the vox number 94 November 1994
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In this issue: Cub, On the Road with Jackie Flip, Rev .. AI Green, Dj Profile with Paul Babcock, Notes from the G.M., Flip's Music dept, Art's Thai Diary, Drunk OJ of the Month, Recipes, and Dressing In the 90's by Brice. ~OTES FROM THE G.M. TUL's Competitive Strategy Part 2 of 5 Developing W - ' Asian Connection A) The Restoration of WT UL s B) Fists of Fury C) Assignment Pipebomb '
If the reader recalls my last published writing explaining the current troubled state of "the essence" of WTUL our Asian Connection I can now insure you that they are reaDy to pounce on the rock institutions. Like Assasins with a collective vision the Asian Connection a.k.a. "Glock 5" will wreck kke rock like MENUDO did with the song "Motorcycle Dreamer." A new modus operandi has been formed and by direct a«tion action ACTION - a swift kick to the belly of those soon to be extinct cyclopean program directors ~kat will lead us undaunted to take over the Sound*Anti-sound* of New Orleans. The PAKistani TWINS though strange in thei~ ways should ma~e it throuah the year guided by Muslim doctr~nes and armed w~th snubnose in hand. To fuck with one is instant death. Anthony DelRosario, the MockingBird of WTUL is finding his health more stable now since his sojourn in NYC and recent attendance at a BIG STAR concert. Though his eyesight is not improving it is not diminishing. His cowboy blood enables him bocshoot with acyuracy and authority any who eat the sacred pancit. The Ci1inese Ban~it, Jane Ko is regaining my trust. eventhough she took part in evil acts. Her violin quiety guised as a shotgun will blow your fucking head off. I Cannot Rest however because one of the "Glock 5" is
dissentir' , dissenting from the group Fists of Fury
I REGRET TO REPORT that one member of the Asian Connection is on the verge of xxx losing this prestigous membership. Despite fiery condemnation by Wing Fat, the ASB, and myself, I sill cannot force the Thai boy, Art Boonparn to remove himself from the crowd. Our hallowed movement over the ill informed will b~ triumphant without him, but I fear he may start a counter1nsurgency group within WTUL. Because Art is far from. square, .the threat of his bold new army, though the thought 1s clown1sh, Wlll be stopped!! My eyes tell me they have.seen him run with the ASIAN PRIDE, a gang whose terr1tory spans from N.O. East to the Westbank. Dubbed, the ANTS for sho~t because.their number is many and unknown, the ANTS glamour1ze the 50 s Wlth their weaponry of penny loafers, brown golf Jackets (collar up), grease (for hair), c1gerettes, z1ppos, and SWltchblade combs. If it were not for the lovely, Rice Dream, Jane ko, a good friend of Art's who worr1es l1ke I, I would sneak into his apartment and smash h1s sega. L7ke garl1c to a vampire, Art would weaken and I would preva11. L~cky for him Jane talked me out of it. So I have.challenged h1m to a fist fight!! If I win his act1orrs Wl~l be mon1tored daily by Chun Yen Fat, formerly of the HK pol1ce and a cohort of Wing Fat from boarding school. Ch~n Yen Fat has been brought in on special assignment to br1ng Art back to ~ur way. If Art should win I will bow my head and pay for h1s meal at the Thai restaurant of his
choice and buy his coffee for a period of 4 months. I train at the Reily Centre while Art puffs on his Marlboros. I know I'll be victorious, but I'm afraid I may break him in two like a chopsti;c. p I p E B 0 M B a quick easy way to resolve disputes
As part of the new modus operandi, I have acquired the services of several gun and bomb experts to train our staff. One day I will relax in my penthouse drinking martinis while millions of copies of my G.M. Memoirs sells to the masses letting everyone just exactly what did happen during my office. But before I become an iconoclastic figure in radio, there is plenty o f wo r k that must be done. I carnt tell you our destructive p l ans f or November but to keep you our valued listener up to date wi t h the Anti-sound REVOLution here are a few dates of AC7ICN .
October 7 - 12 : 30 PM Re d Dot 1 mails a package to the rock o f N. O. t he contents: one hairnet, a copy of Cel ine' s J o urney . . . , and a small homemade bomb.
October 9 - 3 : 30 AM Flip obtains a shipment of Ruger handg uns and various contraband substanc ~ s. October 11 - 7 PM WTUL Ai rst a ff meeting and a seminar on Gun s, guns, an d guns. 9:20 PM Small a ttack on TUL Embassy by Heshers from Fat Cit y demanding a return of the metal show. 9:27 PM Heshe rs overwhelmed by "Glock 5" sans Art. Celebration afterwards. Airstaff sings the mantra " Br a n da, Branda, our leader and pater, what you say we will follow• 1 Branda, Branda rejoice o ur b e loved station!!"
October 14 10 PM WTUL Mort a 1 Ko mba t II tourney.
October 17 - circa 2 PM Bo ttle th r owing practice at u.c . benches.
October 19 - Zero, Laura F. , t he Rice Dream, Red Dot 2, and Brice Whiteunde r wear drive around the city shooting out windows of Buster record stores .
October 2 2 - 1 AM the three Z ' s of WTUL, Dan Za ta fuca, Gary Zaps, and Am a n da Zandreychuk infiltrate ZZefer offices and studio. Bound and gag ZZefer DJ long enough t o a i r the mantra.
October 23 - 8 PM J eff B. wh i le driving to the Krishna temple decides to p i ck up Branda. the two then rob 20+ conv eni e nce stores to relive youthr~l memories.
THE DESTRUCTION OF IDOLS
Yers always, ~c~~-th Branda Cowart General Manager, WTUL DRUNK D] OF THE MONTH
Vox Editor, Art Boonparn, gone borneo and passed fine form after a night of swilling atop barstools, ball, and Chinese fire drills. His last words befor passing out were: "Whose the fu('"M that called me a square?! I'll dance Mcc;, n~ver a1 1 over his fucking face!!" His pal Shaggy and others look on . Way to go Art!! Mr. Cow-art, Dear vo.x: (all who made 192, keep the music as wild) I would like to have a word with you 1 have so far made It through page 666 of ft2 ... about the evil influence you seem to have over and 1 had to write. Let me explain: I have recently my dear son Anthony. He's a good boy, my relocated to N.O. from up North. I mourned (verb; past, only child. I slaved for years to pay for his personal: to grelve or grieve. I before E?) the losa of a karaoke lessons and to send him to a good partlculary good radio station there. Perhaps you also Christian school. When I think of the base and know of WZBC, Boston. I'm sure you do ... oo well, corrupt uses to which you have put his talents, I ~.life exists In New Orleans tB.tAl Ufe). I weep. I can't help but blame his waning health have a button reserved In my house and my car for on you and your so-called "radio station." His WTUL. Keep pushing It as hard and far and fast (slow, eyesight is so poor, he can barely recognize me, close, soft) as you possibly can. his own mother. Let's be frank, I think we all If there Is such a thing as a mailing list know what's really going on in that basement (s~lbsocrllltloon?) please put me on lt. down there: you're making him use his David Morris incomparable math skills to launder the dirty NO LA money from your low-budget porn films and numbers running scams. What power you must have over him to make him do these unspeakable -~-=== things, I can only imagine. I've even heard tell of you using him for the illicit distribution of hair pomade. His hair looks great, but I fear for the fate of his eternal Christian soul. But God is merciful, and He forgives. Please release Anthony from his servitude and send him home to his parents who love him. Here he can have all the time he needs to recuperate, both physically and morally. We will teach him again I was so glad to see on the fall programming to speak in complete sentences, and cure him of schedule printed in the Vox that there is finally a the compulsive desire to scream "Blues Funk time slot. I haven't heard the show yet, but Explosion" constantly. Perhaps his vision may now I'll know to tune to 'TUL on Saturday nights. even be restored. I know his father would love to have him back. They could tend the fish pond And while we're on the subject of funk music, and fruit trees together. Maybe someday they maybe you can answer a question for me. What ever could resume their father-son karaoke routine. happened to "Bimbo's Rock-n-Soul Searching Please consider my plea, and give me back my Show" which aired 5-6 years ago on Saturday mornings from 2 to 4 a.m.? She was a great funk and soul D.J. who just up and disappeared one day to my dismay. Someone said she became a big-time lawyer. So what's the story? Any answer will be greatly appreciated.
I am proposing a funk time slot also at another local community radio station. Hopefully all radio stations, that can help it, along with WTUL and WWOZ will keep the funk alive. Thanksl ~ --.._...... , 2 juin 1992 3:10am
~rest .... We have just had the most incredible. the most mutually bilitating phone conversation together and I cannot help but continue this conversation because I have so much more to tell you. Things that you have to koow- -- never before have I wanted to so completely indulge in one person. And when I say "itnduige," I mean everything that I have to give is you rs. This is truly not an ordinary act since !loathe sharing myself wi th others to the point that they know what makes me tick, that I might as well be naked with vu lnerability. But what I am blabbering about this for? ~ · You know, and that is the most comforting and the most frightening realization you and I have stumbled across in our "duel" soul searching meandering this past evening/morning. If only I could find the words to express how much !love you, how deeply rooted my feelings are for you! As one who has llved to write, do you realize how frustrating,( understatement of the year!), so to speak--- and without its nourishment, we d ie from knowing this is to me? You have poisoned the one sure talent I thought I had we turned our backs on each other and never being able to go bar k - -- for with the written word, I am invincible--- but not really, to the way it was. The only reasonable, ( and I have to shudder at because you represent feelings that I cannot transcribe onto paper, the necessary inclusion of this word), thing we can do is be together. at least, not at this moment. (would have to live a lifetime with you Only then can we truly live the way it was meant to be- -- as one. many times over before I could even possibly begin to translate Something I find Incredible is the fact that we would have a these emotions Into words. But to be perfectly honest, I cannot wait horrendous dilemma to face if, morbidly enough, we turned away that long. I have the need to tell you how much you mean to me fro m each other. Yo u~ your conquered and I discard them NOW because it is, quite simply, such a challenge as I have never without a second thought. As much as we have seemed to have seen fit to deserve all of my undying attention. You will serve as a accomplished the impossible in times past, you cannot seriously tell new height of expression fo r me - -- I knew it would be necessary me that we could simultaneously use our respective methods of for me to continuously achieve higher levels,( a stagnant writer is control. Yo u would look back only to find me gone forever. I would but a plain observer), and yet, I d id not e-xpect a lover to be my want to escape you but you would have a hold on me. greatest test of all. Indeed, past romantic relationships became I couldn't leave you, M1- Don't you see? For if I did, we would Increasingly boring as the challenge was lessened with each swift never reunite- -- it would be in my nature to make sure of it. victory. The hunt, the chase, was nothing more than a skill acquired, This, a promise of the "keeper." We are either together forever or sharpened with experience, and like all "talents," taken advantage of fo rever apart. My God, I can't believe it has come down to this- - for a temporary thrill. an ultimatum of love . .._,we have to make this work, we just ._you thrill me as if! have been trying to hunt you down for have to!! !! !! You and I both know that life would be un bearably the past nineteen years and suddenly, without warning, I am closing burdensome if it didn't. We would die .. . alone. Foolishly and in for the kill only to find you just as determined to go for the horribly alone. jugular--- mine. We cannot sink our teeth into each other because - 1 want to be your " partner in crime" for the rest of our we will destroy each other. We cannot turn away because this extraordinarily cynical lives. Who cares if we're being arrogant and moment has been the driving force in our lives, the call of the wild, selfish - - - the power we derive from those traits alone could be the key to ensuring us the stability, ( the good kind), for which we have • both fought long and hard to sec ure with the right person. You are the one. I need you desperately and I hopelessly want you to need me in the same way. You know what I mean. I have never loved until now.
-I am so frightened. Please allay my fears before I run away ... '1_ ~ --, · ' ~IL.C Bridge Becomes a Magnet for Fish~ :,. ~ · -, - ,_._~, I ~ l:.dson ~... I erg,?a Hey there! Greetings from the music •unt Rq department. Back in September, WTUL had 1ts , . recruitment meeting for new folks interested in ?~ GO TO JACK SPRAT'S PR~ joining the air staff. Of course there was the 1 question of what type of music does TUL play? ' VEGETARIAN GRILL , LS I Well, veterans of the airstaff answered by saying ~Y \ that TUL does not play classic rock hits, MTV hits, rMOL NCIAL songs accessible from many other outlets, or ~r RE. *GREAT VEGAN FOOD* IK \ Grateful Dead. One young man took offense to 1 the the slam on the Grateful Dead, said ,. ~--" something to the effect of that this wasn't for him, 4 *VEGGIE BURGERS* • and stood up and left. (Oh yeah, ask me about the "I'll Be Grateful when they're Dead." t 1 *PASTA SALADS* ,J?"' shirts that I have printed.) Oh well, o_ne le~s hippy ~ . 1for us. Also, in October our Apprentice D1rector, *SANDWICHES* · the fine lad Matt "Gilbert" Hanks, was approached by someone interested in doing a show. This *ENTREES* M fellow said, 'Dude, have you ever, like, had a Ot Grateful Dead hour?" "No," replied Matt. "Well, ~AD-4 have you ever thought about having one, 'cause ~ I've got, like, eleven hundred tapes?" "No, • 3240 S. CARROLLTON fi'" q replied Mister Hanks. In response to the no MTV hits, another new person asked shouldn't TUL NEAR EARHART ~ play these hits to keep the listners happy. NO! !rrou6 What's the point of perpetuating these (usually NEW ORLEANS of bad) songs? You can hear them on all those silly (504) 486-2200 commercial stations around town. If we have the oppurtunity to educate people about music, well MON-SAT I lAM-9:30PM we better fucking do it 'cause none of the commercial stations are going to. OK, so we might lose a few borderline listners to the Hefler, but we'll keep our cred with the listeners that have a clue. h of this
L Listen Survival Marathon 1s happenmg next spnng, March 24, 25, 26. We are gain' to have two days of live mus1c on the University Center Quad and hopefully many n1ghts of club shows featunng b1g name national acts and b1g draw1ng local acts. It mterested m play1ng grat1s at Marathon, call me at I(504) 865-5887 . • Late breaking news at Vox headquarters: rlL the Gavin Seminar will be held here i~ Nawlins mon February 15-18. So, look out for those Industry folks and other radio folk. More info later. Touch. Your music director (and math godhead/tutor), I D Anthony DelRosario
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~;~{:tlyWhere did ya'll do the video? ..(~t L: We did the video in New York. ·~~ WTUL: On a barge? L: It actually turned out to be a boat that someone lived on, but it was excellent we got to go down the Hudson River. It was a video for the song "New York ••About a month ago 1 went to see Cub play at a CMJ City." It was cool, we got to go right around the Statue show in New York. 1 was really lookin' forward to it cuz of Liberty, and it was amazing. So that should be out I'd just gotten stuck in a downpour and needed soon. something to brighten my mood. A friend 1 was with But that's another difference between the States and was complaining that he didn't want to stay and see Canada. In Canada there's a video channel called Much the show. He said Cub's music was "too simple." "I Music, and they're really supportive of Canadian Music, could play their songs," he whined. My response to but also just independent stuff. Which, 1 find, MTV that is yeah, he could. Heck, 1 probably could, too. really isn't. There's not a lot of underground bands on That's half the appeal. But he doesn't, and 1 don't, and MTV, which is too bad because we get a lot of air play in they do, and that's that. Canada, but we'd never get it on MTV in a million years. Recently Cub crossed the continent playing their We did another video when we were in New York simple, infectious, and generally short ditties wherever about a year ago. We met this guy who does videos and anyone would listen. They hit New Orleans October he said "do you wanna do a video" and we said "sure." 3rd and played at the Warehouse Cafe (which, It was excellent. It really cost us nothing but it was incidentally, is not in a warehouse and I don't think it's nominated for the best video of the year in Canada. a cafe) with A.G.B. (who moved our own Vox editor to WTUL: Who beat you out? tears when they dedicated a special song just to him). L: A band from Vancouver called Dead Surf Piss [I think While two of the members of Cub sat around grinning that's what she said] but at least they're from our home and happily videotaping A.G.B., Lisa, Cub's bassist and town. So that was cool. singer, joined three Voxers outside to talk about Cub and Canada. Here's a sample of the conversation that ensued.
