This decade was really something for me. But since I’ll be only 23 on the dawn of the next 10 it’s obvious that the first funs happened with me during the first 10% of the 21st century. I’m not gonna list those. Most of them are more than ordinary. Rather in the name of inovation here are some of my plans for the 10’s:
- Became a visible member of Rákosi. As a second guitarist, playing only feedbacks while dressed as a captain of a yacht.
- Be a roadie on Baader Brains russia/middle asia/ north korea tour, do guest vocals every night in the obvious part of the obvious song wearing nothing but an american flag. I’ve heard all of those countries love public nudity.
- Write shitloads of zines about things i’m only interested in. Make no money out of them altough receiving secret love notes as it happened in the fanzine exhibition at ceu is welcomed big time.
- Somehow pull a prank on the punk community. International or local it’s not decided yet.
- Be huge with the yet secret bro-core, hardcore band i'm in, and laugh on people who believe i take it serious. I mean the lifestyle. Playing Cro Mags songs backwards is another level of fun. And i always take fun dead serious.
- Write six complete Ninpulator songs by myself.
- Tour every year. Not neccesery with bands i’m in. I love to be in cities and don't pay for shit.
- Ninpulators / Rákosi shows, tours, split records and t-shirts.
- Buy a pipe. For weed. I don’t wanna learn how to roll and most of the times i find public smoking too akward. home-baked!
- Get some shitty tatoos. And one master-piece with Kevin Spacey’s face. See no evil, hear no evil is the best movie. ever.
- Learn how to drive and then go on car trips, all alone. Or with a girlfriend if i’ll have one. Probably i will, cause chicks love guys with licenses. And i love girls with lice. No, not really i just love gross jokes.
- Get as much free shit as i can. It’s a permanent desire of mine.
- Write something for MRR.
- Pick a fight with someone famous. Best would be a fashion designer.
- Spread rumors about a Something Against You reunion show but never do it. Or do it for bailing out friends.
- Avoid getting pregnant any girl.
- Turn down offers which basically suck.
- Write a solo ep, record it, and never play live.
- Do something with rappers.
- Learn to draw. I know it’s not gonna happen since i will do nothing for it to happen but would be so awesome.
- Get my life together in the adult way while stay a true to the core punk.
- Regain the will to not only buy new books but to read them as well.
- Visit Spencer in his town. only swinging between his apartment and the cheapest stripteas bars / mexican joints. and check out the thing, how they do punk.
- Cause some major trouble for someone/something major not take the fall for it and not even care about it.
- Not jinx anything above.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
pfa
I have this on and off desire to write a fanzine in english. It’s not gonna be out soon for sure but i have things written down already. Here’s something i wrote about PFA after one of their shows couple months ago. Since then they released some amazing eps and within a year they reached from a being an amazing thrashy band the toes of the late era Black Flag. I’m wondering what the future holds for us as listeners and them as a band? Will Black Sabbath and weed help them? Will they ever write songs about eating pizza? Will they fuck every girl i want before me?
the hungarian punk prodigies PFA. I already hate these little pricks. I don’t know for how long they are together but i would say it’s barely more than one year. And they already know what they want to play and how should they play it. They are amazing. I like when a punk band looks like the members are also punks but the "too normal for playing punk rock" look of these guys especially one of the guitar players' just makes it even better. They seem like weird kids who have been brought up in shitty gardens full with garbage, running with scissors in their hands. They seem friendly but that kind of friendly who your mother would find charming but they would surely piss in her bed if you were housing a party at your place and intevited them over.
I want these guys feed with lsd and send them to windsurf at the lake nearby them to fight with old farts who are there for fishing. Let them have these kinda sick experiences so they could tell these later in the form of songs. I always wanted my band sound for an outsider like when you miss the right bus stop and get off at a strange place and happen to be in a vague situation. There are kids sitting at the bus stop playing with knives and staring at you with static eyes. You begin to fear your life and every second became an hour of desperation and stress. Then before they stand up to slit your throat another bus just runs in to save your pathetic life but even though this whole event happens within few minutes it will stay with you for much longer. PFA is just like that. They are the strange kids with knives in their hands.
They play thrashy punk hardcore with mutalized solos sweated out by one finger. Pace changing parts like the mood-rollercoaster of a drunk person balancing on the edge of a black-out. Their minimalist lyrics sound like drunk findings and epiphanies of modern society and of punk itself murmured at the lower ends of house parties on a vomited couch. Every word have this such awekening stink of a belch, they need a bit digestion but all in all they are thoughtful, funny, derisive and most of all true. PFA is the perfect music to drop acid and watch gummo backwards. Or just wondering about these kinda things.
It’s not the sound of terror. It’s the sound of taking weird drugs what make you more punk not a smiling puppy who accepts everything what the world offers. It’s better. With this, making fun out of everything is what you do. As a girl once told me: i want the world to fuck with you all the time cause it could elicit a lot out of you. I want these guys to go deeper and become more evil, more noisey. And if they do maybe someday they will either destroy or save the world of lonely teenagers who live thousand of miles away from them. I can see the potention in them and hope they will avoid the hungarian curse.
And the abbreviation is international cause Pina, Fing Anarachia has the same capital letters as Pussy, Fart, Anarchy.
http://pfa.punkportal.hu/
Saturday, September 5, 2009
summer
during the summer I/'ve...
…wore jeans rather than shorts
…learnt a new profession to avoid being an asshole in a suit
…slept under the stars
…puked too much (best was in gepard’s van into a plastic bag which had his breakfast for the next day)
…tried hasis (another step further to be a heroin addict)
…smoked too good weed
…had some awkward house parties
…spencer came around again so finally i had someone for two weeks whom i could hang during daytime talk about hardcore/punk and girls, hang our legs into fountains, read MRRs in parks, waste time in bars, visit bookstores and have killer foods
…cooked a lot
…had rehearsals with new bands
…barley watched any new (for me) movies or read any new books
…witnessed Rákosi recording their already world famous demo (and puked from too good weed during the guitars but contributed in one line (lyrically))
…seen some amazing shows
…shoved a microphone to Pink Eye’s mangina
…hanged with the sweetest band in the world (Press Gang)
…got cool gifts
…sang magnetic fields at a bar with Matt to Spencer and by myself to Borics (then he stated he won’t fuck me no matter how hard i try to make him)
…at last swam in a lake, twice in a row
…rode vespa with Lori (but just once you lazy mean fuck!)
…booked a show for Short Fuse (with big help from Matyipotter)
…not gone on tour and been abroad only once
…got SO into Band of Horses
…fell in love again deeper with punk and rediscoverd the beauty of skateboarding. This time only as a bystander but fuck, this is not a sport it’s art (in a good sense)
…had this desire to make love to foreign girls and of course i faild with it
…pissed on a church (while Gepárd thought i was still in his car so he drove away and left me there - in the middle of czech republic)
…diagnosed myself clinically addicted to Office
…told awkward jokes to P.C. people and drunk stories to my relatives
…tried to get addicted to cigarettes
…had beers for breakfast
…and pizzas for all the other meals
…didn’t really have any mental problems. Except the two days when i had to be part of Gepard's creepy obsession for fishing and sleeping next to water
…witnessed the weirdest things in the hill in front of my window (bonefires, techno parties, prostitution, working out, kung fu practice, girls playing badminton in bras, fights)
…hanged with awesome dudes at night on the shore of the Balaton
…fell in love with every second girl i’ve seen but haven’t fallen in love for real with anyone new
…had my headphone totally fell apart so i had to listen to people’s conversations on public transportations. They are horrible. But at least i read Lolita cause i just hate traveling without doing anything.
