| Ed Scrader interviewed by Chris Riordon of Against Everything Magazine
via AOL Instant Messanger:
IGotFreshKills
(4:04:36 PM): ok lets go
V2Schrader (4:02:19 PM):
ha ha
IGotFreshKills
(4:04:40 PM): this is the interview
V2Schrader (4:02:24
PM): cool
IGotFreshKills
(4:04:55 PM): who is this andy guy you are always talking about?
V2Schrader
(4:04:03 PM): Well Andy is a lifetime friend who I've since moved
away from, physically and mentally,ha ha (just kidding on the mentally
part) He is for all intensive purposes my best friend who lives in my
home town Utica NY.
IGotFreshKills (4:07:26
PM): did you ever kiss him on the mouth?
V2Schrader
(4:06:51 PM): um actually yeah, in 1997 we were in a band called
Endramada and we wanted to impersonate the "pro feminist" tactics
of Kurt Kobain-so we re-enacted his kiss with Drummer David Grhol-which
we all know is just an omage to Ziggy Stardust
IGotFreshKills
(4:09:34 PM): sounds like an omage to homosexuality
V2Schrader (4:07:23
PM): ha ha ha ha-maybe
IGotFreshKills (4:09:56
PM): what instrument does andy play?
V2Schrader
(4:07:38 PM): I am straight as an arrow
V2Schrader (4:07:55 PM): The Skin flute, and the
Penis Picalo
V2Schrader (4:08:21
PM): well actually, the guitar-and he tried playing drums and mandolin
IGotFreshKills
(4:10:56 PM): so neither of you are musically inclined, but you
started a band called Endramada just to fake kiss each other?
IGotFreshKills (4:11:00
PM): oh ok, he plays the guitar
IGotFreshKills
(4:11:20 PM): does he have a real job?
V2Schrader
(4:09:10 PM): pretty much-I mean was it that obvious?
IGotFreshKills
(4:11:44 PM): lets get our questions lined up
IGotFreshKills
(4:11:49 PM): answer the job question
IGotFreshKills
(4:12:03 PM): (ill fix this so it makes sense in print)
V2Schrader
(4:09:50 PM): well- he pushes in stools at the casino-I make sandwiches-we
both have "non real jobs"
But I have a degree!
IGotFreshKills (4:12:24
PM): you make sandwiches?
V2Schrader
(4:10:47 PM): Yeah, I work at this place called Cafe Doris-at Maryland
Institute Of Art-I make sanwiches for self involved assholes all day-it's
a blast
IGotFreshKills (4:13:23
PM): i know you live in baltimore now, how do you feel about all
the black people
V2Schrader
(4:12:56 PM): Well -I really dont think of Baltimore that way-I
mean there might be more of a certain group of people, but were all Baltimorons!
IGotFreshKills
(4:15:37 PM): would you rather kiss a black guy or not kiss andy?
V2Schrader
(4:14:02 PM):
I'd rather kiss Kiera Knightly!
IGotFreshKills
(4:16:53 PM): have you been doing some stand up shit? ive heard
some of your skits and they are funny but i wonder how it would translate
to a stand-up situation
V2Schrader
(4:15:47 PM): I was worried about that too, but the other night
I reenacted the whole "David Bowie Moves next door to Andy"
skit in front of 70 people and they went ape shit
V2Schrader (4:16:10
PM): America Loves Andy
IGotFreshKills
(4:18:31 PM): big bowie fans or big andy fans?
IGotFreshKills (4:18:32
PM): ah
IGotFreshKills
(4:18:49 PM): is andy a virgin?
V2Schrader
(4:17:16 PM): I think people liked the juxtaposition between an
upstate NY family and David Bowie recruiting their son to a NYC Homosexual
escapade
V2Schrader
(4:17:31 PM): Not any more-my boy has a Girlfriend!
V2Schrader (4:17:50
PM): I am proud of him
IGotFreshKills
(4:20:22 PM): See, there is always an undercurrent of faggotry
in the humor between you and Andy - you can blame it all on David Bowie
if you want but I see the twinkle in both your eyes when you interact
V2Schrader
(4:18:33 PM): ha ha ha-hey didnt Husker du have the same problem?
made for great alblums though
IGotFreshKills
(4:21:11 PM): you're into that emo shit, arent ya?
V2Schrader (4:18:52
PM): I think I'm fascinated with Gayness
IGotFreshKills
(4:21:23 PM): that's called "being gay" by most people
V2Schrader
(4:19:08 PM): and freaked by it-but want to not be ignorant
IGotFreshKills (4:21:43
PM): talk about emo music
V2Schrader
(4:20:08 PM): ha ha ha-kidding-what I mean to say-is seariously-instead
of getting mad at people thinking I'm gay-I kind of vented through the
skits,
IGotFreshKills
(4:22:40 PM): Oh people think you are gay alot?
IGotFreshKills
(4:22:54 PM): I think it's just really your voice combined with
all the kissing of andy
V2Schrader
(4:20:43 PM): yeah-and I dont know what EMO music is-you mean like
Sunny Day Realestate?
IGotFreshKills
(4:23:15 PM): If you just had a throaty female phone sex operator
voice, it would be one thing
V2Schrader (4:21:03
PM): perhaps
IGotFreshKills
(4:23:33 PM): but to combine that with making out with andy in
omage to ziggy stardust, it seems to create a pattern
V2Schrader
(4:21:33 PM): yeah-closet gay who loves Bowie?
V2Schrader
(4:21:42 PM): but for real-I'm straight
IGotFreshKills
(4:24:22 PM): i lost interest in the emo music question to tell
you the truth. I believe you are straight, I just understand why some
people think you might be gay.
V2Schrader
(4:22:17 PM): It's like how WEEN jokes about it-I think it's a
coming to grips with somthing Alien ( i.e. Bowie/ gayness)
IGotFreshKills
(4:24:41 PM): If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, makes
out with Andy like a duck...
V2Schrader
(4:22:56 PM): People think I'm gay cause I talk about Dicks all
the time-which like I dont get
V2Schrader (4:23:09
PM): ha ha ha-quack
V2Schrader
(4:23:22 PM): whats up with dat?
IGotFreshKills
(4:25:47 PM): Now quick, before you have to go, last Christmas
I was at a bar where you were and you whirled around and grabbed Bill
Seth and said "I GOT IT!" and showed him a cocktail napkin with
a picture on it. Do you remember that?
V2Schrader
(4:24:00 PM): yes, a master stroke!
IGotFreshKills
(4:26:44 PM): describe the art please
IGotFreshKills
(4:27:22 PM): i recall the term "come home" written above
a set of boobs
V2Schrader (4:25:44
PM): well-it was like the bat signal shooting out into the Gotham
sky-but instead of a bat-it was a pair of sagging tits-and a wrap around
message underneath the tits that said 'get home"
V2Schrader
(4:26:00 PM): I think there was a "dick signal" as well
V2Schrader (4:26:26
PM): have like 1 minute
IGotFreshKills
(4:29:00 PM): what do you think is fair price for a time machine
at this point in your life?
V2Schrader (4:27:18
PM): hmm, I like where I'm at allot-so maybe $5-I'd go back to
see The Diamond Dogs
V2Schrader
(4:27:35 PM): gotta go!
IGotFreshKills (4:29:56
PM): ok
IGotFreshKills
(4:29:59 PM): be good ed |