Clark is the frontman of the Lashes, which plays with Droo Church and Bearskin Rugburn this Thurs Jan 17 at the Sit & Spin.
What do you think would be more painful to lose: your arm or the ability to have an orgasm?
"My arm."
Why?
"Because what good is having an orgasm if you only have one arm?"
That somewhat defies a frontman's stereotype; you're supposed to get into rock for the chicks...
"Nah, I got into it for the money, it just hasn't shown up yet. I'm still living in the living room of a one-bedroom apartment."
So what are the best and the worst things about working at a record store [Easy Street in Ballard]?
"There are no bad things, because the terrible things that happen are romantically bad."
What about the good things?
"Everything! I love it so much, but I'm used to selling jeans to 16-year-old Japanese foreign exchange students."
Where was that?
"At the Levi's store. If anything can drain your soul, it's working at a huge downtown retail store."
Yeah, whenever I make the mistake of walking through Old Navy, I just feel sorry for those kids running around in headsets.
"I keep going back in there to see those dancing legs."
Dancing legs?
"There's a whole line of legs that march back and forth, robotic ones. I could spend hours watching the dancing legs. That's how they hook people in--you'd think it was their prices, but it's the dancing legs."
What are the most essential ingredients of a good pop song?
"Short, sweet, and dumb enough for the masses."
