"The Coke and Pepsi of the primate world"

Great interview with Dave Longstreth of the Dirty Projectors in the Guardian today:

"Something of what he set out to achieve, though, might be read into his admiration for the deconstructions of Björk, whom he loved when he first heard her a decade ago because she combined art music and pop music, "as if the entire world doesn't have to believe they're opposed"."

"What was his particular gift as a child, I wonder? "My thing was that when I got into something, I'd obsess about it," he replies, thinking back to the age of nine or 10, when he became deeply fascinated by "gallinaceous birds" - grouse, pheasant, prairie chickens and ptarmigan, a species that, he informs me as if reciting from an encyclopedia, "lives in exclusively alpine regions out west"."

and this, which is my favourite:

""I wasn't into chimpanzees or gorillas, because I kinda felt like they were the Coke and Pepsi of the primate world.""