…gained this new hobby: watching occult pics and following awesome girls’ blogs
…listened to more music than ever before
…not found a job
…wrote notes for myself and they make more sense when i’m reading them sober
…spat down from high places
…been force fed with seitan
…daydreamed waaaay too much
…still didn’t give a shit
As for an after party yesterday we drank cheep beer, were listening to elliott smith and low, drank more beer on a hill in a grass from glasses. Danced half naked to animal collective and rival schools, watched office episodes and porn in my bed. Then today i woke up with terrible hangover. Went to swimm which was fun and on our way home i saw the most beautiful girl i’ve ever seen. She was perfect and was talking about architecture. I had to eat a hamburger to calm down my raging feelings. I wish i had a "you’re beautiful card" that i cold give away to every amazing women.
…wore jeans rather than shorts
…learnt a new profession to avoid being an asshole in a suit
…slept under the stars
…puked too much (best was in gepard’s van into a plastic bag which had his breakfast for the next day)
…tried hasis (another step further to be a heroin addict)
…smoked too good weed
…had some awkward house parties
…spencer came around again so finally i had someone for two weeks whom i could hang during daytime talk about hardcore/punk and girls, hang our legs into fountains, read MRRs in parks, waste time in bars, visit bookstores and have killer foods
…cooked a lot
…had rehearsals with new bands
…barley watched any new (for me) movies or read any new books
…witnessed Rákosi recording their already world famous demo (and puked from too good weed during the guitars but contributed in one line (lyrically))
…seen some amazing shows
…shoved a microphone to Pink Eye’s mangina
…hanged with the sweetest band in the world (Press Gang)
…got cool gifts
…sang magnetic fields at a bar with Matt to Spencer and by myself to Borics (then he stated he won’t fuck me no matter how hard i try to make him)
…at last swam in a lake, twice in a row
…rode vespa with Lori (but just once you lazy mean fuck!)
…booked a show for Short Fuse (with big help from Matyipotter)
…not gone on tour and been abroad only once
…got SO into Band of Horses
…fell in love again deeper with punk and rediscoverd the beauty of skateboarding. This time only as a bystander but fuck, this is not a sport it’s art (in a good sense)
…had this desire to make love to foreign girls and of course i faild with it
…pissed on a church (while Gepárd thought i was still in his car so he drove away and left me there - in the middle of czech republic)
…diagnosed myself clinically addicted to Office
…told awkward jokes to P.C. people and drunk stories to my relatives
…tried to get addicted to cigarettes
…had beers for breakfast
…and pizzas for all the other meals
…didn’t really have any mental problems. Except the two days when i had to be part of Gepard's creepy obsession for fishing and sleeping next to water
…witnessed the weirdest things in the hill in front of my window (bonefires, techno parties, prostitution, working out, kung fu practice, girls playing badminton in bras, fights)
…hanged with awesome dudes at night on the shore of the Balaton
…fell in love with every second girl i’ve seen but haven’t fallen in love for real with anyone new
…had my headphone totally fell apart so i had to listen to people’s conversations on public transportations. They are horrible. But at least i read Lolita cause i just hate traveling without doing anything.
…gained this new hobby: watching occult pics and following awesome girls’ blogs
…listened to more music than ever before
…not found a job
…wrote notes for myself and they make more sense when i’m reading them sober
…spat down from high places
…been force fed with seitan
…daydreamed waaaay too much
…still didn’t give a shit
As for an after party yesterday we drank cheep beer, were listening to elliott smith and low, drank more beer on a hill in a grass from glasses. Danced half naked to animal collective and rival schools, watched office episodes and porn in my bed. Then today i woke up with terrible hangover. Went to swimm which was fun and on our way home i saw the most beautiful girl i’ve ever seen. She was perfect and was talking about architecture. I had to eat a hamburger to calm down my raging feelings. I wish i had a "you’re beautiful card" that i cold give away to every amazing women.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
"When this band breaks up I will just do karaoke." interview with Jason Mazzola (Cloak / Dagger)
First time i’ve ever seen some of these guys was when Count Me Out played their one and only european tour at a small town near to my hometown. It was on my birthday and to prove Steven Patrick’s right the show just wasn’t that fun. The turn out was weak and the whole night suffered the lack of the goood vibe punk/hardcore shows most of the times have. At that time i wasn’t already into Count Me Out. What proved that i should pay attention? They soundchecked with Lose Yourself from 8 mile’s ost (what was coming out that time). And it was funny. And cool. So Count Me Out broke up and i got into them. How typical? Then i got into some of the bands their ex members had featured in. And finally one day i discoverd Cloak / Dagger. For the first it was just an awesome punk/hardcore band that has more what they show. And i was right. The fucking lp is a killer! It puts together everything i like in music everything and everything i like in punk. I’ve listened to it countless times when i was walking around, taking the night bus drunk, dish washing, laying on my bedroom’s floor. There is no mood they don’t fit in. It has noise, energy, paranoia and fun fun and fun. I was siked when they first came to europe and more siked when i had the opportunity to see them in Vienna and Budapest. It was one and a half year ago but i would still say it was the last real punk show that happaned here (in budapest). Crowd went crazy, danced like they don’t care and also on drugs, confetti and candy were flying, drinks were spilled, summersault were thrown. Watching that was like the perfect pictures for the music and it just felt so right to be a part of it. And then it was over. They have gone further and here was just no band that i could care to go, see and get crazy.
The weird thing was: I’ve found a picture from the vienna show of my friend and i are screaming in front of the stage C/D is playing. And i sent it to him. He responded with dates what the Daggers are playing in the uk within two months. And at that moment it just became obvious that we have to go. I had to finish my thesis to get a diploma but to be honest i cared and wondered more about the shows. We flew in, ate and drank everything overpriced, slept on the streets in november, saw homeless fights, got yelled at, had long distance train and bus rides but it worth it. Totally! We saw them 4 times and whatever happened after and before the shows it just doesn’t matter now and didn’t matter then. In whatever situation we were we just waited for the show to kick in. So i say it without hesitation Cloak / Dagger is one of the best bands of punk rock ever!
Ps.: Needles to say the members are pure awesome! Why? Because they gave me free beer!
This is an e-mail interview with Jason Mazzola their singer. He fronted Count Me Out as well. He’s a pretty good drawer, writes awesome lyrics, wears decent shirts and says milky almost as cool as LL Cool J.
How you doin'? What are you up to these days?
