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S: It's mindboggling that somebody that intelligent is doing television.
Josh Whedon is a superhero. It's just a great example of extremely well done popular art.

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S: To wrap up, we usually ask people to give their comments on all the rock critics in Austin, but all the people we used to ask about, so few of them are here.
So few of them are here, and I don't know any of them yet.

S: Also, everyone else we've interviewed has lived in Austin for 15 years.
I am a pure, unfiltered carpetbagger. You can say many bad things about me, but that absolutely true.

S: You're also younger than everybody else we've interview by about 20 years. We'll not that much.

J: We'll say 40 when we print it. I just left and came back after having been raised here and there are a lot of things I see about Austin that I didn't see before. I'm curious: what are you finding that you didn't expect to find? It's certainly more expensive to live here than I thought.

J: Yeah you were a Slacker fan.
I was a religious Slacker fan. I think Slacker actually occupies a really interesting cultural space. Something that I think would make a good double bill with it is the video for "Teenage Riot." It's a montage of just unground cultural stuff that they liked, like a clip of Harvey Pekar and then Pussy Galore, and there's Minor Threat, and Richard Kern, and there's Lydia Lunch, and it just rips through this stuff, and it's just a great snap shot of "what we thought was important - what bohemian culture means to us." And this is pre-internet, when people still communicated with fanzines and letters and packages in the mail. That's just a nice little snapshot of that time, and Slacker's the same thing.

Joe's footnotes to certain elements of this interview will be available on geekweekly.com at a later date.

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