Interview with Jimmy Pop By the way I like the Mr. T and I saw, who else did I see on the cover? Alf. Corey Feldman, Bob’s Big Boy. (On the cover of issue #5 of TWWBAMBPIEW Tight Pants) Corey Feldman’s weird. You guys are sponsored by Puma right? Everybody is. OK, Stephen Baldwin is also; do you have any comments? Stephen Baldwin, is he the dumb one? He’s the blonde one that doesn’t do as much. Yeah, I’m down with that. He’s in the new Flinstones movie. Oh that’s right, I saw him in the previews. Why would they make a second Flinstones movie? I know! I don’t know, Rosie O’Donnell, what was she doing in the first one? So you’ve seen the Disney cartoon The Little Mermaid Yes. And you know how the girl sings and how you toured with the Hippos. Don’t you think they should open their show with the middle of the stage opening and Ariel coming out of a shell and going Ahh Ahh and singing the song from the Little Mermaid? Actually it’s funny because before they had a record deal they didn’t have a lot of money and on Friday nights I used to pay Ariel to do that at my apartment. He used to come out of the basement but I would make him sing Pet Shop Boys songs. Yeah. West End Girls (complete with dance moves) It was hot. Why are you always wearing Drive-Thru Records shirts? They’re friends of mine. And they directed The Bad Touch video. Why did you go to San Francisco for a day to do TRL? You don’t like TRL? I didn’t say I don’t like TRL, I just think it was crazy to go all the way to San Francisco on like your one day off. Well I thought you guys were hip but obviously you don’t realize that they can tape programs. I was in San Francisco for a few days, like I didn’t do it on Monday. Ohhhh. But it’s TRL, Total Request LIVE. It’s never live and you know what, what’s today, Saturday, so what they’ll do is they’ll take the votes from Friday and use them for the show Monday. I figured they pick the videos. There’s no way; I mean who the fuck would vote for Mandy Moore? Ya know, but it turns out people are, scary as it is. Were you guys on there for the VJ thing today? (When they do the contest to pick the next VJ) Yesterday, it was aired today. Oh. Cause we’re like we can’t make it there how are they gonna make it there and you got here before the show started. (It was in DC) Yeah, we taped it before our show last night. OK, that makes much more sense. With Ananda. I do not like her. I don’t either. (High five over mutual dislike of Ananda) We decided that you’re an evil genius. You make really good analogies for things. I don’t have any friends. I spend a lot of time alone in my apartment. Is it a skill or is it something you’re born with? The ability to be stupid, I’ve always been really good at that. I have nothing else going for me. Like every job I’ve ever had, like I fixed vacuum cleaners, they fired me, I had another job fixing diesel trucks, they fired me, but when it comes to being a Mongoloid, right here baby. If you could have any kind of super power for one day what would it be? I would be a good speller and my name would be Laceres, just because I like that name. OK, suggestion, you may have absolutely no say in this but we were looking at the shirts to roc to rock a block party at the drop of a today. First of all, all the girly shirts - exhat with a band it would be ALL beactly the same. There were 9 guy shirts. cause Milo is kind of (making a face to imYou should have a variety in the girly shirts. ply that he’s quiet). Well, better yet we’re working on 3.14 I love him. panties. Yeah he’s cool. That’s hot. He’s a biochemist. And no guy, well maybe at the club toTheir soundman, he’ll go on stage and night they would, but normally no guy he’ll sound check all of their instruments would wear them. I want to have a baland he’ll do it naked. I did a whole your ance defiantly. with them in Germany for like 3 weeks (After their show that night at the 9:30 club and I come in at 2 o’clock in the afterthere was a dance club type thing for gay noon and there he is, playing the guitar, guys and all these guys came dressed in playing the bass, completely naked. leather and equipped with whips). That’s so funny. Which Golden Girl would Quick suggestion because the way they had you have sex with? the shirts up tonight they looked like halterBea Arthur. tops and that would be pretty cool. Ok, maybe you don't like Blink because you That would be. Ya know what, I don’t played AKA made fun of one of their songs, think there are any that say BHG on but we think you and Nerf Herder should them. But I also want to do girly colors tour with Blink 182 and Fenix Tx and you on regular T-shirts, not just the stupid can call it the Icky Boy Tour. fuckin look at my tits shirts. Fenix is ok, but blink is great. I want to I don’t know who comes up with the way get on the tour with Korn, Hole, and the shirts are designed but last tour I got Orgy. one and I tried on a medium then I tried on Is that a real tour or did you just make that a large and they’re the same length and the up? only thing is it gets wider. No, I'm putting it together and it can be That's because we have to make those for called the Korn Hole Orgy. (He then Lupus. He has manboobs. heartily laughs at his own joke, and we Great use of manboobs. We love that word. chuckle) That is a good word, isn’t it? What was your SAT score? You should write “crucified and all I got I took it twice. The first time I got in the was this lousy T-shirt” on one. 1200's and the second time the 1300's That's good. Actually when we first and they take the average of the two started we made a demo tape and it was scores. called “The Original Motion Picture No, they take the two best scores and put Soundtrack To Hitler's Handicapped them together, oh well it depends on the Helpers" and on the back it said “My school you're applying to I think. grandparents went to