WTUL: So tell us something about Canada. Lisa: Well, we're from Vancouver, in British Columbia. It has nothing to do with Britain or Columbia. It doesn't snow there hardly ever, and if we get sick we don't have to worry about it cuz it's paid for by the government. Which I've been talking about a lot in America because I understand your health initiative is not quite thru and it should be. You guys should. all support that. Bryan Adams is from Vancouver, but we have nothing to do \ with him, Rush is from Canada .. • v,,.· WTUL: Boh and Doug McKenzie. 8EACH &ALL OFFE~ L: Rich Little, Neil Young, John Candy, but he's dead, OFFRE DE 9ALLON DE PLAGE and Errol Flynn spent some time in Canada right before fRn GHA'tl~ he died. We have two languages, French and English. ;:~~~!:'~:. ~· ~~t.W~ ~-. And more people live in the state of California than in CO"'<',orstr:f 011W1811~:. · : ~~~;: ~ ~t~~~~,~~~ 1 all of Canada. When we tour we bring double bubble :t gum, and the comics are in French and English. WTUL: What is radio like in Canada? /; · ~~mmercial WTUL: How did you guys meet each other? radio as bad as it is here? L: Well Robynn and 1 have known each other since L: Commercial radio is pretty bad. It's probably about college, we met doing college radio at CITR in the same as it is here. Every town has their Classic rock Vancouver. we were all DJs and that's how 1 met her. It station, a talk radio station. They were trying to get an was a long time ago. And then Lisa, she's our new AM station that played more alternative stuff, but th~y drummer, [note: don't get confused but there are two went broke. The cool thing is that, like you guys have Lisa's in Cub] she's been with us since March, and she's NPR, we have a thing called the Canadian Broadcast only been playing drums since March. Corporation. And they're really good for independent WTUL: She looks like she has a really good time when bands, there's a couple of shows that are on late at she's playing. night. And they're super-supportive of indie bands, a L: She does and that's why we love her so much. She's a lot of Canadian stuff. you can go in and record, they'll really fun person. She never played drums before the play live sessions, you can go in and they'll pay you tons band and we met her doing a fanzine called s..tlf of money to record live stuff. And college radio in Esteem Queen that we all work on up there and we Canada is really good. The station that we worked at, needed a new drummer--our drummer had to leave, you just pick whatever you want to play, and that was a Valerie, because she makes candy and she's doing that really good way for us to get into it, cuz we've always full time now so it was really hard for her to tour. We been music fans, so it was good to get into a band after. knew Lisa and we liked her a lot and we thought, "well That's what its all about. if we like her that's a lot more important than if she can WTUL: What do you have around your neck? drum." And she can , drum, too, now. L: These are my earplugs, which I need or else I'd go WTUL: How'd you hook up with Mint [their record deaf. This is a hot dog day charm. And someone that company]. just liked the band gave me this one, this airplane, so L: It's a bit weird cuz half of Mint is Robynn's brother, we'd always be flying high. Some hippie kind of thing, I Randy, and the other half is Bill who was my boyfriend don't know. And my sister got this for me in San for a long time. So we hooked up with them cuz we Francisco. 1 got this in Atlanta. I went shopping ... we knew them but its worked out perfectly because we played at a place called The Point, a really cool little know each other so well and we have a whole lot of neighborhood. This is cool for us because we've never control over everything. We pick when we want to played in the South before. Everyone's been really record, we record what we want, if we want to make a friendly and we're meeting lots of great people. We get video we do, and stickers and photos and all that stuff. to meet Kids' Clobbers all over the country. We really They just say "sure," they're totally supportive, and we treat touring as a big vacation, because we all have day ~ jobs at home, so when we get a chance to tour it's fun ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~@ ~ ~® ~ ~ ~~~~~ fl}~ ~ ~ {B 6;J for us. Some banos seem to not really enjoy touring, WTUL: Hm•e you e.•er Stal'ed at a Mot.! 6' but for us it 's excellent. You get to go lots of new L: Yeah. When we were kids, well "here Jm hom places, meet all these people. everyone goes 10 California for Iheir vacarion' So 11 < WTUL: How many Kids Clubbers have you met? spenr an en lire vacalion where we . rayed ar Morel (I, . L: Quite a few actually. There seems to be at least one So I have really good memories of rhem And '" lrv 10 in every town. Some are in Europe so we never get to sray in Ihem when we're on I he road. There aren 1 any meel them. Its the Cub Kids Club, it's kind of like a fan Morel 6's in Canada. Kind of an American rhing. club, but 1 think it's better than a fan club. We end up We were really lucky, we recorded that 7" when we'd corresponding with all of these people. You send five only been together about three months, and Rohvrm dollars for a year. We send out four packages a year. had never played guitar before she was wi th the ·h~nd . We go shopping and send out a bunch of toys, candy, Nobody'd really been playing that long. But people JUst do a news letter. and stickers and posters. We end up liked it , were rnto ir I don 't know. It 's werrd 1 don't writing to these people, meeting them, finding out really understand it. We feel really lucky that people what they do. A lot of people into our band are in like it and we get to write to people and go on tour. radio. or they put on shows, or they're in a band, or WTUL: Wiro tlu do \ '(Ill do /' orers of h~.
r.\!i~}~~y~~~~"~~e!.~~n~ ~ cSJ ~ ~~ cS3 fiJ (. 3'e· \,., d,cl l..\.1.\ the ~ -y t->"19 c.•-.d ~ lu.• ":::!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ way we play, because we're new at this and a lot of the That's the great thing about tounng. We get to go to all stuff is really simple. But I don't think that simple these places. Tuscaloosa. Chattanooga. Atlanta. Places t)s necessarily means naive or cute. A lot of the lyrics I've never been. · And I love the South. When I get here aren't really that cute. I think now we're getting to the I feel completely happy. excellent food. nice weather, point where people are listening to the songs more, and and everyone's super friendly. maybe thinking about it more. The new record has a lot WTUL: Where did you play with the Coctails? of stuff that's really quite different. L: Washington DC. I'd never seen them before. We We have a new record that's coming out in November, actually stayed at their place once. but we never met it's gonna be a triple 7" and a CD. We just finished it them. They just totally blew me away. That's another ~ the day before we left. But I think the stuff on this is a bit more varied and there's some really negative stuff in thing. We get to play with all of these bands. We got to it. It'll be interesting to see how people fit that iniO how play with Sloan, Sebadoh, we're playing with the Muffs they perceive Cub. It's a weird process something you in LA. We get to see these bands that we love. It's been A, have to deal with. But we never get uptight about it. really nice. ~ Sometimes it's really amusing to us, what people WTUL: What's the he,·t place you've played? consider us to be L: I don't know. People always ask that. It's hard to say. ~ WTUL: Do you ever get any comparisons to Kim Deal? Even if nobody's ...there's usually at least a couple of ~ L: Yeah, a lot, actually. Which I also think is kind of people who are there who are really into it. As long as weird because I think she is amazing. What the we have fun and the people who are there have fun , Breeders are doin~. thev're iust so talented ann it's great. We played some kind of weird shows. We & incredible. A lot of people compare my voice to hers or played Madison, Wisconsin. I think three people paid, Iil;fl:l whatever. and it was just the people at the bar getting drunk. WTUL: Do you prim your ow11 T shirts? And then we were supposed to stay with this guy who L: We design them. Robynn does them. We printed was progressively getting drunker and drunker. He was the first batch, and they were pretty bad because none telling us that the best day of his life was when they ~ of us knew what we were doing so there's these blobs all drained this lake, and he got to cut the heads off like of them and I was like, we can't give these to people! 2000 carp with a machete. We decided not to stay Most of the stuff we do is pretty close to home for us. with him. We left and stayed at a Motel 6. We know everybody that we deal with. We book our WTUL: Have you discovered a11y wwd j{10d? own tours, we manage ourselves, people that are our L: Well our newest thing is grits. That's what we're friends make our videos and do our photos. And the T really into now. A lot of people bring us candy. We shirts are printed by this woman who's a mountain bike have all kinds of things. We've been eating a lot of Rolos &,. racer who does them in her basement. on this trip, but that's cuz someone gave us a shitload ~ WTUL: How'd you hook up with Da11 DeCarlo? of Rolos. And then we got tons ·of zits. A band from L: A friend of ours had a comic shop in Vancouver. and Florida called Clitoris Rex brought us Raspberry he just had an address for Archie comics. We thought Blowpops last night. This bar has pixie sticks though, ~ that'd be really cool if he could do the art. And Bill and that's cool. You can have as many as you want. ~ from Mint just wrote to them, and Dan DeCarlo said Excellent. Just a total sugar rush. "sure." It just comes down to that. You ask, and what's Well it sounds like they're finished, I guess I should get the worst that's gonna happen, they'll say no. We sent in there. Any final questions? No? Is that all you need to e.,.... some photos and he did these drawings and we liked know? I don't know what else that I could tell you. ~ them. And then he was kind of concerned that the Except that we're glad to be here. clothes were too boring. We got these revised sketches :e~:r~o7neg :~~i~~r~p~ar:~~~n~o:h=g;r ~ -We 1o ve every:thi ng · It's just he was kind of getting into this porno thing. We just said no, it's fine the way it is, it