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jonathan martin | derek hess
What are you up these days? I’ve got 3 shows this year so far. One in Oklahoma City, from there to Omaha, and then to Denver. We’ve got the Strhess clothing tour starting in July with Shadows Fall, As I Lay Dying, Himsa, and Remembering Never. And then we have the StrhessFest, which is August 15 here in Cleveland. How did your style form? Back when I was a kid, comic books were the interest. I started to be able to pick out artists very early and could tell who drew each one. The ones I liked I gravitated to and I started copying them. I began taking Saturday classes of life-drawing here at the Cleveland Institute of Art. The art teachers always encouraged me...they could tell I had something raw and they helped me develop it.
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understood American ideals. It worked for him in WWII when the enemy was clear-cut, but not so much when the enemy was within. Those were always really cool and were drawn pretty well. Well, Marvel had read that and just approached me out of the blue; they wanted me to do some covers for the comic.
You started your career doing mostly concert flyers for hardcore and metal bands. How much of that are you still doing? Not much. It was an important time in my life, an important time in the whole music-poster resurgence. I’m talking about from ’88 to ’97. I think by now interest has calmed down a little bit. I didn’t get out because the interest in posters waned; I just started to do so many other things. I felt like I had done that and I got it down pretty good. Now I want to try new things, like more CD covers and definitely the fine art stuff. Since music has always been the inspiration for your art, what have you been listening to recently? I’ve been listening to Everytime I Die constantly. I think it’s brilliant. Oh, and I’ve been playing a lot of this Cheap Trick disc I got. They re-recorded “In Color” with Steve Albini and it’s way heavy and live. Cheap Trick are apparently not going to release it because it’s going to scare away their core fans. It doesn’t sound like their original recording. This version of “In Color” is just amazing. Albini just gave it that kick in the ass.
You also have a permanent display of your early work at the Louve. How did that happen? We got a letter from France that sat around for a while since we couldn’t read French. Finally I got it deciphered...the freaking Louve, what do they want? They wanted my first portfolio of posters and now they’re in their permanent poster collection. I’ve had bands that have been in there and said they saw a few on display. Would you say you are making any social or political commentary through your work? Social, maybe. I don’t do any political. It tends to date the piece immediately. I would love to write about it on my website, but I don’t want to alienate anybody or piss someone off. If people want to talk to me in person, I will definitely tell them what’s up. As far as social commentary, a lot of it has to do with the whole situation of 2004 and our country...where we’re at as a society and how that makes you feel. This is a core feeling in everybody and everybody can relate to it.
Tell me about your connection with Captain America. That was totally awesome. I guess the dudes at Marvel read a tattoo magazine that I was being interviewed in and they saw my Captain America tattoos. I’ve just liked him since I was a kid; he was more of a realistic hero. He was always questioning what he stood for. When I was reading it, it was towards the end of the Vietnam era. He just never
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justin vaughan | george trosley
I was such a big fan of CARtoons Magazine back in the late 80’s/early 90’s, and then overnight “poof,” it seemed to disappear. What happened? The suits at Petersen were considering new ways to promote the magazine, to push it further into the mainstream to compete with the Mad and Cracked market. Then I got a call from the editor telling me they had decided to kill the magazine and cease publication. Whoa! I had a hard time getting used to the idea. I’d read it as a kid and then later got to do pages for ‘em and become a part of the magazine. Then “poof” as you say…it’s gone, and it was. How did you and the other artists feel about that? Shock. Plus, we’d all lost a nice portion of our income. It was tough, but of course life goes on. You pick up the pieces and continue. The Krass and Bernie series was your main focus in CARtoons. Have you tried to continue the Krass and Bernie story line in other magazines? No, not really. They ended the magazine right in the middle of the infamous “ Blood and Candy” tour. They all just O.D.’d in their motel rooms…just kidding…bad joke. Actually, we got requests on our website for Krass & Bernie stuff, so we offer the entire Krass & Bernie collection on two CD’s. We also looked in on them at the Krass and Bernie garage recently to see what they’re doing today, and found them firing up a flame-blown Viper and holding on for dear life. It’s all depicted in a recent Krass & Bernie painting, “Still Crankin.” Was Blood and Candy based on Guns and Roses? You got it. The CARtoons editor, Dennis Ellefson, came up with the band name to parody Guns and Roses who were very big at the time. I dug the name.
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Would you think about starting up Krass and Bernie again if you had the right format? Hmmm…the right magazine…the right amount of gold…Hmmm. Traffic Jam, the 1951 Merc, was definitely one of my favorite cars. Back in the day, when the classic car show came around my area, they had two 51 Merc’s and I was freakin’ out. Have you ever thought about turning your illustrations into real life creations? That would be cool! A few talented model builders have built really great replicas of some of the Krass & Bernie creations, but not in real steel. A good friend of mine, Paul Makowski, built a fantastic replica of the Krass & Bernie garage with all kinds of detail. It even had the latest copy of CARtoons in the mailbox! I treasure it. Traffic Jam, the Merc you mention, was one of my favorites and would certainly be one I’d like to see in full scale. Do you know anyone that has ever gotten a paint job based on one of your drawings? No paint jobs that I know of, but I’ve seen tattoos. I recently designed a full back tattoo with Krass & Bernie in the Merc with all kinds of other cars and trucks racing around this guy’s back…he sends me progress photos…it’s wild! I understand that you have also done illustrations for other magazines, including Hustler. I’ve seen some the Hustler illustrations, and they are mostly about poop or dead people. What’s up with that? Poop and dead people can be funny. Taboos, or the breaking thereof is what Hustler is all about. They want me to push my ideas beyond normal perimeters, to step way over the line. Doing that, adding humor and maybe an enlightened point of view is not always easy, but it is nasty fun!
