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by mikrosopht

note: this interview is an exercise in word association, one word was given & one returned along with descriptive information.
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grave I don’t have any idea why, just the band name sprang to mind (it is
early and I have not had my coffee). Uh, lemme try again.
459-5010 This was my phone number growing up in Willits, CA.
woo
hoo WooHoo was the tag of a friend of mine in San Diego, real name Jason
Soares. We were in some bands together including Johnny Superbad and on a
couple occasions, Physics. He also played guitar in a live version of Lesser
once. He is one swell and humorous individual, and belts out a fine drum
check beat box.
perpendicular
|_ relating to or typical of a style of Gothic architecture whose
characteristic elements are tall narrow facades, windows, and doors, and
vaulted ceilings. I suppose if I were to disassemble this interview, I
should relate that I am more a gadfly than musician. I enjoy making people
uncomfortable; I enjoy making myself uncomfortable. The problem is, I ain’t
got no powerful political stance, which could account for my behavior as
somehow muckraking in nature. I guess I am interested in exposing music as a
farce and phenomenal waste of time, especially electronic music. O, and
trees are perpendicular to the ground, generally speaking.
goomba
douche My old boss was Trent from the seminal garage band The Mummies. He
related a story once in which he and the other guys in the band went to New
York City and tried to perpetrate that everyone in CA thot that people in NY
all went around saying, “Yo, douche”.; as if that was a popular call-out
akin to “Yo bro” or “Dude”. So, when they got to New York, they would greet
all the ‘important’ music folks by yelling “Yo, douche” and being all
neighborly-like. When pressed for an explanation for their behavior, they
claimed to just be trying to fit in.
< <I>ahhhaaa</I>. So you are one of <blink>those</blink>. ;)
campy
Branscomb This is where I went to sixth grade camp. I took turns sleeping
on the bed springs (bare springs no box), the shelf and the floor in some
fucked up shack, which was visited nightly by a skunk. One of the nights we
went to an abandoned house, which was supposed to scare us… “It’s haunted”,
you know the scene. So, anyway, all the popular girls start to freak out and
claim to be possessed and I am thinking to myself, “I’ll most likely die
now, as I’m a virgin” and hoping madly that at least one of the geeky chicks
will want to hold my hand. But nothing happened. A boy scout threw a rock at
another boy scout and it lodged in his ear, forcing him to leave early for a
hospital run.
assassin bug
secret chimp Do you know about Lancelot Link Secret Chimp? It was this
serial show in the 60’s where they dressed up chimpanzees as secret agents
and such. They also had a band, “The Evolution Revolution”, I think. Anyway,
I love chimps and this show is chock full of ‘em. Lance Link had this
Bogart-ish voice. To continue: Bruce Krulik, the guy who made “Heavy Metal
Parking Lot”, also made a short film entitled “I Created Lancelot Link”
about (duh) the people who made the TV show. At one point the two producers
are reminiscing about the female lead chimp, and one says something to the
effect that “if ever there was a bitch chimp, she was it”, prompting me to
purchase chimpbitch.com. Both films are available at
his website along with an amazing documentary where he
criss crosses the country in a Winnebago with Ernest Borgnine. OK, does
anyone else remember the TV movie and, later, series in which Ernest
Borgnine and a lovable cast of fuck-ups make a spaceship out of a cement
mixer and go to the moon to pick up all the expensive garbage left there by
NASA. It was called “Salvage” and I swear I am the only living human being
to remember that show.
noxious
So, I was in this band called Painman… Industrial sort of. We used to cover
ourselves in Vick’s Vapor Rub and practice in an underground storage area.