looks like us. t perfectly· WTUL: How long have you been on the road? worked OU - · - ' L: We've been gone three weeks tomorrow, we've got We get to see these bands ~~stm~~:~t. w~~~v;o~~~et~~~s :~~~so;:~ut:r:n a~~u~~\he that we love. It's been really United States. Between New York and here is all unknown territory for us. It's the first time we've nice. played here. WTUL: Is it just four of you? Everyone's been really friendly L: Yeah, we like to keep it small, once you start bringing Hmmni. .. I wonder where everyone got the impression a light person and a sound person ... we like to travel in that Cub was really nice? Well, they played after that a mini-van cuz everything's right there. and they had a lot of fun and everyone there had a lot WTUL: What've you been listening to on the road? of fun, so I guess it was a good show. If you want to be a L: We have about 200 tapes. One of the things we've Cub Kid, too, or maybe buy some Cub ~nraphernalia, been listening to the most is that Green Day record, write to Mint Records, #699-810 West Broadway, we've been listening to that over and over. A band Vancouver, BC, v5z 4c9. I'm sure they'd love to hear from Canada called Sloan, that you've never heard of. from you. They're actually signed to Geffen, but they don't ever get too much going in the States. Everything from when we Bongwater to Elvis basically. We love everything. WTUL: Do you do much record shopping on the road? get a chance to tour it's fun L: Not really. It's hard to keep records together on the road. We mostly get a lot ofT shirts, and some kitschy stuff. I got a couple snow globes. We got tons of fireworks in Tennessee, tons. We're still looking for somewhere to set them off. I got one called "the Battle of Gettysburg." Apparently, the place used to be owned by two brothers, but they got in a fight so now they have two places across the street from each other. They were all lit up like Las Vegas. It's incredible. We're we feel into that regionalism. I got some voodoo powder today. Something about getting control over people, which is really lucky that people like it what I need. WTUL: Is this your first time in New Orleans? and we get to write to people L: I've been here before, a couple of times coming thru on the train. Robynn and Lisa have never been before. ~~~~~~~~~ ...... ~ . THE FATHER.//:--· "· · ·
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AND AIL Gl~EEN I .i ! BY: MATT HANKS This past Labor Day weekend on the road quite a bit and accordingly, his Anthony delRosario and I decided to get out appearances at the F.G.T. are somwhat of the Big Cheesy for .a few days and sporadic. We were told that the only headed north to Memphis. It was a journey surefire way of determining whether he full of cool experiences; Krystal burgers, wold be delivering the Word on this Lord's BBQ, record shopping, even a Grifters Day would be the presence or absence of show at the Omni New Daisy on Beale St. the Rev. 's Rolls Royce (it seems that w~ile And although greasy food and good music he may have forgone the "fast cars" part, are usually makings enough for a Rev. Green thinks that exorbitantly priced successful roadtrip, they pale in cars are A. 0. Kay in the eyes of the Father). comparison to the event we were party to on So there we sat with eyes peeled for the one Sunday morning, September 4th. It tell-tale Rolls. We waited a good fifteen was on that morning that we found minutes watching car after car pull into the ourselves in the gravel parking lot of the lot; not a Rolls in the bunch. But there was Full Gospel Tabernacle, moments away one car, a cream coloered Mazda 929 to be from what would prove to be one of the most precise, that caught my eye. Besides being uplifting and utterly terrifying experiences almost as out of place as a Rolls would have of my life. been amidst the sea of old Caddies and As if you hadn't sussed it from the beat-up compacts that were currently title of this story, the Full Gospel occupying the lot, it was also conspicuously Tabernacle is home to the Reverend AI parked right in front of the Tabernacle's Green, the artist responsible for such near entrance. When the vehicle's occupant perfect albums as "''m Still in Love with emerged sporting a black silk suit, gold You" and "Call Me" and now, full-on man of jewelry dangling from every apendage, it God. As rumor has it, Rev. Green while still became instantly obvious - the Rev. has a riding the crest of his extraordinary new set of wheels. recording career, had a particularly nasty By this time the whole scene had run-in with one of his lady friends one gotten more than a little intimidating. In evening. The fight was brought to an fact, I'll have to admit, I has half hoping the abrupt halt when said lady dumped a pot of Rev. wouldn't show just so that we'd have a scalding hot grits down his back sending legit excuse for not going in. But after some Green into a surge of pain and the deliberation, we decided that we'd live to emergency room. While couped up in the regret it if we turned back. We were right. hospital, the Rev. underwent some serious As we entered the tabernacle we self-evaluation and decided that the whole were instantly greeted by two women by fast cars, fast women scene wasn't for him who looked like hospital orderlies; white anymore (I bet he also developed a pretty dresses, white shoes, even white gloves. strong aversion to grits as well). and that they handed us a program for the morning's the Christian life was more his speed. services and we took our seats in the But back to the parking lot. There auditorium. As it turned out, these women ~ was some doubt as to whether the Rev. not only looked like orderlies, they played Green was even going to show on this the part too, but more on that later. The particular Sunday. His work still finds him auditorium really threw me for a loop. I was expecting a very lavish affair. Mter all, this Accordingly, most members of the is AI Green. He used to be the cream of the congregation at least partially gained their soul crop. He used to drive a Rolls Royce! composure. The possessed woman to our But instead of floral arrangements, and gold left lowered her arms and began rocking plated pulpits, we found quaint paintings insistantly back and forth in her seat, as if and pews made of fake wood-paneling. it was all she could do to keep from Everything was very clean , but also very exploding again. modest. Not unlike the church I grew up But the lull wouldn't last long. The in. Rev. re-entered the auditorium, and this Aside form this downscale decore, time I knew he wouldn't be leaving anytime everything else was pretty much like I soon. He walked right past his throne and expected it to be. To our left, in the front took his stance at the pulpit. He did his pews sat the elderly sisters of the best to silence his audience, smiling all the congregation, all dawning their Sunday while ( and you better elieve, getting these best. There they sat, still and content, folks to completely silence themselves did lending a quiet authority to the take a while). Mter calming the proceedings, the kind of authority that can only be attained with age, old age. To our 'Ju[{ §o:iju:f Clabcrn.acL~ right in front, the band had set up shop. The outfit consisted of two guitarists, two 707 Hale Aootl • Memphl9, Tennesstu• organ players and a drummer, although I got the impression that this was hardly a permanent gig for them.The band started tuning up and the choir members quietly made their way onto the stage and took their seats. Things were pretty calm at this point. The modesty of the surroundings had quelled some of my intimidation and I was starting to feel quite at ease. As it turned out however, these were the last feelings of normalcy I would experience for the next three hours. Slowly the decibel level inched its way upward. The elderly sisters started humming and moaning while other more vocally virile members of the congregation punctuated ~ese sounds with full fledged yelps. The band who minutes earlier were quietly noodling away, began to organize themselves around one unifying riff. Then the Reverend made his first appearance. Smiling from cheek to cheek, he greeted some of the choir members, touching their hands as Jesus would his disciples. He then took a seat on what literally looked like a king's throne in the center of the stage. And like a king he sat, surveying his kingdom, delighting in the gathering chaos that was about to burst forth. "Kinda ominous isn't he?" I whispered to Anthony. Anthony chuckled c/1( but I could tell he was thinking the same cf?c~nouf §-rcc.n thing. Po ~ JIOr Otlcf rormdtlf Things continued to get louder. congregation down he still had the band to Hands clapped, feet stomped, voices rang contend with. This would be the first of out. Suddenly a woman two rows in front of several times during the course of the us to our left, lost all muscular control and service that he became a bit impatient with began violently throwing her her arms into the players, essentailly having to tell them, the air and screaming "Heya! Heya! Jesus! although in the most brotherly, reverential Heya!" Seriously, I thought this woman kinda way, to shut-up (another indication either had Tourettes, Epilepsy or both. All that this was not Rev. Green's regular semblences of comfort I was enjoying backing band). moments earlier had now vanished Now the way things worked at my completely. I was now feeling completely church, when the preacher took the stage, self-conscious, as though I had accidentally that meant it was time settle in and find a wandered into the girls bathroom or comfortable hymnal to rest your head on. something. To my surprise, but But the Rev. Green would have none of that. nonetheless, relief, Rev. Al stood up and I believe he said less than ten words before left the stage for for a few minutes. the audience had worked itself into a complete frenzy again. But this time there Then another girl in the audience, who was to be no holding back . The possessed couldn't have been more than sixteen years woman resumed her arm flailing and old, began running in place and jumping "Heya!" yelling. Folks got so worked up this up and down. She too proceeded to weep time though, that she would prove to be one uncontrollably, waving her hands rapidly in of the tamer ones. front of her face as if she was about to faint. CHAOS! ANARCHY! PATHOS! The She then picked up the tails of her dress Chior took a