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“maybe the video games werent just a childhood fantasy but a spiritual...”
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Barf Space Interviews Pt. 6: Adrian Tenney...
John Martin: What are your views on Marriage? Adrian Tenney: That’s very general. I’m down for marriage if you get something out of it like citizenship or a blowjob. But it’s not about diamond rings. If I got married I would want a headband. Not a ring. John Martin: Where did you grow up and what was it like Adrian Tenney: I grew up in Tijuana… John Martin: You...
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SORRY JACKSON! pt. 5
Last year I tried to interview my housemate Jackson for a zine about Werewolves, and it failed miserably. When I asked him to do the interview, he got this sad I’m about to cry face and then stuttered “Why me?” I think Jackson thought that I was trying to exploit his personality instead of simply being interested in his art practice. He was probably in some way right about this as Jackson’s personality was somewhat legendary in the community for a variety of stunts that often involved anarchy, traditional American folk music, stripper poles, and animal butchering. It had to be something of a short interview also, about the length of the page. Anyway, as I already stated, Jackson refused to do the interview and so I was left with a series of questions that I had written down. So I decided to interview several people who weren’t Jackson using the same set of questions.
JOHN MARTIN: What's one of your favorite folk songs? What is it about?
JOHN MARTIN: One of my favorite folk songs is Daniel in the Lion's Den. It's a traditional and It has this sort of call and response quality to it. I really like the biblical story of Daniel because it's about being with lions and not being harmed, and I used to work on an animal refuge with a mountain lion and take him for walks and stuff. The song sort of makes me feel like I'm Daniel, and that feels pretty good. However whenever I see paintings of the story they're sort of inaccurate because they often show a bunch of male lions together and that would pretty much never happen in the wild as I understand it. Lions are the only cat that live in social groups but it's usually a male and a bunch of females.
JOHN MARTIN: Do you see a relationship between folk and punk?
JOHN MARTIN: I think that folk was a space for political dissent much like punk. I feel like both of these genres are so mythical that they're hard to talk about. I really love some of the ritual audience participation elements of both of them. I love singing in groups with a guitar and I love watching people at punk shows run around in circles and push each other over. I like it the best when they're just sort of all walking angrily. It sort of puts me in a transcendent head-space. I'd like to get a bunch of punk kids together and invoke the spirit of Anansi because I think that spiders are a very punk animal and punk is also so mischievous and interested in storytelling at times. But at the same time I'm pretty unaware of any african punk music so you have to be careful with that kind of appropriation.
JOHN MARTIN: If you had to make work with animal skins what would you make?
JOHN MARTIN: I'm not really sure. I'm a big animal lover and I would want the skins to have come from animals that had died from natural causes or were raised in really free environments. I don't know what I would do but I guess I would try to use it functionally and make clothes or maybe a backpack or something. I think I would try and make it the finest looking thing I'd ever made.
JOHN MARTIN: If you had to paint something on a microwave what would you paint?
JOHN MARTIN: A microwave, I suppose, since that's the in thing to do. I would actually paint a Solenodon maybe. It's this vary endangered venomous rodent from Haiti and I think Cuba. It's a whacky animal for a sort of whacky machine.
JOHN MARTIN: Do you think LA is a fertile space for punk music?
JOHN MARTIN: LA is a wasteland baby. I think Punk is in a way the folk music of the LA area as I've experienced it and since LA is so shitty the folk music is gonna have to be really nasty and aggressive and sort of just generally opposed to almost everything. I really feel like a part of a folk tradition because of all the punk bands.
JOHN MARTIN: What's your opinion on factory farming?
JOHN MARTIN: I think we're the only species that locks up other animals and keeps them alive in horrible cramped conditions until they're fat enough. I think that that is a terrible act. Many animals kill other animals, but we're the only ones that make other animals have long horrible lives. I think that factory farming is responsible for swine flu. Only in such disgusting conditions could a bacteria like that mutate and jump to humans.
JOHN MARTIN: What were the last three things you shoplifted?