Auswitch and all I Well actually, I think you're a lot got was this lousy T-shirt.” I was shocked younger than me, and they've probably because our managers were all Jewish changed the rules since then. When I and they let us make it. took it we had to do it with a rock. You should play undone. That’s more of a How did you find out about the zine? (He statement than a question. Cause there’s a had asked Regis to find our zine because we recording going around of you guys singing had written a story about seeing BHG play it. on their tour with Goldfinger and The The Wu-Tang Clan thing? (Wu-Tang Clan Hippos) ain’t nothin to fuck with) I am all knowing. I spread my tentacles. yeah. (He then stretched his arms out and We do sometimes. squeezed our shoulders.) Do you prefer ALL or the Descendants? Ya know what, if I was stuck in the car I prefer the Descendants but if I was going Bloodhound Gang Bonanza featuring Nerf Herder, A, and Isabelle’s Gift So we decided to see Bloodhound Gang a bunch more times since they were touring again and all. The first show was in Connecticut. Thanks to the lovely people at Fat Wreck Chords we were able to bring cameras in. One of Ben’s friends told him the show was sold out, but then the day before he called and they said there were “plenty of tickets available.” So we demanded that he come cause we needed to use him for directions since he’s from CT. (joking,joking). So we got lost. But it was right near the club, which was in a residential neighborhood like what the fuck, so it wasn't bad. When we passed by there was the hugest line since the invention of lines but since we had to park 5 miles away by the time we got back it wasn’t too bad. On line we saw Ben’s friend. At an Atari’s show a while back he had given Jackie his card from some grocery store cause she works at Waldbaum’s and refuses to let anyone she knows shop at any other grocery store. Whenever we pass a Waldbaum’s or even a Waldbaum’s truck she makes a ‘W’ symbol. I think it’s subconscious at this point. Then we went to the box office and picked up tickets. The guy inside was insanely tall and he was in this tiny booth so it looked awful funny. We came in the middle of Isabelle’s Gift’s set. I very much do not enjoy them. I hate saying bad things about bands though so I’ll leave it at that. Next was A. I had never heard of them but before we had gone to the merch table and there was a shirt that said “fucking A” which is beyond hot. So Jackie wanted to get it but they only had large sizes. She asked the merch man (who we later found out was Regis) if they came in smaller sizes and he was like no but there are girly shirts and we were like but it doesn’t say fuckin which is the whole reasoning for the purchase. He said he would write it on with a marker, which was quite possibly the funniest thing said all evening. But we declined. I really liked A. They were adorable. They’re from England and claimed to have a hit song in Germany though this is questionable. Ok, actually I completely believe it cause it was a fuckin good song. By the second time I saw them I was totally singing along. And then came Nerf Herder, who I’ve been dying to see again cause the first time I didn’t really know who they were. They were as fabulous as expected. All of the other bands had these big banners so Nerf Herder had this little cardboard sign on top of A’s banner, but the funniest thing was that it said Nerf Heider, which Parry continued to joke about throughout the set. At one point they lowered the banner and he was like We’re gonna start a riot if you don’t put the sign back up. At this show they said they’re from California, which is true, but I swear at each show they would claim to be from a different state, which was awesome in a weird kinda way. They played a lot of good songs, but I did wish they had played For You. This was the only show that they played a new song. I forget how it went but it was sounding good. They traded a Nerf herder tank for the shirt off a girl’s back. She wasn’t wearing a bra (surprise surprise) and stood on stage for like a whole song topless. She had a giant Chrysler tattoo on her chest and hairy armpits too. toThis was only a taste of what was to come. So then BHG came on. The people in front of us were those annoying “we heard 2 songs by BHG on the radio so now we have to go and see them and dance really stupidly and dress like slutty preppies and put glow sticks in our mouths and get all excited when we get to dance ever more stupidly on stage and show our boobs” type girls. You have to expect that, but it certainly did not make me want to slap them any less. This tour they played a lot more new songs, since the album is now out. It was cool to hear songs like ‘I Hope You Die” but I at the same time it sucked that they didn’t play more older ones too. They did the drink a case of warm Dr. pepper and we’ll give you a hundred dollars thing, and of course the guy threw up. I have yet to see somebody actually win the money. They were up to the same shenanigans as last tour pretty much. Jimmy Pop took out a package of hot dogs and equated them to the Backstreet Boys “wieners’ (tee hee). He ripped A.J.’s in half and then gave Kevin’s a blowjob. The crowd didn’t go home hungry. Then Jared held up signs with a rainbow, a fairy, and tinky winky. Jimmy also juggled apples while taking bites out of one of them, very talented indeed. At another point Jared went crowd surfing. He tried to “swim” from the soundman back to the stage. They did the encore Bad Touch avec N sync again. Then we went to Nerf Herder’s merch table to interview them. A bunch of people bought their CD and an insane amount of them wanted to get it signed. Like I have never seen it in such abundance before. We were pretty much the last ones to leave and Ben got mad because he wanted to leave, which made for