statement that the Rev. had and stomped around in a small circular made moments earlier motion. I couldn't help thinking, for just a and turned it into a musical declaration of moment, that she looked kind of like she intent. "Give the praise to Jesus," they sang was dancing at a hoe-down. The radius of insistantly, commandingly. It was under the circle she was making got bigger with these conditions of what seemed to me to be each successive go 'round, and soon she complete insanity, that the orderlies were was thrashing herself against pews at every called in. Remember them? Well, now they tum. She was completely unaffected by had ajob to do. One woman in the choir these collisions and continued stomping just lost it. She was screaming as if in and weeping. Spotting another accident pain. Tears were streaming down her waiting to happen, the orderlies rushed to cheeks. When she could stand it no longer h.er aid as well. Once again, they were she threw herself onto the seats in front of careful to give the girl as much space as the her. Her body wiggled and contorted like a pews and any other potential head hooked fish being reeled out of the water. -splitting objects would allow. Noticing that The orderlies dashed up on stage and the orderlies had their hands quite full, formed a rtng around her allowing the other members of the congregation lent a woman enough space to continue her hand by removing glassess, necklaces and catharsis while making sure she didn't any other large accessortes from the seriously injure herself in the process. flailers. In the pew behind me a woman • •. ~.•vv ''r-- ·~ ~~··~· ·1 ~ ,:'. ------: ··,- oj.~~~" . ' - --::-... ~ .. :-.:.·.. :::-.:::..-:-;-:------., <: ' .. •; ·. /.-~.-:::.-· ~~ .. ~' '"~ >:~ bagan to babble loudly. Try as I did, I with some more hand clapping and foot couldn't make out what she was saying. So stomping. I leaned over to Anthony and asked him. "I But eventually, the fmal song was think she 's speaking in tongues," he played and the closing prayer was prayed. answered. I nodded knowingly as if that As the orderlies shook our hands again on explained everything and I could now the way out I thought about how understand every word she uttered. completley transformed I now felt as Right about now Sunday morning compared to when they first shook my hand with the Rev. Green is probably sounding a few hours earlier. I'm not saying that this like quite the freak show. And I'll admit. I one service changed my life or that I was scared shitless. But soon enough my suddenly decided to devote myself to God's fears gave way to respect, even jealousy. work (although I don't doubt that it has the As I mentioned earlier, the auditorium of power to do both). But this was a Sunday the Full Gospel Tabernacle was quite that I will never ever forget. I got a lot more similar to that of the church I grew up in, out of it than I ever have the Sunday paper, but what goes on inside thqse auditoriums and services started atll:OO so I didn't couldn't couldn't be more different. What even have to get up that early. we called singing was more like a monotonous hum, and no one ever dreamed of speaking or standing out of turn, much less running around or falling over pews. The only time I can remember something spontaneous happening was when a little kid let out a great big fart during one of our moments of silent prayer, and quite a few memebers of the church were unable to contain their laughter. My point here is that scared as I was that Sunday, I also felt like all my church going years had been a waste. Imagine getting so excited and emotional about a church service that you are moved to express yourself in the ways that the members of the F. G. T. do. They attend church out of a genuine desire, a real need for what it offers them. For me church has never been anything more than a habit. I never thought about where I was going or why I was going there. I just went. Just as I was loosing my fear and beginning to enjoy the proceedings, Rev. Green once again began the long and arduous process of calming everyone down. Eventually, the choir stopped singing, the PIE IN THE SKY band stopped playing and the orderlies stopped tending to their patients. The Rev. SKY PIZZA PIES, FOCACCIA SANDWICHES, spoke. "I hear a lot of people sayin', 'You SERIOUS JAVA, ESPRESSO BUZZMATICAS. don't mean tuh tell me that that man up theyuh is the same man who used tuh sang Love and Happiness . ' And in a way, dey open: mon thru sat, 11.30-11.001 sunday, noon-10.00 right. 'Cause I may have the same body, I 1818 magazine st I tel. 522 6291 I free delivery may look the same, but I'm a different puhson. 'Cause now I got Jeezus." A flood of "Amen"'s washed over the entire room. "Can I get anothuh Amen?" he pleaded. ~ This continued for some time until the Rev. determined that the Amen quota was filled. W©UJffi AIID CC©lJJILIID The rest of the service proceeded much in this way. In the nearly three hours that he IBlkWJE ]]3rnmJN Ifil1EimE stood before us, the Rev. never actually gave a sermon, (at least not in the sense of the word that I'm accustomed to) just short call WTUL sentences and anecdotes. If he said for more information something particularly inspirational, the band would start up again and with a and ad rates twinkle in his teeth, he'd open his mouth and let his angelic voice float over top of (504) 865-5887 them (I suppose it was the context, but Rev.'s voice really did start to take on a sort of over-yonder, netherworldly quality). Then on cue, the audience would join in PAUL,, BABCOCK "the Taxi Driver" \\0 .~\ WHEN ART GAVE me the assignment of interviewing Paul Babcock I \~~ ; was initially disappointed that a "Gwai Low" had received the honor ~~~~~\--.-}of being profiled in this month's Vox. That all changed after I met ~ ~ - ~· \ , .;~! ~~~ f::~y~e ;~~~t~~ ~~=t~~g~ f;}~;~ t~i:: :~nt~~e~hi:t~i~;~ ~~~;~ent, i; .. ~ stacks to find music to play on his show, and he also drives a taxi J -living the 4AM diner lifestyle that we all fetishize from the movies . .t\~ You can hear his progressive show every Tuesday from Midnight to 2 AM Wednesday morning. Real Name: Paul Edward Babcock Miscellaneous Blrthdate: June 18, 1960 likes: Star Trek, Picard, I think Fort Belvoir, VA Birthplace: Data, Tolstoy, which is where they Burroughs, tested Jet Packs psyche music, Parents' names: Sandra and Paul enjoyable Brothers and sisters: Cindy, Beck, Ronnie, passengers and a brother I've never Miscellaneous met dislikes: Passengers who shoot Instruments played: Banjo at me, intolerance Where educated: Lousiana State Best friend: My old lady University Most thrilling Musical education: Listening to the radio experience: My two and one half since I was 13 years in East Asia Biggest Tastes in music: African, Arabic, disappointment: Star Trek ending psyche, Ragas Biggest influence: Ayn Rand Personal ambition: Peace, love, happiness, Former occupations: Peace Corp, stage hand and tolerate everybody Hobbles: OJ, Star Trek, my dogs, with whatever they're recreational drug use (moderate/responsible) doing Favourite singers: Lou Reed, Grace Slick, Baaba Maal, Joe · Strummer, John Favourite actors/ actresses:
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Favourite composers: WTUL: Did you always want to be a taxi driver? Paul: No, when I was in high school I thought that driving was not a ood thing and had envisioned in living a life in which I did not have to drive . WTUL: What do you listen to while driving? Paul: A lot of world music. I've accumulated 400 tapes of various bands I've recorded over a span of ten years while working at radio stations. WTUL: Have you ever taxied any celebrities? Paul: I had Robo cop. He was reading a magazine and didn't talk very much. I had two of the Black Crowes, and they were quite nice. Steven Wright too. The coolest celeb I taxied was Francis Ford Coppola except I mistook him for Martin Scorsese. WTUL: Any drunk Tulanians? Paul: All the time. Drunks are generally OK. They don't shoot at you, and they can't run fast. WTUL : What was the last book you read? Paul: Some old Star Trek book. WTUL: Whose your favorite local band? Paul: Beausoleil. WTUL: What was the first concert you ever saw and how old were you? Paul: KISS, I was one of the first ten people there so we stayed all day. And we saw all the fans with their KISS makeup blowing fire. It was the Destroyer tour. That was there best album. I was around 15 or 16. WTUL : If the world was to end tommorrow what would you do? Paul: Uh, I guess um hanging around the house with my old lady getting loaded and watching Star Trek. WTUL: Who do you think are the foxiest DJ's at WTUL? Paul: Well, Jen Kain cause she's in the room with us. All: laughter ha, ha, heee, te, to. Paul: Melissa, and the Pakistani twins, and everyone whq pprenticed under me. WTUL: Russ Meyers puts women with big boobs in his movies. Is that how you like 'em too? Your women that is. Paul: Oh yeah, 1 like big boobs. Little boobs too. Any women without penises. WTUL: Have you ever done anything illegal while on the air? Paul: Nah, I go to the bathroom to shoot up. WTUL: Were you ever a greaser? Paul: Nah, 1 was a nerd all through high school. All my life I was very uncool until 1 ·got old enough to realize it didn't matter. F-..- ~ ·''liU!Ial
WTUL: So how does it feel to be the first non-Asian DJ of the month? Paul: I'm excited about it cause I'm looking forward to all the money and chicks that are to ensue. WTUL: You spent some time in the Philipines. Would you like to share some experiences? Paul: Ate a lot of rice, I scuba dived, San Miguel beer is the best in the world, dog is good, no one really gave a damn, I knew how to make their fish grow faster that was my job, not all rabbits breed like rabbits, slow and different lifestyle, plenty of things to be enjoyed living in a society with a slower lifestyle. WTUL: I just saw some cum spots on the carpet in the studio. Are you responsible? Paul: It's not my fault. WTUL: Has you penis ever been exposed without you knowing and then you looked down and relized you were exposed? Paul: Once when I was in kindergarten i zipped myself in my zipper. I went out to the teacher but she didn't want to play around with me so she sent me back into the bathroom to deal with it myself. WTUL: Ouch, watch out for that hole puncher. Paul: Totally. WTUL: Well, thanks a lot for the interview and enjoy your month's reign. Paul: Sure Wing, this has been the highlight of my year so far.
