lesser
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.
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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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