The Complete Interview List

 

1 - Tell us how your project(s) were started.

FIRST OF ALL I AM GOING TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I SEE YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT CONSPIRACIES AND YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT THERE ARE FUCKING CONSPIRACIES!
SECOND, I HAVE ALREADY TOLD THE STORY ABOUT HOW I WAS IN AN INDUSTRIAL BAND AND I WAS SUPPOSED TO LEARN HOW TO DRUM AND LEARN HOW TO DO PROGRAMMING BUT I ENDED UP DOING A LOT OF ACID AND DISCOVERING/INVENTING NOISE INSTEAD
THIRD, I HAVE BEEN MAKING ART SINCE I KNEW HOW TO CRAWL. I USED TO BE AMBIDEXTROUS AND I USED TO DRAW AND COLOR WITH BOTH HANDS, SOMETIMES AT THE SAME TIME, UNTIL SOME FUCKING FASCIST TEACHER LADY FORCED ME TO FUCKING CHOOSE A HAND SO NOW I WRITE AND DRAW WITH MY LEFT HAND AND I DO EVERYTHING ELSE WITH MY RIGHT HAND LIKE SOME KIND OF FUCKING SCHMUCK, AND MY HANDWRITING IS NOT ONE IOTA BETTER. I AM A FUCKING HANDWRITING ANALYST NOW AND I WISH I COULD GO BACK IN TIME AND TELL THAT FUCKING CUNT HOW FUCKING TOXIC HER FUCKING STUPID FASCIST ASS IS, I'M NOT SURE WHICH POINTER FINGER I WOULD USE THOUGH
I WOULD SAY "FOURTH" BUT I'M NOT GOING TO BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THE STUFF ABOUT THE LAW OF "THIRDS" BUT I HAVE A PROJECT CALLED BLOOD RHYTHMS THAT STARTED 12 YEARS AGO UNDER A DIFFERENT, STUPID NAME AND IT WAS BASED ON THE IDEA OF USING MULTIPLE HORN PLAYERS WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY; DOING DRONES, AND TOMORROW I AM GOING TO DO A SHOW WHICH IS BASICALLY THAT AGAIN EXCEPT I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT STILL DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY, BUT WE HAVE HAD ALL KINDS OF DRUMMERS AND BONE FLUTE PLAYERS AND POWER TOOLS, CAR PARTS, SYNTHS, GUITARS ETC. WE HAVE A 2ND LP WAITING FOR A GODDAMN TEST PRESSING FOR FUCKING EVER NOW
ok ok, I will stop.

 

 

2 - What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?


Some of it is more emotional than others, but I have never experienced a more palpable, yet indiscernable connection between the soul, the ego, and just in general, the physiology of human existence than when listening to music (or noise) that resonates with me.


 

3 - What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

When it is done in a sincere, ecstatic, and fully realized manner, it is a reminder that we all are part of one consciousness and art is a reliable way to remind ourselves of that. When it is not sincere, when it is not something like "the ocean roars while others splash about in the bath", it is droll entertainment, propaganda, or novelty, and some of that can be true art too, if it's ecstatic enough. I don't enjoy flash-in-the-pan materialism for long.

 

 

4 - Who is your favorite author, and why?

Manly P. Hall. He comes to me in my dreams sometimes.
He is benevolent, but not boring (at least not to me). He has a reputation for being boring, but he has just the right pacing and sense of detail to me. Most people don't have much attention for details. I prefer all of the details.
Yet, at the same time, I believe that Mr. Hall is getting to the point as quickly as he can, it's just not fast enough for some. I don't find him to be blubbering on like so many other writers.
I have never read another writer on occult matters or "metaphysics", etc, that was so balanced and selfless in his execution. He is like a wise and benevolent grandpappy.
And of course, he was a hypnotist, and I am a certified hypnotherapist, so I think it helps me get along with him. He hypnotized Bela Lugosi to actually be terrified on the set of "Black Friday". I wish he had recorded some of his sessions.
I am more inspired by peoples' lives than their works sometimes. Jodorowsky would be up there, too, but I don't get carried away by his fiction writing.

 

 

5 - As your best friend, describe yourself.

He is not flakey and he can't stand people who are. He is honest to a fault and loyal to the people who deserve it. He is an old soul who is also young at heart. Those "get off my lawn" types are not actually old souls, just cranky. He is very romantic and sensitive, but not immature or prissy. He has a lot of ideas, and the ones that get finished are the ideas that survived his brutal hierarchal pecking order of constant chiseling and stratification. He is not mean-spirited or sneaky, and he sticks up for others better than he sticks up for himself. He doesn't need to be reinforced by social circles to have his identity.


 

6 - As your worst enemy, describe yourself.

My worst enemy would be too one-dimensional to entertain, but I will follow suit in this way:
He has poor boundaries, and could easily be described as a train wreck or a fuck up if it weren't for the fact that he manages to be balanced enough to help others sometimes. He sticks up for other people pretty well, but when it comes to sticking up for himself, he tends to be unable to get mad until later, when it's too late. He is neither brutish enough nor brainy enough to fit in with most anyone. His life is a tornado of unfinished ideas. In his regular routine of trying to be better at sticking up for himself in the moment, he tends to subconsciously self-sabotage friendships or consciously burn bridges at the first sign of a bullshitter or a backstabber. This is not a good period of time for him to be alive, because for most people, being full of shit is a survival tactic, and they'll make you look crazy for sticking up for yourself these days.


 

7 - If your persona were immortalized as a cartoon character, who would it be?