I'm doing good today. I just saw Cro Mags this weekend. We just practiced for a few hours and have written 17 songs for our next lp over the last year. We are recording it next month back in Kentucky where there is one of the best skate parks I have ever been to or seen, can´t wait.
What did you do and what were the things you most missed while you weren't in a band?
When I wasn´t in a band I tried my hardest to get a normal job and be happy making money and being bored. It´s hard to not have anything to look forward too. When I was working 50 + hours a week and making good money I still didn´t have anything to keep me going. Now I can look forward to playing shows or going on tours or just writing and recording songs. It keeps me creative all the time and I missed that a lot when I wasn´t in a band. I even jumped in with friends bands just so I could travel but it´s a lot more fun actually playing shows.
How important for you to be in a band? In point of you have to put on shelf sometimes even give up lots of other things what ordinary people would find important in life or goals to achieve.
It´s definitely hard to be as old as I am and to have no money saved up but I have seen and done a lot of things I would have never seen by being in a band. You meet people all over the world and some are the best people you will ever meet and some of them are the worst you will ever meet. I would have never seen Europe and the US like I have. Even if I went on my own it wouldn´t be the same as being with a band. I think that to most people money and material things mean the most so they have something to show for their work. I have good memories and no money. It´s still worth it.
I've read an interview with you in the reflections 'zine couple years ago where you said you don't want to be a singer who lives from his ex-bands, and in music you respect dudes who like to move forward do different things and then retire. was it important for you that cloak / dagger plays much different music than count me out did? how far would you go with experimenting new things in playing music? And when would you retire?
I think that cloak/dagger is going to be it for me music wise. I was really proud of what CMO did as a band and I wouldn´t want to try to recreate what we did before since it wouldn´t be as sincere as it was when I was in that band. I am proud of the lyrics and songs this band has and we have some songs on the punk/core side of things and some on the rock side and I see this band as way more experimental then a standard punk or core band. I don´t have any interest in trying to be in an indie rock band or start rapping yet. When this band breaks up I will just do karaoke. We tried to stay away from ex-members promo when this band came out and it made things harder for us at first but now I´m glad we didn´t hype that up.
That is a long list of your ex bands but in most of them two or three of you played with each other. So when should a band broke up if the members are still friends and like to hang with each other?
That´s a hard thing to say but you know when the time is right. With CMO we were all good friends and loved hanging out but Pete and Colin wanted to start writing for Renee Heartfelt and you could tell that´s where all their energy was going. Garth was gone a lot with Strike Anywhere and Colin was gone with AN a lot so it just seemed like the right thing to do to end things on a high note. With Cloak I want to call it quits when it stops being fun or when we start writing bad songs.
It's in Our Band Could Be Your Life that Deep Wound broke up after all of them lost their virginitis. Is there any sexual act what could trigger such schocking change in the life of Cloak / Dagger?
If we were to all sleep with each other that would just make things awkward at practice but we all have girlfriends.
You're from Richmond and if my geographic skills don't cheat me it's on the east coast. but in your lyrics you're refering often to the west coast (LA, Hollywood). why is it? Is it conscious? For an outsider of american politics like me it looks like the east controls politics (Washington DC), economy(New York), etc and the west is responsible for the media. You're more pissed about the brainwashing what comes from the tv more than about what comes from the white house or i just overthought this and it's simply a rivary between the two coasts like in hip hop?
When I was writing for We Are I was really into how much the media effects what people think. People try to recreate the lives of famous people and live like they are in a movie and that´s all from California mostly. That´s where all the famous people live and they report all the entertainment news from. Anna Nicole Smith died and it was on CNN all day long and every other news channel and there´s a lot more important things going on. DC has a lot of politics going on that I don´t agree with that I´m not smart enough to address so I sometimes touch on it if I feel that I can back up what I´m saying. I watched a lot of TV so I know a lot about that brain washing. East Coast rap is so much better then West Coast. The Notorious movie is so much better than 2 Pacs. His sucked.
For me cloak/dagger seems to wraped around with sarcasm. but also dealing with more serious issues than most of your previous bands. Why is it that you became more serious but also more fun?
It´s true. When we started this band I always said I would want to keep it fun. I loved CMO but it was a very serious band and hard emotionally to sing some of those songs. Now I can be serious but be sarcastic at the same time to make a point. Live shows can be a lot of fun with this band and I think part of that is the lyrics are fun at times.
Most of the lyrics seem to me as they born in a period or in state of mind when you become old enough that you have to start to fit in with your punk attitude to the world of grown ups. But it’s more usual that you start giving up the attitude you’ve formed during most of your life rather than caring less about what to do in the real life. And thats when i fill the power of your lyrics. The hessitating between what should us do, which way will worth it more?
So the questions are. What does to be a grown up mean to you. Does it go along with giving up something and does punk equal youth?
It´s hard growing up and there´s young until I die and other songs that make you feel proud to be young and core but not many songs that tell you how hard it is to grow up and be punk or it´s alright not to believe in buying into the American dream when you are old so that´s where we come in. I definitely think that hardcore and punk is a youth thing but that it´s also an all ages type of thing to. It´s hard sometimes to watch someone who hasn´t experienced life as much say they will never do this or that. I have a lot of respect for people who still believe in the power of this music but are older.
Is there any agreement within the members what cloak / dagger should be about? Or do you have a collective attitude, principles like Black Flag had the „play as much and as hard as we can” thing?
Operation shock and awe!
Lots of people talking about this theory that due to the economic meltdown music will be more interesting again. And i also think it’s true cause if the circumstances are worse people get more inspired. Even though it’s kinda sad and lame as well that people need an economic meltdown to be interesting or have something real to say. What’s your opinion about this?
I think that things are really bad here right now. I´m trying to find a job and it´s near impossible and that anger is going to come through in a lot of music. They are also saying that the crime rate is going to jump up since everyone is poor so it could get bad.
What features make a band to a really good band?
I think good bands don´t try to stick to a formula and play with good intentions. People that are in bands to make money and think they are going to have a career are very easy to see and honest bands are just as easy to point out. It also helps when bands are in tune.
While technology is improving independent bands have more and more opportunity. but punk rock still has it's traditions heavly rooted in old fashioned things like fanzines, demo tapes, vinly. These things are better than a blog or an ipod it’s beyond question but with social networking sites more bands have the opportunity to tour and with file sharing sites it’s getting easier to show the world what you’re doing. So are you pro or against this process? what do you think in what point should technology stop in punk?
I think that right now it´s as far as it should go. It´s great to be able to e-mail a band directly you like to try to play shows or to get to hear you. At the same time there are so many bad bands going on tour and promoting their music that the good ones get over looked.
Also with this easiness punk rock lost it's risk and it's such romantic feeling. In your mind is it bad? Should we miss the risk?
It is a bad thing when I can go to a blog and download 20 bands and then listen to just 1 or 2 of them. I think that with everything so easy to come by people don´t appreciate music as much. It used to be really hard to find records or tapes of bands you liked. I think people take that for granted these days and that is definitely a bad thing.
Have any of you dated close-to-be famous models since pitchfork gave a positive review to your record?
