William Trill’s one of our favourite photographers, and recently he split up that band Wavves by giving them too many drugs before they went onstage. But he’s not much of an interviewer. Still, Vice is an altruistic organisation and believes that everyone should be allowed many, many, many, chances to prove themselves. So we let him talk to The Mars Volta. Like the Rain Man he is, he thought it’d best to talk about food and Come Dine With Me. Perhaps it’s part of a one-man protest until they grow up and reform At The Drive-In.

Vice: Hey, how are you? What do you eat for breakfast?
Cedric Bixler-Zavala: Erm, you know, eggs… ha ha ha.

Keeps you going throughout the day, huh?
Yeah, I only recently started eating them because I was one of those vegan-type people for a while.

Oh, you were one of those, eh?
I was, yeah. I was like, “Fuck! I can take the world on, fuck corporations! I’m vegan!”

Ha ha ha. You’ve broken free, well done. What about lunch?
Fish.

Have you ever seen the TV show Come Dine With Me?
Err, no…

Okay, well I’ll explain it to you. They put four totally unrelated people together and every night they have to go round each other’s houses and have a dinner party and at the end of the week they all vote and somebody wins a ton of money. What would you make at a dinner party to impress people?
I live in Los Angeles so I’d go to Fairfax and I’d learn how to make Ethiopian food and I’d make Ethiopian food. I think if I mention “Ethiopa” and “food” people think that I’m making a joke.

Right, yeah, because famously they don’t have much of it.
It’s my favourite food anyway. Do you like it?

I like it a lot.
I love it. It’s great because you eat with your hands. It’s surprising how good it is.

Is there anything in particular you want to talk about that you don’t get to talk about in interviews?
Hmmm, well, since I’m talking with you guys, I did see one really interesting piece, like, a DVD you guys did on Chernobyl. I thought that was fantastic, like, it was really good.

Oh, okay, that, er, hunting, er, thing…
Yeah. That guy had to travel. That was great.

So are you going to reform At The Drive-In then? Everyone thinks you are…
No, no. All it was, was that we kind of buried the hatchet, and I in particular apologised for being a bit of a cunt recently and talking so much shit.

Okay, well thanks, have a nice day.
Yeah, thanks!

Journalism is sooo easy.

WILLIAM TRILL