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🗓️ 15 August 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Austin is banning bands and ruining their careers for not following the rules. I don’t want artists to follow the rules. I don’t even want them to know what the rules are. Same with movies. I don’t want to know how actors feel about climate change and the latest tax cuts. I want to pretend they are being chased by CIA operatives through Budapest. We keep ruining art by dissecting it and exposing every intimate detail. That’s like watching a chick get ready to go out. It ruins the surprise.
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0:00.0 | Can you guys stop ruining art, please? |
0:08.1 | You know, when I was a boy, I would listen to the Butthole surfers and I had no idea |
0:14.5 | where they stood in the political spectrum. |
0:16.2 | I didn't know where Gibby Haynes, his stance on healthcare plans or how he felt about |
0:23.8 | this new tax bill. |
0:25.6 | The Butthole surfers would play shows with a homeless stripper on stage, with her breasts |
0:32.5 | basically at her waist. |
0:36.4 | And in the background behind them, they would play circumcision videos. |
0:41.8 | We stole that idea, actually, for my band, Aino Shunuk. |
0:45.4 | And what we do is we go to the library and rent a projector, which is nothing. |
0:51.3 | And we get...it doesn't matter what the movie is. |
0:53.2 | It's just cool that there's a movie playing behind your band. |
0:56.8 | So I think we had Stomp and Tom Conner's or something, a documentary about him, you know, |
1:00.7 | all this Canadian-funded art at the library. |
1:04.8 | And then we just broadcast that behind us. |
1:06.4 | It looks really cool on stage when there's a video being projected on the band. |
1:11.0 | And I stole that from the Butthole surfers and their circumcision videos. |
1:15.1 | But I was just talking to Thai Richards in Austin. |
1:18.8 | And he's persona non-grata now because I tweeted one of his songs. |
1:23.1 | No, I'm not exaggerating. |
1:24.9 | I never...he never said whether he likes me or doesn't like me, he just did a song called |
1:29.8 | Western Showvonist and I tweeted it out. |
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