Our guitar player Collin went on a date with some coc heads in bright colored shirts after that. I´m too hardcore but he´s pretty.
Csongrád and Szentes are two cities here in hungary. But their hardcore scenes are not supporting each other. What would be your suggestion? John Joseph adviced unity and Mike from Fucked Up suggested war but neither of their messages worked out. So what is your?
Virginia Beach is about 2 hours from Richmond and there was a lot of fights between the two cities years ago. Big fights, people chased around the city by 20 to 30 kids. People hit with pitchers of beer. Then after a while people moved here from there and everyone became friends and everything was cool. After that everyone joined forces and started fighting with jocks. I would go with that. Fight to unite.
Whats your favorite dinosaur?
Dinosaur Jr.
The weird thing was: I’ve found a picture from the vienna show of my friend and i are screaming in front of the stage C/D is playing. And i sent it to him. He responded with dates what the Daggers are playing in the uk within two months. And at that moment it just became obvious that we have to go. I had to finish my thesis to get a diploma but to be honest i cared and wondered more about the shows. We flew in, ate and drank everything overpriced, slept on the streets in november, saw homeless fights, got yelled at, had long distance train and bus rides but it worth it. Totally! We saw them 4 times and whatever happened after and before the shows it just doesn’t matter now and didn’t matter then. In whatever situation we were we just waited for the show to kick in. So i say it without hesitation Cloak / Dagger is one of the best bands of punk rock ever!
Ps.: Needles to say the members are pure awesome! Why? Because they gave me free beer!
This is an e-mail interview with Jason Mazzola their singer. He fronted Count Me Out as well. He’s a pretty good drawer, writes awesome lyrics, wears decent shirts and says milky almost as cool as LL Cool J.
How you doin'? What are you up to these days?
I'm doing good today. I just saw Cro Mags this weekend. We just practiced for a few hours and have written 17 songs for our next lp over the last year. We are recording it next month back in Kentucky where there is one of the best skate parks I have ever been to or seen, can´t wait.
What did you do and what were the things you most missed while you weren't in a band?
When I wasn´t in a band I tried my hardest to get a normal job and be happy making money and being bored. It´s hard to not have anything to look forward too. When I was working 50 + hours a week and making good money I still didn´t have anything to keep me going. Now I can look forward to playing shows or going on tours or just writing and recording songs. It keeps me creative all the time and I missed that a lot when I wasn´t in a band. I even jumped in with friends bands just so I could travel but it´s a lot more fun actually playing shows.
How important for you to be in a band? In point of you have to put on shelf sometimes even give up lots of other things what ordinary people would find important in life or goals to achieve.
It´s definitely hard to be as old as I am and to have no money saved up but I have seen and done a lot of things I would have never seen by being in a band. You meet people all over the world and some are the best people you will ever meet and some of them are the worst you will ever meet. I would have never seen Europe and the US like I have. Even if I went on my own it wouldn´t be the same as being with a band. I think that to most people money and material things mean the most so they have something to show for their work. I have good memories and no money. It´s still worth it.
I've read an interview with you in the reflections 'zine couple years ago where you said you don't want to be a singer who lives from his ex-bands, and in music you respect dudes who like to move forward do different things and then retire. was it important for you that cloak / dagger plays much different music than count me out did? how far would you go with experimenting new things in playing music? And when would you retire?
I think that cloak/dagger is going to be it for me music wise. I was really proud of what CMO did as a band and I wouldn´t want to try to recreate what we did before since it wouldn´t be as sincere as it was when I was in that band. I am proud of the lyrics and songs this band has and we have some songs on the punk/core side of things and some on the rock side and I see this band as way more experimental then a standard punk or core band. I don´t have any interest in trying to be in an indie rock band or start rapping yet. When this band breaks up I will just do karaoke. We tried to stay away from ex-members promo when this band came out and it made things harder for us at first but now I´m glad we didn´t hype that up.
That is a long list of your ex bands but in most of them two or three of you played with each other. So when should a band broke up if the members are still friends and like to hang with each other?
That´s a hard thing to say but you know when the time is right. With CMO we were all good friends and loved hanging out but Pete and Colin wanted to start writing for Renee Heartfelt and you could tell that´s where all their energy was going. Garth was gone a lot with Strike Anywhere and Colin was gone with AN a lot so it just seemed like the right thing to do to end things on a high note. With Cloak I want to call it quits when it stops being fun or when we start writing bad songs.
It's in Our Band Could Be Your Life that Deep Wound broke up after all of them lost their virginitis. Is there any sexual act what could trigger such schocking change in the life of Cloak / Dagger?
If we were to all sleep with each other that would just make things awkward at practice but we all have girlfriends.
You're from Richmond and if my geographic skills don't cheat me it's on the east coast. but in your lyrics you're refering often to the west coast (LA, Hollywood). why is it? Is it conscious? For an outsider of american politics like me it looks like the east controls politics (Washington DC), economy(New York), etc and the west is responsible for the media. You're more pissed about the brainwashing what comes from the tv more than about what comes from the white house or i just overthought this and it's simply a rivary between the two coasts like in hip hop?
When I was writing for We Are I was really into how much the media effects what people think. People try to recreate the lives of famous people and live like they are in a movie and that´s all from California mostly. That´s where all the famous people live and they report all the entertainment news from. Anna Nicole Smith died and it was on CNN all day long and every other news channel and there´s a lot more important things going on. DC has a lot of politics going on that I don´t agree with that I´m not smart enough to address so I sometimes touch on it if I feel that I can back up what I´m saying. I watched a lot of TV so I know a lot about that brain washing. East Coast rap is so much better then West Coast. The Notorious movie is so much better than 2 Pacs. His sucked.
For me cloak/dagger seems to wraped around with sarcasm. but also dealing with more serious issues than most of your previous bands. Why is it that you became more serious but also more fun?
It´s true. When we started this band I always said I would want to keep it fun. I loved CMO but it was a very serious band and hard emotionally to sing some of those songs. Now I can be serious but be sarcastic at the same time to make a point. Live shows can be a lot of fun with this band and I think part of that is the lyrics are fun at times.
Most of the lyrics seem to me as they born in a period or in state of mind when you become old enough that you have to start to fit in with your punk attitude to the world of grown ups. But it’s more usual that you start giving up the attitude you’ve formed during most of your life rather than caring less about what to do in the real life. And thats when i fill the power of your lyrics. The hessitating between what should us do, which way will worth it more?
So the questions are. What does to be a grown up mean to you. Does it go along with giving up something and does punk equal youth?
It´s hard growing up and there´s young until I die and other songs that make you feel proud to be young and core but not many songs that tell you how hard it is to grow up and be punk or it´s alright not to believe in buying into the American dream when you are old so that´s where we come in. I definitely think that hardcore and punk is a youth thing but that it´s also an all ages type of thing to. It´s hard sometimes to watch someone who hasn´t experienced life as much say they will never do this or that. I have a lot of respect for people who still believe in the power of this music but are older.
Is there any agreement within the members what cloak / dagger should be about? Or do you have a collective attitude, principles like Black Flag had the „play as much and as hard as we can” thing?
