Sinister Seven: RM Radio’s Tomb Dragomir

DJ, audio engineer and all around Evil Angel of the Airwaves, Tomb Dragomir is third up in our series of interviews with the crew from Rue Morgue Radio. Part Wizard of Oz behind the scenes, part Wizard of Gore behind the mic, put your claws together for Toooooooomb…

1) Describe your role on Rue Morgue Radio.

Host/programmer/audio artist.

2) Why radio? What¹s the draw of the medium?

Radio’s totally one of the coolest mediums. It’s romantic, immediate and powerful on so many different levels. I love it to death.

3) How many hours a week on average do you work on the show?

Twenty-four hours a day.

4) Name one of your favourite interviews that you or someone else on RM Radio has done, and why?

Interviewing Margot Kidder was a trip. She was totally comfortable talking about her mental breakdown and had some great insights into the pressures we put on ourselves in the pursuit of “success”. We’re all kind of messed up in our own special ways aren’t we?

5) If you could listen to one horror-themed song right now, what would it be and why?

Since I can’t choose one I’ll tell you that one I don’t want to hear; it’s from a disc I’m scanning through right now. It’s called “I am Invisible” by God Bullies. It sucks and I’m switching the disc now. I sift through a TON of crap to get to the good stuff I play on the show…

6) Aside from RM Radio, what¹s one online radio show or podcast that everyone should check out? And it doesn¹t have to be horror-related.

I really don’t listen to much else online, the last podcast I remember hearing was The Ricky Gervais show… “Chimpanzee that, it’s time for Monkey News!”

7) If you were to off yourself during a broadcast, what would be the best (entertaining, appropriate, “aurally stunning,” etc.) method you could think of for the medium of radio?

I’d probably eat an electric guitar and then slice myself open with a rusty jigsaw and play it until I bleed to death in a kiddie pool full of howler monkeys and laughing hyenas performing Alice Cooper’s I Love the Dead on tiny kazoos. Something like that…