JOHN MARTIN: I shoplifted some kitty litter from the animal shelter and I shoplifted a special lid that fits cat food tins that have already been opened. I'm a foster parent for the animal shelter so I basically have an addiction to cat food. I have also driven about a hundred feet in the wrong direction down a major road to get a sick cat to the vet.
JOHN MARTIN: What are some of your recent sex fantasies?
JOHN MARTIN: I pretty much told them all to a class I'm in called Artist as Writer. They mostly involve these vague occult influences and long drawn out periods of sex. Like outdoor sex in the desert for three days straight or something like that. I like making the shapes of norse asatru runes with my finger on peoples bodies. I have fantasies about my partner invoking gods and demigods during sex. I also have a lot of fantasies about guys with vaginas but unfortunately they mostly seem to be interested in women! I have a magazine of female to male transgendered porn/interviews called Original Plumbing. There's a guy in there named Tuck Mayo who gives me boners all over the place. I actually friended him on Facebook even though I don't know him at all just so I could look at pictures of him. He accepted, of course.
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SORRY JACKSON! pt. 4
Last year I tried to interview my housemate Jackson for a zine about Werewolves, and it failed miserably. When I asked him to do the interview, he got this sad I’m about to cry face and then stuttered “Why me?” I think Jackson thought that I was trying to exploit his personality instead of simply being interested in his art practice. He was probably in some way right about this as Jackson’s personality was somewhat legendary in the community for a variety of stunts that often involved anarchy, traditional American folk music, stripper poles, and animal butchering. It had to be something of a short interview also, about the length of the page. Anyway, as I already stated, Jackson refused to do the interview and so I was left with a series of questions that I had written down. So I decided to interview several people who weren’t Jackson using the same set of questions.
JOHN MARTIN: What is one of your favorite folk songs and what is it about?
CORY HANSON: My favorite folk song is "Mary had a little lamb." It is about a young lady who has a lamb and she fucks it. Right?
JOHN MARTIN: I think that might be in there. You know, the original version is very political. I don't remember how it goes but there's this whole extra verse about freedom. Do you see similarities between punk music and folk music?
CORY HANSON: I guess in terms of political content. But, no I think that folk music is sort of derived from things that made people happy and punk music is derived from things that are supposed to give people anxiety.
JOHN MARTIN: If you had to make an artwork with animal skins what kind of artwork would you make.
CORY HANSON: This is the artwork piece I have in mind. It is a glow in the dark cow. And it is a cow that has been skinned and is a rotting carcass. It has to be done somewhere authentic y'know, where cattle are raised as livestock and you take the skinned cow carcass and make sure that it can stand up, and then you paint the skin with glow in the dark paint and you put it on top of the rest of the cow and you've got a cow with glow in the dark skin that hopefully can be seen from the interstate.
JOHN MARTIN: What would you paint if you had to paint something on a microwave?
CORY HANSON: If I had to paint something onto a microwave it would be a microwave.
JOHN MARTIN: Do you think LA is a fertile space for a good punk scene?
CORY HANSON: I think that LA is a fertile space for nothing. I think that things have to come from outside of LA and things that are unfucked from the mindset and aren't y'know jaded individuals. They need to come from other places. that's why I'm at school here (Calarts) because it's not there.
JOHN MARTIN: What were the last three things you shoplifted
CORY HANSON: The last three things I shoplifted were string for the necklace you gave me, glow in the dark fabric pens, and a LED ring from the travel stop in Bakersfield.
JOHN MARTIN: So what's one of your recent sexual fantasies?
CORY HANSON: well, I can tell you one of my oldest ones.
JOHN MARTIN: yeah that's great.
CORY HANSON: Well one of my oldest fantasies which is an unwanted fantasy is just one that kept reoccurring in dreams. I would try to have sex with women but their vaginas would turn into these giant plants that were full of penises and they would eat my penis in a pleasuring fashion.
JOHN MARTIN: It felt good though?
CORY HANSON: Uhh yeah.
JOHN MARTIN: Thank you very much Cory.
CORY HANSON: No problem.
