Interview with NoBunny - Podcast 118

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Sorry it has been about five years since our last update. Just basically since January. Oh my God, so seriously like three months since our last update. It was summer break. Yeah, it was spring break. We took a long, I need a lot of time to prepare for the resurrection in Jesus. And it was a big break. But I just want to apologize for that. The only reason, like seriously, and I mean this, the only reason we were having such a large break is we were just having a real hard time getting shows, getting interviews. There wasn't a lot coming through for a while. And when it was, it was someone we spoke to recently or it was someone who didn't want to speak to us. Like right now, I can tell you this factually, without subjectivity, Wednesday night, Bronx are coming through an independent in San Francisco.

I wrote them three times, wrote their management, nothing. They were like, fuck you guys. We're famous. You're keeping it factual. They didn't say fuck you guys. No, no, they didn't say fuck you guys. That fuck you guys, that was inferred. That's what I inferred from them absolutely not responding to me at all. So, I mean, I know you're thinking, you guys are totally famous. And we are. But it doesn't get you everything. I'm the no spin zone of this podcast. Nairman's what keeps the objectivity intact on this show. So, but yeah. So, I mean, we don't get everything we want. But we did get a really good interview. We just didn't run it until now because factually, again, we didn't have anything to follow it up.

And I didn't want to post one interview in like four months and then not have anything to follow it because that would kind of suck. Especially because this interview is with No Bunny, who is a fantastic artist out of, well, originally out of Arizona, now out of Oakland, California. He kind of moves around. But a great, great artist. His album, Love Visions, Jay Retard said it was the best album of 2009. He gets a lot of good press. And I love him. I think he's great music. Good guy. And so, we have this great interview with No Bunny. And we also have a really great contest where we're actually going to give away one of two rare pressings of his 12-inch LP, Love Visions. We're either going to give away the original pressing, which was on Bubble Dumb Records.

And it was all hand-done covers where they took old vinyl record covers and then glued stuff over them. Or is going to be part of the second pressing on 1, 2, 3, 4, Go Records, which the second pressing was on Red Vinyl, but they ran out of center labels. So instead of doing another run of center labels, Steve-O had him run of red label or white labels and then made a red stamp to press on them. And there's like 200 of those in existence. So it'll be one of those two records. I'm going to let whoever wins choose. So it's a pretty good prize, I think. I mean, it's better than kicking a dick, which I've given. Guy was really not happy that he won that. He was really bummed that he had to enter. So it's a good contest and I think it's a good interview.

So check it out. Keep listening for all of No Bunny's crazy antics. We're going to start you off with, we're going to play three tracks off of Love Visions. Because he has a bunch of other shit, but it's all CD, or not CD, it's all tape and vinyl. And I'm not ripping that to digital. I'm not that tech savvy. But we're going to start off with Chuck Berry Holiday, which is off of Love Visions. And then we're going to go into the interview and we'll be back. So stay tuned.

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So Sound Scene Revolution, we are hanging out at a 1-2-3-4-Go record store. We can't really say that. No, I'm kidding, we can't. It's totally fine. It's legit. I was like, I don't know. Does Steve not allow us to be here? It's actually cool. He'd be happy. All right. Well, yeah. And this is, is it the headquarters of the label as well? Or is this? Well, oh, 1-2-3-4-Go records. Yeah. This is also the headquarters of No Bunny Nonsense. Merchandising, licensing. Production, Enterprises. And, but that's only after hours after 1-2-3-4-Go records is closed. When the record label is down, No Bunny takes over. So if you haven't caught on yet, we are hanging out with No Bunny. If you'd like to say hello. Hello, No Bunny. So how are you doing today?

Pretty good overall? Well, I think so. Yeah. I mean, I just had some pepperoni pizza, which I'd like to thank you guys for, for providing that. Oh, no worries. And I feel pretty good. We're listening to some ELO. That's Electric Light Orchestra. And yeah, no complaints. It's a good evening. I really, I apologize that it's a little later than we were supposed to meet, but here we am. Yeah. It all worked out. There's no complaints on our part on that. It's worked out. Yeah. As long as it happens, we're always happy. Coolio. And besides, this is a much better location than we normally get to do it. Cheerio. Rice Krispies. All the good breakfast.

