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uglypreson
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Country: United States
State: California
Metro: Los Angeles
Birthday: 10/18/1985
Interests: cooking, writing, reading, music, guitar, recording, fine dining, culture, drinking!!, and people
Expertise: the culinary world
Industry: Hospitality
Message: message me
AIM:  uglypreson
Member Since:
11/1/2005
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| yes yes i know, upon popular demand, i will be returning to LAX on the 4th of march. 2:50 pm. Pacific Standard Time. Aer Lingus flight 145. non stop from Dublin to LAX. thank you very much.
here is a picture story of what i am looking forward to seeing when i arrive home. (things i have had to do without for a while)
first off, i dont have a lot of free time, well, i do, but i feel like i am doing nothing, so i miss:
also, when i smoke a cigarette, i want to smoke tobacco only!
the best Pale Ale...period.
i yearn for true AMERICANA
also, i miss those stupid hippie teenagers bitching about everything that seemt to flourish in SoCal
(but i really do hate starbucks)
and lastly, i've eaten the shitiest fruit of my life over here in the mountains. i want some peaches. grapes. watermellon. and fresh fish. organic milk. SOY milk! a nice peice of lamb.
my mecca.
ill see you all in a couple of weeks. call me at my parents house...my brother stole my cell phone. | | |
| soooooooooooooo
is it just me or is the last song "heysaton" on the sigur ros album "takk..." the most beautiful thing ever...
charley, josiah, im looking to you to back me up
gregarious | | |
| as I descend I can find no frequency
no signal that can speak to me
speak to me like the luke warm wind
where the clouds begin and all comfort ends
all men desire to travel west
leave their woman behind
to try to comprehend
where a new beginning
begins to end
but here I lie with no more road
yet you beckone me to carry on
so i crawl towards the sea
groping at the sand
it's just you and me
a city built by god
underwater, under rock and stone
ill have to hold my breath
submerge for a damn long time
ill have to hold my breath
for a goddamn long time
and im trying to fucking hard just to get to know you
i'm dangerously close to the edge and I want to burn you
burn baby, burn
like a cigarette
breathe you in and breathe you out
I 've come to taste you yet
addictions come and withdrawals go
but desires never fade away
just as a woman stays with her man
through thick and thin every day
so as I ascend there are no new transmissions
only love songs
no irrelevant emissions | | |
| never in my life, have i desired foie gras as much as i do now
soon i will depart from this place
and i will devour the liver from an overstuffed (to death; by way of prunes) duck.
it will be glourious.
i will be carnivirous; eating a gluttonus fowl.
thank god for foie gras | | |
| an interview:
(1997)
EW: for your first record, "Cowgirl Facial", you had been writing material for over three years. was it hard to write a follow up in less than one year?
R: well, i had a lot of unrecorded material from the last album that i was able to incorperate into this new one, plus its easier to write songs when you have a contract.
EW: so your saying that money was a factor.
R: well, i mean, before i was working retail for a megachain store, who happend to write songs on the side. now people see me as an artist and im able to recreate professionallly.
EW: youve gained some notice for your seemingly political lyrics...yet you seem to jump from left to right from song to song...are you playing devils advocate?
R: yes.
EW: how do you stand then?
R: on my feet
EW: (laughs) politically though?
R: well, i think that politics is a load of shit. people are getting screwed by the government no matter which way you vote. each side has its spin but when it comes down to it they gain more power every election.
EW: you wrote a song called "eternity", why so much religious content in your songs?
R: well i grew up in the church, which was a bunch of shit. i kinda grew up on my own and realized how people were being blinded by the church and organized religion. i dont believe in anything that any organized religion packages and sells these days, mabye it was based on some truth but its gotten way of course. i think that people should think for themselves and find theyre own path to god.
EW: im hearing some possible echos of post-Beatles John Lennon?
R: (laughs) we'll see.
EW: one last question, there were some rumors that you are recording an album of covers...is this true?
R: i have recorded some covers...but the legality is total bullshit so ill probably just hang on to them and play them at some upcoming shows. thats my shameless plug.
