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FIRST&LAST First record you ever bought Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual.
BRODY DALLE The hard-rocking guitarist, formerly of The Distillers and Spinnerette, talks Cyndi Lauper, Swedish pancakes and coffee
Last extravagant purchase you made My ‘Stand and Deliver’ studded leather jacket. First film you saw that really moved you Betty Blue changed my life. I saw the uncut three-hour the uncut three-hour director’s cut when I was 17. I cut when I was 17. It blew my mind. I saw The Exo mind. I saw The Exorcist at my babysitter’s when I w babysitter’s when I was five and then every horror m then every horror movie in the video store by the t video store by the time I was eight, which led to eight, which led to seances with Scrabble pieces and Scrabble pieces and a glass upside down. down.
Last lie you told Last lie you told I told my son Ryder I told my son Ryder that the Easter bunny hops around a bunny hops around and hides chocolate eggs for ki chocolate eggs for kids to find and maybe a toy firetruck maybe a toy firetruck too. First movie you ev First movie you ever went on a date to a date to
Bowling for C Bowling for Columbine with Joshua with Joshua [Homme, her husband a husband and lead singer of Queen of Queens of the Stone Age]. T Age]. The whole experie experience was extrem extremely intense.
It’s my momma-in-law’s recipe but I got ’em down pretty good. They’re freaking delicious. Served with strawberries, bacon and maple syrup.
First crush Bill Murray in Ghostbusters.
Last time someone criticised your work Who cares? First three words your friends would use to describe you My husband said ‘Sexy, badass and stubborn’.
Last time you made an impulse buy and regretted it Yesterday, Ralph Lauren wedges for Coachella, toe crushers. First job McDonald’s – you can’t wash that smell off your skin.
Last crime you committed I stole a bunch of chocolate bars from a milk bar in Melbourne years ago. First song at your (potential) wedding ‘Let’s Dance’ – David Bowie.
Last Last great meal you c you cooked I mad I made my kids Swe Swedish pancakes this this morning.
Last song at your funeral ‘Sleepwalk’ by Santo and Johnny. First thing you think of when you wake up in the morning My French press coffee maker.
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SUMMER SPECIAL The next issue is our annual summer festivals special, where we look ahead at the music, food, sport, community and other gatherings taking place across the country. We’ll also be checking out the more adventurous pursuits available in Scotland’s great outdoors: if you’re the sort of person who can’t enjoy an activity unless it involves a harness and helmet, this one’s for you.
Last thing you think of before you go to sleep My French press coffee maker. ■ Brody Dalle plays The Garage, Glasgow on Mon 21 Apr. Her new album, Diploid Love, is released on Mon 28 Apr – see review, page 74.
Misadventures IN WONDERLAND
SCIENTERRIFIC Our intrepid columnist, Alice White, went to try out some hands-on activities at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Here’s how she got on.
without a kid. The chairs are small, the aprons are that still exists. Got to take a surgical mask home
small, the people sitting around you are small. In too. Couldn’t have hoped for better.
my i rst challenge (to try out different smells and What was the best thing there?
tastes) I sat next to some smart-mouthed kid who My favourite was probably also the cheapest sub-
kept showing off that he’d eaten Starburst before. I event to produce: giant bubble making. Strangely
bit my tongue (I’ve done a lot more cooler stuff than this was so therapeutic that it made me wonder
that) as there were already a lot of confused parents why private rehabs are so expensive.
looking at me while I sat in amongst 3ft-ers. So why should we, the adults, go?
What activities are there? Because you live for your kids – that’s what you
There’s a ‘blood bar’, which wasn’t what you’d chose for yourself. I saw, probably, a 45-mile
think it was. I got to touch a heart, which was a queue to get into the zoo during the Easter
What is the Science Festival?
i rst, even if it was from a sheep. You can make holidays – this is another option to that hell. Think
It’s packed full of activities to learn about our
your own slime and pelt it at a giant target on about all the things you had to do as a child, and
bodies. I went to the City Art Centre but there’s the wall, you can make your own perfume, you
now think about all the things I just told you. I
other bits scattered about. It’s, and I’m sorry if this can follow a giant metaphorical turd around the
can’t help but think that maybe, if I had performed
causes offence, a lot more glossy than I thought it digestive system and get gristle out of a dummy
key-hole surgery on a red pepper wedged in a fake
would be. It was a real-life version of an advert for in a far-too-realistic hospital setting. I was
man’s knee when I was eight, I might’ve stuck it
modern alternative learning in the future. even surprised that the doctor conducting the
Is it for adults? operations was actually a drama student. She’ll get
Not even remotely. You’re not even allowed in full marks, no doubt, or at least a job in Casualty if
out in school to do it again for real one day. ■ Edinburgh International Science Festival, various venues until Sun 20 Apr.
104 THE LIST 17 Apr–15 May 2014