We got a show at the local goth club/disco. Just before our set, we lined
the air intake for the air conditioning with Vick’s. What with the pounding
music, cool heat and strobe lights, the bathrooms were filled with pukers
within minutes. We were asked never to return.
celadine
Didn’t she sing the Titanic theme? I saw her perform on TV once… She was all
chest beats and teeth. Very gorilla-ish… Well, an anorexic, albino gorilla
anyway.
doodey
Chelsey Right now I’m living in New York in a neighborhood called Chelsey
getting ready to go on tour with Björk and Matmos. Chelsey is billed as
being pet friendly… and Jesus Christ… there is dog shit everywhere. If there
is one thing I hate, it motherfuckers who don’t pick up their dog’s shit in
the city. That why I don’t fucking own a dog, because I don’t want to clean
up after it. Agggg, I guess really I just hate people.
quadruped
James Bond when I first read the above word I saw “Quad Ruped” or “Four
Rupes” which led to “Rupees” which led to this seen in Octopussy where Bond
is being chased by someone (Russians? Chinese? Muslim Separatists?
Octopussies?) in India and he gets on the back of a motorcycle cab thing.
He’s got a pocketful of rupees he just won playing Bacherat, which he throws
in the air and the beggars go scrambling for the bills and create a human
wall his pursuers cannot penetrate. After the scene, Bond puts the remaining
bills in his local contact’s hand/pocket? And says, “There, that ought to
keep you in curry”. Ah, Bond. So smooth.
muskmelon
mushmouth “Hey-be Fab-it Albert”
he-man
Cringer the alter ego of BattleCat, He-Man’s trusted steed. So Cringer is
all scaredy cat and BattleCat is, well, battle ready, but I can’t remember
He-Man’s alter ego. He was a prince or something, wasn’t he? Was he a wimp
as well?.. I just can’t remember
808
bitch magnet “The 808 kick drum makes the ladies get dumb”. I tell you my
friends, nothing gets the ladies like that big box with orange and red
markings… they go nuts for it.
configuration
three right now I have 3 configurations on the Powerbook. Music, Utility
(palm, digital camera) and games (Martin from Matmos loves Unreal, so I’ve
been kicking his ass all over the place.
young
parts I made a Lesser tape once called “Young Parts”. It was just a bunch
of stuff I was working on. The name came from an advertisement that was
advertising Young Miss clothing as “Young Parts”… English as a second
language is a beautiful thing. The best band name I have ever heard was a
rock band from Thailand called “Folksong Isn’t”. It doesn’t get much better
than that, except maybe “Hide with Spread Beaver”.
monkey
life where do I start? I likes me some monkeys. “Monkis ist d’craziest
peoples”. I’m strictly an old world monkey guy.. no spider monkeys.. so,
uh, apes really. Or orangutans, they are also fine. So, one year I made
Christmas cards out of these found photos. The photos portrayed a child’s
birthday party. At this party there was entertainment. The entertainment at
this party was an old cigarette smoking man and a huge chimpanzee in a
tuxedo named Mr. Jiggs. From the pictures, it can be learned that Mr. Jiggs
can do such things as smoke, kiss people, rollerskate and ride a motorcycle.
It must be noted that the old guy and Mr. Jiggs look disturbingly like
Carrol O’Connor and B.B. King. I don’’t get it either… But I know its
disturbing.
rupee
Wow, what are the chances of the word rupee being on this list? I feel
manipulated.
herpes
molluscum contagioso or some such ... Had a brief brush with these
shellfish. For the aspiring clinician, they are these little pimply-ish
things that show up on the, ah, areas. They neither hurt nor itch, they are
just ride along in an uncomfortable place. You can get them thru sexual
contact, or just riding a bicycle (which is a little strange, I think).
There is nothing much you can do about them; you can have them freeze/burn
them off, like warts, but i dunno... that didn't sound terribly appealing to
me.. So I just had to wait for them to disappear. The grandma-type woman who
saw me at the clinic said I could still have sex, as long as I wore a condom
and kept my under shorts on until the little mollusks went away: "Just put
it thru the flap, honey".
shink shink
Speed Racer Was that the name of the chimp on Speed Racer? No… o shit,
that was ChimChim. Shink Shink … huh… Is that a new R and B dance?
byte
legislation If I had any political power, I would try to push a bill thru
that would prevent restaurateurs from using the word “byte” in exchange for
the word “bite” when trying to create edgy, internet culture eateries. The
bill would be worded like the Grounds Bill of 1998, which forced the closure
of many coffee shops including Common Grounds and Sufficient Grounds.
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