So I guess easiest place to get started is, how did you get involved with music and doing what you do now in particular? Well, both of my parents were musicians and my younger brother was a musician, so I had it on both sides of me. I suppose it was just, I was doomed that way. I was born cursed. Sandwiched. And I really had no other choice. And I do what I do because I have to and because I need to and because I want to. And I suppose that's it in a nutshell. You know, it tastes just like a milkshake. Come take a sip. I don't know what that means, but that. I think you know exactly what that means, but I didn't mean it personally. I'm just, I'm speaking to the greater radio audience. Metaphorically. No, I meant it realistically.

Statistically. Quite literally. Conspiratactically. Fair enough. Sure. So, all right. So you have a couple of seven inches you're on and the full length. Well, I have one seven inch of my own. I have one album of my own, which is available in LP, CD, and digital download. And I also have one seven inch that I appear on, a compilation called The World's Lousies with Idea Volume 3. That is the first Nobody release. I have a cassette only release. And I also have a digital download only release, which is for free on the internet, abound as is all music, and as it should be. And that's from something about Jemkin, about like getting high off your shit and piss. I don't know if I can say that, and I apologize in advance if I can't.

Yeah. Oh, Jemkin. Yeah. We're talking about Jemkin. We just, we literally, what was it, the Super Bowl? The Super Bowl. I've heard of the Super Bowl. Yes. You've heard of the event. You put a lot of weed in it. Yes, it's a huge bowl. Big, baby bowl. But the football event, the Super Bowl, we actually, it was the first time either of us had heard about that. So there was Jemkin going on during the Super Bowl? I didn't partake this year. I know New Orleans won, which I like the freak show in New Orleans and the freak scene there, but I don't really, I don't know. So what's, well, you tell me. I don't. Let's turn the tables here. How do you know about Jemkin from the Super Bowl? Well, we're, what, those mother huffers are smoking on that ding dong or what's going on?

This is uncomfortable. We're being asked questions. Yeah. I don't remember. I'm on to you, mother suckers. I don't know how it came up, honestly. Well, okay. So what happened was one of our friends was there and he was talking about this epidemic. He was watching Fox News. He's a Fox News guy. We were ripping him. And he was talking about how he, on Fox News, he saw this whole report about kids getting high on Jemco. And we were like, what the fuck's that? Yeah, Jemkin or whatever the fuck. And we were like, what the fuck's that? And it's like one kid's like pissing.

Pissing shit in a, in a, like a bottle and then like get high on it. And then we totally like outed him as it's totally fake. Right. Well, I happen to know otherwise. I've, I've, I've partaken. I've done it many times. Uh, it works. Um, it sounds like lucky for me. I don't have a good sense of smell. So I, that's why a lot of, uh, the so-called disgusting things that I do are not so disgusting to me. Cause I think that just relates to taste and smell maybe. And it, for me, like I can, I can, I can get in the mud and the blood and the beer and then some and much worse. And I'll tell you what, uh, yeah, you pee into a bottle, funnel in some poo, put it out into the sun and topped with a balloon. Let it get all gassy, but don't let it go long.

Pop goes the Jemkin now. I can't get high no more. Oh, pop goes the Jemkin. Okay. I don't really remember how the song goes, but that's the one that that's why it's only a digital download. And that's why it's free. Cause it's really shitty. No pun intended. And that's, it's only like, it's under a minute, 36 seconds. If I remember correct. Not that I pay attention to such things, but yeah, myth or not. I know it works a little. Yeah. You get dizzy. I mean, it's just, it's like, you know, I mean, I don't know if you guys have ever like smoked banana peels. You don't really get high, but if you smoke just bullshit, you, you don't feel it'll shake you up a little bit. It's really, it's not worth the high that's for damn sure.

But it does, it will, it'll fuck you for a second. Maybe not in a pleasurable way. So I got to ask, uh, not to get too far off track. Where do you store a bottle of piss and shit long enough for this to occur? Well, I don't know if this is a loaded question or not. Cause a lot of people know, uh, you know, I'm, I'm a, I'm a piss hoarder and, um, and yeah, so I, that's no problem on my end. You know, the shitting thing is a new thing. And, you know, I've, I've, uh, I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I have, uh, tweeted about this, maybe on Twitter about how I wish I could shit in a bottle. Um, but that's just from being in a car for so long on tour and just like, you can pee in bottles in the road, but not for getting high purposes.

