Adrian, how did your father being a psychoanalyst and your mother starting first in theatre and yoga mold you?<\/strong><\/p>\nAdrian: They\u2019re both self-employed people and they\u2019ve always been self-employed. They\u2019ve made a really big point of how that was and I\u2019ve never been able to live within other people\u2019s boundaries. Even when I went to college I created my own major. It was Encountering Self Divinity Paths and Liberation Theology and German Social Theory and the reason I did it was the same reason I\u2019ve done shit like that wherever. I\u2019ve always had real trouble with authority.<\/p>\n
Your mother has founded two yoga studios in Katonah which you teach at. What\u2019s your experience and attitude towards teaching?<\/strong><\/p>\nAdrian: I lecture a lot in a very intellectual, highly philosophized way. It\u2019s about being constantly being aware of your own bullshit and your own patterns, you begin to make new patterns. You train your body and eventually your mind follows suit. Performing is really hard for me, I get nervous as all hell so I use teaching as a performance.<\/p>\n
Your music video for Solar Laws is reminiscent of Where The Wild Things Are. Were you inspired by the children\u2019s book?<\/strong><\/p>\nAdrian: If it was inspired by Where the Wild Things Are it was only aesthetically. Ideologically it came out of an LSD trip: Me, Luke and the director Nick Pesce had just graduated college. It was an uncertain time and that\u2019s what the trip became about. Trips are always circumstantial and about where you are in life and how you\u2019re feeling, so it became about reckoning with your youth or reckoning with your naivet\u00e9 and your boyhood and making sure you don\u2019t lose it.<\/p>\n
What do you think you\u2019ve maintained from your boyhood? Through that transition period, what\u2019s stuck with you?<\/strong><\/p>\nAdrian: I think a really important thing that\u2019s stuck with me is a sense of wonder. It\u2019s really important to me to always be amazed by the world.<\/p>\n
Luca: I guess having a sense of community is something I retained. At least growing up in Katonah.<\/p>\n
Tell me a little about your experience of yelling in the woods, of being woodland boys\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nAdrian: My Dad did a lot of hiking and growing up we were a very physical family. My Dad\u2019s a very eccentric dude and he\u2019d always find and create shortcuts through woods and rivers and waterfalls. I was constantly getting lost so the call is something he had to help find each other. He\u2019s a very quiet guy, very mild mannered, super mellow. He\u2019s a bit of a painter and he\u2019s recently got into found objects that he\u2019ll make into sculpture. He comes from a family of artists.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve performed with LA based music and art project Young and Sick.<\/strong><\/p>\nAdrian: We both admire Nick as someone who has the personality to channel creativity in a really wide variety of mediums and not just across music genres: his illustrations are beautiful as are his songs. He\u2019s a really special guy and he\u2019s really sensitive dude.<\/p>\n