The whirling entourage accompanying us for this in-car interview prohibits our conference from ever really getting off the ground. Half full pint glasses of stout--lifted from earlier visited clubs--are past between passengers and drained. With professionalism evaporating into an advancing night, we both kind of slouch into the deep Caddy seating, agree to continue the interview elsewhere, and are content to enjoy the ride--an awaited ride which feels as though it is only beginning for Lynch and the members of Lynch.

Monday afternoon. We roll through the Greenwood Cemetery, home to such notable corpses as Alexander Graham Bell, John Steinway, and Lenard Berstein, who according to Lynch, is now "decomposing." Henry Berg, a founder of the ASPCA and relative to Lynch also rests here. "This place is like a living museum full of dead people."

I'm told about other infamous Lynch desendants, including Denis Tilden Lynch Author of Boss Tweed and a grandfather who conducted an armed robbery of the brooklyn battery Tunnel's toll booths, weeks after the tunnel's inception. The stolen armored car was driven to the Greenwood Cemetery--our present locale--where his crime was foiled before the truck could be rid of its loot. ( Never being caught or having done time ) With his family's penchant for criminal activity on the table, I engaged Lynch in a series of twenty questions, wondering about his own record.

Indiescent--Ever arrested ?

Kevin Lynch--Yeah. I was going to Alice and I got pulled over for driving on the wrong side of the road. I thought I was back in Ireland, but I was in New Jersey. The cop asked if I had anything illegal, and I said, 'yeah, I got half a joint in my cigarette pack. ' They hand--cuffed me, took me in, did the whole nine yard deal, and then they took me back to the concert. Then Cooper comes on and says, 'anybody out there ever been in jail? This songs for you."

I--If you had to soundtrack a t.v. show, which would it be?

K.L.--Dragnet.

I--Favorite word?

K.L.-- Fuck. It's primitive. Everybody knows what it means.

I--What's your rock and roll fantasy?

K.L. To be produced by Ian Hunter from Mott the Hoople.

I--Would you, or have you already, sold your soul for rock and roll?

K.L. I don't really subscribed to that mentality at all. So I don't know.....Pass

I--What would you fall back on?

K.L.--Poetry. I originally started out as a poet.

I--What was your first job?

K.L.--I worked in a printing press in Ireland.Then I went and worked in a fish factory and made four times the money and put up with twice as much shit.

I--Roll-on or aerosol?

K.L.--Neither. Soap on a regular basis

I--What's your favorite time of day?

K.L.--I like it early, early morning or after the sun goes down. I don't like the filler part.

I--When are you most creative?

K.L. Whenever it comes. If I have to do something, I'll have a few beers. My creative side seems to come out under the influences.

I--What's the ugliest part of your body?

K.L.--One particular toe on my left foot. It has an ingrown toe nail. It's really gnarly. It's really terrible.

I--who's your favorite serial killer?

K.L.--Manson. He never actually killed anyone with his hands though.

I--What was your most embarrassing moment in rock and roll?

K.L.--I had so many that I really couldn't point out one of them. At one of my first gigs I had kind of a mental block on lyrics and just kept repeating the first verse over and over again.

I--What about in life?

K.L.--My mother caught me masturbating. Just kidding.

I--If you could choose, what era would you live in?

K.L.--I like it right here, right now. Maybe rural Ireland at the turn of the century. Just to see what it was like.

I--What's your favorite planet?

K.L.--The sun

I--Which song or lyric do you wish you'd written?

K.L.--Midnight Rambler. The whole song, actually

I--If you were on America's Most Wanted,what would the crime be?

K.L.--Oh, having sex with an underage girl. Without a doubt.

The killer, he set the pace. Jerry Lee Lewis. He was just on last night. He says, 'this is my wife.' The biggest mistake he ever made was marrying her. But, as far as banging her, that was fine with me. because, I looked at her, and you know what? I'd be a liar if I said I wouldn't. Lock up your daughters! This is the highest point in Brooklyn. The battle of Brooklyn was fought right there on thet hill.

I--The Jets and the Sharks, right?

K.L.--I think it was the Dodgers and the Yankees.

I--Can you describe your music in ten words or less?

K.L.--Yeah. Iggy-Stones-Ramones-Boom Town rats-Thin Lizzy-Eddie Cochran and...Chuck Berry and Little Richard, and if I didn't go over my limit, Throw the beatles in too, of course.

I--Do you want to play word association?

K.L.--This is tricky though, because this is like freud shit, right/

I--Yeah. Maybe we shouldn't.

--Johnny Pump