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the [[Thinking Fellers Union Local 282]]
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the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

interview by susan and steve @ Emo's in August 1995 some of the questions are ours; some are from a psychiatrist's questioning of an alleged victim of satanic ritual abuse.

GW: I want to know if you've had any interesting encounters with the law in Texas. Hugh: We got pulled over the first time we came here for speeding. It was kind of a speed trap. Anne: It's not all that interesting. Hugh: Yeah. All it was, we came over a hill and Paul, our first drummer, was driving. Was it early in the morning? I think it was. Anne: We'd driven all night. Brian: I thought that was interesting, to me, just because I had been one of the last people driving and I hadn't slept all night, and that whole road on Highway 10, I guess, for many hours was littered with deer and there were deer corpses all over the place. So, by the time this policeman stopped us, I was out of my mind, and he could have easily been anything other than a policeman, too. I couldn't tell what was going on at all. Anne: And we looked like we had been up all night, too, really scruffy and unwashed. I'm really surprised he didn't just tell us to follow him to the police station. 'Cause I've heard that happens, or else they try to get money out of you on the spot, or they run you out of town. GW: Do you have an opinion on whether or not electroconvulsive therapy is good therapeutic practice when used by a licensed psychiatrist? Hugh: I've heard that it's not. I've heard that it's a bad thing

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to do to people. Anne: The only thing I know about it is this friend of mine, a long time ago, kind of cracked a little bit. He was really unruly to begin with and his parents sent him into this psychiatric hospital where I was going to college. And he would call me every once in a while from where he was institutionalized and talk to me on the phone for a really long time and just tell me all these stories, explain these different ways he was going to kill himself, like driving his car into a tree and all this stuff. And then when he got out he didn't remember saying any of that and he said he had had shock therapy. GW: If you hadn't come here this week, would they have hurt you there? How would your life go for you to get that all out? The electricity and the hurting. Is that what you are afraid of? Anne: If we hadn't come here this week, would they have hurt us there? Brian: In Florida? Anne They probably would have killed us with kindness. They probably would have made us stay on stage and play for 24 hours straight. Brian And some of them are kind of a cult. We felt pain, but it wasn't due to our audiences. Anne: We were out in the ocean right when a big storm came in, thought, and it started lightening, and all these people were telling their children to get out of the water, and in order to get out of the water you had to cross a small beach and then cross another batch of water that was about 3 or 4 feet deep, so it took a while to get to the real beach and all these people were moving en masse slowly towards the beach as the sky got darker and darker and the lightning started coming down. It seemed like we were animals, I was imagining a herd of animals trying to make it to safety while the lightning was coming down. GW: Are any of you heliopedarists? Hugh: I'd like to think of myself that way, but I don't know

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if I am in reality. Brian: I think of myself as being in a spacesuit most of the time, which is not glassy-winged, but it still involves flying around. Shiny suited, not glassy-winged. Hugh: Yeah, sort of the human equivalent of that. We don't grow them as a matter of course but we make - we make things like that because we don't have glassy wings. Brian: I've thought of myself as being crystal-becloaked before, in my more wizard like states. you could tell I was a wizard, couldn't you? The other day I cast a spell from the van that, in a 2 mile radius from where the van was, turned all toilet paper into paper towels. There were 2 McDonald's in that area. GW: That's horribly misanthropic. And yet, innocuous. Hugh: That's us in a nutshell. Brian: There's worse misanthropic spells. The other night in Orlando, I discovered that if I said two words and then blew a little puff of air through my moustache, I could make their fingers fall off. Which is, ah, it's a lot less...I have another

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one that’s meaner, probably, but it doesn’t cause people to suffer as long, where I can make their brains boil almost instantly, so their brains go shooting out their ears with all this smoke.

GW: You’re actually giving me the answers in advance to one of my questions — you have this really clever story about how you’re from Iowa to explain your presence here on Earth, but at your last show here, Anne explained that the rainstorm was caused by a mothership or aliens descending to rescue you.You also said that they could recognize you by devices you had implanted in your palms. I just want to know where you really come from and what supernatural powers you actually have. This wizardry stuff is pretty good.

Brian: Anne didn’t know that I was a wizard last year, and I didn’t either.

Anne: Last year we were just getting abducted all the time by aliens on tour.

GW: It was just happening on tour, while you were traveling? Anne: Basically it would only happen while we were travel— ing, because we would always leave with plenty of time to get where we were going to and we would always be two hours late and have no idea where the two hours went. GW: There’s a support group here in town.

Anne: There is?

GI/V'YEah, there’s a support groupjbr people who have been abducted. There’s quite a lot ofthat in Texas.

Brian: My only complaint about that is being left with really dull, mundane screen memories of sitting in the van or something like that.

Anne:When actually, they were operating on you, fusing different parts together.

Brian: Giving us electroshock and all kinds of fun things that we didn’t get to remember.

Hugh:We didn’t wake up with anything conclusive to prove that it actually happened, like waking up with scars or a pig snout instead of a nose.

GVV: How does your blood sugar level afiect how you play?

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