Operation shock and awe!
Lots of people talking about this theory that due to the economic meltdown music will be more interesting again. And i also think it’s true cause if the circumstances are worse people get more inspired. Even though it’s kinda sad and lame as well that people need an economic meltdown to be interesting or have something real to say. What’s your opinion about this?
I think that things are really bad here right now. I´m trying to find a job and it´s near impossible and that anger is going to come through in a lot of music. They are also saying that the crime rate is going to jump up since everyone is poor so it could get bad.
What features make a band to a really good band?
I think good bands don´t try to stick to a formula and play with good intentions. People that are in bands to make money and think they are going to have a career are very easy to see and honest bands are just as easy to point out. It also helps when bands are in tune.
While technology is improving independent bands have more and more opportunity. but punk rock still has it's traditions heavly rooted in old fashioned things like fanzines, demo tapes, vinly. These things are better than a blog or an ipod it’s beyond question but with social networking sites more bands have the opportunity to tour and with file sharing sites it’s getting easier to show the world what you’re doing. So are you pro or against this process? what do you think in what point should technology stop in punk?
I think that right now it´s as far as it should go. It´s great to be able to e-mail a band directly you like to try to play shows or to get to hear you. At the same time there are so many bad bands going on tour and promoting their music that the good ones get over looked.
Also with this easiness punk rock lost it's risk and it's such romantic feeling. In your mind is it bad? Should we miss the risk?
It is a bad thing when I can go to a blog and download 20 bands and then listen to just 1 or 2 of them. I think that with everything so easy to come by people don´t appreciate music as much. It used to be really hard to find records or tapes of bands you liked. I think people take that for granted these days and that is definitely a bad thing.
Have any of you dated close-to-be famous models since pitchfork gave a positive review to your record?
Our guitar player Collin went on a date with some coc heads in bright colored shirts after that. I´m too hardcore but he´s pretty.
Csongrád and Szentes are two cities here in hungary. But their hardcore scenes are not supporting each other. What would be your suggestion? John Joseph adviced unity and Mike from Fucked Up suggested war but neither of their messages worked out. So what is your?
Virginia Beach is about 2 hours from Richmond and there was a lot of fights between the two cities years ago. Big fights, people chased around the city by 20 to 30 kids. People hit with pitchers of beer. Then after a while people moved here from there and everyone became friends and everything was cool. After that everyone joined forces and started fighting with jocks. I would go with that. Fight to unite.
Whats your favorite dinosaur?
Dinosaur Jr.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
my glorious 15 minutes
Background infos: the first time i’ve been on fucked up’s blog i read a really horrible but entertaining interview made by a russian guy. A year and some months latter i decided on a hot summer day during a boring bus trip home from a faild exam i’m gonna be even dumber than that dude and send these weirdly stupid questions to the band. The concept (in case you want one) was that I the biggest noone will make an interview with one of the most hyped contemporary punk band. It kinda shocked me how easily i could come up with stupid questions. Maybe it’s the heritage of the fact that i’ve been grown up on hungarian fanzines full with midless interviews. Anyway Mike was cool enough to answer them but suspicious to think i’m not a real person. Well i am. I’m registered in web.2 pages and stuff. I’m kinda sad i missed their show in Wien. Heard it was great.
i sent him this:
hi i'm Viktor from Hungary. it's a very exocit place and smart people says cause of the global warming bears will run away so it's gonna be safe as well. you should play here sometime. anyway music here is not really popular we do punk as burning things. but i'm fighting against this trend so i made a fanzine whatdeals with music but sometimes i turn it to a tit parade just for make more readers. i have a girlfriend too who always wears your shirt and she said you're really great. but she seems to try to get rid of me so to win her heart back i figured out i'll make an interview with you. hope you're into interviews.i don't wanna bother you with further e-mails so if you think i would/should/could question back just write a why? like i would/should/could write and then continue aswering it.Thanks!
So is Fucked Up really fucked up?
Great question, you are off to a fantastic start.
You have this name and it makes expectations from the crowd. I mean if saw a band named Fucked Up not doing fucked up things i would feel mugged and want my money back. is it exhausting to be always fucked up when other people see you?
It is really tough but we are quite famous in America so there are many people who help us to stay fucked up when we make public appearances. We have punk-prep people who gets us ready for photos shoots and concerts by giving us pills and charging our hairs. It is exhausting, but it is my job. I used to work in a lightbulb factory (do you have lightbulbs in Hungary?), and that was really tough, so I would much rather be doing this, plus it pays a lot more money to be drunk in public and playing the guitar.
For the fans could you give me a little bio about a band Ramones?
Well the Ramones were a great band formed in Detroit, America by Andy Warhol and one of the guys from The Dictators. For a while they were the most famous band in the world and had an airplane full of pizza. They once played a show in Rio infront of 500,000 and are all dead now.
What do you think why only the first 3 Ramones album are preatty rad?
End of the Century is also ok, but I guess not pretty rad like you said. Its hard to write more than 75 good songs I guess.
Do you think they really did sniffed glue? it's moldy even here in the third world.
I think they really did. Sniffing glue is very popular still in America, almost more popular than cocaine in some places (Olympia, train tracks) for hip people. The price of glue is very high now so only rich hipsters can afford to sniff it here.
One of you names is Concentration Camp. Do you know in europe these were bad places run by Germans? Lots of Jews and fucking gypses died there. Do you think the world would be a funnier place if those jew haven't died there? I mean Mel Brooks is funny. But what about dozen Mel Brooks? Man that would be so much funcing hilarious.
You raise some interesting points here. Did you see that movie "Life is Beautiful"? It was a documentary made about the life of an Italian clown who was put in a concentration camp in Italy during World War Two. He was able to maintain his comedy while in the camp by working in the Kapos doing standup routines for the guards. He died while inside after being eaten by a grizzly bear, but his small son survived and became the first Jewish comedian allowed to perform in Italy after the war. Very touching and hilarious documentary.Concentration Camp recently change his name to Gulag, for those who haven't being paying attention. He is Jewish, but got the name from summer camps his serious parents made him to go where he studied math and cyphers and worked on his massive IQ - kids used to tease him in school because they would go to soccer camp and become strong, while he just went to math and thinking camps and was always really small as a child and now as a man, so his nicknick name became Concentration Camp.
Are you punks? Your music is is simple but you don't wear mohawks? What's the deal with that?
Well yes it is very complicated, but we are punks and do not wear mohawks. In the western world there are many types of punks and corresponding fashions as you go up the scale:(in order of importance)
1) Gutter Punks: Can't afford to make mohakws so they have natty dreads and live on moving trains and also in "gutters".
2) Whacktivists: Are "punks" but don't listen to music - are more interested in making politics. Have punk style but listen to Indigo Girls and Ratatat.