Where do you come up with these ideas? Mostly the news. The insanity is endless, not only in the US, but everywhere in the world. It’s the humanoids… they’re the problem and I make fun of any and everything they do. Again, not as easy as it looks, but fun! Have you every met Larry Flynt? Yes. I’ve known Larry since 1977, from before he was shot. He’s a very astute businessman and loves causing ornery trouble; combine that with full nudity and you get Hustler Magazine. He also happens to love cartoons, so it’s been cool working for him for well over 25 years. Never a dull moment with the man. Who are some of the illustrators that have influenced you over the years? Wow, so many…Disney, Pete Millar, Roth, Robert Williams, Crumb, Rodriquez, Gahan Wilson, Charles Adams…the list goes on. I’ve always been a big fan of cartoons, even as a little kid. What techniques do you use to create your illustrations? I work on tissue paper and a light board. This allows me to trace my rough onto good paper and move things around if I like. I ink in felt tip pen and use dyes, acrylics, markers, and pencils for tone and color. I’m up at my board early and work late. When all is said and done it’s a “hand made” product I’m producing, and they take time. No way around it. Standard question that we ask everybody…What do you think of the band Journey? What’s your favorite song? I noticed that. Strangely enough I’ve always been a Journey fan. I think Steve Perry’s voice can be unbelievably moving at times and can kick butt too. I guess if I had to pick only one it’d be, ”Who’s Crying Now,” “Don’t Stop Believing,” and “Anyway You Want It.” What are your plans for the future? I really think there should be a Krass and Bernie animated series. Krass & Bernie animated? Yes, let’s do it! I’m ready! Really though, I’m enjoying my life, so more of the same would be great.
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Jeff Soto
john yamashita | jeff soto
Describe yourself? I am 29 years old. I’m 5’8” tall, 185 lbs, greenish eyes, brown hair with a receding hairline, and I’m usually scruffy because I hate shaving. I wear the same pants day after day, usually with sandals in the summer. I have no piercings, but I am tattooed. My ancestry is a mix of European with some Sioux and Hispanic traces. Besides making art, I like to walk, travel, go to the batting cages, listen to music, build plastic models, and look at plants. I’ve never had an STD. I have 12.8 GB of music on my 40GB iPod, and I’m a Mac user since 1996. I used to collect things like: Garbage Pail Kids, marbles, rocks, and Star Wars toys. I now collect things like art books, original paintings, cacti, prints, lucky cats, and cool refrigerator magnets. I’ve been married for two years. We live in a two bedroom apartment where they don’t allow pets, but if they did we’d have lots of cats. Yeah, I love cats. So what’s up with robots? Robots were just part of my upbringing- Robotech, Star Wars, Transformers, etc. There were so many interesting robots in popular culture; the 80’s were saturated with them. It just felt natural to be painting them. But lately I’ve been wanting to paint anything BUT robots. Especially after the Juxtapoz article, which was really cool, but it looked like all I painted were robots. How has your style changed over the years? I think in the past two years I’ve gotten away from the strong influence of some of the teachers I had. To be specific Jason Holley, the Clayton Bros, and Alex Gross. Like any student of art I looked up to my instructors, they were my heroes and I’m sure some of what they were doing rubbed off on my work. Now, hopefully, people can see the difference. The influence will always be there though.
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Do you have a goal/dream in mind for your life as an artist? I’d just like to be able to create art for the rest of my years. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t care about continuing to show in galleries. It’s a thrill to create a new body of work and put it on display for people to see. I’d like to do a big museum show of all my past work sometime when I’m in my 80’s. That’d be cool. If you could meet one of your heroes who would it be? There’s an English illustrator named Patrick Woodroffe, I’d love to meet him. I checked his work out all the time when I was a kid, and I think it’s one of the things that led me down my artistic path. Tell a story about being an artist in America. I don’t know if this is a story, I guess it’s more of a stereotype. Many Americans always seem to think that all artists are struggling artists, y’know the “starving artist” stereotype. People don’t look at art as a career and it pisses me off. There are some artists that are doing very, very well here. Sure, most artists are struggling, but it doesn’t mean all of us are. I hope that someday Americans will take the arts seriously. Describe a life changing moment. It sounds pretty dorky but in 2001 I was visiting NY and got tattooed on my left forearm by my homie RG. In my mind it was a life changing decision because it was a very visible piece that would be hard to cover up. Right there and then I decided I wanted to be an artist who worked for himself. I decided I’d be my own boss and never work under anyone else’s rules. The tattoo was symbolic of me telling the world to fuck off, I was going to live by my rules and do my thing. It put me in the mindframe to work hard and do the best I could do. So far things have worked out, hopefully I can keep this up for a long time.
