OTHER STUFF

Here’s an interview with the Squidbillies writers, a Lu mention, and some other interesting “stuff,” as this is the “other stuff” thread :D, about Squidbillies. The best word I heard in this episode… “Prostitutelize” 😆

This is a funny interview.

http://www.freepresshouston.com/art/interview-aqua-teen-hunger-force/

FPH: Speaking of Squidbillies, did Texas provide you any cannon-fodder for writing for Squidbillies?

DAVE: I think anything on this latitude line from Texas all the way across to the Atlantic coast of Georgia- there are morons that inspire our scripts, so yeah, no doubt, no doubt. But yeah, I spend a lot of time out here- west Texas you know. And some time in Austin. We’ve hit the South by Southwest a number of times.

FPH: The voice of Early from Squidbillies is done by eccentric singer songwriter Unknown Hinson. What’s that like?

DAVE: It’s terrifying. He brings a lot of firearms to the studio, he cajoles and when he doesn’t get his way he threatens. You have to have five bottles of Crystal Geyser spring water next to the microphone, or he’ll pistol whip you. Five unopened bottles. Can’t be four, can’t be six. Labels fronted.

FPH: Is there anyone in particular that influenced any of the characters on Squidbillies or Aqua Teen Hunger Force?

DANA: I have one. I have used the voice of Diane Rehm from NPR as my inspiration for Granny- She has this weird, I don’t know what the word is, what do you call it–affectation, some kind of….. it’s not a disease– it’s like a thing that she does, she can’t control her vocal chords. She just doesn’t have control of them, so as a result, she’ll talk like this (erratic accent) and uh, yeah. That’s what Granny does: like the air is coming out faster than she can actually control it.

(laughter)

DANA: That is a 100% true and little known fact.

FPH: I’m glad we scooped that.

DANA: You didn’t know you were going to be an investigative journalist today, did you? Blowing the lid off Squidbillies.

FPH: And I guess the voice of Master Shake- he’s kind of like an insult comic?

DANA: (voice of master shake) “I’ll tell you what he is!” Yeah, that’s where I garner a lot of my enjoyment from– from classic comedians.

FPH: Who is the most exciting guest you guys have had on the show?

DAVE: Most exciting? Hmmmmm… Most terrifying?

FPH: Yes.

DAVE: It’s probably in our other interviews and stuff but I think Glenn Danzig was still… Still an adrenaline rush to argue with him over the phone. And I know that he’s probably standing on a desk, all four foot ten of him, with a goat skull belt buckle, explaining why his character needs to be “more cut than that.”

(laughter)

DAVE: Finally my animator had to have an intervention with me and he was like, “I cannot add more muscles, it would make him look ridiculous”, and I said, “Well look, he’s got approval on how he looks and he said he’s more cut than that.” And he also said, “I look small”, and I’m like, “Yeah, well you’re on an eleven inch sheet of paper…”.

DANA: Yeah, we’re not giving you the drawing in life size here.

DAVE: Oh yeah, and then he looked 6′4″, which is like twice his size… I was like yeah, we’ll put you next to R2D2 and he’ll be like up to your knee. There, now you’re a giant. We ended up drawing a picture of him hanging off the Empire State Building.

FPH: There are a lot of musical references in ATHF. What kind of music do you guys like to listen to?

DAVE: I was telling Dana, alright… I’m gonna test this out on you. I was telling Dana that 8 years ago we did something at South by Southwest and we were on stage- we opened up for Hot Chip, do you know them?

FPH: Yeah.

DAVE: There you go Dana. Dana was like “I think that’s a lie, I don’t even think a band exists with that name.”

DANA: No no no, they’re not famous, Elvis is famous. Hot Chip I’ve never heard of.

DAVE: Yeah, but the only thing you listen to are like novelty records and things that you get out of a vending machine.

DANA: That is true.

Dave : Yeah, we just recorded Lucinda Williams for Squidbillies, we got a bunch of good people, Gillian Welch, