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If you were to die tomorrow, how would you spend your final day on Earth? Going toe to toe with the reaper this month is the younger half of

In light of that chocolate godzilla, here's an interview in which Russell claims his last meal would be a fondant godzilla dusted in pink icing sugar.

Thank you @kanashimi-no-belladonna for reminding me of it's existence. I cannot believe I forgot this part of the interview.

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Swan Song: Russell Mael

The younger half of the Sparks brothers

23 · 02 · 2009

If you were to die tomorrow, how would you spend your final day on Earth?

Going toe to toe with the reaper this month is the younger half of the Sparks brothers, Russell Mael.

Where would you wake up?

Next to my stack of Ingmar Bergman films, which have taught me a thing or two about dealing with such occasions.

Who would you wake up next to?

Death and his chess board from Bergman’s Seventh Seal.

Describe how you spend your last day.

Death and I are engaged in a game of chess. Should I triumph, this magazine column becomes irrelevant. I know the ending, however, and, not to spoil too much, it doesn’t work out so well.

Who do you invite for your final dinner?

Some of my close friends over at the Hershey’s Chocolate company.

What will you be eating at this supper?

A six-foot-tall replica of Godzilla attacking Tokyo made out of bittersweet fondant covered with a light caramel glaze then dusted with pink confectioner’s sugar.

What would happen after dinner?

A group reading from the 101 Fun Things To Do With Chocolate book.

Would there be any secret acts you’d confess before departing for the afterlife?

I found a wallet outside Mrs. Cranston’s 6th grade class and kept the three dollars inside it despite discovering that it belonged to Cindy Davis and it would deprive her of purchasing her usual chili fries from the cafeteria.

What would be your greatest regret?

That I never did get back to the guys about their kind offer to sing on ‘Sgt. Pepper’. What would be the last album you listen to? The audio book of Lolita.

Who is the last person you would kiss?

Sandra over at Lincoln Dry Cleaners, who put a rush on my order to make sure it would be done in time.

How would you like to snuff it?

I’d be leading the peloton in the Tour de France. With one kilometre remaining, I’d summon up enough energy to fend off the lone challenger from the Romanian team. Breaking through the yellow ribbon to the clamour of thousands lining the Champs-Elysees, I’d step up to the winner’s platform. A violent gust of wind lashes across the deck pushing the scantily clad model who is presenting me with my winner’s trophy off the stage and to the concrete pavement seven feet below. The model would die instantly on impact with the ground, and I would succumb after two weeks in intensive care at the American Hospital in Paris.

What would your final words be?

“Merde alors.”

What song would you play at your funeral?

‘Je Ne Regrette Rien’.

What would it say on your grave stone?

‘Acme Gravestones. Over 30 Years Serving The Southland. We’ll Meet Or Beat Any Price. Contact Bill: 312-840-2286.’

Which dead star would welcome you at the pearly gates and why?

Igor Stravinsky. He was always such a big fan of Sparks and our use of tonality. Especially in the later albums.

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Despite his bewilderment at my Sparks obsession (and bemusement over my crush on Russell), my husband is now recording and uploading Sparks interviews for me.

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hey do you. have that full image of russell in the studio showing his pussy to the world and could you maybe post it please and thank you .

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Sparks, 2008 (source: http://www.intro.de/kuenstler/interviews/23051347/kochen-mit-sparks?current_page=1) There are more photos and a video on the link (text is in German)

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So the link no longer works and i can’t find anything other than this document version of the interview:

And the little bit via the wayback machine that I could run through translate:

The Sparks have had a varied career. From hit parade to oblivion and back. A first hit in the early 70s (“This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us”) was followed later in the decade by space disco successes with Giorgio Moroder (“No. 1 In Heaven”), but also that, what the merciless industry calls flops. With “Exotic Creatures Of The Deep” they now present their 21st album. And cook with intro. Following the length of the band’s career, representatives of all pop generations have their own little story to tell about the Sparks - including the mid-forties taxi driver who drove the ingredients for “Cooking with Sparks” to the editor-in-chief’s apartment north of Cologne Cathedral: “ What, you’re about to cook with the Sparks? You can’t do that, just yesterday I was listening to the ‘Kimono My House’ record! I love this album!” My most explosive one so far went like this: It was 1994 and I was one of the 450,000 German teenagers who brought the new Sparks single “When Do I Get To Sing ‘My Way’” incredible sales figures that I had never hoped for. It goes without saying that it is topped by today’s setting. Because the brothers Russel and Ronald Mael are cooking with us on the occasion of the new album “Exotic Creatures Of The Deep”.

Japanese food is on the menu, a request from the guests. Even getting hold of the exotic ingredients almost drove the editorial interns to despair. So we are counting on two gourmets and hope for a lesson in the highest culinary art. A hope that is immediately dashed when the two shy gentlemen, who enter the apartment at eight sharp, frown at all the colorful food packages on the table. “Uh, we’re supposed to cook? Hmmm… but we can’t cook!” It quickly turns out that the two of them live in their separate single households only from delivery service and microwave dishes, but then like to do it Japanese and extravagantly. But the Sparks wouldn’t be the Sparks if they didn’t take this task with humor - let’s see what we got ourselves into. Ronald, keyboardist and the older of the two brothers, takes the lead at the stove, while singer Russel attends the scene as an assistant, only function: handing out the hand sanitizer, which the two bathe with every few minutes to kill any germs. Here the Sparks correspond to the stereotype of the American urban neurotic - which doesn’t bother them at all.

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@hellosparkslovers he's old 🤤

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He’s old 🥸

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Russell Mael talks about the experience of performing onstage with Sparks (2017):

“It’s a spacey sort of feeling each time you go onstage, at least for me… You kind of say, ‘why am I subjecting myself to… putting myself out there in front of a lot of people?’ And then I’m nervous and afraid and have anxieties… and, what’s the intrigue? Why would anybody put themselves through that experience? And then you go onstage, and everybody is loving you, and then you understand why you subjected yourself to all that anxiety. Everyone who hasn’t tried going on a stage, should go on a stage sometime if given the chance- I highly recommend it!”

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