While freaky rockers drop off the radar screen faster than it takes Insane Clown Posse to slop on their makeup, Rob Zombie has showed some serious staying power since White Zombie first trudged the earth in 1985. It's been a busy 2003 already for the Massachusetts-reared oddity. First there was the Ramones tribute album We're a Happy Family, which he co-produced (along with Johnny Ramone). He also drew the album's cover illustration and recorded a version of Blitzkrieg Bop. Then there's the film he wrote and directed, House of 1000 Corpses. While the flick's tagline is "The most shocking tale of carnage ever seen," it's the soundtrack that's most frightening. Besides five new tunes, Zombie pulls off one of the freakiest acts of his career, recording Brick House with none other than Lionel Richie.

Zombie's sex life is no less bizarre than his artistic output. If anyone can turn items as disparate as James K. Polk's wife, Mr. French and his retainer into sex objects, it would have to be Rob Zombie.

1. What is the best album for sex?

Rob Zombie: No lady can resist the power of Sebastian Cabot -- A Dramatic Reading With the Music of Bob Dylan. I tell ya, when ol' Mr. French launches into Who Killed Davey Moore? let's just say the bitches go crazy.

2. What celebrity do you fantasize about the most?

RZ: Actress Teri McMinn, a.k.a. Pam from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, because no other actress ever looked so good in hot pants and pigtails while hanging from a meat hook.

3. Who was the first celebrity you remember fantasizing about as a kid?

RZ: Shirley Van Johnson, winner of the 1977 Haverhill, Massachusetts Farrah Fawcett-Majors look-alike contest. Her grand prize was riding the Zamboni at the Boston Garden during the second period break of the Boston/Montreal Stanley Cup finals.

4. What was your first time like?

RZ: It was like a rat-infested Vietnamese POW camp populated by quick-witted Jawas hocking defective protocol droids.

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