3) Skinheads: The racist kind - are fat and wear Lonsdale clothes from outlet malls and have short girlfriends. Listen to obscure UK and Canadian racist OI music on CDRs
3) Posers: Listen to punk music like the Sex Pistols but also Rage Against the Machine. Are mostly in highschool. They wear punk/goth clothing like leather jackets (new only) but also black bell bottom jeans and wierd shaped sunglasses
4) Old Punks: Wear 20 year old tshirts because they spent all their money on records and have no jobs so they can't afford to look sharp. Have strange jobs and did zines a long time ago. Have grey hair and/or are balding and make everyone else feel depressed at shows and worried that they are looking at their own future.
5) Hardcore Punks: Wear only band tshirts and cut off shorts. Very short cropped hair. Super clean and carry deodorant in a bag with them.
6) Hipster Hardcore Punks: Like above, but also wear "limited" baseball caps, xxxlarge tshirts and "limited" shows. Only listen to Lil' Wayne and some modern Hardcore bands.
7) Indie Punks: Wear grunge clothes, but a little tighter. Move very slowly and smoke lots of weed and are super "Creative". Also ride bikes everywhere.
8) Punks: Who knows what they look like, or who they are.
9) Hipster punks: Like mostly dance music like Uffie and Daft Punk, but also some punk bands that are amazing (Fucked Up) and are able to transcend boundaries. Wear mostly clothes from American Apparel, and also only work at American Apparel, or Vice Magazine (interning only)10) Fucked Up: Wear only free Fred Perry, Evisu, Burberry, Ben Sherman, and G9 Harrington Jackets, and other selected vintage styles.
I saw some movies about punks like mad max 2, death wih, robo cop. Things over there seems so fucked up (haha it funny i wrote this experssion but it was not in purpose just became funny) Is it the same in Canada? I mean do punks there hate cops and angry all the time?
Yes its the same as in those movies but different depending on what part of the country you are in. Also there are no robo-punks yet. But you have to remember those movies are about the 80s - back then "punks" was also just cretins and homeless people, like when Robocop is saying "get out of here punks" he isn't talking to Discharge fans, he is talking to homeless people that are breaking the laws of homelessness. I haven't seen Deathwish, but i'm sure its the same vibe. Also "They Live".
Are you afraid of spontaneous human combustion?
Sometimes - i just got a new pair of Clarks shoes (the most expensive shoes in America) and they have metal on them, but a thick rubber sole - while we were recording the new Fucked Up album i would go from the couch across the hardwood floor and have to open the metal/glass sliding door to get into the recording booth, and every time I did that i would get a shock. After I was recording guitar overdubs for about 5 hours and kept giving myself shocks I accidentally touched one of the hard drives and erased what we had done that day somehow. We had to cancel the session and the hard drive cost about $400 to repair. I have never exploded or combusted or caught on fire, but i think it is obvious that there is a lot of potential energy saved up inside my body for if I ever needed it to blow up a bridge or something.
I heard a dude from my hood when he gets a new motor bike he stuffs the tail-pipe with wet tissues and fucks the motor. Did you ever did things like that with something what were important to you? I think it's really a cool thing. In the modern world nothing really has an value. We buy we use we throw away. But this dude really gives respect for his stuffs. What do you think abaout that?
Again you bring up very important points, and also I've heard of someone doing that with a bag of mayonnaise. These questions make your life seem very different from mine - do you live in a Hungarian refugee camp or something?
Did you see my mother's uncel? my grandma said he lives in canada but i think he is just a polish.
Good question - is he lost?
Is feist a real person or it's just Chan Marshall singing in canadian?
She is real - we have met her. She used to crash at our roadies apartment before she was famous. She was also in a punk band (see above, number 7). We are on the same label as Chan Marshall but the boss said we are not allowed to ever meet her because she is crazy.
Did you see kinkg kong? It's fucking awesome man, but do they think we're mentally disadvantaged and we'll believe the a t-rex couldn't destroy a monkey?
I did see it. THe monkey won because he had more intelligence than the dinosaur and was able to control it. by using technology. You thought it was awesome?
anyway what is your favorite dinosaur?
(i never got an answer for this)
thanks for answering. i'll translate it to hungarian and send it back to you.
then he wrote back this: "haha this is great. i will def answer it. send more questions"
my turn was: Man, i’m pleasured you liked my questions. I already imagined my gf’s face when she’ll hear all the inside infos you’ll add to my knowledge. I’m sensing another future begging for abortion. You asked so i figured out some more questions. I don’t know if these have the same quality but i had to hurry cause my whole block of flats has only one computer and the owner of it will go on holiday tomorrow so no Internet till he comes back. Anyways i’m more prepared cause my lady played me some of your songs.
So we listened to hidden world it’s not short. Isn’t the crowd pissed that you only play 3 songs? An old punker said if you play more than 20 minutes you’ll transform into a prog rock or even worse a jazz band. Is that true? Have you ever tried to play more? Aren’t you affriad that you’ll have a neon halo/banda like dire straits? That looks dangerous. I think mark knoppfer wears a bandana still becasue that halo marked his forehead.
We did transform into a prog rock band. We can play usually for about an hour and a half to two hours, we extend the versions of our songs from the album.
Arent your trumpet player bored of live shows? I mean he or she doesn’t have too much to do? What could he or she do on stage while he or she is not playing? I heard about a hungarian band that had a keyboard player who had dinner on his keyboards during the shows because he didn’t have too much parts to play in songs. But they kicked him out cause it was a joy division-esque band and the other members didn’t find eating a truly sad thing. What do you think abaout that?
Ha we don't have a trumpet player. We once played a show in Bratislava where they had hired an orchestra for us to play with because union scale is so cheap there for us because of the exchange rate, so for that show we did have a trumpet player, and when there were no trumpet parts I have no idea what that person did, I wasn't paying attention because I mostly have to play extremely difficult guitar solos throughout the entire set. We all have video games and laptops though that we can use when we aren't playing parts on stage.
David Choe (the yellow hitchiker) used your songs for his travelling. But he had an episode which told canada sucks and all canadians could eat his poop and he wished that all you’re kids will be retarded enough to want to have sex with their moms even after age 21. so using your songs was just an ironical joke or what? Are you pissed? What do you think abaout that?
We are not pissed because David Choe works for a very rich company called VBS, which is the main television station in America (television is like radio except with pictures) and we got paid many thousands of dollars for the use of that song. It is fairly well known that we will do or say anything if the price is right.
I also heard you’re christmas ep. I have some questions about that:
A/1 how does Nelly Furtado smell?
She did her vocal track for that session in an isolation booth and came too and from the studio in an airplane, and a limo dropped her right into the booth. So we could see her and give her instructions, but we could not smell her or really talk to her, only through a microphone.
A/2 does she snort cocain? She looks like she not but i have this idea that stars are taking all kind of drugs and drinks behind the cameras and papers just because it’s so evil to con their catholic fans. I mean i bet homer simpson is a drunk child beater when the cameras don’t roll.
Again, we don't know, but I could ask her next time I see her.
B, is that true that James Murphy listened to that much music that he gained some kind of spiritual aura which is a permanent soundtrack for his life? Like the situation with will ferrell and that british lesbian lady but for Murphy it could be heared by anyone else? And is that true as well that he used no effect for his voice on his records?
