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Guest List features some of our favorite artists filling us in on some of their favorite things, along with other random bits. For this edition, we talked to Keith Morris, former frontman for Black Flag and Circle Jerks, and current singer for hardcore supergroup OFF!, whose self-titled debut is out now via Vice.

Favorite Video Game

Ms. Pac-Man. I'm not into all of these new games, with the iBox and the X-Factor and the PDR, or whatever. I used to go to the arcade. You'd get out of the house and go somewhere. Even though you were playing games, at least you weren't sitting down at a desk or on your bed. You were in a room with a bunch of other people.

Last Great Book You Read

Stevie Chick's Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag. I had to read my own quotes. [laughs] Come on, it's good for the ego!

Strangest Display of Affection From a Fan

I almost got the life squeezed out of me by this insanely gorgeous woman while performing with the Circle Jerks in Connecticut-- she was probably an exotic dancer. She started to get real close to performing a sexual act on me, right there on stage. We finished our song, and in my sarcastic between-song banter, I had to turn to her and say, "Obviously, you've mistaken me for the lead singer of Guns N' Roses, and we're not Guns N' Roses, because if we were, we wouldn't be playing here." That's when it dawned on her that she actually had mistaken me for the lead singer of some enormous band. Her shoulders slumped down a little bit, and her posture wasn't as perky. I didn't mean to hurt her feelings, but obviously she'd had a few drinks and didn't really understand the scope of the situation.

"Odd Future are like the new Geto Boys--

except that they don't live in a ghetto."

Favorite Song of All Time

Today, it's Sparks' "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us", off of Kimono My House. Sparks aren't your typical rock'n'roll band. There's a lot of thought behind what they write:

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Last Great Concert You Saw

I saw Touché Amoré, this new hardcore band, which was pretty cool. Trash Talk opened, they're friends of ours. They're so close with all of the guys in Odd Future, which, I guess, is the new young Wu-Tang Clan? The new N.W.A.? The new Geto Boys-- except that they don't live in a ghetto.

Dream Merch Item

Vibrating women's panties. I know that's an incredibly sexist, politically incorrect answer, and it doesn't bother me in the least bit. You can only be so correct, like, "Well, I can't wear that, because it was made over there by those people that only get paid five cents a day." Maybe that five cents a day is like $500 to them-- who knows? We don't spend enough time trying to place ourselves in other people's shoes.

First Record You Ever Owned

My friend Chuck bought me my first record after he found $50 in the fruit bowl on the counter in his house. His dad had stashed it there, thinking, "The kids don't eat fruit!" So Chuck came running over to my house and was like, "Let's go to Sears and Roebuck." My grandmother picked us up and drove us there. When we walked in, one of the first things we saw was a display of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Chuck grabbed two copies-- one for himself, one for me. That was the first record that I ever really held in my hand and thought, "This is something amazing." He ended up buying my sister a doll, too.

After that, Chuck was grounded for three weeks, and he had to stand in the back of the class at school-- he couldn't sit in his desk because his dad accused him of stealing the $50. My dad was excited that I was listening to Sgt. Pepper's because he smoked pot and listened to music through headphones-- and that album certainly is a headphones album.

Favorite New Bands

Bass Drum of Death, Mind Spiders, Xray Eyeballs, and White Fence.

Best Shows You've Ever Played

Black Flag played a living room in Hawthorne, California, with a band called the Tourists, who would later become Redd Kross. There were a lot of young kids there, including this one girl who drank three pots of coffee. Normally, you wouldn't want to do that, especially since the party started at 8 p.m. She was a casualty, and the kids were freaked out. That was fun.

And we played in a boat in Bristol, England. One of the guys from the Bonzo Dog Band, who were attached to "Monty Python's Flying Circus", and his wife just happened to see these excavators lift a submerged boat out of a harbor. The lightbulb went on in his head: "That's big enough to turn into a club." They repainted it, put a couple of PAs in there, and started throwing parties. It smelled water-damaged, like rusty metal.

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Dream Collaboration

Robert Pollard. That guy's pretty brilliant. Some of the music he creates is stadium-sized-- that pitch-black, everybody-put-your-lighter-up feeling. You could hear a chorus of 5,000 people singing, "There's nothing worse than an undetermined person."

Favorite New Songs of the Moment

Bass Drum of Death's "Get Found". It's cool to hang out with people like them and Ty Segall-- they're fans who are like, "We know you were in Black Flag, and our older brother and older sister listened to you, and we really appreciate that." But they don't sound anything like Black Flag. And I really appreciate that. It's a two-way street.

I became a punk rock Rip Van Winkle, the guy who didn't want to hear punk rock ever again. I hit a wall. But then I heard a band like the Distillers, and I was like, "Wow, the energy is still there. Stop being such a grumpy old man and get with the program." Like, why go to the smorgasbord and eat a hot dog when you could have some sliced roast beef or sliced ham? Maybe some chicken breast. Why eat over-cooked green beans when you could have some steamed carrots and brussel sprouts?

"I'm an omnivore: What are you gonna do when an animal falls over? Cut it up and cook it or dig a hole and bury it in the ground?"

Favorite Record Store

I live five blocks from a new record store here in Los Feliz called High Fidelity. The other day, I went there and bought the new Melvins album and the Alabama Shakes album, as well as the Todd Rundgren single, "We Gotta Get You a Woman", an Only Ones LP, Remains, and a 7" of Primal Scream's "Rocks".

The Last Great Films You Saw Recently

Hellboy, Moonlight Mile, and After the Fox.

The Best Thing You've Done in the Past Year

Sleeping for six hours after our flight from Dallas to Heathrow-- that was the best thing. Later on, we drove through Belgium, and when we stopped to gas up, I went in and ordered a steak. It ended up just being a big giant piece of fat. I'm an omnivore but I'm for the better treatment of farm animals, too. It's like, what are you gonna do when an animal falls over? Cut it up and cook it or dig a hole and bury it in the ground? I'm an organ donor. If I get killed in an automobile wreck, and they decide my heart is still beating strong enough that they can put it in somebody else, go for it.

(Least) Favorite Airport

Dallas' airport is probably one of the most ill-conceived airports ever. Whoever designed that airport needs to be treated like an animal that's fallen over. I don't know if you would recycle their brain, though. You wouldn't want to take that brain and put it in somebody else.

Favorite TV Show

I watch ESPN. Back when the Oakland Raiders were the Los Angeles Raiders, I had a 50-yard-line seat when they were playing the Kansas City Chiefs. The parking lot outside those games is just a giant party-- everybody's happy and drinking-- but the problem is all the drunks get inside and start fighting. They cleared out a whole section of the stands, 500 people. There were six fights around me. The guy sitting behind me who looked like a really well-dressed pimp or drug dealer got in a fight with three other guys. There was beer flying everywhere, it was ridiculous. The LAPD came in and said, "You either go home or you go to jail." That was enough for me to say, "Nah, I'll watch it on TV."

I've been watching the first season of "Green Acres", too.