That's not why I Twittered that so long ago on my twat account. But, uh, anyway, but yeah, if you want to shit in a bottle, it's really easy. You just use a funnel. So, and, um, and pissing in a bottle I do all the time. Like I have at any given moment, at least four dozen bottles of urine in my room. And I wish I was kidding. I just have problems, but you know, we all do and we do what we got to do. That guy has pizza just walking by, but we just had some pizza. So I'm not going to go stab him for it right now. I'm not going to go beat up that guy for his pizza. Not tonight. Fair enough. No, I'm just kidding. I would never, although I do, I do a lot of things for pizza, but not stab, you know, my brother, man, not the other man.

No way. Peace, love, understanding. It's all good. Eat your pizza, motherfucker. I'm just wanting to, we can swear. I take it. Right. Cause you were a swear. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's the, that's cause no one's listening. Right. Oh, Mitch Hedberg joke. Anyway, is this thing on? There's a few people. My mom listens. Mitch Hedberg. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. You can swear in the woods too.

Pretty much. Yeah. It's the same thing that applies. If I could sidetrack. I don't know. Does it have to be over soon, but no, no, no. Okay. I'll just say real quick. If it's, if it runs real long, we edit it, but go right ahead. Okay. Yeah. Anything I say, if I die and then Mitch Hedberg dies with Miss Hedberg's already dead, rip. By the way, but I'll just say real talk. I used to go see standup comedy every Wednesday for free. Good neighbor night in this neighborhood I lived in. And one night I saw Mitch Hedberg and he was so good that I actually paid to go see him the next night on Thursday. It was the first time I ever paid for standup comedy. Whoa. Because for once, the free comedy night was actually awesome.

And he was so good. And I got his autograph that night and it said, well, it said, no bunny, twice. Thanks, Mitch.

Flip the record now. That's kind of cool. Yeah. Yeah. Good idea. We got the record. But I lost that. Where was it that you saw him, man?

Hold on. Let you fill up the record here. In Chicago, Illinois at Zany's Nightclub, which is actually, it is kind of like the goat. Well, I think it's the goat. If not the go to, at least the goat shit comedy club in Chicago, right down the street from Second City. Pretty much everyone goes from Second City to Zany's and blah, blah, blah. And it was the nicest place I've ever lived in my entire life in the building of Stephen Tushin, who, I don't know how interesting if these things get printed out and you do hyperlinks, but Stephen Tushin is a man to click and Google if this is not on the internet somewhere. One of my heroes, and I'm proud to say my landlord and my boss for a short period of time, he wrote the book, The Destruction of the Moral Fabric of America, and a true American hero.

Real talk, Stephen Tushin. And he was your landlord. My landlord and my boss. Wow. A mentor, I'd like to call him a friend, but I doubt he would call me a friend, but I'd like to think he wouldn't call me anything too bad, just as a, you know, I was just another, I'm just, he's the man I'm just visiting, you know. You just happened to be there, huh? I'm very happy to have been there. Stephen Tushin, real talk, The Destruction of the Moral Fabric of America. Make sure we like that, man. Good friend. Anything that gets strong feelings about, we make sure we try and put it there. I'm into it. He's, yeah, he was accused of that by multiple judges, or in paraphrased terms, but a crusader of free speech and obscenity, or not obscenity, but he's been in charge of obscenity quite a bit.

Yeah, that comes with free speech. BITD, you know, back in the day, he's been a freedom fighter for a long time, underground under the table, and hardcore BDSM films, and yeah, big fan, big, big, big fan, and proud to say I used to work for the man and live, the nicest place I ever lived, was a home he provided for me, down the street from Zanies, and I got to see Mitch Hedberg, and full circle, somehow, no matter what, the world keeps turning, I'm listening to ELO on Sound Scene Radio, 0.5923, we don't do numbers, it's the internet, come on, dot, dot com, com, com, C-O-M, mock backwards, so, coming back to the music, the first 500 copies of Love Visions that were done on LP, were through another label before it was, first thousand, yeah, the first thousand, awesome, there's improper information on the internet, but that's okay, but no, but I know you at least did research on that, but it was a thousand, yeah. Yeah, so the first thousand were done on Bubble Dumb, was it? Bubble Dumb, right, and those were all with, sort of, DIY covers with, they were all kind of glued and paste, and some of them were decorated, correct?