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SORRY JACKSON! pt. 3
Last year I tried to interview my housemate Jackson for a zine about Werewolves, and it failed miserably. When I asked him to do the interview, he got this sad I’m about to cry face and then stuttered “Why me?” I think Jackson thought that I was trying to exploit his personality instead of simply being interested in his art practice. He was probably in some way right about this as Jackson’s personality was somewhat legendary in the community for a variety of stunts that often involved anarchy, traditional American folk music, stripper poles, and animal butchering. It had to be something of a short interview also, about the length of the page. Anyway, as I already stated, Jackson refused to do the interview and so I was left with a series of questions that I had written down. So I decided to interview several people who weren’t Jackson using the same set of questions.
JOHN MARTIN: What's your favorite folk song and what's it about?
ANTONE: sea shanty's that they used to sing at the seaport.
JOHN MARTIN: What seaport?
ANTONE: Mystic sea port, Connecticut.
ALANNA MARTINEZ: Where exactly are you from in Connecticut?
ANTONE: Lyme.
ALANNA MARTINEZ: Do you know where Jewett city is?
ANTONE: Yeah, why?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: My ex boyfriend is from there and I went to go visit him up there. My grandparents are from Connecticut but that's the only real other experience I've had with Connecticut,
ANTONE: where's Jewett city again?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: It's right in between Boheegan sun and Box Springs by New London and Mystic.
ANTONE: That's where I'm from. yeah the Jewetts are huge. We live next to some Jewetts, they own all of Connecticut, it's really weird.
ALANNA MARTINEZ: Connecticut is an interesting place...
JOHN MARTIN: do you want to be a part of this interview?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: Sure.
JOHN MARTIN: It's gonna be published. What are some of your favorite folk songs and what are they about?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: well depends what you consider folk. Like would Hank Williams be folk or would he be country?
JOHN MARTIN: It's up to you.
ALANNA MARTINEZ: Can I just name some artists i like?
JOHN MARTIN: Yeah sure.
ALANNA MARTINEZ: I think that Hank Williams would be one of them yeah.
JOHN MARTIN: Do you see a relationship between punk music and folk music?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: Maybe. Do you mean in terms of it being an original type of American music? Because you can't think that Punk is an original American type of music, because when I think of folk music I think of an American tradition.
JOHN MARTIN: So not so much of a relationship?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: Well maybe in terms of storytelling and a political message.
JOHN MARTIN: What were the last three things you shoplifted?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: I guess cutlery. Forks and knives from a restaurant. That's really the only thing I can think of. I steal silverware.
JOHN MARTIN: If you were to paint something on a microwave what would it be?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: Like on the front of it?
JOHN MARTIN: Anywhere.
ALANNA MARTINEZ: I'd probably just paint it one solid color.
JOHN MARTIN: if you had to make work with animal skins what would you make?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: Probably some type of buckskin dress.
JOHN MARTIN: What's your most recent sexual fantasy?
ALANNA MARTINEZ: We can talk about that after class.
I never got to find out that young lady's sex fantasies but I finished the interview with Antone during the break with our class
JOHN MARTIN: What do you think the relationship between punk and folk is?
ANTONE KONST: Politics and power. Subculture
JOHN MARTIN: What were the last three things you shoplifted?
ANTONE KONST: I very rarely shoplift so we'll have to go back a long way. I shoplifted my suit for graduation in eighth grade. It was a brooks brothers suit but I shoplifted it from a Nearly New shop for a church. It was really sad. I also just drink things in the cafeteria. I get nervous when I steal stuff.
JOHN MARTIN: So like you drink naked juices in the cafeteria?
ANTONE KONST: Naked Juices? No. But like cookies. Meals. I eat them right in there.
JOHN MARTIN: If you had to make work with animal skins what would you make.
ANTONE KONST: If I had access to that I would probably make not art but fashion, because I love fashion and I love fur. I think it's so fucking sexy and gross. I would make car upholstery and chair upholstery things. Animal things. next question.
JOHN MARTIN: What's your feeling about our current agricultural situation and factory farms
ANTONE KONST: Well we're so disconnected from it but it's the way we survive. I've certainly tried to engage very hard in alternative practices of that. I think it's possible but not for everyone just because of the space and time that it takes.
