Moby

Last year, thanks to Whitney Matheson at USA Today's Pop Candy (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/index) I was able to ask Moby a question:

Years ago I saw Moby (he was/is great!) in Philadelphia. He did a lot of posing/posturing that seemed "Christ-like" -- you know, standing aloft with his arms out while bathed in an aura of light as Biblical-sounding music played. I was just wondering if he ever received any negative feedback about that artistic choice and how he reacted. -- Bob H. in Lone Pine, Calif.

Yeah, it's funny -- I know what he's talking about. I have this one song called Thousand. It starts at 130 beats per minute and it gets faster and faster and stops at 1,000 beats per minute. I was performing it, and I didn't know what to do, so I stood on top of my keyboard and spread my arms. It wasn't intended to be a Christ pose, it was just I didn't know what to do during that song. Necessity being the mother of invention, I stood on my keyboard and just stood there.

Then people started thinking it was some sort of Billy Budd or Christ pose. Hopefully I didn't offend anyone by accidentally assuming this Christ pose.