a silent ride home. Two days later I went with Lisa to the NY show.We made Nerf Herder a sign so they would have one correctly spelled to hang up but I didn’t see them wandering around so I gave it to Regis to gigive to them.They didn’t use it at that show or at any other. I forgot to ask why not but it took a good 5 hours to make (Lisa smashed the scissors into our first attempt and put a hole in the posterboard which was quite funny but at the same time annoying). We got a spot on the benches on the side. This way you can see and sit down. So at one point I got up and when I came back there were these really obnoxious assholes in my spot. Lisa had told them she was saving the spot but they were like OK and sat down anyway. Another example of people I want to slap. During Nerf Herder’s set the crowd shouted for boobies and Parry said ‘we’re not like that, you’ll see plenty of boobies during BHG.” Hello giant hypocrite, but I still love ya. But they played Nosering girl (hooray) and had a girl simulate sex. Then we had a week to recuperate before the Philly show. They played 2 shows in Philly and we went to the second one. Isabelle’s Gift gained a pinch of my favor because right before their last song they said they’d give 20 bucks to whoever came on stage and made out with their gay roadie guy. There were three stipulations: It must be a boy, he had to use his tongue, and it had to last for the duration of the song. So this guy volunteers but he has no idea what’s going on and doesn’t even know what he volunteered for but he did it anyway and we got to see some man on man action. BHG played lots of songs that they hadn’t played on the tour yet so that was rad. Then we stayed with Jess, who goes to school in Philly. At like 8 AM this guy walks into her suite and announces that they’re bringing tours through the room. We were sleeping in the ‘common” room so we had to get up. I guess that was kind of irrelevant. Oh well. We went to the same 7-11 that had the best coke slurpees in exis t tance but this time they were too thick and that’s just plain annoying. So then we went to DC. We had 2 extra tickets to sell so we sat down outside and I worked it. Cause even though the show was sold out there were way more people selling extra tickets than wanting to buy. So we went in late and much to our delight saw Nerf Herder setting up. During their last song (Van Halen) Parry asked if anyone wanted to come up and finish the song because his voice was hurting. This guy came up and sang it quite awesomely. Also for one of their songs the guard in front of us claimed to know all the words to it and I clearly thought he was joshing, but he in fact did know all the words and sang along.BHG sure took their sweet ass time coming out but they sang “Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny” which made Jackie quite giddy. Ok, there was this mom right up front. I mean that’s cool and all but she was most annoying person. She demanded that this guy move back so she could see better. We also dubbed this the most ugly shoe wearing show because literally every person there had on the ugliest shoes. There was this one girl with especially heinous sandals, which we concluded we were morbidly fascinated by and therefore had to stare at them. When all the girls went on stage during 3.14 there was this one girl who wasn’t wearing underwear and a mighty short skirt. The show ended early because after there was a another “show” of which the flyer consisted of one guy whipping another naked guy. So all these gay guys came dressed in the most outrageous leather outfits. It was really obnoxious that there were some pathetic people outside protesting. Luckily they were gone by the time we came back from peeing and moving the car or I’d have to kick some ass (if by kick some ass I mean sit there and do nothing). There was a little line to talk or get stuff signed by various members of BHG. We went to the end cause we wanted to interview Jimmy. We managed to snag him and do it. Then we brought our drawer full o’cupcakes shaped liked boobies out and handed them out, chatted with Steve, who reinforced his title of hottest Jew Alive by writing our friend Rylee, who couldn’t come to any shows, a smashing letter. Two of the guys from A were standing there too and they were adorable. Then we drove 6 hours home, stopping at many a rest stop. So now I’ve seen Bloodhound Gang 9 times, and I’m just as dumb as ever. So everybody knows the rule of you can’t wear the shirt of the band that you’re going to see to their show. Well, you’d think that everybody knew this rule but apparently it isn’t as widespread as one might hope. Or perhaps people just choose to ignore it. Either way it just wrong. The band that seems to have an abundance of rulebreakers is MxPx. Every single time we go to a MxPx show there are seas of people blatantly ignoring this numberone rule. Just keep this in mind the next time you go to a MxPx show and have an urge to wear a MxPx shirt. If you do not heed our advice prepare to be openly mocked. --Sorry to keep bringing up boy bands,but Joey from N sync is the coolest person in the world. At one of their photo events he wore a shirt that says "Boy Bands Suck." He also secretly got married..to me..well that's only halftrue. But I know for a fact that Joey's weird clothes include a matching hairy coat and boots and pants that light up.I have an "In My Pocket" book,that's right. Dream Girl By Tremayne White The girl of your dreams Isn’t as dreamy as she seems Her knockout looks deceive A cold-hearted personality She likes to show her skin You love to get within And she’ll break your heart again When she blows your closest friend So keep your hopes alive Throw those past events aside Let your dream girl cloud your mind With her dreamy, sexy lies
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