Do you drive a hybrid or would you? I drive a ‘99 Saturn. I’ve thought about a hybrid vehicle, but I’m not looking to buy a new car for a few years. I think they’re a really good idea, I just wish they’d make a truck version. Nothing gigantic or anything, but something I could haul my paintings around in. I’d totally drive a hybrid truck, if it were affordable. I wish I could take public transportation, but it’s not very efficient where I live because everything’s spread out. What is something people would be surprised to find out about you? I’ve been with the same girl for 12 years. Jennifer and I met in high school and have been together ever since. What was the last cd you bought? I bought Gun’s N Roses “Appetite for Destruction” at the iTunes Music Store. It was one of my favorites back in junior high. The songs still rock after all these years. Describe a happy place for Jeff Soto? I’m happiest when I’m away from the stresses of working, so anywhere on vacation would be a happy place to me. I always love the Sequoias. Camping makes me very happy. I like serene places where you can hear the wind whipping through tall trees and the stars at night light up the ground. What’s on the horizon? Too many art shows! I’m also working on a book with Holy Water UK, and there’s a possibility of a Soto vinyl toy sometime in 2005. Do you vote? Hell yes! You’re a fool if you don’t vote after what happened with the Florida recount. Bush or Kerry? I’m registered as an independent, but I’ve voted Democrat in the past two presidential elections. I really couldn’t believe what happened in 2000. I mean, Bush just didn’t seem like presidential material. I couldn’t believe Gore lost to him. People blamed Nader, but I think the Dems just ran a shitty campaign. Then Bush was appointed (not elected) president and we got to see what a war monger he is. So yeah, Kerry has my vote. He seems pretty cool. Not perfect, but definitely headed in the right direction. Bush is just out of touch, especially with the youth of our country, and he just seems like a bumbling idiot in the eyes of other nations. What would you do if aliens abducted you? Try to milk them for information about the universe and existence. Then I’d ask them to kindly remove the anal probe.
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christian detres
I stand in front of the fogged mirror, dripping hot water and sweat, trying to hold back a smile and yet curiously proud of the denuded grandeur that are my brand new Brazilian-waxed genitalia. I pose, suck in the gut, inspect from different angles and basically crack myself up. I feel like I could skip around the front yard naked, running through sprinklers and such, and the neighbors would think it’s cute. My balls are bald! I think I could write this whole article simply about the profound image of my Hair Club for Men-challenged naughty bits. I am overtly, often cartoonishly, heterosexual (to the feminist disgust of my female friends), and am somewhat concerned with the rep that goes along with such a thing as nut hair care. So why would I go through such an excruciating procedure? I thought it would be funny. This would be haha funny, not “didn’t I see you at Fieldens in a halter-top last night?” funny. Brazilian waxes were made popular by shrinking bikini sizes and the grim realization that 70’s porn looks like wildlife husbandry filmstrips. They have been a staple grooming process in recent decades for women in their search to pluck, tweeze, rip off, or blast anything that grows south of their neck. The procedure got the attention of the drag queen community and twinks (check your gay glossary) as well, and now seems to be heading into the mainstream. Do I care? No, I just thought it would give women an honest excuse to ask if they can see it. It works! I tried this. I think I’m going to install some theatre curtains on the front of my pants and charge a quarter each time I raise it. I’ll have to wear a top hat and affect a vaudevillian freak show announcer’s voice. Ooh, and I can teach it tricks! Hmmmm, maybe not. For those of you thinking you may want to experience the joys of having much in common with Dr. Evil and his “shorn scrotum”, let me describe my experience. I’ll try to provide some tips on how to successfully navigate your way through the humiliation and doubt that will certainly plague you throughout the ordeal.
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Things you must do before you go: 1. Make an appointment (duh) - Try not to laugh and make obviously selfdeprecating homophobic jokes in the fears that the hot receptionist might think you play for “the other team.” 2. Bring a documentarian/friend with a polaroid – Their insane laughter will force you to at least smile. Try to get them NOT to fall all over the sensitive medical equipment in the office through blind, howling cackles. Encourage finger pointing. 3. DRINK HEAVILY. Thanks to a clothing designer friend of mine, I was encouraged to break out the office Rum supplies and consume 1/2 of a fifth (that was ALMOST enough), while placing an order for an upcoming photo shoot. God knows what I ordered. 4. Pick a place far from home. You do NOT want your moms’ neighbor pruning the bushes. 5. Take a goddamn shower. Use soap – lots. Enjoy the last few moments with your thatch. Love the afro from below just once more. 6. To prepare for the pain, stick hot pokers in your ass and/or dip your balls in hot New England clam chowder. Training is good. Things to do while there: 1. The lady that sent me back to pre-pubescence was HOT and had a sexy Spanish accent. I was scared of waking the intrepid little soldier during the inevitable manipulation, but the candle growing out my arsehole had most of my attention – so no problem. 2. Do NOT hit on said technician (they call themselves that). Remember, you are drunk and naked from the waist down. You are lying on a table and she is in control. This is not the time to be cheeky, as she is about to determine the extent of the pain you are about to endure. 3. When you leave – tip. You may feel a bit betrayed by this person that just deflowered you, but she did agree to have her hands in your asscrack. I wouldn’t do that for my own mother. Give her something good out of the experience, besides getting the pleasure of a front row seat to the fudge factory. Things to do afterwards: 1. Drink MORE. Alcohol is your only friend right now, the others are simply interested in using you as a sideshow. “Christian – hey, show ‘em your nuts!” 2. Show ‘em your nuts. Yes, there is no other point to doing this unless you are an Olympic swimmer or Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. These babies are for show. Oil ‘em up, and serve ‘em on lettuce! They’re perfect for dipping, slapping and dammit, they look good! Show them off! 3. Most of the fun you will have with your new look is in private. Enjoy these moments of petting your pelvic area. I promise you, you WILL break out the measuring tape, you WILL stare at it for more than a minute a day, and you will walk tall and have newfound confidence in your manhood. Haha, except for those of you out there with little penises, hehe. Special thanks to the fine ladies at Claudia’s Salon who did not laugh too hard or make too many jokes about my screaming. I was laughing most of the time, I promise. Go see them and ask them to make you Brazilian: Claudia’s Skin Care 8709 Forest Hill Avenue Richmond, VA, 23235 804.378.7274 Fax: 804.378.0720
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daniel robert epstein
I would imagine that Jon Heder is the first Mormon that I have ever interviewed for Chew On This. But he has every right to be here because he is the star of the film, Napoleon Dynamite, which many are saying could develop a large cult following on the scale of Donnie Darko or Ghost World. From Preston, Idaho comes Napoleon Dynamite who spends his days drawing mythical beasts, fighting with his 32-year-old brother Kip [played by Aaron Ruell] and avoiding his creepy Uncle Rico [played by Jon Gries]. But Napoleon and his two new friends launch a campaign to elect one of them for class president. But for that to happen Napoleon will have to unleash his secret weapon. You look so different from the way you did in the movie. Well it’s been a year since we made the movie. Also we were in the background of The Today Show trying to get people to see my Napoleon Dynamite shirt.