Yeah, they were all glued on, backs and fronts, and yeah, the very, very, I, yeah, like the early ones, we, were Xeroxes, as opposed to professionally printed ones, which we got printed here in Oakland, and blah, blah, blah, yes, yes, for sure. Now, did you guys, were you doing part of it? It took a long time, yeah, it was me and Dave, we did pretty much, we did the lion's share for sure, we had a little bit of help here and there, the impediments came by and helped out, blessed their greasy little hearts, they were in the Teen Turds at the time, which was nobody's backing band, they were the Teen Turds, blessed their Teen Turds hearts, and yeah, and I think that was about the only people who helped, maybe, there was probably a couple other creeps that I'm forgetting, but. No offense to them. Yeah, no offense, I'm just drawing a blank, I'm, I think I'm the, I'm, I'm smoking pot, and uh, drinking Old Crow, I'll tell you, I've been, I, uh, wanted to cut back on whiskey a bit, and I have, and I've been, it's good, because, you know, I, I do, I'd enjoy it, but uh, maybe it's not the best to drink too much, but there was a jumbo, a handle. There was. On sale, 12.06 out the door, and I'll tell you what, I'm not even talking, not even considering we're in California right now, that is just, that's a screaming deal, as someone who's been buying bourbon since they were, like, 16, you know, like, that's, uh. You've, you've priced compared. I'll tell you what, 12.06 for a handle of Old Crow?

So, yeah, I've been drinking a lot of whiskey today. Fair enough, man. Go for it. It's only bourbon if it's from Kentucky. Really? Real talk. I did not. It's only real talk if it's from Chicago. Deep dish. When do you learn that on the History Channel?

Oh, right. Yeah. Your Iranian sister, Muslim Iranian sister lives in Kentucky. Real talk. Real talk. So, that's the remainder of the handle that you have there? Yeah. You guys are welcome to sip the bottom barrel. Smell it. It's literally the bottom of the barrel. It's 12.06, you said? 12.06, out the door. That's good, man. Out the door, CVS, in, uh, what was Long's, rest in peace, in Oakland, for anyone listening in Oakland out there. Uh, yeah, rest in peace, Long's. I mean, it seems kind of the same, but not really. I don't know, whatever. I don't really care, but I guess I'd rather Long's for some weird reason, but. Yeah. Every CVS I go to, it has carpet in the inside, which is odd. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. I didn't notice either, but I'll take your word on it. Take a look. Now, now I'll be uncomfortable and I won't know why. I'll be like, fucking carpet everywhere. And they're going to look at me like I'm crazy. It's good to know that. I feel like Long's was somehow more orange and yellow and seventies. And that was somehow nice. I could be totally wrong. Well, I associate Long's with my childhood because it was always here when I grew up. I wasn't even here, but it feels like, I associate it. I know it feels, it feels good. Old school. Not to, you know, harp on the past. Let's, you know, de-evolve. I mean, it's too late. Let's just, let's just kill it all. Anyway, let's get, let's get there.

It may as well all be a CVS at this point. HIV, CVS, just fucking blow it up. It'll all be over soon. But I mean, it's still nice to hang on a little bit to some of that sweet stuff, you know? Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Um, and we're going to take the, uh, quick

up and go to the bathroom and enjoy, uh, whatever you're doing. Um, yeah, the bathroom topic gets a little dicey as this interview goes on, but, um, Jimco, but, uh, I don't know cause we edit this post. I don't know if that's before this or after this, but if it's after this, you're going to want to stay tuned cause shit gets real, but, um, for real, literally. But, um, so we're going to play another track off of the album Love Visions and the track we're going to play this time is called, uh, Boneyard. I think it's either Boneyard or in the Boneyard, but it doesn't matter. You'll figure it out. And then we're going to go into the interview. Remember to stay tuned cause we have a contest at the end where we're giving away a special limited edition pressing of nobody's full length Love Visions. And we'll have all the entry rules for that. Um, so enjoy and we'll be right back. Uh, bye.