James Murphy apparently was very mad at us after he found out the song was going to be released on a record, because we had told people we were just recording messages for our friends in the hospital, from their favorite bands. I think he uses an affect on LCD Soundsystem records that make his lyrics sound 25 years younger.
C, for collaborating with the singer of AFI. Did you have to get permission from Tim Burton? Isn’t Havoc jewish? Or was it a joke that he wished marry christmas?
I don't think he is Jewish, but in American most Jews celebrate christmas and also the other one.
You played some shows with hard skins. Did you talked with them? i always wondered do skinheads watch the tv series Friends? Who is their favorite? I bet not Ross or Monica because they are jews. And rachel and Chandler also out of the bill cause they married/fucked with ross and monica. I guess they like Joey cause he is italian like Mussolini. Do you have any concrete infos?
This is an answer from Fat Bob:"wow ...what a question - tell him hard skin are too busy to answer questions because we are too busy playing darts, drinking beer and making sweet music with all women of the world - no matter of colour, class or creed..... "
One last question cause i have to hurry to get to the computer owner’s flat. Csongrád and Szentes are two cities here in hungary. But their hardcore scene’s are not supporting each other. What would be your suggestion? John Joseph played here with FVK and after the show he got asked about this same problem. He adviced Unity but this message haven’t worked out. So what is your suggestion? What do you think abaout that?
I mean I think that those two countries should go to war. DId you know that when John Josephs was growing up in a foster home that when he could get cheese sandwiches his older brothers and foster parents would steal the cheese out of his sandwiches and he would only have the bread to eat, and also the same with oreo cookies but with the middle taken out. I can imagine that this is what life must be like in Hungary so maybe his advice would be useful?
i sent him this:
hi i'm Viktor from Hungary. it's a very exocit place and smart people says cause of the global warming bears will run away so it's gonna be safe as well. you should play here sometime. anyway music here is not really popular we do punk as burning things. but i'm fighting against this trend so i made a fanzine whatdeals with music but sometimes i turn it to a tit parade just for make more readers. i have a girlfriend too who always wears your shirt and she said you're really great. but she seems to try to get rid of me so to win her heart back i figured out i'll make an interview with you. hope you're into interviews.i don't wanna bother you with further e-mails so if you think i would/should/could question back just write a why? like i would/should/could write and then continue aswering it.Thanks!
So is Fucked Up really fucked up?
Great question, you are off to a fantastic start.
You have this name and it makes expectations from the crowd. I mean if saw a band named Fucked Up not doing fucked up things i would feel mugged and want my money back. is it exhausting to be always fucked up when other people see you?
It is really tough but we are quite famous in America so there are many people who help us to stay fucked up when we make public appearances. We have punk-prep people who gets us ready for photos shoots and concerts by giving us pills and charging our hairs. It is exhausting, but it is my job. I used to work in a lightbulb factory (do you have lightbulbs in Hungary?), and that was really tough, so I would much rather be doing this, plus it pays a lot more money to be drunk in public and playing the guitar.
For the fans could you give me a little bio about a band Ramones?
Well the Ramones were a great band formed in Detroit, America by Andy Warhol and one of the guys from The Dictators. For a while they were the most famous band in the world and had an airplane full of pizza. They once played a show in Rio infront of 500,000 and are all dead now.
What do you think why only the first 3 Ramones album are preatty rad?
End of the Century is also ok, but I guess not pretty rad like you said. Its hard to write more than 75 good songs I guess.
Do you think they really did sniffed glue? it's moldy even here in the third world.
I think they really did. Sniffing glue is very popular still in America, almost more popular than cocaine in some places (Olympia, train tracks) for hip people. The price of glue is very high now so only rich hipsters can afford to sniff it here.
One of you names is Concentration Camp. Do you know in europe these were bad places run by Germans? Lots of Jews and fucking gypses died there. Do you think the world would be a funnier place if those jew haven't died there? I mean Mel Brooks is funny. But what about dozen Mel Brooks? Man that would be so much funcing hilarious.
You raise some interesting points here. Did you see that movie "Life is Beautiful"? It was a documentary made about the life of an Italian clown who was put in a concentration camp in Italy during World War Two. He was able to maintain his comedy while in the camp by working in the Kapos doing standup routines for the guards. He died while inside after being eaten by a grizzly bear, but his small son survived and became the first Jewish comedian allowed to perform in Italy after the war. Very touching and hilarious documentary.Concentration Camp recently change his name to Gulag, for those who haven't being paying attention. He is Jewish, but got the name from summer camps his serious parents made him to go where he studied math and cyphers and worked on his massive IQ - kids used to tease him in school because they would go to soccer camp and become strong, while he just went to math and thinking camps and was always really small as a child and now as a man, so his nicknick name became Concentration Camp.
Are you punks? Your music is is simple but you don't wear mohawks? What's the deal with that?
Well yes it is very complicated, but we are punks and do not wear mohawks. In the western world there are many types of punks and corresponding fashions as you go up the scale:(in order of importance)
1) Gutter Punks: Can't afford to make mohakws so they have natty dreads and live on moving trains and also in "gutters".
2) Whacktivists: Are "punks" but don't listen to music - are more interested in making politics. Have punk style but listen to Indigo Girls and Ratatat.
3) Skinheads: The racist kind - are fat and wear Lonsdale clothes from outlet malls and have short girlfriends. Listen to obscure UK and Canadian racist OI music on CDRs
3) Posers: Listen to punk music like the Sex Pistols but also Rage Against the Machine. Are mostly in highschool. They wear punk/goth clothing like leather jackets (new only) but also black bell bottom jeans and wierd shaped sunglasses
4) Old Punks: Wear 20 year old tshirts because they spent all their money on records and have no jobs so they can't afford to look sharp. Have strange jobs and did zines a long time ago. Have grey hair and/or are balding and make everyone else feel depressed at shows and worried that they are looking at their own future.
5) Hardcore Punks: Wear only band tshirts and cut off shorts. Very short cropped hair. Super clean and carry deodorant in a bag with them.
6) Hipster Hardcore Punks: Like above, but also wear "limited" baseball caps, xxxlarge tshirts and "limited" shows. Only listen to Lil' Wayne and some modern Hardcore bands.
7) Indie Punks: Wear grunge clothes, but a little tighter. Move very slowly and smoke lots of weed and are super "Creative". Also ride bikes everywhere.
8) Punks: Who knows what they look like, or who they are.
9) Hipster punks: Like mostly dance music like Uffie and Daft Punk, but also some punk bands that are amazing (Fucked Up) and are able to transcend boundaries. Wear mostly clothes from American Apparel, and also only work at American Apparel, or Vice Magazine (interning only)10) Fucked Up: Wear only free Fred Perry, Evisu, Burberry, Ben Sherman, and G9 Harrington Jackets, and other selected vintage styles.
I saw some movies about punks like mad max 2, death wih, robo cop. Things over there seems so fucked up (haha it funny i wrote this experssion but it was not in purpose just became funny) Is it the same in Canada? I mean do punks there hate cops and angry all the time?