Napoleon will say he has 50 million best friends but I had actual friends and I am a much better artist than him. In fact I drew the pictures that Napoleon drew in the movie.
How close are you to the character of Napoleon? [laughs] He’s a personal friend.
Napoleon comes off as kind of a dick. He can be jerkish but he has a heart of gold. He says a lot but he can’t do it. Did he shoot 50 wolverines? Never! He wouldn’t hurt a fly. He’s the kind of guy who talks about hunting but when you give him a gun, he doesn’t do anything. He’s only a jerk to those who pose a threat to him. As soon as he sees his brother Kip having a good day, he feels happy for him. Uncle Rico is a jerk to him so he’s a jerk back to Uncle Rico. He’s an animal in the wild who when attacked, defends himself.
[co-writer/director] Jared [Hess] and I got so much of him from our younger brothers and ourselves. I have a younger brother and Jared has four younger brothers. That’s where we got a lot of the mannerisms. My younger brother is where I got the “You’re so stupid”. How much do you have in common with him? In high school I used to create languages on my own. The high school jocks used to make fun of me so I decided not to do as much dorky stuff. Growing up I used to read all about the Loch Ness Monster, UFOs and that sweet kind of stuff that some people consider dorky but whatever, it’s sweet. Young boys think the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot are sweet because of the mystery. Napoleon wants to escape on his Pegasus into his fantasy world. I have a lot of dorky qualities. So this role is making fun of myself in a lot ways but in high school I didn’t have his dorky hair and I wasn’t as socially clueless as him.
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How do you see Napoleon? I make fun of so many people in my life like my wife and my best friends. We make fun of the people we love. To me life is making fun of stuff in a totally light way. I love my younger brothers but I make fun of them. If people and characters weren’t odd or quirky they would be boring. We definitely want people to love Napoleon but in the end he hasn’t changed a lot but he’s feeling like gold. He helped his best friend become class president and he’s playing tetherball with the girl he likes. All he wants is someone to play tetherball with.
I have met kids that have seen the movie six times and it hasn’t even come out yet. Have you met those rabid fans? I met a few. But before we did this movie we did a short film, with the same characters, called Peluca. We did it in the same town and it became a big cult classic in the Utah area. But I was talking to my wife the other day and she said she got a call from some kids who called every state in the United States to find me. She gave them my cell phone number and they called me going “Oh my gosh!” Why is it so funny when Napoleon gets picked on? I think people laugh because of the way he reacts to it. If I was standing there watching it happen I would wonder why they are picking on him but it’s still funny. But he’s just going to brush it off. I’m a big fan of character actors like Jon Gries. What was it like working with him? I’m 26 so I grew up watching him in Real Genius so I thought that was sweet because that’s a little chunk of film history. I haven’t seen Running Scared but he was telling me about it, so I want to. He was awesome. I thought he was one of the coolest people to work with. He’s been in the business for so long but still he talked to everyone on the set. Obviously he was there for the film and not for the money because it was such a low budget. He thought it was a great script. Is being a character actor something you aspire to? Sometimes when studios see someone playing a nerd in a low budget movie they will cast them as a nerd in a big budget movie. I don’t want to be a situation where they want me to be like Napoleon. Are you being offered anything? I just moved out to Los Angeles so I’ve got an agent and read scripts but nothing has been offered. It’s still pretty low key so we’ll see what happens after the movie opens. You graduated from Brigham Young University so did you grow up a Mormon? Yes. Did any of the Mormon experience make its way into this movie Napoleon Dynamite? Well we grow up with certain standards so that might contribute to a certain innocence. I don’t think any references are in it but I grew up as a Mormon and I pulled from me so obviously it is mixed in.
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Do you think you will get sick of saying, “Sweet”? I say it a lot more now because it’s become natural. I used to say it when I was younger so it’s kind of getting me back to my childhood. Jared has been described as wacky and his wife Jerusha [co-writer and costume designer] as grounded. How true is that? Definitely true. Jerusha was the total mother figure on the set. Between takes I would rush back to the wardrobe to play some videogames and she would always be there telling me to try on some clothes. She would make sure that everything is organized while Jared is floating off into his world and doing his thing. How did you and Jared first meet at Brigham Young? We were in a couple of classes together and had worked on a few student films together. I was in one or two short films before that and after he saw those he thought I had some experience with acting. Then after the success of the short film he knew I could pull off the character. Were you a fan of Saturday Night Fever? Oh yeah! Half the moves in the dance I do are from John Travolta.