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Parts one and two of Thai D1ary first my never put out a third issue so part three hasn't been printed yet. Due to the Diary's popularity I decided to run them in the Vox. So here we have parts two and the never before seen part three. I exclude~ part one because it is a record of what happened to me before leavmg to Thailand and the plane ride over. -Art when I was born till age two I had a baby day one in Thailand sitter and she came by tonight to see how I turned out. That was real nice of her. After Best came over pretty early. We watched TV dinner all the cousins and I went up to the and tried to communicate. He taught me some roof which is kinda like a patio thing. Best has Thai, and [ helped him with his English. He two sisters, Tik who's 15 and Too who's 9. asked me a shitload of questions ranging from Too's real name is Areerat, and she's real swimming to the WWF. Sometimes it took me pretty. l'm sure all the young Thai boys have a while to figure out what he was saying. He supercrushes on her. Gead, age 16 is Lek's kept telling me he was afraid of goats. Goats? daughter. Bond, 13 has a sister, Bua,l6 but she So, I told him I was scared of dogs. he started in Lampa with their mum. Tum's family lives laughing. Then I realized he had been saying across the street from Noi, Lek, and Gead; and "ghosts." Then he said, "Do you like video my Grandparents live a little less than a block games?'' [ would soon be Nintending in away. Confused. yet? Up on the roof we shared Thailand. "Yeah, yeah I dig video games." He many stories and experiences despite the then mumbled something that sounded like language barrier. Best asked me what Thai "family computer" and ran out the room. he words [ knew. [ looked at all my cousins and opened the door and said "I go home to get cool-like [ said, "tutmen." They all starting family computer, you wait here." He came laughing. You see that was the word for "fart." I back with this crude looking video game [ guess little kids everywhere laugh when system called, Family Computer. I soon someone talks about that "explosion between learned that this system is exactly like the legs." Then two of Gead's friends came Nintendo. All right!! we played all afternoon. over. They were quite pretty, and one of them Later, my Grandfather called me to go hang seemed kinda interested in me. must've been out downstairs. so, there I was with my the hair. She talked to Gead in Thai and then grandparents and my Uncle Tum (Best's dad). Gead asked me if I thought her friend was We were waiting for my, Uncle Tee who was prity. "YEah, sure" then giggle giggle the bomb driving in from Lampa with his son Bond. came next. "Would you like a girlfriend?" they Lampa is a town about 500 miles away. They asked me. What was I getting into. "urn, [-[-[ started flowing me SINGHA brews, which I aallready have a girlfriend." [ was lying. [ sucked down. they asked me how much I wasn't interested, and I wanted to be nice. could drink. I told em' ten brews. They started They'd never know that [ was a total loser cracking up and saying "You Mow!!" which over in america. "What's her name?" they means "drunk." Then Tee and Bond pulled up. asked. pressure situation "Emily", I told em'. At first, Tee thought I could speak Thai cause Emily is someone I barely know back in the gave him a good ole' drunken, "Sawasdee states. We go to the same college. I kinda have krap." [ said, "no way." Tee speaks pretty good a crush on her. I figured we'd probably never English. He said that I look like a Thai. We go out cause l'm a schmlo, but at least I could drank some more and then went upstairs to live out a dream sort of, more like a lie [ eat. My folks had been jet lagging all this time. guess. "Is she pretty?" "Oh, yes very much." My Aunt Lek is a great cook. Downstairs, she "Do you love her?" Geez these kids don't let up. and Noi (husband) have a restaurant adjacent "Yes, I love her." "Does she love you?" "[ hope to their house. This is where we're staying. so." Then Best broke in and said "I bet she's pretty cool. When we lived in Thailand from got a new boyfriend. Your friend Tom (not spot. There was someone e_very hundred feet Tom Bell or Tom Eunuch, but Tom Lousiville)." or so blowing a whistle telhng you where to ha ha hee laughter All the adults call Best a go. In the stores, they have four to ~ive p~ople joker. l can see why. Later after more working one section like say a LEVIs statiOn. conversation. Well after a lot of pantomiming Jeez they sure do have a lot of people -:vorking felt a fart building up. "SHHH be quiet" I told here. The labor is so cheap. they get paid 'em, and I strained and must've make some about 500 baht a day. That's five bucks in weird faces then I let it go a loud "GWOOOOOK" american bucks. try to buy Sub Pop records on They all lost it. We laughed so hard. They all that budget. Whenever I looked at a shirt two ran around holding their noses yelling, "Art people would try to assist me, and . when I left tutmen, Art tutmen!" Thai Language Lesson: a third person would refold the shut. my found out that "tut" meal'IS "butt" and "men" muscial curiosity led me to the CD and tape means "bad smell." So put em together and store. All the Thai bands in Cass were really well. this is a long fucking day huh? Later I cheap bout 3-4 bucks but the CD versions freaked em' out when I said "kee" which is the were $20. I found NIRVANA on CD which was word for "shit." See there were a couple of 20 bucks also. If you read Mykel Board's Thai phrases that were commonplace in my articles on Thailand several years ago, you parents house while I was growing up. I never may remember what he said about bootleg figured that these Thai words that I had tapes. The Americans artists sol~ on_ the tape learned from using them all my life would format are just that. The packagmg IS crude, come in so handy here in Thailand. Living with much like what you'd see in a flea market only my folks we'd always say, "I gotta kee" or "did with Thai writing on it. Gead had MADONNA's you tutmen, cause somethin fucking stinks." "Truth or Dare" video dubbed in Thai, but the Finally, we all got tired and decided to go to picture looks very third generation and the sleep. sound sounds like someone took advantage of the audio dub function of a VCR. where was I? day two promise this won't be as long. Then we went and bought ~orne poqcards. I