I'm not sure how to answer this question. I feel like it is a trick question. When I was a kid, I was the shortest in school and I got into a lot of fights. After a while, when hitting people in the body didn't help, and I was too short to punch them in the face, I would get inside and jump up and headbutt them. I knocked out kids' teeth and broke noses. They started calling me "Bonk", the caveman character, equivalent to Nintendo's "Super Mario", but for the newfangled "TurboGraphics" system. "Bonk"'s main defense was the headbutt. I had a bruise on my forehead like Wesley Willis for most of my childhood.
I will also say, that at a certain point, I sold beer at baseball games, and I used to have a character named "Nightcrawler" that yelled a lot. It was sort of like an Archie Bunker/Redd Foxx/Chris Farley/Sam Kinison/Tony Clifton kind of character. People would try to get me to scream about hot dogs on demand. OR, one of my little gags was to be that character pretending to be an opera singer, and I would sing the most abrasive opera I could. If the crowd asked me to do it again, I would give them a little anecdote about this one cartoon with Daffy Duck. Daffy Duck is going to a job interview or an audition, claiming to be a magician. He says, in so many words, that his "trick" is to drink a bunch of cyanide and eat explosives (you know, where they blow up inside his stomach and make a big bubble and then he coughs up smoke, etc), or he stabs himself with knives and drinks water, and the water comes out of the holes in his stomach, etc... and so on... So the interviewer eventually claps and cheers, offers him the job, and says something like "When can you start?". To this, Daffy Duck collapses and dies, and his angel comes up through the floor with a harp and says to him, "well, I can only do that trick once!".

 

 

8 - Do you think there are conspiracies against the "everyday person"?

There are conspiracies everywhere there is money to be made. There are fucking subsonic frequencies and subliminal messages and microchips, nanotechnology, antibiotics, estrogen, fucking racooon's assholes in the foods and when you go to the dollar store and get calamari that is really pig's assholes man IT IS NOT SEAFOOD and monsanto is trying to help the fucking Rothchilds eliminate 33% of the population, and I believe in weather control and chemtrails and the fluoride in the water and all of that shit man. HOT DOGS ARE MADE OF COW'S ASSHOLE, RATS, AND A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF HUMAN BITS. IT'S NOT EVEN REAL ASSHOLES ANYMORE, IT IS CLONED ASSHOLES! THERE IS A CURE FOR CANCER AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BECAUSE IT IS NOT PROFITABLE! THERE HAS BEEN A WAY TO GROW TOBACCA THAT DOESN'T CAUSE CANCER SINCE THE 60'S AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BECAUSE IT ISN'T PROFITABLE ENOUGH. HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP CAUSED AN INCREASE IN BRAIN LESIONS BY 90% WHEN IT WAS INTRODUCED TO THE MARKET IN THE EARLY 80S, YOU FUCKING SHEEP! NESTLE REALLY IS TRYING TO PRIVATIZE WATER! THE FACT THAT CARS ARE STILL FUELED BY OIL IS RIDICULOUS. THE FACT THAT PEOPLE ARE STILL CUTTING DOWN TREES INSTEAD OF USING HEMP FOR PAPER IS RIDICULOUS. IT IS A CONSPIRACY, AND IT PERSISTS BECAUSE WE ARE ALL LAZY, STUPID, AND DISMISSIVE OF THINGS THAT DON'T SEEM SAFE, AND SCIENCE IS A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO FEEL SAFE MORE THAN IT IS A MEANS OF PROGRESSING ... AND THERE ARE REPTILIANS! RONALD REAGAN = 666! ASK COREY FELDMAN!
THERE ARE PHALLIC SYMBOLS ON THE COVER OF THE LITTLE MERMAID MOVIE TO SUBCONSCIOUSLY TURN THE CHILDREN INTO BRAINWASHED WHORES AND LADY GAGA IS AN MK-ULTRA TRANNY FROM SPACE. JFK WAS KILLED OFF! IT WAS THE GRASSY KNOLL! WAKE UP! I'M IN YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW!
Serious: When 9/11 happened, me and two other friends sat in the same room, and heard a loud, clearly synthetic cicada type of tone and fell asleep simultaneously right where we were sitting. We woke up at the same time, too. I have experienced things I can't really talk about. I COULD GO ON, BUT I'VE ALREADY SAID TOO MUCH.

 

 

9 - What do you do with your spare or free time?

I work on sounds, visual art, reading, writing, journaling, martial arts, exercise, ideas in general. Sometimes I actually finish something. I also do psychic readings for strangers on the internet. For skeptics, I would recommend the book "Extraordinary Knowing". It is written by a psychoanalyst who chased down physicists, biologists, neuroscientists, and so forth to get raw data, and there is plenty of it proving psychic phenomena, despite the fact that the CIA claimed their studies in ESP were "inconclusive" after 24 years of research. It also refrains from kittying to the kooks and charlatans out there.

 

 

10 - Please give us your interpretation of "the meaning of life".

I have been casually thinking of an alternative to that old quote "The Price of Existence is Eternal Warfare". I would point out that the Buddhist line commonly interpreted as "Life is Suffering" is actually more like "Life is Disquietude".
I don't look at life as "warfare", per se, because I have not been to a real war, and I wouldn't last long because they would shoot me with friendly fire before I even left the base, but I do look at life as not very peaceful unless you understand that you're not meant to be complacent. Finding peace without complacency is the meaning of life, to me, and that means getting out of your "comfort zone" and all that, but also, really, just getting to a point where you observe the so-called "highs and lows" as something that you just cruise through either way.
It can mean anything you want. It depends on your "oratorium", or the "observer effect", depending on what your brain chemistry is capable of. People with lower levels of dopamine don't believe in things well. People with higher levels of dopamine don't tend to be the most intelligent folks, but like light, it is possible for reality to be observed in contrasting but equally valid ways.

 

 

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