The Moldy Peaches are 28-year-old Kimya Dawson and 20-year-old Adam Green, a black-humored duo who met when Kimya was Adam's babysitter. Many years later, they reconvened and began making home recordings of sordid, sharply observant, and occasionally raunchy anti-folk songs. Their eponymous debut is mined from the same vein that produced the early work of lo-fi favorites like Beat Happening and Beck, and the overall result is equal parts creepy, funny, and charming. Whether their pop jokes have staying power is debatable, but a pair that can rhyme "humanity" with "huge manatee" and pen lines like "Who made all these things for killing?/Whose pussy hole needs filling?" is certainly a worthy opening act for the tortured genius of Daniel Johnston. In honor of the spirit of adolescence the Moldy Peaches so cannily cultivate, I asked them a bunch of questions suitable for any seventh-grade slam book.

Have you ever kissed someone to shut them up?

KIMYA: No. If someone won't shut up, I usually smile and walk away.

ADAM: I don't know.

If you could be any animal, what would you be? And what would be your name?

KIMYA: I'd want to be a big, strong, fast cat, like a cheetah, named Nermal. Or a manatee named Erica.

ADAM: A teenage mutant ninja squirrel named Garfield.

What's the last record you threw across the room?

KIMYA: The Train album with "Meet Virginia" on it. But then I picked it up and listened to it again. Just that song, though. That song makes me feel so weird. People give us CDs and tapes all the time, of total garbage. They think that home recording and not giving a shit go hand in hand. We don't approve of not giving a shit. All the half-assed rubbish goes out the window.

Who's the greatest American who ever lived?

KIMYA: I know a lot of great Americans. But a lot of greatness gets soiled by the time great people are old enough to realize they are Americans.

ADAM: Joey Fatone.

Favorite cuss word?

KIMYA: Heck.

ADAM: I don't cuss.

What song will play at your funeral?

KIMYA: "Free Bird."

ADAM: "Little Brown Jug."

Who would win in a fight: Helen Keller or Rip van Winkle?

KIMYA: Helen Keller was a badass. I saw the Helen Keller movie with Hallie Eisenberg, the Pepsi girl. Man, could she put up a fight at the dinner table!

ADAM: Ben Kweller.

What's the meanest thing you've ever done?

KIMYA: I was really mean when I used to get drunk. That was one of many good reasons to stop. I don't want to be mean ever, but sometimes I tease people or talk shit. Then I feel really bad and hate myself for it. And then I apologize.

ADAM: Forgot something.

What's the greatest cartoon ever?

KIMYA: Superbook is a really good one about these two kids who have a robot, and they travel back to biblical times if they need to learn a lesson. I saw a good Roadrunner recently where Wile E. Coyote jumped off a cliff onto a trampoline, and when he hit it, it turned into a bag and tied shut with him inside. Oh man, that killed me.

ADAM: Bionic Six.

Which cartoon character would be the best fuck?

KIMYA: Rick Hunter from Robotech, Kaneda from Akira, or Gohan from Dragon Ball Z are foxiest. I can't even imagine humping Goofy or a snork, just cartoon humans. I bet Jon Arbuckle would be fun in the sack.

ADAM: Widget.