I'm Really Drawn To The Uncompromising Realness

I've Always Been Interested In Queerness And Underground And Fringe And Periphery, And Who And What Flourishes In Those Spaces. Those Spaces That Are Darker And Dingier And More Dangerous, More Lonely. What Comes Out Of There, To Me, Is The Life Force. I'm Excited When The Center Reaches Over To Those Places And Pulls Inspiration From Them, And Translates It For A Lot Of People.

I've Noticed That As Someone Who Has Done Music And Creative Things In Washington State And Portland, To Kind Of Toot Your Own Horn, Or Admit, "i'm Going For It. I'm Hustling," Is Not Exactly The Norm. Which Is Weird, Because You Go To New York, Or La, Or Anywhere Else, You've Got To Be Gunning For It - And You Should Be - You're Part Of A Fast-moving Stream Of Other People Who Are Really Ambitious. People Move Here To Work Less. So, To Say That You're Hustling All The Time, And Going For It, Is Kind Of A Little Bit Against The Grain Here.

The Game Rock Band Has Been Haunting Me Like A Bad Ring Tone. It Gets Stuck In My Head And Momentarily Effaces All That I Love About Music.

We Brainstorm An Idea And Then We Do Flesh It Out A Little Bit - We Come Up With A Script, Mostly To Have Beats And A Sense Of A Story And A Narrative Arc. Often When We Get Into The Space And Onto The Location, That Changes And Something We Discover In The Moment Becomes The Moment, Becomes The Story, Becomes The Character.

I'm Really Drawn To The Uncompromising Realness Of Natural Process: It's Unadorned. It's Not Very Pretty.