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brickeaters reading + signing 8/27
By: FrenesiGates Date: August 30, 2018, 12:35 am
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part i
I broke Veganism as soon as I arrived in the city. Bought Animal
Lover and Tunes of Two Cities and The Big Bubble. Saw Homer and
the one lady that was sorta running the show. They walked away
and I went outside to eat meat.
A guy walked up that had traveled from Austria (partly to see
Homer). It took some effort to communicate because he didn't
know English too well. I had to drop all the sarcasm and work on
my enunciation. We took a selfie together planning to post it in
The Residents Facebook Group that I had just added him to. But
it didn't work.
Then I said something that caused him to realize that I was that
one Frenesi that got Gated outta RR or whatever. And he burst
out laughin, so then we took another selfie with more spirit.
And like, maybe squirted a little more packets of Taco Bell fire
sauce to the stars.
cc walked by and i pointed him out. I actually pointed cc out
twice in a row and the guy from Austria was like "yeah you
already told me"
ib walked by too and knew i knew who they were. ibs bf held the
door for me as i blurted out "DO YOU HAVE UNLIMITED DATA ON YOUR
CELL PHONE"
he said "no" and practically ran away as i started running from
person to person asking if they had UNLIMITED DATA ON YOUR CELL
PHONE
one girl did, but i wasn't satisfied and started freaking out by
melting down trying to find a back-up person with UNLIMITED DATA
ON YOUR CELL PHONE
i did find someone, but turns out they both let me down. The
first girl ended up filming the q & a .. just couldn't manage to
livestream it to Facebook's Group. I still don't have the video
(gimme a few days and i’ll link you. Okay?), so this write-up is
just from memory
talked to cc a little as Homer took the stage
i didn't pay any attention to his reading because i was pretty
distracted trying to organize questions for the q & a
afterwards. You see, I was on 6 hours of sleep in 48 hours. I
get weird when I'm tired (i get weird when im not tired, too)
The one cool part was in the 2nd Brickeaters excerpt when Homer
used a pretty scary voice. His granddaughter went toddling all
the way to the back of the venue lol. Homer smiled gracefully
but didn't break character. Then there was the q & a:
part ii
I kept asking questions and never ran out.. but I made sure not
to hog the opportunity. 7 or 8 people were able to get questions
in before the promoter lady that was running the show told Homer
that we only had room for one more question.
a little verbatim excerpt from the short clip that currently
exists:
[Homer responding to another questioner about dyin' dog] .. this
character.. back in Louisiana.. and this character's blues name
was Dyin' Dog and he did some demos and this was based on that.
But they also don't feel like that's gonna be enough for a full
show.. so they're gonna combine that with Duck Stab. So it's
gonna be a combination of Dyin' Dog and Duck Stab for the next
tour .. the Dyin' Dog tour
Me: So, Randy.. i haven't heard from him lately .. i heard he
might come back in Double Trouble .. how's Randy doing?
Homer: Let's just say Randy's done better. He's been seeing a
therapist . There's been some improvement in his behavior. One
of The Residents' projects at this point is a film project
called Double Trouble and Randy definitely has a part written in
the script for him.
I immediately blurted out another question after that, but I
don't know what it was because the video cuts off. After that
question I must have backed off. I kept dizzyingly spinning and
rotating after each of my questions to get a look at the
audience and make sure they all got seen by Homer. It was a
pretty dark room. I also just like looking at audiences. I kept
doing it at the Philly IBD show. like i was just staring at
people that stared at The Residents. I get bored as h*ck
watching The Residents perform to be honest with you. I mainly
care about watching the fans.
I did NOT expect to feel so comfortable with Homer that I'd be
able to just yell stuff out without raising my hand. I didn't
even have to raise my hand for my first question.. he just
looked at me and said "Hello" because he knew i had questions
and a lot of them. I was holding a notebook standing front and
center.
afterwards, people kept asking me who the **** i was like are
you a reporter who do you work for lol i aint no reporter
part 0 -- info gained to ensure i reach constantinople befoer
it too late
"As of now, there are no plans for Double Trouble to be
crowd-funded (the trailer for it was crowd-funded).
Also, the God in Three Persons live project still seems to be a
long way off in terms of funding and organization. It doesn’t
look like much has happened to prepare for this yet except for
that one rehearsal with an orchestra in Rotterdam. If it comes
together, it does not look like ‘Homer Flynn of the Cryptic
Corporation’ (as opposed to The Residents’ lead singer..) will
portray Mr. X or the stumpy uncle that was unconcerned and
rumpled (this possibility was floated in a conversation between
Flynn and Ian Shirley in the March issue of Record Collector
Magazine)."