Best and Bond walked in and woke me up to also got myself a Thai phrase book and a map play video games. They couldn't understand of Bangkok in case I got lost. We went and got why I was so good. I beat em' handily in some "show pow" to eat. It's this white dough Tecmo Soccer When my parents woke up, we filled with bean sauce and or pork of beef. walked over to see my dad's folks' house. it's Later that night the cousins and I went up to so fucking hot here. My grandma showed me the roof again. We made fun of Bond who was pictures of my pop when he was young. Also I already in his PJ's. The funny thmg which I got to see the Thai instruments that my pointed which out was to ask him if he was grandpa can jam on. "Well could he play wearing any underwear. "no" he said. The rest somethmg for us?" I asked my dad. Thai of us laughed. "NO gangnigh" became the hit sooken here mumble mumble "He's not m the phrase of the night. mood. maybe later." Oh yeah, they have a closer full of Buddhas and other various day sarm (3) Buddhist figures arranged very neatly. This is I wole up early to finish writing weird shit on w'Jere nv grandpa prays and meditates. postcards to my friends. Tum took us to the lunchtime post office. i wrote too much shit which got more of Lek's good down south Thai cooking. covered with stamps. More fucking traffic. It We ate noodle; with meatballs and pork. One took us about 40 minutes to travel 4 miles. I of the popular Thai lunch meals. Tee took us to took a nap cuz it's so fucking hot out, and I a mall to do some shopping. We went to need a break from Best. that kid has too much MERRY KINGS an 8 floor hi-rise shopping energy. My mom woke up later to get com,1lex.. Since Thailand is a third world dresssed cause we were going out to eat. develop.• g nation there was construction saw Best downstairs, and he was wearing gomg o'l everywhere. Tee and my dad talked shoes! You see no one wears shoes in about how their province, Rangsit (right Thailand, at least not very much. It's not that outqde of Bangkok) had changed so much. they don't have 'em. They just hardly ever B.ocornc more modern. Traffic is thee number, wear 'em. Sandals are the big thing. Shoes are o'le problem, and people drive like fucking worn at work, dining out, or playing soccor. mania · When we got to MERRY KINGS the Thai box.ers just tape up their feet. Also in case first thing I noticed was the number -o f people you didn't know kickbox.ing (like you seee on they ePtployed JUSt to guide you to a parking ESPN) is for fucking wimps. Thaiboxing is for true punks into pain. You can use your knees and elbows in Thaibox.ing not like that other wimpy sport. Then it started to rain really hard, and the power went out. I went back to my room. Tik brought me a beat up acoustic guitar to play. They wanted me to entertam them downstairs. I said, "Nah maybe later." I PROCHANAN a restaurant right on the outskirts of Bangkok. Check this out! this is what we ate:
Woonsen and shrimp- golden noodles with huge shrimp
Haw moke- fish prepared with coconut and chili peppers and wrapped in banana leaves. I had eaten this before in the states plenty of times. One of my faves.
); . (almost sweet) fried rice Mee grob- cn~~odle with a mixture of something ~ (I don't know) and some vegetables. day four awl}. A big fish - I'm not exactly sure how it was Tee took us into Bangkok to see Wat Pra Kaew. prepared cause I was too full then. which is the emerald Buddha, an object of national veneration. the Emerald Buddha has its clothes changed by the King every season. Now that it's so fucking hot the Emerald Buddha was sporting the shirtless look. Before I forget, on our way to the Grand Palace the After dinner while the elders were chatting, guards stopped us and said "Three of you are Best and I checked out the aquarium. Then we not Thai, one (Tee) is Thai! You pay." Thais get went and sat on some couches over by the in for free . Even though we look Asian, they entrance. The other cousins came over but spotted us "farangs" (foreigners) coming. My then went outside. A hostess overheard Best dad complained in Thai and got in for free. I and I talking in ·English. She walked over and should've yelled the obscenities Best taught said "somethin' in Thai. Best explained to her me, but I probably would've gotten kicked out. that I was his cousin from Merica. She's pretty Inside the outer walls were many beautiful hot I thought to myself. She asked me to say temples. I got my picture taken with two something in Thai. Guess I could finally put monks about my age. We had to take off our that phrase book to good use. "Sawasdee khon shoes before going up to ~ee Prae kaew. Don't suay" I said, which means, "Good evening, doll step on any birdshit! Sorry no photos of the face." Best strated cracking up, and she kinda Emerald Buddha. But that's what the sign satd. blushed. I whispered "tut men" in Best's ear Also, you can't point your feet at the Emerald and we cracked up. She wanted to know what Buddha. Jeez, talk about being uncomfortable. was so funny. I said "he tutmen.'' ha hee ho ho Here I am on my ynees with my feet pointed hee Then she hit Best for teaching me slang. at the back of the wall. After my Pop and Tee We exchanged names. She's so hot. I told her finished praying we walked around some. some more slang that I knew. She complained Many Thais come here and meditate all day. to another worker of how Best was teaching We wandered around this part of Bangkok. me all of these obscenities. Then she hit Best Seems like everyone here is selling something. again. We really cracked up. Then it was time Some guy tried to sell me a bird. I told him I to go. We said goodbye. So much for romance don't speak Thai. I don't think he understood. in Thailand. Best asked me if I thought she we drove around some. Tee took us by the was pretty. "Of course." "Nooo, the girl in the Parliament building. The site of future food shop! She ugly." He'll get older. protesting by pro-democracy groups. All along Instead of going up to the roof with the Rajdamern Ave. towards the Royal plaza is cousins, I drank with my uncle Tee. we got where most of the protesting took place. I'll pretty fucked up. He and his whiskey and me try to get into that later We drove by Gead and my SIGHA brew. He told me about his and Tik's school. which is pretty exclusive. Ya college days. I told him baout the times either got to be smart or have someone to pull whenever my dad would call me while 1 had a strings. Sound familiar? Starvation hit, so Tee fucking hangover. He told me about his wife took us to the CENTRAL shopping complex, and daughter in Lampa. He wants Bua to go to another one of them hi-rise malls. i looked for grad school over in the states. I told him I'd PUnx, but could only find metal heads. It took help out any way I cuuld. After more us forever to get home cause of all of the conversation we called it a night around 3 AM. traffic . The rest of the family was waiting for Tee and Bond were leaving for Lampa in the us so we could go out to ea.t. All the Boonparns morning. I gave him my regards and said good crammed into two cars and we were off to bye. Tee and his family are gonna be coming back to visit before we leave for the states. I'm glad. Day five
Hungover. Noi made some Tom Yam for lunch. spicy stuff. Best and played video games. He looked kinda sad cause Bond was gone. That night we threw paper airplanes from the roof.
Day six
Tik and Gead introduced me to Thai rock music. They played me stuff from NUVO, INCA. BILLy not too much to say about 'em. Lots of wanky 'ouitar solos. (note now that I've got tapes of these bands I actually like e_m.) B~st showed me how to write bad words m That. , We !lipped through Thai magazmes and they d ask me what I thought about the popular That media figures . If I thought a male was cool, I was to ;eply ··smart" and "pretty" for females.
Jokingly, I called most of em' ugly. I told Tik that Aom, INCA's guitar player was ugly and called INCA, KEECA, which upset her greatly. There was a picture of Elle Macpherson "Ah, her, she's pretty" I said. They all said she was ugly and drew a mustache on her.
