P.M.P: My musical influences spread far and wide, often I take influence from that which isn't inherently musical; from the smell of freshly made soap to the taste of a finely crafted curry dinner, I prefer to become inspired by sensory gestalts, not so much in a specifically musical sense. I would have to say though that the Residents have by far been the greatest influences on me musically. Then Danny Elfman and of course all my friends who make music.

C: What's your biggest influence in life?

P.M.P: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton's films, I remember falling completely in love with what I saw these men do. They taught me silliness and the lesson of the fool archetype.

The truly big one though was back in 1999, I was living in a warehouse in east Oakland with about 18-19 others. After traveling abit, I was riding back from the airport with a roommate and she asked me if I had heard of the Master Musicians of Jojouka. Well, of course I had. She then tells me that our roommate's band (Crash Worship) had set up some shows with the Master musicians and that they'd be staying with us at our warehouse.. This of course, blew my mind! They showed up a week later and became our house guests for about a week, they cooked us dinner, played for us late into the night on a few occasions and basically blessed us all with their presence. I was a drummer in the marching band that did precessions through the Crash Worship shows; at one point Bachir Attar asked for 'Simon and his drummers' to come and play a song with them, so we all jumped up and drummed along to a song. Now THAT has been the largest influence on me, I felt a strong current flow through me, intoxicating- I was mounted by Pan and danced as Pan for what seemed like a span of countless aeons. I came to and went outside of our warehouse to witness a huge lightning storm. Incidentally, as a side note, our warehouse burned down 3 weeks later.

C: Talk about Non servitum Arts?

P.M.P: Non Servitum Arts is an outlet for my various creative works. I created it as an umbrella of sorts for my music, visual arts and writing. It acts as a sentient medium, a servitor of sorts, as I grow and as my art grows, so does it. The name is Latin, roughly translated to "Not in service to" or "Not a slave to", it is rumored that these were the final words uttered by Lucifer to JHVH right before they started brawling (or so the Myth goes). I feel my own declaration of 'Non Servitum' is a declaration of the cutting away of ties to undesired rulers. Be they simply mind constructs; memes and rules one has cluttering their minds, keeping one from evolution, from becoming more. Or be it otherwise. I chose this term as a statement of intent for Non Servitum Arts because of my desire to stand independent and exercise full control over my work, allowing that work in same, to manifest and disseminate as it will.

C: What do you do when you're not spewing art?

P.M.P: Devouring it.

C: What's your favorite food?

P.M.P: Art.

C:What book would you give to a newborn baby?

P.M.P: Its a tie between The Red Tree by Shaun Tan (beautifully illustrated children's book) or The Psychopaths Bible by Christopher S. Hyatt. Perhaps both, if allowed that is.

C: What movie would you like to have been killed in?

Top Hat starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Preferably in the scene near the end, the big song and dance number with all the grand and elegant costuming and sets. It was a huge choreographed number with at least 60-70 people dancing around Fred and Ginger, those two falling in love to some epic Max Steiner orchestration- and there I am hoisted above the throng of dancers, held aloft after having ingested a poisoned prawn. Fred and Ginger tap and glide around my dead corpse floating ubiquitously from hand to hand. The music peaks, the two lovers kiss, and I am set afloat down the stream ever so conveniently located right next to the hotel (I believe the scene was shot in Italy).

C: Have you ever been tempted to evil beyond your power to resist?

P.M.P: Yes. Yes I have. But then again I suppose it entirely depends on what you mean by evil, is it then a moralistic perspective based evil you speak of? Or evil as a force that binds and keeps one from willful action, or perhaps even, evil may be said to exist as a liberating force, created within deliberate acts of disobedience. In any form, big or small these deliberate acts will appear as an evil of sorts to the one(s) who have vested interest in the subject(s) remaining complacent, in line and "good".

C: What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?

P.M.P: My ding-a-ling.

C: Is money a product?

P.M.P: Money is a virtual reality made solid. It can create great things of beauty, make real the grandest of human aspirations as well as destroy a great and many peoples spirits,loves,joys and aspirations. It is a product that takes far more care then tobacco or alcohol to handle responsibly, to obtain the pleasurable aspects of its existence without being trapped and inevitably crushed by its more 'toxic' potentials.

C: What's your favorite crime?

In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal to educate a dog..Therefore my favorite crime is the education of dogs in Hartford, Connecticut! They are intelligent living creatures that deserve an education, a chance at a life with a good job a family and nice doggie house.

C: When was the last time you went haywire and why?

P.M.P: Just now. I had my circuitry all frixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx . Just now I had all my hardware re dignified dddddddddddddddddddddxx,,,,,,,,dsadaddasdasaFnorddasasdadasdasd. Just now I am the recreation of a Phillip K. Dick novel from 1972, I had my binding resewnnnnnnnnvlv,vmvkvklvmvkvlvkm. I am not a retransitioned scape Goat here in this Armageddon. Are you getting it? Yes I'm a getting it. Armageddon it?

C: What do you want for your birthday?

P.M.P: I would like a recreation of an ancient Roman orgy performed in my honor. I wouldn't participate, just watch. Take it all in, the smells, the sights, revel in the sweat and passion of human sexuality.

C: If you had unlimited funds to spend on market-research or public opinion poll,what would you try to find out?

P.M.P: I would try to find out if anything that I have said here in this entire interview, has not been said by someone else before. Or perhaps if anything I've said here has the ability to change and mold the chemical makeup and physical structure of any of the readers brains.