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Nadya Lev
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Mr.Kitty Mr.Kitty, agent of chaos and here for the darkness, met up with us in Austin, Texas for an exclusive cover photoshoot and some game time. A few weeks later, we caught up with him again to talk about his new album A.I., what he likes his music to be, the community that got him started, his next tour, and the possibilities ahead. interview by Aaron Andrews & Jennifer Link Kieffer photographer Mary Taylor location Pinballz Kingdom in Buda, Texas AUXILIARY spring 2017
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With the release of the new album <shutdown.exe>, Toronto uber fans Hangedman and model Madison Rexx jumped on a call for Auxiliary to have a fun, casual conversation with Alexis Mincolla of LA’s impressive industrial act 3teeth. The band has been on a stratospheric rise with muscle like Tool and the LA industrial scene behind them. As one of the main architects of LA’s scene, Mincolla talked with Auxiliary about how 3teeth are projecting to the globe a unique back-to-roots yet progressive message that has the band marked as one of the more refreshing and fast rising projects to hit the industrial scene in a long time. Hangedman : Hello Lex, this is Hangedman and Madison Rexx calling from Toronto to LA. It’s always a pleasure to talk to somebody from LA, you guys seem like the happiest people in the world. Alexis Mincolla : Yeah, LA has its ups and downs, it’s great weather, you know, sometimes shitty people, but all in all, like any place it’s sort of what you make of it. HM : Let’s talk about LA a little bit first. From our perspective, up here in the north, LA seems like a world hotspot for industrial. You have Tamara Sky, you have Kanga, you have yourself, I wanted to talk about LA a little bit first and find out if you guys all got together in a room and agreed to set a standard. Are you aware that LA is projecting something great to the world? AM : Yeah, I’m super aware of all of these things. I’m not one of those people who are oblivious, like, “oh this is sort of happening.” I like to flip myself right in the AUXILIARY spring 2017
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driver seat and make sure that I’m either pushing things along or blocking things off. For me, when I got here, one thing started to blow up, I saw… most of what I’ve created in life is born out of a discontent of what’s currently being offered, and I didn’t really like much of the nightlife in LA. So what did I do, I sort of grabbed the reins and said, “hey I want to sort of curate this event.” Being an art director and a designer you know the first thing when you’re creating something is it really helps to have an aesthetic, sort of an aggregator for creating like-minded people and bringing them together. And obviously you know how it goes, friends, we just kind of pull it together as this homegrown thing. It started downtown and the first one probably had fifty people and it was just all homemade and from there it sort of kept growing. I think you know, LA was really, like in 2011, LA was just really ripe for something like that. It was a huge kind of cultural shift towards you know a little more of an electronic cybery aesthetic that had an element of class to it,
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!!! (Chk Chk Chk) Whether you know them as !!! or Chk Chk Chk, they’re back with a new album, Shake the Shutter. Nic Offer took some time to chat with Auxiliary about the evolution of the band’s sound, how to maintain freshness and spontaneity over twenty years, and a look ahead to the upcoming tour. interview by Vanessa Oswald which I think is really cool and different. So what’s that been like over the years, why did you guys choose to switch people in and out like that? NO : Well I mean it was kind of like… I remember when our original drummer first left, it really felt like it was going against the whole belief system of how we started, because it was a very collective spirit at the beginning. And once we kind of just like brought someone else in, and he became part of the family, that set the tone for the rest of the career. Anyone who’s going to come into the band we’re going to want to have be around, they’re going to become part of the family. To me that’s been one of the exciting things about it, it’s like breathing fresh life into it always. It’s like a strong family unit, the guys that have been there the whole way, and then other people kind of like come in and bring new perspective on it. I think it’s been really good, having both of those together has been a great balance, and it is part of the secret to our longevity.
How would you say your band has evolved since you started? Nic Offer : The songs are shorter. They’re a lot more like, you know… you kind of figure out how to contain those magic moments and now we’re just trying to store as many magic moments as we can in a short time space. Whereas when we started our songs were like twelve minutes long. But you know, I think the same basic goal is there, we just want to make funky strange music, and I think that kind of remains. Over the years, what have been some of the highlights for you, and your band? NO : It’s one of those things that’s like… there’s so many, it’s twenty years and it’s a whole life, it’s like everything, there are so many steps along the way. A couple of years in it was just like… we had one hotel room we were all staying in and that was like luxury, you know we were so psyched. So then you can probably just document it all through hotel rooms. The first time we had one we’re all jumping on the beds, and when we first started getting fancy ones when we were having kind of our moment of notoriety or whatever, and you know, that was crazy, and in different countries. Then, you know, the first time you took a girl back to a hotel room, and you could just, I’d just say it’s been the hotel rooms the whole way.
Awesome. You maintain a level of spontaneity all the time. NO : Totally. Which members have been there from the beginning to now? NO : That would be me, Mario Andreoni, and Dan Gorman. Okay and then, who’s in the current lineup of the band right now?