day seven
Boonpams go to the beach. We all left for a two day excursion. Best got me all excited with the news of topless beaches. "Many American women with no top. See nom." He was pretty excited too. While we were loading up the cars. Best said, "Fuck you" to his little sister, Too. We were laughing, and then she "Fuck you" not knowing what she just said. Finally we were on our way to Hua Hin. The ride was of course hectic and frenzied cause of all the maniac drivers. It's a relief to get there safely. day n10e Best and I changed and made a dash for the water. Best wanted me to get some SPEEDOS Woke up early and ate katom. mat"s a rice soup w1th ginger. green onions and chicken. Got ready for me dove back to Rangsit. For lunch like his, but I stuck to my maliras trunks. we ate paht thai and men got back on the road. More crazy drivers. Well, I didn't see any nom but had lots of fun After a couple of hours we stopped to check out this temple on a hill anyways. We had rented three beach houses mat"s ruled by monkeys. Yeah. all these monkeys all over the fucking place. but they're also scam monkeys who'll take yer camera unul so I went over to see what was going on with you give 'em some bananas. My mom got scared so we didn't hang Tum and Noi. Tum was jamming on some wind around too long. Best make fun of us. I told him we didn't want to get instrument. Noi cracked open a SINGA for me. fucked with. Back. on the road. We went to this cheesy wax museum. Best and I cracked up at grandma cause she thought this wax monk We ate some woonsen, fried squid, and clams. was a real person. I tried fooling people with the Thai I had learned. I got totally bloated with brew and food. ' no luck must be my Nike hat. Our tour guide was totally hot. I had a When I returned to our beach house I felt hard on the whole time. Went outside to nurse my mosquito bites that I received while in Hua Hin. really sick. My stomach wasn't in a go!>d mood. Diarrhea struck. Even before this I had some day ten really gnarly shits back at Lek's. The food here tastes good but til you get used to it it really Tum and Best took us to a Thai crafts market. I bought a cool t-shirt fucks you. I felt horrible. dazed. I fell asleep, for 50 baht. which is around four bucks (when I returned to the states and washed it it shrank to a size small. Urggh -ed.) Tum but I woke up later with the urge. Diarrhea bought a wind instrument. some kinda wooden flute. While we were again. fuck. I went back to sleep. In the wandering and taking photos my mom let this loud tuunen (fart). morning I woke up and ate some mango. My Best and I lost it. Man. Then we went to the old summer palace of the king. There were these cool bushes that had been cut into animal dad and I went jogging while my mom took shapes. I took a picture of my pop pretending to be ed scissors hands action photos of us. I felt the urge again so I whilst standing in front of an elephant bush. Saw a guy in a SINGHA ran back to the house. I was really fucking brew shirt. I really want one. At dinner, Noy said he'd buy me tapes of Thai bands as a gift. I thanked him and started drinking. I got sweating. Ahh relief. Diarrhea #3. All that shit pretty obnoxious. Tick got pissed off cause I told her that INCA i ate yesterday was out of my system. Don't sucked. let this incident scare you if you plan on going to Thailand. Just be real careful of what you eat. Try to eat in a clean standard restaurant. day 11 still hot as fuck band whose name I can't remember. Of course today I left rA:lest was nice enough to loan me his Family my camera at home. Still didn't see ~ omputer video game system of the duration any punks. Lots of people that I of our stay and today I finally won the Tecmo wish I could talk to. Later we went world cup. Fuck. I never thought I'd get to this restaurant and chowed. I'm Nintendo thumb while in Thailand. Went over not sure where we were, just to Best's house to check out some porno mags seemed like we were far away from and videos. Luckily. we didn't get caught. Tik Boonparn HQ in Rangsit. When we had some wallet size school photos on her finltlly got back I was ready for desk. so 1 rook some. She freaked our later. 1 sleep. Gead bought me a URANIUM doo'l know why. but 1 like fuclung wnh her. tape while we were out. They're a Gead showed me th1s Th&J •nsuument that she Thai heavy metal band. So, I'll leave plays. 1 made homble n01ses With 11. We also sWted playing WWF today. Best held Tik and her one of my tapes behind. I jumped from the couch for a souflex. Blamm! "You ~eavy. you heavy !'" screamed Tik. Best and 1 went up s~rs to w1nd down . 1 grabbed 1 mango and made hke l was beaung off. "Hey. do you do this ?" l SOld. "Oh yeah! of course. Chaq wow , yes. yes. How you say 10 engrisb?" Hmm. wbicb term should l tell em. l thought Sioce we'd been mating fun of canoed chicken 1 week ago l Slid, "c hoke your chicken" "Oh. cboke chicken ! bee bee te be" we laughed for at leaS! twenty mmutes. Later that night while banging out on the roof. Noy came up with a brew for me and somehow managed to out ruunen me and beca me the official "rutem cbampion ".
day 12
Mom went 1n1o Bangkok w11h her fnend. Yatcbi. whom she used to work with when we lived in Thailand 70-72. Hopefully they will· be able to find me a SINHGA 1-sbin. At noon Tik woke me up to watch day 15 the INCA concel on IV . Not 100 bad for Thai rock. 1 guess. Lame llmosphere. everyone's JUS! SlUing around. Watched some Thai Wenr into training to De'"ome a Th • •ing later. Had l grown up in Thailand I'd probably be a Thai male me to ~0.000 push-ups and I~ t;xin.g champion \iy leader .:•er. Decided to get drunk before dinner. Went wandering around. · su-ups . I ~ned "jep. J!!p " as. um med a smoke fro m this guy who owns a liquor Slore with hiS • •le in my Grandparents mmHhopping complex. The dogs here seem so much meaner toolung. Almost got hit by some fuck on a he made . me strctcb my lim'bs A Tha.J custom is LO .:all an ~Jlder scooter. l fell pissed off. Afterwards. 1 didn't want to hang out on the roor. I was being obnoxious again anyways. Tik got real mad at me :-~v~ s~~~:r~y:: ~pe~ ~~~~- n:;-th~~ :r 1::~~ ~:~sem~-~P« and sa1d. "Go home." ( saJd. "La gom·. which means "good bye" and supposed call t\er "Song Til.~ Oh .,.·ell. I had taken my fa1r -;hare ;:;.( •enr lo sleep. JOles. They didn't understand why I hardly ever 'rushed my haJr l tried to explain to them about crusty punks . T~~- JUSt laughed uJ day 13 wd. "You diny. dirty. no one like you . Ugly· Unde Tee. his wtfe . ;on and daughter were coming in from Ltmpa. I was :-ully !ook.ing Be51 and l switched clothes. (I was preuy hilarious. l wish l had fonu.rd to muting Bua. She had been studymg English pretty senoosly for a coupic of years •and wants to go to pad school O\-'C: in PICtures. He wore my Sam1am 1-shlrl and my khaki shorts and l the mtes. The- couuns told me thai ~he was thin 1.nd very prett~ wore ~is soccer rank top. We played soccer with some fruit that Best told me that ooce when be v..·as staymg with them over 10 Lampa. he spied on ber while she was taking a b.alh. This kid is craz~·- Later I wa.s banging out on tbe second tloor patio looking Jl all looted like a soccer ball. except that it was green. l rook a bred: and d the activity arouot the neighborhood. I could tell that Tee a.nd fam.Jly •hite Best was dribbling. Grandma carne walking down the staus . an ahd just arrived by all the excitement Bond inuoduced me to 8UL 1 Best and l talked about how uncircumsized are uglv. There was some confusion for a while cause we each thought the other was uncircumsized. So, we drew pictures to clear this up . Best said, "My hum (penis) beautiful." That night I played poker with Aunt Lek, Best, and Gead. Tik kept staring at me real weird like cause l had told them bout my partying habits. She seemed really upset. Disappointed. ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~-.t; "' .. ~~ \_)o,.{' ()<:I.. ~ ~ "<:t:. Sunday Last full day in Thailand l can't believe we'll be leaving tomorrow. I'm in a downer mood. Gead gave me INCA, NUVO, BILLY, and some other tapes. (As I'm typing, BILLY is blasting, I'm feeling sad thinking about them.) Tried talking to Bua some more so she could practice her english, but she's so shy. I got hot in poker. I bet Gead my Volks Jetta 16v for their house. The air was tense. She won. Good thing it wasn't a real bet. "Tomorrow you go to America", Best sez. "Yep, tomorrow." "You write to me o.k .. ?" "Of course." "You send picture of girlfren." "urn, yeah, I'll try to find one." I go asking my cousins if they want any gifts from me. Here's the list of things they gave me: blue backpack, skateboard, soccer shorts, Tulane t-shirts, hat. madonna junk, pictures of my non existing girlfren. I'm gonnal be fucking broke. I couldn't get to sleep till really late. Then my pop woke me up. "Get ready it's time to go." early monday Yesterday Best was JOking saying he wasn't going to the aeroport cause he'd be asleep. At 4 in the morning I wouldn't have held it against him. We loaded up the cars. All the Boonparns were on their way to the Bangkok airport. _We got there prity early so there was plenty of ume for good byes and picture taking. Best kept reminding me to get him a skateboard. I told em I'd try to Jearn Thai before I return (I haven't been studying Thai since the trip). oh, a couple of days ago the 1iss Universe Pageant was held here in Bangkok. I saw some of the models walking around. guess they were going home too. Then tt :vas time for us to get our passports checked before boarding. Last good byes Thai custom is to put the palms of yer hands together and bow yer head slightly. My grandma said to come back in two years. l told her we would. The most touching moment for me was when I went up to Tee and he put out his hand to shake mine. His eyes were watenng. 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