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Getting back to, oh yeah, music. I guess we can talk about that for a while. Part of it. I am familiar with the medium. So, uh, uh, not to harp on it, but, uh, you got, uh, was it in 2009? I think it was, uh, Jay Retard listed you as like his album of the year. Do you get a lot of like notice from that? Do you think a lot of people kind of picked up on you after that fact? Uh, yeah, for sure. A lot of, I definitely got a lot of, um, uh, friend requests on my space after that. And, uh, not, not necessarily album sales, but that's, that's what people do now. Well, maybe, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. But, but I definitely got a lot of, uh, attention from Jay and a lot of help from Jay and, um, certainly right after, uh, yeah, he told me or right after he posted that was good. Yeah. And, um, yeah, and I got, and somewhat off topic, but not really, uh, but just talking about Jay when he passed away, which was really sad. I actually got a lot of letters from people, uh, who were fans of his and fans of mine, uh, like reaching out and I thought that was really nice and, uh, it really meant a lot to me and yeah, that was strange. And yeah. And Jay meant a lot to me and yeah, I'm really, I'm really sad that he's dead, obviously not to be a bummer, but no, no. Oh yeah. I didn't want to, I wanted to ask about that. I didn't want to bring that aspect up because I know you guys do get, you know, kind of mentioned a lot in the same sense. I didn't want to be like, was it really hard and all the kind of no, and it's fine. I'm yeah, I don't mind. I don't. Yeah. That's yeah. It's all good. Yeah. And, uh, I forgot. Oh yeah.

But Jay, but yeah, definitely him mentioning me as his favorite record of the year to go back to the original point was, uh, yeah, for sure. A lot of people, uh, responded to that. And we were surprised, like, were you, did he like tell you that or did it just kind of like one day? Um, he told me he really liked the record a lot before, for sure. Like we, we've known each other for a long time, not well, but like through, uh, just through music and like older bands and stuff like we've played together a couple of times over the years and met quite a few times, but we'd only, uh, but yeah, uh, anyway, but yeah, he had told me blah, blah, blah. Sorry. I'm, I'm pretty stoned all of a sudden, but anyway, and I'm feeling heavy duty, but yeah, but he, he had told me before that he really liked it, but I didn't know it was his favorite album. That was what, it was a nice surprise for sure. Yeah. Nice. Nice. Sweet. He was a sweet boy. I'm soon, we're soon, uh, actually sneak preview exclusive. I'll tell you here. Um, I'm, I'm starting a blog as boring and shitty. How, how exciting news is that? You're lucky so-and-so, but, uh, but anyway, the points I'm, uh, we're going to, I have a little tribute to Jay, including, uh, we play the show, we play the song as we're going to put that up and blah, blah, blah. And, uh, a video of us on tour featuring, uh, male nudity and, uh, eroticism and touching and urine and spit and, uh, it's good times, great oldies and, and I'm putting it up, uh, cause it was fun and it was, it's some of my favorite, I don't know, whatever it stay tuned for some no bunny J retard good times porn coming up. Excellent, man. Sounds like a, sounds like a good time in the best way. Actually, I feel, I feel like I just sound stupid and like gossipy now, but, uh, what's that? You've been working on that for a while or no, no, no. It's just, it's just a stupid, funny video. And like I said, it's not actually porn.

It's not to imply that it's actually porn. It's just a funny video from backstage, but it does involve some dicks and urine and good types of girls and you'll see it coming on the nobody blog. I don't want to imply that it's actually porn cause it's not. So yeah. Don't want to mislead people. Yeah. Most good times backstage do involve nudity. It's a, yeah, it's a definitely, it's a, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's probably worse in some ways and, and that's, uh, the good part of it. Yeah. It's just, it's a gross, fun video, which you'll have to stay tuned to see exactly what happens, but, but it's certainly not embarrassing to, well, it's just, yeah, it's all good. It's all bad. It's, it's, it's good.

Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. So, uh, are you, uh, any plans to work on a new full length or any new material possibly? I know a lot of people are always asking. So yeah, it's almost ready. I hope, I think it should be out in the end of August on goner. That is assuming I can get them, uh, the recordings in time and I think I will. I hope ideally. Now, uh, the love visions was you recorded all that by yourself, correct? Not all of it. No. Um, I mistake. Oh, it's cool. That's twice. I've been wrong. This is a very poorly done interview. Oh my God. I quit. Uh, no. Yeah. I record more stuff myself. And then my friends, uh, who are in a band called the golden boots, they recorded, um, quite a bit of it and they were in the band. They were in no bunny at the time. Okay. Um, or at least for, yeah, a third of the record or so, but, but yeah, it's credited somewhere on there, but yeah, somewhere in that area, somewhere around there. But yeah, the golden boots, uh, Tucson, Arizona. Awesome band. Nice. Nice. So for the new record, are you doing more or less the same process or has it been now that I've been trying to do world famous? Well, I don't know about that. That's what I'm going to tell people. I hope I like to be world famous. We're planning, I'm planning on doing a literal world tour next year. And I just, just came to, well, someone just brought to my attention recently and it sounded like a good idea, but I think it'll take a year's worth of planning, literally buying one of those one way tickets around the world with a lot of stops and trying to tour around the world. Uh, but I forgot the original question. I was asking about the recording process for what you're doing right now. Is it similar to what you've been doing or? Oh yeah. Same thing. Yeah. Just, yeah. I, I just the same as the last record. I just do little bits and pieces when I can and the very few precious moments when like, uh, I'm around musical equipment and recording equipment and like alone for like a minute and can be loud. So it happens a little here and there and I just recorded some stuff with a friend and that, that turned out good. So I'm going to have at least two new seven inches coming out. Uh, at least by the time I go on tour in May, if not sooner. And, uh, and then yeah, hopefully the, the Garner record should be out and I think we'll be out by late August. And that's called, Oh No, I think. Oh, I know.

Very cool. Very cool. So, uh, what's it going to be looking at here? So it's going to be on Garner records, the seven inches, any information on those? Like who are we putting those out? Uh, the seven inches are coming out on DMR records out of Atlanta, Georgia. And, um, the next one's going to be a split record between chocolate covered records out of San Francisco and burger records out of Anaheim. It's going to be a chocolate covered burger release. And, um, the DMR record is, uh, from Atlanta. It's going to be an oral fixations EP, which features the song Your Mouth, which is on the Raw Romance cassette, uh, Brace Face, which is, uh, original super ripoff and a Moto cover by Moto called, uh, It Tastes Like a Milkshake. And then the chocolate covered burger release is going to be the A side, Blow Dumb, which is a love song to Anaheim, California.

And the B side is, uh, The Birthday Girl, which is the love song to a birthday girl. Nice. Nice. You've been really busy. It sounds like. Well, I try, but not really. I spend most of my time just sitting in the park, just staring. Well, it seems to have worked out well for the creative process at least. Well, that's a, well, well, yeah. All right. Well, fair enough. Oh, sorry. I think I smoked myself silly, but it's all right. I'm still around.

Don't worry. It's not the first time. It won't be the last. I'm sure we've done more. We've done a lot of like that. Don't worry. So, uh, real quick. Um, so you've had kind of a rotating backing band, uh, before. Do you have kind of a set group of people that you pull from, or is it just kind of whoever's available at the time? Do you have plans for a solid band altogether? There's a lot of people in the No Bunny family that have been, and it continues to grow. You know, our cult is, uh, spreading ever. So, but, uh, no, it, at this point it's, uh, myself doing most of the grunt work. And then, uh, there is a permanent member, Elvis Christ, the Gator, JT. And, uh, he's been playing with me for a long time, either drums or guitar.

You can usually find them, although not always, for example, I'm playing with the Yolks in Chicago suit and, uh, but that's out of convenience and et cetera, but are not, I don't know, not they're there. Yeah, no, it's constantly rotating though, for sure. And, um, just because I'm impossible to deal with and insane. And I don't, I just don't know what I'm doing really. I don't really know how to run a band or record music. Obviously I've promised these records to people for years and I, I just, I'm just constantly promising people things that I can't promise. It's just a constant disappointment to all my friends and bandmates and fans and everything. And, uh, that's why it keeps rotating. I'm just the king of self-sabotage. And, uh, I just don't know what the fuck I'm doing basically hard on yourself. Well, I mean, you know, you see them city. It's what time is it? You know, I'm in a record store locked in. I don't know what's going on, but, uh, it's been a dream of mine to get a record store after hours. So tell me about it. No, I'm actually, I'm, I'm actually the happiest. I'm the happiest at the status I've ever been in my life. Of course, as anyone else, I've, I have no complaints, but yet I'm, you know, what, what, you know, who knows? That's just, you know, it's the best, worst. It's cool. Nice.

