*What is your day job?

Professional eavesdropper.

*What initially inspired you to become an artist? What inspires your work now?

I became Misty at age 17, when I went to a back-woods suburban party where a bunch of hesher bikers kept jumping in the bonfire and yelling, "Who stole my crack?1" That was so totally weird I transformed right then into the lady I thought best complimented the situation. Reading every perverted, romantic, deranged issue of Rollerderby, Lisa Suckdog Carver's zine, helped a whole lot too, as did having a lot of inadequate, funny sex with total idiots.

What inspires me now: playing dress-up all day, Manfred Mann, tarot card readings, tarty ladies, science fiction writers fancy fashion mags, anyone who knows things I don't, Pink Floyd, dreams while midday napping, Rimbaud, alternative rock, DJ Tommie Sunshine (just 'cause he can always make me dance), Oscar Wilde, bad childhood memories, MAGAS, goth shows on college radio, Jean Cocteau, and wild parties where I do something totally embarrassing.

*List five favorite places in Chill

(in no particular order) Weekend Records & Soap, Midwest Center for Acupuncture, the trashed-out train yard/kitty depot near my apartment, the Mystery Spot (I know it's gone but the memory lingers), any place wherever people are nice to me or feed me good, healthy food

*List five favorite humans in Chill

(again, no particular order) Weasel Walter, Marci Cole, Suzy Poling, my family (they count as a unit), whoever I'm dating right now

*Who would you like to punch in the mouth?

This is a trick question, isn't it? If I have to answer, I guess maybe my landlady's brother-in-law.