JOHN MARTIN: If you were to paint something on a microwave what would it be.
ANTONE KONST: A microwave.
JOHN MARTIN: What's one of your most recent sexual fantasies
ANTONE KONST: Oh I had an awesome one! It was really good! I never have these kind of weird fantasies. but I was just fucking someone in a very cool place. That's all I can think of I just remember the sex.
JOHN MARTIN: What was the place? Was it cool or actually cold or..
ANTONE KONST: Oh no... I actually tried to make a fantasy because I saw this porn that was like fetishes that I didn't have and I was really jealous like I didn't have any of these fetishes. So i tried to construct one, but I don't even remember it. Most of my fantasies just have to do with having sex which I love to have in various positions with my girlfriend who is far away.
SORRY JACKSON! pt. 2
Sorry Jackson!
Last year I tried to interview my housemate Jackson for a zine about Werewolves, and it failed miserably. When I asked him to do the interview, he got this sad I’m about to cry face and then stuttered “Why me?” I think Jackson thought that I was trying to exploit his personality instead of simply being interested in his art practice. He was probably in some way right about this as Jackson’s personality was somewhat legendary in the community for a variety of stunts that often involved anarchy, traditional American folk music, stripper poles, and animal butchering. It had to be something of a short interview also, about the length of the page. Anyway, as I already stated, Jackson refused to do the interview and so I was left with a series of questions that I had written down. So I decided to interview several people who weren’t Jackson using the same set of questions.
JOHN MARTIN: What are some of your favorite folk songs? What are they about?
KATELYN REEVES: I really like Leonard Cohen's Last Year's Man. I think it's about... Actually I don't know what its about but it's a beautiful song and there
is these women that sing at the end. And it goes real deep.
JOHN MARTIN: Do you see a relationship between folk music and punk music?
KATELYN REEVES: Yeah.
JOHN MARTIN: Tell me about it.
KATELYN REEVES: I mainly see a relationship between James Brown and punk. Funk and Punk. The drumming, just his erratic behavior and exciting behavior. But yeah folk music too. I think it's like an emotion being expressed. They're both grassroots in some form. Do it yourself. There's nothing classical about it.
JOHN MARTIN: Do you think LA is a fertile space for a new punk music?
KATELYN REEVES: I think any space is a fertile space for a new punk music as long as people are honest! Oh I just think I saw Keith in a dress.
JOHN MARTIN: What do you think about factory farms and the agricultural situation in this country?
KATELYN REEVES: I think it's sad because we need to consume these things because we're told we need to consume them but I think we're just taking for granted what we have in the world. And we don't use our resources correctly. I think we're lazy and I think we're ill informed. Honestly, I don't know much about it at all but it's fucking scary.
JOHN MARTIN: What were the last three things you shoplifted?
KATELYN REEVES: I shoplifted eyedrops. I shoplifted I think like, Odwalla drinks? And I shoplifted... oh shit it's been a long time. I don't remember.
JOHN MARTIN: What are some of your most recent sexual fantasies?
KATELYN REEVES: Oh, I think the tearing of the tights. If somebody would just rip my fucking stockings off I just might lose my shit.
JOHN MARTIN: You've been making a lot of work with animal pelts and animal skins. I see you do that a lot in your work. What kind of message are you trying to put out there?
KATELYN REEVES: I use animal remains because I think that the natural cycle of life and death is a fucking acid trip and I like to suck on fur.
JOHN MARTIN: What do you think it means to be making images on microwaves? What's your intention when you're painting on microwaves?
KATELYN REEVES: I would put Heroine on a microwave and start it and smoke heroine off the microwave. And then I would spread my menstrual blood all over it (the microwave) if I was a woman. And I would lick off the blood and make it into a painting of my mom's vagina.
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SORRY JACKSON! pt. 1
Sorry Jackson! Last year I tried to interview my housemate Jackson for a zine about Werewolves, and it failed miserably. When I asked him to do the interview, he got this sad I’m about to cry face and then stuttered “Why me?” I think Jackson thought that I was trying to exploit his personality instead of simply being interested in his art practice. He was probably in some way...