Yes its the same as in those movies but different depending on what part of the country you are in. Also there are no robo-punks yet. But you have to remember those movies are about the 80s - back then "punks" was also just cretins and homeless people, like when Robocop is saying "get out of here punks" he isn't talking to Discharge fans, he is talking to homeless people that are breaking the laws of homelessness. I haven't seen Deathwish, but i'm sure its the same vibe. Also "They Live".
Are you afraid of spontaneous human combustion?
Sometimes - i just got a new pair of Clarks shoes (the most expensive shoes in America) and they have metal on them, but a thick rubber sole - while we were recording the new Fucked Up album i would go from the couch across the hardwood floor and have to open the metal/glass sliding door to get into the recording booth, and every time I did that i would get a shock. After I was recording guitar overdubs for about 5 hours and kept giving myself shocks I accidentally touched one of the hard drives and erased what we had done that day somehow. We had to cancel the session and the hard drive cost about $400 to repair. I have never exploded or combusted or caught on fire, but i think it is obvious that there is a lot of potential energy saved up inside my body for if I ever needed it to blow up a bridge or something.
I heard a dude from my hood when he gets a new motor bike he stuffs the tail-pipe with wet tissues and fucks the motor. Did you ever did things like that with something what were important to you? I think it's really a cool thing. In the modern world nothing really has an value. We buy we use we throw away. But this dude really gives respect for his stuffs. What do you think abaout that?
Again you bring up very important points, and also I've heard of someone doing that with a bag of mayonnaise. These questions make your life seem very different from mine - do you live in a Hungarian refugee camp or something?
Did you see my mother's uncel? my grandma said he lives in canada but i think he is just a polish.
Good question - is he lost?
Is feist a real person or it's just Chan Marshall singing in canadian?
She is real - we have met her. She used to crash at our roadies apartment before she was famous. She was also in a punk band (see above, number 7). We are on the same label as Chan Marshall but the boss said we are not allowed to ever meet her because she is crazy.
Did you see kinkg kong? It's fucking awesome man, but do they think we're mentally disadvantaged and we'll believe the a t-rex couldn't destroy a monkey?
I did see it. THe monkey won because he had more intelligence than the dinosaur and was able to control it. by using technology. You thought it was awesome?
anyway what is your favorite dinosaur?
(i never got an answer for this)
thanks for answering. i'll translate it to hungarian and send it back to you.
then he wrote back this: "haha this is great. i will def answer it. send more questions"
my turn was: Man, i’m pleasured you liked my questions. I already imagined my gf’s face when she’ll hear all the inside infos you’ll add to my knowledge. I’m sensing another future begging for abortion. You asked so i figured out some more questions. I don’t know if these have the same quality but i had to hurry cause my whole block of flats has only one computer and the owner of it will go on holiday tomorrow so no Internet till he comes back. Anyways i’m more prepared cause my lady played me some of your songs.
So we listened to hidden world it’s not short. Isn’t the crowd pissed that you only play 3 songs? An old punker said if you play more than 20 minutes you’ll transform into a prog rock or even worse a jazz band. Is that true? Have you ever tried to play more? Aren’t you affriad that you’ll have a neon halo/banda like dire straits? That looks dangerous. I think mark knoppfer wears a bandana still becasue that halo marked his forehead.
We did transform into a prog rock band. We can play usually for about an hour and a half to two hours, we extend the versions of our songs from the album.
Arent your trumpet player bored of live shows? I mean he or she doesn’t have too much to do? What could he or she do on stage while he or she is not playing? I heard about a hungarian band that had a keyboard player who had dinner on his keyboards during the shows because he didn’t have too much parts to play in songs. But they kicked him out cause it was a joy division-esque band and the other members didn’t find eating a truly sad thing. What do you think abaout that?
Ha we don't have a trumpet player. We once played a show in Bratislava where they had hired an orchestra for us to play with because union scale is so cheap there for us because of the exchange rate, so for that show we did have a trumpet player, and when there were no trumpet parts I have no idea what that person did, I wasn't paying attention because I mostly have to play extremely difficult guitar solos throughout the entire set. We all have video games and laptops though that we can use when we aren't playing parts on stage.
David Choe (the yellow hitchiker) used your songs for his travelling. But he had an episode which told canada sucks and all canadians could eat his poop and he wished that all you’re kids will be retarded enough to want to have sex with their moms even after age 21. so using your songs was just an ironical joke or what? Are you pissed? What do you think abaout that?
We are not pissed because David Choe works for a very rich company called VBS, which is the main television station in America (television is like radio except with pictures) and we got paid many thousands of dollars for the use of that song. It is fairly well known that we will do or say anything if the price is right.
I also heard you’re christmas ep. I have some questions about that:
A/1 how does Nelly Furtado smell?
She did her vocal track for that session in an isolation booth and came too and from the studio in an airplane, and a limo dropped her right into the booth. So we could see her and give her instructions, but we could not smell her or really talk to her, only through a microphone.
A/2 does she snort cocain? She looks like she not but i have this idea that stars are taking all kind of drugs and drinks behind the cameras and papers just because it’s so evil to con their catholic fans. I mean i bet homer simpson is a drunk child beater when the cameras don’t roll.
Again, we don't know, but I could ask her next time I see her.
B, is that true that James Murphy listened to that much music that he gained some kind of spiritual aura which is a permanent soundtrack for his life? Like the situation with will ferrell and that british lesbian lady but for Murphy it could be heared by anyone else? And is that true as well that he used no effect for his voice on his records?
James Murphy apparently was very mad at us after he found out the song was going to be released on a record, because we had told people we were just recording messages for our friends in the hospital, from their favorite bands. I think he uses an affect on LCD Soundsystem records that make his lyrics sound 25 years younger.
C, for collaborating with the singer of AFI. Did you have to get permission from Tim Burton? Isn’t Havoc jewish? Or was it a joke that he wished marry christmas?
I don't think he is Jewish, but in American most Jews celebrate christmas and also the other one.
You played some shows with hard skins. Did you talked with them? i always wondered do skinheads watch the tv series Friends? Who is their favorite? I bet not Ross or Monica because they are jews. And rachel and Chandler also out of the bill cause they married/fucked with ross and monica. I guess they like Joey cause he is italian like Mussolini. Do you have any concrete infos?
This is an answer from Fat Bob:"wow ...what a question - tell him hard skin are too busy to answer questions because we are too busy playing darts, drinking beer and making sweet music with all women of the world - no matter of colour, class or creed..... "
One last question cause i have to hurry to get to the computer owner’s flat. Csongrád and Szentes are two cities here in hungary. But their hardcore scene’s are not supporting each other. What would be your suggestion? John Joseph played here with FVK and after the show he got asked about this same problem. He adviced Unity but this message haven’t worked out. So what is your suggestion? What do you think abaout that?
I mean I think that those two countries should go to war. DId you know that when John Josephs was growing up in a foster home that when he could get cheese sandwiches his older brothers and foster parents would steal the cheese out of his sandwiches and he would only have the bread to eat, and also the same with oreo cookies but with the middle taken out. I can imagine that this is what life must be like in Hungary so maybe his advice would be useful?
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