SimonWaldram	Date: June 13, 2007 @ 1:14 PM Do Halaka ever play live? If not, why not? I know you guys have made many albums over the years. Are you ever going to release any of them on CD? (or have they been released on CD already?) How about a best-of? Can we hear any of the old Motherload stuff? I'm not sure you'll want to answer this, but: How much of the Halaka mystique is deliberately cultivated? The obscured pictures of bandmates (Kingo, pants on head), oblique answers to questions and random non-sequitors... Jandek has spent his career understanding the importance of the deliberate air of mystery, would you say you guys do too? And lastly, this isn’t a question, but I just want to say Halaka are one of my favourite bands in the world. Thanks for giving us so much awesome music
madhog	Date: June 13, 2007 @ 7:12 PM Wow.. these are awesome questions. I am really excited to see what the final list will be. Also, I have no clue how we're going to coordinate our answers. Maybe we can all answer each one individually. Maybe we can all get on gmail chat and argue for hours on end to arrive at standard answers. Maybe we can eat a sandwich.
kingo	Date: June 13, 2007 @ 9:59 PM I will of course be answering all of the questions for everyone. Silly man.
sackyjamboree	Date: June 14, 2007 @ 10:01 AM I would like to take a moment to answer one of the questions right now. The answer to that question is: No.
fanch-t	Date: June 14, 2007 @ 10:12 AM Do not trust Sacky.
kingo	Date: June 14, 2007 @ 10:53 AM I have a question for Halaka, more specifically for fanch-t and madhog: Who authorized you both to change avatars without approval from Kingo? Hmmmm????
fanch-t	Date: June 14, 2007 @ 10:59 AM I contacted the board of completely wonder of the sea, they said it'd be alright.
Israfel	Date: June 15, 2007 @ 10:28 PM Bump! Get your questions in now...next week will be too late!
Woof	Date: June 15, 2007 @ 11:12 PM Now that video has become so popular on the web, are there any plans in the works for a TV series like the Monkees had?
zedsalt	Date: June 16, 2007 @ 10:35 AM I would tune in for that one!
Israfel	Date: June 17, 2007 @ 3:03 PM Bump...again!
Alstroph	Date: June 17, 2007 @ 8:39 PM Once when I was listening to "Happy Birthday, Baltimore" I was visited by a decaying old man demanding that I turn off the music immediately. He looked very angry and had a gun. Was this an intentional part of my listening experience? As I listen to your music I'm struck by the complexity of your vocal chords. Were those purchased later? Can you elaborate? Who is your favorite dog? Had Halaka not have been the major success that it is today, what would the band members be doing instead?
SimonWaldram	Date: June 18, 2007 @ 6:22 AM A couple more questions: How did you guys get the word out in those pre-internet days? Did you do a lot of touring? Which songs are you most proud of?
officernarc	Date: June 18, 2007 @ 5:16 PM favourite conspiracy theory?
MickeyBreezy	Date: June 19, 2007 @ 4:24 PM is "on my carpet" based on actual events occuring sometime between 1991 and 2006 at a remote location being used as a makeshift living room? ...really, im dying to know.
imemine	Date: June 19, 2007 @ 5:46 PM .......I found this strange cassette tape at this department store. Do you guys know anything about it? It smelled like fish and sounded like Halaka!
imemine	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 11:31 PM If buttered bread always falls butter side to the floor And…. If cats always fall feet to the ground…… What would happen if you strapped a buttered piece of bread, butter side up to the back side of a cat?
hate9wicket	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 11:52 PM About Dream in Vertigo.... How'd ya set that one up? (Guitar) It kinda reminds me of Whipped Cream and the Dentist....... I have to be careful while listening, if I lean back too far I might injure myself.... (yes, I know that song isn't on DM) Of course there quite a few songs by the Halakans that conjure that state of being. Am I asking? Question!
imemine	Date: June 22, 2007 @ 12:09 AM Okay, another serious one. Did “The Bitch” really set Marion Barry up?
zedsalt	Date: June 22, 2007 @ 10:23 AM "What would happen if you strapped a buttered piece of bread, butter side up to the back side of a cat?" Yeah, right, Ime, like you haven't tested this already!
Israfel	Date: June 22, 2007 @ 12:02 PM 'kay, peeps...times up for questions. Thanks for all the great ones. Stay tuned for their answers!
Alstroph	Date: June 22, 2007 @ 12:42 PM And for all of you who asked bad questions - into the pit now!
Israfel	Date: June 22, 2007 @ 2:40 PM Yeah, just line up and follow Alstroph...he knows the way into the pit!