| Q and A with G.T. McCall |
| Q: Do you snore? A: Well, yes and no. My friends tell me that my snore is so hypnotic and light that it puts them to sleep. I suppose that's good. Q: Hey, are you single? A: Ahem, uh, yes. The graveyard shift does not allow me much freedom to date. Q: I swear I saw you on T.V. as a witness to some murder down in Earth City, Mo.-(from the 7-11 Woman) A: Listen, I swear to Holy Buddha that I was not, nor did I ever witness a murder. Like they say, everyone has a twin, but maybe I was being interviewed while I was sleep walking! Q: What do you do in your spare time? A: What, I didn't know I had any spare time. Actually, when I'm not competing for the strong man competition and swimming across the Mississippi River I enjoy growing my variety of pepper plants, reading various papers strewn across the roadside, and lots of meandering. Q: Do you have a side job? A: Well, yes, I work nights now at Target corporation. Thanks to the fast paced environment and lifting heavy gawdy consumer items, I have lost ten pounds and am starting to get dark patches under my eyes. I think the P.O.W. war look suits me well. Just kidding. Q: Any claim to fame? Yuhp, not only am I related to the King of Spain and some Scotch-Irish folk, Alexander Graham Bell, and Alexander Hamilton, but I'm related to the wife of the guy who started Target, George Dayton, who also founded Dayton, Ohio. Of course, all this doesn't mean squat. Q: How did you get that stone face so polished? Did it take long? A: Well, I keep that info a trade secret, but it took a lot of filing, then sanding with wet sand paper, and then the use of a torch (and no, I don't mean the kind used on patio decks). In all it took me only two days for the final product. Q: I hear that you are a high context person, is this true? A: Yuhp, maybe, sure. Q: When you draw these fantasy creatures, are they from your mind or what? A: Honestly, it is a mixture of planning and using my mind. I usually do a little research as to what the "normal" animal would look like and then I proceed to put my own twist into the creature. Q: I hear that you have a name for your car? A: Yes, I affectionally call "her" the "Gray Ghost". One of the reasons for the name is that on overcast days my car has a tendency to become invisible to drivers. Q: What would be a great getaway for you? A: I would love to just live in the jungle for awhile. Wake up in the morning and smell the humidity and the wet earth and vegetation. And then probably take a morning shower under a waterfall...oh yeah. Q: What kind of music do you listen to? A: Well, in the mornings when I drive to work I try not to listen to any music as it has a tendency to put my asleep, so I listen to National Public Radio News, a.k.a. NPR. But at any other point in the day I listen to anything, i.e. techno, country-rock, r&b, blues and rock, classical. Q: If stuck on a desert island, whom would you like to have with you? A: Well, most likely I'd carve a coconut monkey and then embellish it with various beautiful seashells...what was the question? Q:You have reddish facial hair and black hair, what's up with that? Do you dye your facial hair? A: Thanks to the beauty of genetics, I have been sumptiously blessed with various attributes. One of which would be the dullish yet visually stimulating red facial hair from my Scotch-Irish side and the black hair from my Filipino side. Q:How long does it take for you to complete a drawing? A: I'd say maybe an hour or two for a semi-detailed drawing, but longer for others. |
| Q: What was the latest movie you watched and did you like it? A: That would be Z-Boys and Dogtown. It was the documentary movie about how skateboarding came into existence. Man, all I can say is that you really got to be into the subject to like the movie. I found myself intriqued by the paster moldings on the movie theater ceiling after awhile. Q: I thought I saw you recently in Delmar, a.k.a. "The Loop". A: Probably, I was the one clanging my empty coffee cup for spare change..... Q:What's your favorite color? A: You know, as an artist I am an equal opportunity color person. I like all the colors...except pastels. Damned pastels, whoever created them should be strung up by those plastic pastel colored Easter eggs. Q: Do you see dead people? A: Ahem...no. Well, I do see a lot of weird stuff late at night when I'm creating. But I usually relate that to the noxious chemicals I work with. Q: I hear you have a green-thumb? A: Why yes, yes I do. I have a prodigious veggie garden as well where I am planning to breed habenero peppers with jalapenos to make the most $$*%&* hot sauce there is. Plus, it will work as an effective laxative!!! Q: If we have any more questions for you where can we send them? A: Just send your e-mail with your question to [email protected] All Questions herein have been recently asked and all answers have been reliably and thought provokingly answered by the artist, G.T. McCall |