It's great. Turkey and taco. Who knows? I don't know. I can't complain, but looking me go. Yeah. You see, I mean, you seem to be doing all right and you definitely don't seem to be complaining. So at least now, maybe you complain other times right now you're doing all right. Well, yeah. Tell me. I don't know. Fair enough. So, uh, yeah, while we're on it, we were noticing here in just real quick, the, uh, nobody ears that you have in the, uh, store counter here. And, uh, I was curious. Well, first of all, we had talked about this, but for the people at home, how did that come about? And what other nobody merchandise might people be expecting to see? Well, Elvis Christ, JT Gator, uh, told me that that would be the worst thing in the world to have merchandise wise. So I knew we had to have it. We're trying to keep it shitty, you know, keep it lowbrow, uh, merchandising and, uh, repackaging crap. We're all about it. But I actually thought that was one of the more, uh, that was one of the more industrious turns we ever took there. Um, we were looking for big fingers for a band that, uh, my good friends, Justin and Trent are in called, uh, big finger, which is a big star, bad finger styled rock and roll band.

We're looking for the big, they were looking for the big foam fingers and, uh, I found the bunny ears and there they are. Big foam bunny ears. And you were like, this is, it's too serendipitous. Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's so shitty, you know, how could I not? And it took a while cause there were actually, that's probably the most money I've ever spent on anything in my life. Actually, that is the most money I've ever spent on anything in my life. Um, and that's somewhat embarrassing, but a hundred percent true, but they're really cheap as you have to order a lot of them, but we've actually managed to get rid of most of them, mostly through throwing them or throwing them out to the audience, passing them out to the people. But now we sell them cause we're down to like the last, I don't know, like 20 or something. Now they're a collector's item. That's when you sell the shit out of them. Basically that we were inspired by the Ramones letter openers. That's the real truth. The Ramones have letter openers. They had letter openers and I thought that was really cool. I just, I, I truly do like, uh, I'd really, I do really like crappy merchandising and like, yeah, I like throw a name on just the stupid, I'm, I know. I love crappy shit for my favorite bands. I like the Ramones. Believe me. Yeah. There's a ton of crap. There's a ton of people like you. Otherwise misfits and dead Kennedys and the Ramones and a ton of other bands wouldn't have merchandise. I know those guys have incense for crying out loud. The misfits have incense. They have incense. They have incense holders.

They have shoes. They have, I mean anything though. They don't have foam ears. I don't know how quick this is going up, but if it's up Friday or it doesn't even have to be, but I will say this Friday we'll have them. And soon we're going to have a plastic, uh, no money Ben Cooper style mask, the plastic seventies mask with the rubber bands and the hard plastic and the, Oh no shit. Um, the ones with the plastic bodies, but we're not going to have the plastic bodies, but the plastic masks. And then with, uh, well, I don't want to ruin it, but yeah, soon we're, we're going to have some quality crap soon. I'm really excited. That's not just crap, but that's going to be like, you're going to see people at Halloween wearing that. We did have, there was a couple of people dressed as no bunny last Halloween.

There's a couple of pictures of them and nobody in my space of it right now. But, uh, that was really great. There was at least three people. Is that weird at all? Like you see them and you're kind of like, wait, uh, weird in all the best ways. I'll tell you what straight up. I thought it was great. I loved it. I was, I was into it, but two of them were girls and they were in their underwear. And if I could get girls to send me pictures of themselves and weird masks and bunny ears and their underwear or any just, well, their underwear period. Yeah. The mask and the bunny ears are entirely secondary on that. You know, it's good times, great oldies. I'm, I'm about it, about it. And, uh, yeah, next year I hope to see a lot more, uh, boys and squirrels dressed in, uh, you know, costumes, you know, awesome. I'm doing it for the people. This is punk for the people for the new millennium. Definitely real talk 24 seven real shit daily. We just, you need like a phone line where people can call to get real talk. I need a phone. As you know, my phone just got shut off today. Yeah. Ideally we can get you a hotline like a, like one of the red phones, like the Batman phone where people can just call and get ready for it. Okay, go make that happen. All right, man. So I think that's about it. Is there anything else you want to mention? Uh, plug anything like that before, uh, maybe I don't know if this will be up by Easter, which is April 4th. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be up before Easter. Um, but yeah, definitely. I would like to mention them. Uh, yeah. My, uh, nobody's ninth annual Easter egg bash, which wasn't always called that, but I'm now calling it that because, uh, but basically my first show was on Easter in 2001 and this is my nine year anniversary this Easter and it's going to be in Oakland. And I'm really excited because we have the bananas, uh, from Sacramento who rarely play. And I'm sure to a lot of people listening, they're really excited about that. I would hope I would think anyway, I'm really excited about it. And then the mayors from Sacramento who are great. The brand tools who are my favorite band who are from San Jose, uh, the splinters who are local and Sir Lord von Raven who are local and featuring a bunch of local yokels, including Greg Ashley and Eric Johnson and a bunch of creeps. Excellent.

