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 Who: Kevin Michael Hodge.

Age: 21 and a quarter.

Band: Brava Spectre (myspace.com/bravaspectre).

Next gig: July 2 at The Space with Fatal Film, Birth of Flower, Book Slave and Piranhas in Your Hot Tub.

Music style: Some call it heavy dub. It has jazz influences (especially in the structure), some experimental influences, mostly just a lot of big riffs.

Armed with: Guitar. I also sing a little bit.

Wishes he had: More pedals.

First record bought: It's too embarrassing, I can't even say.

Best show seen at the New Haven Coliseum: WrestleMania.

Listening to: Sonic Youth and trying on the new Animal Collective.

Song that changed his life: The Cardigans, "Carnival."

Inspired his first notes: I always had a dream to walk down the street and be playing guitar while a crowd of girls followed me, like Kevin Wasserman in that Offspring video.

Always wins: Ice Rock.

Always loses: There really are no winners in Ice Rock, so I guess I lose that too.

Buy him a drink: The same thing you're having. When someone's buying you a drink, it's polite to let them pick.

Last thing he chugged: I honestly did a keg stand yesterday.

On TV: "Forensic Files." Something about solving murders I love.

Films: Boogie Nights, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jurassic Park.

Under his bed: My extensive Lego collection bagged and sorted by color.

Join another local band for a day: Get Haunted. For them, I'd join for two days.

Most memorable local shows: I got to see Get Haunted for the first time the other night, and I hadn't been so excited by a local performance in a very long time. Also, Good God played that show and were very impressive.

Also found: Trying to teach myself Spanish.

Fun fact about Kevin: I'm an octoroon.

If he were a pizza, the topping would be: Throw it all on there, I love every type of pizza. Besides pineapple.

Question he wished I asked: More questions about or having to do with pizza.

 kcei@newhavenadvocate.com