EW: thanks, and good luck
(2001)
EW: a two year world tour, and then two years of silence. and now just two weeks before your third full release, the buzz is tangible. what can we expect to hear on your newest..."calamari"?
R: sounds. and words. but words are really just sounds. so lots of sounds.
EW: lately youve been having some unfriendly run ins with the media--
R: let me just stop you right there. if you dont respect me as an artist and ask me questions about my art, but throw me shit like "what kind of ice cream is your favorite?", you know, i mean, im not a fucking politician, ask me questions that matter.
EW: can we expect to hear some relevant political content on your upcoming?
R: i told you. sounds.
EW: i get your point, but, some kind of general hint to whet our appetites? more laid back? restrained?
R: why dont you wait two weeks and and pay your fifteen dollars and listen to the fucking album and then write some article on how its a peice of shit or its the most glorious thing since Sgt Pepper. im not a publicist, im an artist and i do this because if i dont ill get dropped from my label, but as soon as my label gets up and running ill do what i want.
EW: supposedly you've been having trouble finding people to sign...reports of some control issues?
R: i want stuff to sound good. if i have to control it than thats what it takes
EW: so is this a reason for the complete change of lineup for this album?
R: mabye, but i was also looking for a wider pool of talant to choose from.
EW: Nigel Goodrich said in an interview that you kicked him out of your session...
R: i dont konw why he was there, i mean, i know he worked above me, but he has this "im mr Radiohead producer so ill come in and interupt your work" attitute that i dont and wont tolerate. so i told him to leave and then called security.
EW: well, lets hope your music is a little more friendlier on the ears than you are to producers.
R: fuck you.
(2007)
EW: six years. if you think about it thats roughly 6 months per song on your last album spent in obscurity. you were sued by your label for refusing to tour, and even tried to pull your record from the shelves. you spit on the ground infront of U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan before disappearing like a champion chess player.
R: well, i went through a lot of personal changes, kind of realized i didnt know who i am and all that self-realization bullshit.
EW: you recently published some demos on the internet...is this a sign of things to come?
R: i dont konw, i realized i can't know. i mean, i can't even listen to my last album, "calamari", and since my label sued me they have the rights and ill hear one of those songs in the background on some "MTV cultural awareness mind opening" TV show where some kids talk about how they have aids and its like..."i didnt even mean for that song to mean anything, i just thought that i was being so smart and cheeky and those damn kids take it seriously"
EW: sarcasm lost?
R: no, its like...its not that the song was lost on them, its that i was lost in making the song. i thought that if i kinda made like i was saying something i might find out what i wanted to say.
EW: you used to always seem to know exactly what you wanted to say
R: well, yeah, but divorce kinda teaches you that mabye you dont really know what you want.
EW: so whats next for you?
R: well, my past is horrible, my label is broke, my family is lost, and my fans have moved on. ive been told many times that the 90's are over. thats fine, but this decade is almost over too. so i dont know what people want from me. it seems like im supposed to know what to do. but i dont, so we'll see.
EW: an early mid-life crisis?
R: its never to early to have a mid-life crisis. if you think about it, youre always in the middle of your life, and that should cause you to panic, even a somewhat accomplished person, i mean, you may have accomplished somthing but what is the point if you can't stand behind it?
EW: most bands seem to go through a somewhat similar arc; debut, a commerical explosion, then a sort of retreat into an artistic elitism. some bands manage to come back with another commerical explosion, like U2 several years ago. possible for you?
R: well, artistic elitism is bullshit. any type of elitism is bullshit and i know becasue i used to be an elitist. but then i lost people. and then they were to elite for me, in the real sense that i was less than a person. i was a shadow.
EW: so you regret your past, and you dont seem to want a future. any last words, or can i plea for another album?
R: well, i do have a future. im still finding it out. and mabye as a result ill get something out of being honest with myself. i dont konw, but ive definately been humbled these last six years, broke a lot of chains and alot of addictions. so it can only get better.
EW: i hope so, and so do a lot of fans.
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