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Ask Arden how do you deal with being ghosted and what other explanations might there be?
he’ll text back or he won’t. Just as an example, when I was 22 and stupid, I did this to a boyfriend for about three days when I lost my job. I just retreated, I didn’t feel I could reach out to him until I had found a new one, because I felt so much shame around getting fired. Thankfully I’m older and I know better now, but a lot of dudes are still immature. I also had a guy ghost me after about two months (I didn’t reach out after the ghosting - he left me by not showing up to my birthday party which he was booked to DJ, so I felt he’d made himself pretty fucking clear), and about a year later he reached out to apologize - NOT to try to get back with me, mind you, literally just to make amends - and he explained that at the time he was scared I was going to get back together with my ex since we still hung out as friends. Same thing: shame, insecurity, and not-enoughness. Here’s the sad part: our patriarchal society that promotes toxic masculinity actually makes it easier for a guy to be a dick to you than to show up before you as sad, weak, shameful, or vulnerable. If he’s a dick, he still retains his man-card. If he’s sad or weak, he’s a pussy, and you’ll dump him for that anyway so he might as well beat you to the punch and save face. That doesn’t make it right, it just means there’s the context that a guy is living in a sick society. The best relationship advice I ever heard was, “You’ll look like a relationship expert if you just show up with 10% more patience than everyone else.” That’s not to say get walked over - it just means be careful not to jump to conclusions before you know all the facts. You may also learn all the facts and then dump him anyway, as is your prerogative. It’s not your responsibility to date someone who can’t be accountable to you just because they are suffering from depression. As in all things, whatever you do, just try to be kind.
how can you play fair and maintain your integrity against an unfair opponent? Q : I’m running for a position in my local government, and I found out that one of my opponents is a Capitol Hill lobbyist! Is it ok to do a binding spell to prevent him from winning? I figure it’s just karma, right? A : The use of magick can be a great tool of empowerment, however, there are some better ways to go about it than doing bindwork. The better option for your situation is to appeal to a deity who rules governing and sovereignty to help transform you into the better candidate, and then to enlist their help for a just outcome - that is, the better candidate winning. The idea that you can know who deserves to have karma meted out without your ego getting in the way is pretty egoic in itself, and bindwork always carries coin to pay, whether that’s a return of energy, the start of a witch war, or just the fact that when you lock someone up you’re then responsible for keeping the prisoner. You can do it, but there are consequences. It’s better to enlist a deity to aid a fair outcome, appeal to justice, and neutralize corruption. That way the responsibility falls on that sovereignty rather than on you for messing with a person’s free will. Besides, if you feel you have to bind another person in order to win, what you’re saying to the universe is that you don’t believe you’re worthy of the position without resorting to foul play - and the universe will reply, “yes you’re right,” as it always does. Better to ask the universe to neutralize all foul play in the election process so that this man’s lobbyist interests don’t give him an unfair advantage. That means you still get to keep your self-belief regarding your worth as a candidate. Cheating election results with witchcraft is essentially the same vibration as cheating election results with money, so you decimate your own high ground which is one of your biggest assets as a candidate! Even if none of the voters know, it’ll show up energetically in your relationship to the universe and yourself. Best of luck in the campaign! By the way, sigil magick (meme magic essentially) is highly effective in creating messages that spread. Look at former president Obama’s Hope logo! Whether it was magically devised or not, it took an abstract idea and distilled it into a single image, which is the essence of sigil work. Try making something similar for yourself with your own message as a candidate.
Q : I think I’ve been ghosted. My boyfriend of three months went to visit his parents whom he’s moving back in with soon, and I didn’t hear from him all week. He got back into town today and still nothing. I’ve been texting novels all week about how upset I am about this, and I got a read receipt but no reply! What do I do? A : Ghosting sucks. It’s immature and irresponsible behavior, and I’m sorry it seems like it’s happening to you. But before we jump to conclusions, here’s the only other possible explanation I can think of: his parents triggered a depressive episode. If this is the case (which we don’t have enough evidence to determine at the moment - I’m not defending the guy, I’m just suggesting not to rule out the possibility), it doesn’t excuse his behavior, as people living with mental illness are still responsible for their actions. However, depression is an illness, and it does severely incapacitate people’s abilities to communicate. I have had students whose partners did this, sometimes for much longer than a week, and ultimately they were able to make improvements by taking time during healthy periods to set up systems for when a depressive episode struck so that the healthy partner would not feel abandoned or take on too much weight in the relationship. It’s very plausible for depression not to come up within the first three months of a relationship, and if he’s moving in with his parents as you said, even temporarily, that could easily be a trigger for shame (lack of financial means, emasculation via toxic masculinity standards), which could easily bring on an episode. Unfortunately, sending lengthy texts like you describe is almost never effective. If the guy is a jerk who’s ghosting you, then your words won’t have any effect on him anyway as he was already willing to hurt you once. But if the guy does have a reason for his lack of contact (depression being the only one I can think of), then a text like that makes it really hard for a dude to re-approach you because he knows how angry you are at him and how much damage he’s going to have to fix when he does reach out. In my experience, the most effective text in this situation is, “Hey are you ok? Starting to worry about you.” And then literally leave it at that. Either 39
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