" the forthcoming live tour dates in the U.K. and Germany
(January, 2019) of In Between Dreams will be different in the
sense that Duck Stab stuff will be performed as well. Homer
specifically mentioned Duck Stab as an addition.
[Note: Homer explicitly told me to my face that In Between
Dreams was not over. But then later on he referred to this
upcoming January live stuff as “Dyin’ Dog Tour” .. so who the
h*ck knows!]
Interestingly, Mole Show was originally going to feature Duck
Stab music as half of the show. Some of those rehearsals ended
up on Assorted Secrets and Dumpster Tapes."
"Homer confirms that Vileness Fats "Lord it's Lonely" was
intended as a cover of Randy Newman’s “Lonely at the Top”.. The
Residents are big fans of Randy"
" I couldn’t get a straight answer from Flynn about the
possibility of Not Available pREServed. He does strongly believe
it will happen (as do I). But he claims it’s in the hands of the
Cherry Red Records people (that Richard guy). He did state that
maybe they’re trying to release them in order of their actual
release in history (vs. the year they were allegedly made
‘according to Residents lore’) and cited that as a reason it
would come later in the pREServed series. I told him that the
‘Mysterious Archivist’ stated in an interview that there is a
plan to release Not Available pREServed.. and he didn’t seem to
even know that the Mysterious Archivist had said that.. anyway,
don’t worry: Not Available pREServed will come.. I have no
doubt.. probably next year."
from conversations about the event:
"Talked about Penn, but I can’t remember anything else from that
moment. He also was asked about whether The Residents had ever
scared him, and he mentioned Mole Show as having been
particularly trying horrifying experience. But he also said that
fear was not necessarily a bad thing."
Homer talked about how, as far as literary inspiration goes, The
Residents were influenced by Philip K Dick, John Steinbeck, and
Kurt Vonnegut. Then I blurted out that I thought I heard him say
somewhere that Vileness Fats was loosely based on Flannery O
Connor's Wise Blood. He said he had no recollection of ever
saying that. So that was my blunder of the night. Real curious,
too, because I certainly read an interview in which he's
reported as having said that. And what kind of interviewer would
make up something like that?
As far as Vonnegut goes .. that's mainly the novel Mother Night
doing the inspiring.. from what I gather. And I have a feeling
(i dunno if im delusional but i have intuition about this kinda
stuff. i've done lyrical analysis trying to figure out whether
it was chuck or randy or jay that wrote songs. im digressing omg
this is so long im getting tired) that thats all Randy being
inspired by mother night. and chuck is the one that primarily
read pkd and re-imagined his writing and even re-released pkd
stuff with brand spankin’ new artwork. Chuck is the one that
spoke on the phone with pkd when sharon ludtke had him and randy
over for dinner one night. chuck is the one with thomas pynchons
phone number. And as far as John Steinbeck goes.. well,
I'm not too clear on which Residents were into The Catcher in
the Rye in such a hxc way that it became their referred to as
their "bible". Likely all of them except
for jk and rs and nc and dy. Randy Chuck and Snakefinger all
read it. And the Whoopy Snorp dude knows Holden Vitamin
Caulfield rofl
Also: American Composer Series was discussed at length.. I'll
spare you,
part iii
i told Homer that I would not allow him to sign my copy of
Brickeaters as "THE RESIDENTS" because he did not write the
book: The Residents did. I gave him my copy of Randy Newman's
Little Criminals and asked him to sign anything it didn't even
have to be words it could just be a smiley face. Or a dot. He
just wrote Homer. That Austrian guy that couldn't speak English
so hot took our picture.
part iv
nightmare that me and hf and cw and ib were making a film based
on diamond dogs i mean howlin' wolf i mean dying god
i mean dyin' dog**
cw just wouldnt let me go to bed. we kept talkin and talkin.
ib's body was extremely macabre and death-like moves. And hf had
this ferocious look of concentration and vision
Finally I did get to bed.but then I woke up underwater and all
the lamps in the room had been **** up. I knew I wouldn't get
electrocuted, though. Anyhow, I wanted to at least find the
circuit breaker in that house and switch it off. Somehow, my
mother came to mind.
scary world of losing control
So I ran downstairs to get crackin' on the film thought loops
cycling unwinding faster and faster and faster. And hf's
film-making equipment began to fall over. He didn't look
worried. His cameras and sound stuff all belonged to the other
hf. Maybe that's why he wasn't too worried about it falling over
and smashing. idk coulda been sahadev's too
Couldn't find that d*rn dog anywheres
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