Did you train for that dance? I didn’t train, practice or do anything. I just got up and danced. My experience with dancing is a few really small talent shows that my friends put on. We shot the movie in 22 days and the dance was one of the last days. I thought maybe I should choreograph something but I don’t know how to do that. My dance experience is after a shower I put on Jamiroquai and dance. I’m a huge fan of music like disco and funk, anything you can dance to. When it came down to it I just went up there and felt the music. It was one of the hardest things to shoot because when the cameras started rolling I got nervous. When my wife saw the movie she said, “That’s not your best moves.” The movie got nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance [Film Festival]. What was that experience like? It was insane. Sundance is where everything happened, like it getting bought and people starting to catch onto the movie. It was never my expectation for those things to happen but I was hoping. At the first screening I realized it was funny and everyone was laughing. That was when all the agents and managers came up to us. Do you see yourself continuing acting? I was an animation student at Brigham Young. I really want to do animation and acting. Animation is more of a tangible ability so if I don’t make it in acting I can do animation but I don’t want to use either as a fallback.
Could you see an animated Napoleon Dynamite? I do computer animation and I can only see Napoleon Dynamite as 2D animation. As Napoleon Dynamite could you tell us what its like to be interviewed? [in Napoleon Dynamite voice] Um. I don’t really know a lot about doing this. It’s pretty weird but it’s pretty sweet I guess. New York is pretty sweet I guess. They’ve got that Natural Museum with the history of those sweet dinosaurs. I especially like the T-Rex cause he kills smaller weaker animals. It’s pretty sweet. [danielrobertepstein@hotmail.com]
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Bob Gorman jonathan martin
Bob Gorman began working with Slave Pit and GWAR in 1988. After a two year stint of part time involvement, he dropped out of art school and has been involved almost full time ever since. At first his involvement was merely prop fabrication and live character roles. But over the years this has evolved into a multitude of other roles. A contributing writer, penciler, inker, and colorist to the Slave Pit’s self-published “Slave Pit Funnies,” three tours of stage managing GWAR’s live show, and shop foreman for the fabrication department are among a few of thoses roles. After moving to New York City in the fall of 2000, Bob became involved with the Subculture Gallery, and regularly showed his own work there until the gallery’s closing in late 2001. The Slave Pit fabrication shop came out of a one year slumber, and Bob returned to Richmond in the fall of 2001 to once again collaborate with the artists and musicians in GWAR. Several tours later he still resides in Richmond, and is currently working on a history of GWAR “coffee-table” book and a GWAR documentary, as well as his own artwork, custom sculpture bicycles, and several old MOPARs.
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Where did this start for you? It started in college, at VCU. When I came to VCU, I was into very cartoony monsters, and that type of stuff wasn’t well received there. And then I saw GWAR. They hadn’t really gone out of town at that point. I started going over to their warehouse working on various props. The more I worked there the less I wanted to be in college. I was in art school for 3 years and started missing their shows. I missed their first European tour...that’s when I quit art school. How many people are now in Gwar? Right now, we’ve got about 10 main people. On the road, you need a roadie, a lighting guy, a tour manager, costume makers, and there are 5 people in the band. It’s like a commune; we all come up with the ideas together. It’s a real collaboration, there’s no one person telling everyone else what to write or build. That’s the strength. I know some people may not think of us as “in the band” because we don’t play an instrument, but GWAR is not a band of 5 musicians...it’s a group of artists. There are the five musicians and 5 artists at this point. We had some guys who didn’t really quit, they just stopped touring, who were some of our strongest artists and best sculptors. But they have wives and houses now and don’t want to tour for a half of a year at a time. It’s not like it used to be where everyone had to do everything. We all lived together and worked together. We’ve been a corporation now for 14 years. That’s how we look at it, either you are a shareholder or you are a hired gun.
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We argue a bit, but what it comes down to ultimately is a compromise. Everything is a compromise, even working at McDonalds there are compromises. This is less of a compromise. I’ve done plenty of other jobs outside of GWAR, but I keep coming back because it’s how people know me. When people see my art, they know it because they’ve seen it in concert, on t-shirts, and in comic books. It’s the coolest thing I’ve done and I’m very aware of that. I love it.
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What’s in store for the future? The musicians just recorded a new album, it’s very metal. I was very pleased when I heard it. That comes out October 5th, and we’ll be on the road instantly after that. We’re doing a couple of shows to get out to Vegas and start the tour and continue up to the end of the year. With our new label, DRT, we have worldwide distribution and we’ll hopefully be going to Europe at the beginning of 2005. Personally I would like to get away from the way we’ve been doing things as far as just touring. And we are because everyone is getting a little bit older now. I think it would be really great to do a rock musical, come up with the ideas, write the music, and then other people can do it. We could still live our lives, make some money, but not have to tour 6 months out of the year. Right now everyone has some really great ideas. But for sure, the musicians are going to continue to make crazy albums and we’ll continue to come up with crazy ideas and props. But, I would like to see this mature into the theater. Though sometimes the ideas are way to too wild, the sex thing. We kind of shot ourselves in the foot with that. The sex thing? You know, the giant dicks. It’s hilarious and everything. In Europe, it’s no big deal. They are a little more liberal about that kind of thing. But when America sees a giant dick, oh my God! I see all the mock sex and the mock violence as all very healthy. There has never been a show where someone has left and murdered or raped someone. And I don’t believe our shows encourage it. 19 years, playing shows 6 months every year to thousands of people every night, and it has never happened. It’s a healthy release. Getting to see George Bush killed on stage, getting covered in fake blood...it’s really harmless, they go home feeling good.
