Distilled
PD: How’s your free day going?
AO: [Yawns] Not bad. Today we’re doing press, and tomorrow we’re playing Conan O’Brien.
You just got back from Japan. Any Lost in Translation moments?
No, but I did meet Dan Aykroyd last night. I guess his daughter’s a Distillers fan. I was like, “Hey! Danny Aykroyd! Doctor Detroit!” It was cool.
Are you overwhelmed at all, playing Conan, being on magazine covers, etc.?
I kind of want to run away from it sometimes. I hate dealing with all the rock-star attitudes. I’m a fragile little thing.
Do you have any rock star moments?
I’m having one right now. I’m hungover and doing an interview, with a bunch of people in my hotel room.
Is it frustrating when people focus on [singer] Brody Dalle instead of the Distillers’ music?
I don’t care. Does the vice president care that he’s only the vice president? If I cared, dude, I’d kill myself. My room is on the tenth floor, so I guess I have the easy out.
I suppose that’d be less clichéd than an overdose.
Yeah, or maybe at the next show, I’ll blow my brains out onstage. That would be legendary.
What do you do with your free time back in San Francisco?
I relax. [Yawns] I watch TV.
What do you watch?
I watch Queer eye for the Straight Guy. I have a friend, and him and Tommy from Queer Eye are good friends.
You’ll have to have Tommy pay you a visit and give you some tips.
Yeah, I hope he gives me a visit … an anal visit.
You mentioned hangovers. Have you found a cure?
Yeah, pizza, Excedrin and vitamin water.
How are you going to burn your free time until Conan?
[Pause] Ah … fuck … [laughter in the background] ah … man … I don’t feel so good … now … I’ve had too many … too many moments … uh … hopefully somebody will take me out to dinner tonight, because I’m fucking broke … I don’t know what I’m doing … [long pause] … sorry.
Fair enough. Anything you want to add?
Yeah, Jesus has relatives living in the United States. Which is why Christopher Columbus came over here.
Yeah? Do you know where the relatives are?
No, but the Freemasons do.
