We spoke to Sihn following the relase of his debut album Enter. Now, following the release of My world, we spoke to him again.

Vicki: How do you select samples of films to incorporate into your music? Are these films you would choose to watch? A lot of films I like best (Tokyo Bullet etc.) do not lend themselves to this.
Sihn: Since I was small, I have had an almost photographic memory for movies. If I watch a film two or three times, I can pretty much have it memorized. I watch quite a few films a week. They stay inside my head so, when I am writing, they just tend to spill out. Most of the films I watch tend to be violent with a purpose, so to speak, shock with a message. My lyrics tend to be in the same vein: violent images with purpose.

Vicki: You create the complete package for your albums. Few bands do this; are there any bands whose albums' cover art instantly attracts you?
Sihn: There are so many. Tool, A Perfect Circle, Skinny Puppy, Velvet Acid Christ, Front 242 and Ministry, to name a few off the top of my head. I like NIN's artwork in Downward Spiral and The Fragile. Marilyn Manson's art is wonderful as well.

Vicki: On the inside cover of My world whose feet are in the shower?
Sihn: Actually, those are my feet, it is not a shower and that is my real blood. I slit the bottom of my feet to get the right effect. It was hard to walk for a few days but, it did the trick. I tried fake blood but it just never looked right. The artwork was a collaboration between ms who did the photography and Shelly Bergen, an artist i met on DeviantArt.com. I came up with the concept and she did the manipulation. The concept is of a broken toy who refuses to die. This came from a personal experience of mine. After the first time I was raped, I ran from the apartment where it happened and did not take my shoes. I ran down the stairs, clutching my torn pants and into the alleyway. I ran through it until I almost reach the street where I hid myself next to a dumpster. It began to rain and I huddled next to it. When I slunk down, shirtless and battered, my feet were bleeding pretty bad and had glass in them. As I pulled the glass out, I could see my blood run into the water and down a nearby drain. I hid there for quite a long time and the thought crossed my mind. This is not where I belong, this is not where i should stay and hide. The album art is a reflection of that experience.

Vicki: Care to recommend a book?
Sihn: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Vicki: Do you consider the benefits of technology to outweigh any costs?
Sihn: Tools without a hand to guide them are simply tools. The intent and morality of the hand is what generates the cost. The same technology that is used to save a life could be used to take life. It is all up to the hand that acts with the tool. In my personal life, I am waiting for my government to allow a technology to be fully researched so that it could save the life of my son. I am speaking of stem cell research and of Duchenne's Variety muscular dystropy. This country's current president is dead set against any and all stem cell research, especially of the embryonic kind. There has been a lot of good solid research done that has reversed Duchenne's MD in the laboratory by using adult harvested stem cells. In my tainted opinion, the costs associated with saving my son's life, even if it cost me my own life, would be beneficial.

Vicki: How are preparations for the live show going?
Sihn: I have had a couple of setbacks. I was working with a guitar player to play with me live but, he will not be with me on that night, it seems. I have a bass player who has stuck it out with me, Spyder. He is learning the songs quite well. The show will go on without the guitar. I had planned on going it alone in the first place. I am busy assembling my needed equipment and working with my sound man. I just hope people show up.

Vicki: Where would you ideally reside if given unlimited choice?
Sihn: In the woodlands of North America, on about two to three hundred acres with a fifty foot retaining wall around my property. In the middle of the area would be my house that I would design and build myself. I have had this idea in my head since I was very small and have planned it all out quite exensively. I even have drawings around here somewhere for the blueprints of the house.

Vicki: Are there any new bands who you consider to be especially outstanding?
Sihn: There are a lot of local bands around here in Saint Louis, Missouri that are wonderful. Rocket Park, Infanta, Murder Happens and Son Of William are a few of my favorites. I do not listen to the radio much and most of the music I enjoy is of an indie nature.

Vicki: Do you have a favourite Velvet Acid Christ song?
Sihn: Phucking phreak, without a question.

Vicki: What do you hold responsible for the mass appeal of reality television?
Sihn: Voyeurism, a holier-than-thou attitude and death throes of a set of morality rules for television viewing. As far as I understand it, the difference between British and US television shows are vast. A close friend of mine who lives in England, whom happens to be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, told me about how the same episode in England will have more sex and nudity and much less violence. The US has no problem in showing kill scene after kill scene but has a major problem when a pop star's nipple pops for miliseconds out of their costume during a major sporting event.

People like to legally look at other people's lives and feel superior. This way they can justify the negatives in their own lives. One can watch any number of the reality shows and see human animals acting deplorably. The viewer can then judge themselves that they are "not as fucked up as" so-and-so on insert-reality-show-name-here.

Vicki: Do you think Chuck Palahniuk was correct when in 'Fight Club' he suggested that aeroplanes have oxygen masks to make the passengers docile in the event of a crash?
Sihn: Yes and I can not wait until drugs are legallized in this country because then, I could have my choice between oxygen, pure heroin or any of the family of barbiturates for my ride down back to mother earth. As it stands now, all I have is a natural high to fight off my wingless genetics.