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Southern Living. Photography by Phil Noe | Models – Kelly, Jessica, Dan, and Patch Styling by April, Matt, and Anthony | Special thanks to Accapella
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Opposite Page: Jessica; Dress by Just In Time Dan; Shirt by Chulo Pony This Page: Kelly; Shirt by Project E, Belt by Adonis Patch; Jeans by Kenneth Cole, Shirt by 4You
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JOURNEY christain detres
Journey is. They just ARE. Timeless songs best played at last call in your favorite bar, on a road trip to nowhere, or during an intense air guitar session in your apartment. I’m sure you’ve noticed, if you read this magazine on a regular basis, that Journey is important to us. We were incredibly happy to talk to Jonathan Cain, keyboardist and writer of some of Journey’s biggest hits, about the peaks and valleys of being in this seminal rock band. chewonthismag.com
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The attention Journey is getting recently is intense. How do you process this whole resurgence of interest in the band? I’ve got to say, it’s been hard coming back without Steve Perry (longtime, but not original, lead singer). There was a lot of skepticism in 1998 when we replaced him with a virtual unknown, Steve Augeri, to front a band with such a long history. But Journey has always been about the songs, not about Steve Perry. He and I wrote about 2/3 of the songs together. He is missed, but not to the degree that we can’t move on. That voice is of course special to the chemistry that made us work, but I think Steve A. has everything it takes to fill his shoes. The love we’ve gotten from our fans has been amazing. We just played the show that you went to at Wolf Trap Amphitheater. We sold more than 15,000 tickets. I am overjoyed at the fact we’re connecting with a younger audience. That happens in music though, old becomes new in cycles, and I guess we’re the new flavor from the past. Teenagers that heard us then, back in the 80’s, are playing our old songs for their kids.
It really does. There are several songs of yours that I feel could easily be sung by Otis Redding or Marvin Gaye. In all your travels with the band is there anything that you’ve done or experienced that has stood out as a singular event? Something that’s worth remembering above other things? There have been so many adventures, hehe, but I think there’s one thing that touched me more than anything else. Back in 1986 we received a request from the Make A Wish Foundation to visit a 14-year-old boy in a hospital in Cleveland that was dying of Cystic Fibrosis. I’ll never forget him; his name was Kenny Skyluk. Well, he happened to be a huge fan of ours and wanted to meet us really badly. It was so hard being there, the poor kid was literally on his death bed. He seemed so happy to see us and we had a great time talking to him. Well, Steve had this idea to go back to the studio and tape our new song “Only the Young” that didn’t make it onto the Frontiers album. It did finally make it onto the Vision Quest soundtrack and then onto our Greatest Hits album. It was a perfect song for him in his situation, it was HIS song. We didn’t write it with him in mind but he definitely related to it in a large way. Anyway, we had this song that no one outside the studio had ever heard and we put in on a Walkman for him to hear. I remember this like it was yesterday. He listened to the song in its entirety, and then laid back and went to sleep. He slipped into a coma later in the evening and passed away the next morning. It touched us so deeply that we were able to grant a child’s dying wish, that we reference him often when we play that song in concert. That is Kenny’s song now. It may not have been penned for him, but he owns it.
What are your goals with the band right now? It seems as if you’ve accomplished just about everything a rock band can. We want to get at least one more song on the radio. That’s a benchmark for us. Times were different, simpler, back in our heyday and being on the radio was a huge thing. Sure, MTV was around for a lot of it, but it was never really what drove our success. We were all raised on the radio, which was such a great format, and nowadays there are so many other outlets, or should I say, avenues to get to your music, that listening to the radio has become marginalized. We want to find the chemistry again that made “Don’t Stop Believin’” work. We represent an era, Wow. I have nothing to say to that. That’s amazing. Well, and that era is being looked back on with more nostalgia in closing, let me say that we are honored to be talking to you and have to ask you one question, this is a bit and fondness these days. of a staple question at Chew. What do you think about Well, what were you raised on? What types of music do Journey, and what’s your favorite Journey song? Haha, you’re serious? Okay, I think Journey is a very you think of when you’re composing? I love great radio tunes. American music is my strongest blessed and fortunate band. I think they would have influence; Hendrix, The Temptations, BB King, Eric not accomplished much if it wasn’t for the expert Clapton...just an American gumbo of great records. I management they were able to attract. As for my favorite like effortless songs - ones that sound as if they’re being song, it has to be “Faithfully.” This is the one song that played on a breeze, very natural, soulful. That’s what when we perform it live, our fans sing it back to us as if we’ve always tried to do with Journey - create soulful it were a love song directed at us. We play it to please the music for a soulless time. We didn’t want the work to fans and they turn around and make it their serenade show, we could have been more flashy, technical or over to the band. I can’t tell you how good it feels to receive the top, but we wanted to be real. We have our roots that kind of love from thousands of people at a time. based in the soul of our music and I know it shows on a It’s beautiful. lot of our records.