I'm really stoked. That's in the new parish and yeah, not to be all hypey and cheesy, but yeah, that's all I would say. Easter 2009, April 4th. Nice. New parish. Do it to it. New parish, man. It sounds like a nice show. So yeah, it should be. And it's going to be done for people in San Francisco. It'll be done by midnight. So you can still, and it's two blocks from Bart. So you can still catch. So you can still go home. San Francisco. So come on down. You fucking San Franciscans and, uh, rock and roll. Excellent, man. Well, hopefully they'll all come down. We'll see you there. Easter with a bunny. Nine year anniversary and my 10 year anniversary. I'm planning on playing the Playboy match and I've been setting out feelers for two years on that now. I, you know, I'm keeping, keep, keep up alive. I don't know. I have a dream.

This will be what does it. I hope we'll see. I I've, I've talked to people at Playboy, but no one who really has any, say just a couple of, not enough pool. Just, you know, just some bunnies. That's all, you know, but backstage, it could be out. It could be out of my carrot goblet. Smoking my carrot cigars. You got to have a goal in life, man. Well, all right, man. Well, thank you. Nobody so much for taking the time to talk to us. Thank you. Nobody loves you with any luck. We'll make that Playboy match and dream come true, man. All right. That's it. That's the whole interview. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope you enjoyed hearing some of nobody's music. And as I mentioned, we have a big giveaway where we're going to give away one of two pressings of nobody's LP love visions. We're either getting away. I'm going to let the winner decide. It's either going to be the first pressing on bubble dumb records, what's your hand decorated covers over old LPs. I think they did a thousand of those. It's just black vinyl. It's not the pink version, which I think there was a hundred of. So don't get your hopes up, but it's the original pressing, or we're going to do the second press on one, two, three, four, go records, which was on red vinyl, but there was a small amount that didn't have center labels. So Stevo did a run of white center labels and then hand stamped them. And there's about 200 of those, I think. So those are your two choices. Um, it's pretty good prize, right? I mean, after the weekend, after record store day where everybody just bought records to sell, I'm giving you a free record. So enjoy that. Um, to enter, send us an email, sound scene revolution at gmail.com, put nobody contest in the subject line and to, uh, win in the body of your email, put your name, address, uh, pertinent contact information and include the following. So we discussed, uh, it goes by several names. I've heard it as Jankum, Janko, um, several shit and urine in a bottle. Um, nobody wrote a song about it. Uh, it's a very weird and hopefully not often used way to get high. So I want you to illustrate an unusual way that you know of, or you have heard of to get high. Um, you don't need to like scientifically back it up or have like confirmed reports of it, but I want it to be something quasi legit. Like if it just sounds like something ridiculous, maybe we won't believe it, but chances are, I'm not going to try it.

So you could probably flex the truth a little bit. So put all that in an email, send it to sound scene revolution at gmail.com. We'll pick one winner and that winner will get to select between which of the two LPs they want. And we'll send that out. And it's that easy. I mean, these, these are rare. I mean, you're playing 30, 40 bucks at least for one of these on eBay. So this is your chance to get one for free and you're welcome in advance. So we're going to play one last track off of love visions. We're going to play somewhere new and, uh, that'll do it for this week. We will be back next week and then the week after, and then week after that. And then I'm going to punk rock bowling and I'm going to have a ton of interviews there because I'm basically going to walk around drunk in Las Vegas asking people questions. So expect some really awesome content out of that. Um, all right. Uh, send us email, sound scene revolution at gmail.com. Hit us up on my space on Twitter. We're sound scene or twitter.com backslash sound scene rev. Well, I don't think we posted on Twitter in like, uh, probably four months, but we're going to start because we've got more interviews. So that'll be good. All right. We'll catch you guys next week.

This is something new by nobody off of love visions. Have a good one.

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