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christain detres | jim newberry
Tortoise is a collective of super-genius musical superheroes. Veritable indie-rock/jazz/sound titans wielding Mjolnir-like instruments. Set apart by their non-rock sounds in a garage, lo-fi universe, they have constructed jazz and electronica heavy albums that derive more of their spirit from Kraut-rock and the legendary Soft Machine, than any of the more pedestrian sounds of their indie scene peers. I spoke with Jeff Parker (guitarist) and tried to glean the essence of what Tortoise is all about. So, what’s up? Hmm, well, we just finished a US tour. The shows were great, but our bus kept breaking down. It was awful. A crappy, crappy bus. I’ve noticed there seems to be a lot of line-up changes and additions. How long have you been in the band? I’ve been with Tortoise since 1996. What’s it like playing with all of these incredibly accomplished musicians? That’s interesting because I’ve played with plenty of people, not all of whom have the credentials most of these guys do. I have to say the competence and creativity level in the studio keeps everyone’s ego in check. We all have a lot of respect for each other. The chemistry is great. What about Tortoise, musically, turns you on? I think our unique approach to music and crafting music. We’re not very song-driven. We like to discover sounds and exploit and disintegrate those sounds to fit the landscapes we want them to inhabit. We like to confront the expectations of what a certain piece will sound like and then turn it on its head and wrench the music to our will. We take a very abstract direction. We’re not trying to craft the perfect pop song. We like to make sounds that are interesting to hear - obviously melody and rhythm play a big role in something being listenable, but sometimes they’ll take a backseat to creating soundscapes that are intended to simply be heard and experienced. We treat our creations like visual abstract art, mirroring an outlook on life, whether it’s beautiful or ugly. It’s more about the aesthetic than it is about making someone tap their toe to our songs. What are some of the pitfalls or challenges that you guys face in the studio with this kind of instrumental, freejazz, art-rock stuff? We tend to get too dense sometimes. I mean, by the time the record is done, we’ve gone through all this and extracted the unnecessary bits, but while recording
we tend to have the habit of trying to do too much with one piece. We all come up with so many ideas for each song that what would normally be heard as depth comes across to us as simply fluff. Yeah, I’d say keeping the music lean and on track towards its purpose is the main obstacle. I think we overcome it though before we release anything. What’s new with the band? I know you change up the stage set-up at times. Well, we’ve been experimenting with a lot of percussion heavy songs. We’ve got three drummers on stage in our live shows now. It’s really cool - and this goes back to what you asked before about what it’s like to play with these people. Everyone here can play any of the instruments with extraordinary skill. It’s not out of the ordinary for all of us to take a turn at the drum kit or guitar or keyboards or anything really. We all have a very good sense of what it takes to create music in every position. But the drums have been the centerpiece lately, and it’s been fun to really fill a room with an overwhelming rhythm section. How do you get anything done? It seems that everyone has like fifty other projects taking up their time. Haha. Yeah, side projects take up a LOT of time, but we work so well together that it seems like Tortoise is our vacation from those things. This is where we feel we really get our expressions out. It’s so free form and there’s little in the way of trying to fit any expectations based on previous work. We’re allowed to just go, you know, just erupt creativity without being conscious of precedents. Anything you want to add before you go? Yeah, please people go out and vote this election. There is literally only one way to get Bush out of office. It takes next to no time to do it and you’ll thank yourself for it. I’ll thank you for it!
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BRAID christain detres | michelle doson
It’s good to be the Godfather. Not the Brando slurring and shuffling Godfather, but the Nirvana of Grunge, the Boredoms of Noisecore, the Smiths of Britpop kind. Braid is the founding father of Emoland. They were making black-haired, man-waifs cry when Connor Oberst was rocking out to the New Kids on the Block. When they broke up in 1999 they had spawned legions of sensitive crooners and left-of-center rockers. They’ve reformed for one final tour as a send-off; a last hurrah celebrating the genesis of a musical movement. With their new live DVD, Killing a Camera, hitting the shelves they took a little time to explain their intentions with the final tour and make fun of each other. Should we be expecting new material from Braid on this tour? No. We’re just doing one last hurrah for everyone that never got to see us play. We haven’t been onstage as this band for 5 years. A lot of our fans from our new projects have been requesting this tour for years. Are you guys falling into the same rhythms? Anything different from when the band was together? Well, Todd, Bob, and myself have been touring with our other band Hey Mercedes, so we’re all still used to each other. Chris is a pain in the ass. (Chris: NO, no, no...give me the mic!) I’m kidding. It’s better now than it ever was. Five years have passed and we’ve matured in many ways. When we were a band there was a lot of pressures of being a band, getting on the right tours, dealing with record labels...we don’t have to deal with any of that now. We’re not worried about the next record, we’re just having fun. Do you have a lot of people pressuring you to do another album? It’s all good natured, really. There’s no pressure, really just fans’ wishful thinking. Then this is just a big party. Anything interesting on the tour that stands out? Man, every night has been a big party. All the opening bands have been great and we’ve been hanging out with
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Minus the Bear and Murdered By Death every night. It’s been great. So, wait a minute, this is definitely the END of Braid. No more reunion tours, this is it. Right? No, this should be it. We’ve all got other bands and projects to go back to that we’re excited about. It’s nice to visit the past sometimes for nostalgia’s sake, but we’re busy with new stuff. We’ve got Hey Mercedes and Chris has U.S. Firebird Band, who are both doing really well. This tour is mainly for the fans of those bands who’ve gotten into them first - discovered Braid - and until now had to live with the idea they’d never see us play again. What’s up with Hey Mercedes and U.S. Firebird Band? Well, Hey Mercedes will be touring Europe after this tour is over and U.S. Firebird Band has a new album coming out. Bob has a City On Film EP coming out (ANOTHER side project) and Todd runs Grand Theft Autumn as well. It’s ridiculous how busy we are outside of Braid. I just found out I’m playing with Merle Haggard on his winter tour too (Chris: You’re playing the skin-flute on that tour right?) Hahaha! Yeah, I am.
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Panos is an outdoor exhibition, produced by Unchi Leisure Center, curated by Kanardo, and supported by Arty Farty, Carhartt, the metropolitan area Greater Lyon, and the city of Lyon (France). This exhibition of 100 fake roadsigns is realised by 40 worldwide artists (from graphic design, graffiti and illustration). Check it out online at www.bopano.net (a French shortcut that means beautiful signs !) You can also visit www.kanardo.com and www.unchi.net.
Humanifree - Hamburg-Cologne, Germany - www.humanifree.com
Loic Lemee - Lyon, France - www.mezcalstudio.com
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Aya Kakeda - New York, USA - www.ayakakeda.com
Tabas - Marseille, France - www.tabas.fr
Sockho - Grasse, France - www.sockho.com
G. Gauckler - Paris, France - www.g2works.com
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Insect - London, UK - www.insect.co.uk
Evaq - New York, USA - www.evaq.com
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Twenty Four Hours, Seven Days A Week jonathan martin | brian guilliaux
Stacey is the star of wildteenlive247.com. Her apartment has cameras in every room running 24 hours a day. Becoming a member of Stacey’s website grants you access to thousands of naked photos and videos of herself exploring her sexuality and living the life of the average 19-year-old. Within the first week that I’ve been watching your web cams, I’ve seen you taking showers, cleaning your house naked, and having a little bit of dildo fun. What has brought you to this level of exhibitionism? No singular moment, I dunno. I guess people have always been staring at me. Me and my friends used to do bondage shows and I’d get saran wrapped to a pole or teased with feathers and stuff. Are your friends hard to deal with knowing what you do? Do you have people coming up and recognizing you? No, no one recognizes me yet. None of my family and friends have a problem with it. Although one of my friends is young and not really in touch with herself; she’s led a sheltered life. But I’m working on that. I got her to go topless in Miami, it’s a good start. You’re naked now. I see you. I like being naked. I definitely hate sweating. What does the future for your website look like? We’re adding a lot more cameras, adding night-vision to all of them where you can zoom in and out. I have a schedule where you’ll know when I’m doing my live photo shoots and body casting and body painting. We’ll also be doing custom-made paintings where we press our bodies into the paint, and whoever is watching can contact me and buy it. Run us through a typical chat session. Most people ask me to dance, or do jumping jacks in the kitchen. They had me playing with some toys in the bathroom and getting up on the counter so they could see me up close. This last chat session went on a way long time. It was so much fun. After a while, everyone started to dwindle away and there was just one person left. And I ended up talking with him all night. Everyone seems to be so psyched with the website. I noticed your members never seem to get vulgar in your chat sessions, like they understand your lifestyle and the reasons why you are doing this. You’re not a porn star and you’re not faking anything. Nobody has been like that so far. But I’m a big girl, I can handle it. Some people are just rude; you can’t get away from that. Got a boyfriend? Not right now, but I wish I could be in a relationship. I just haven’t found a person I can deal with on a normal basis yet.
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Be LladoNna She’s a cute, gap-toothed teenager from Utah with a former Mormon bishop for a father. What more could you ask for in a porn star? Some controversy couldn’t hurt. If you ask Bella about her first feature, 2000’s “Real Sex Magazine #31,” she’ll tell you that she stepped on the set an anal virgin, and that she had no idea she wouldn’t be one when she left. Her former agent’s side of the story is that the new starlet was so impressed with her partner’s member she suggested the scene. Belladonna told 20/20 a few years later that she was leaving the business after a bad experience in “Gang Bang Girl #29.” Other sources, noting that at this time she had lived through 100 movies, contradict that the scene was also her idea and that her temporary leave was due to troubles with her then boyfriend and fellow star Vince Voyeur. Arguments aside, this 22-year-old has earned herself the title “anal queen.” And with her large tattoos and unwavering energy, Belladonna is thought of as one of the wildest stars around. If she hates her work, she hides it well. Check her out in her newest flick, “Bella loves Jenna.”
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t er a pat r ick The first time I saw Tera in a movie I was certain that she was lost. She is breathtaking, and I wondered why she wasn’t on a runway. Turns out she’d already been there. Tera began her career in modeling, appearing in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and on the runway. The modeling, (after obtaining a degree in microbiology,) led her to Penthouse and Hustler. She got into porn in late 1999 and has been involved with Digital Playground ever since. Her film “Virtual Sex with Tera Patrick” won best interactive DVD at the 2001 Adult Video News Awards. I don’t know what made Tera enter the adult entertainment world, but we’re all certainly glad she did. Did I mention that she’s also a registered nurse?
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Roc CO Sif Fr edi He slaps, he spits, he chokes, and I named a goldfish after him. Rocco made his big break into porn in the early 90’s, several years after his entrance with the “Buttman” series. He is now one of the most sought after partners among starlets. Like Tera, Rocco doesn’t look like a porn star. The best description I’ve heard of him is, “a big, Italian, uber-stud.” He is strong, insatiable, and sexy (a rarity among male performers). In 1994 Rocco began experimenting with the other side of the camera to become one of adult’s top directors. He won an award for his work with Jenna Jameson in “Jenna Loves Rocco,” but my favorite Rocco pick is “Rocco Ravishes Prague 4.” Taboo is located at 6021 West Broad St. in Richmond, VA.
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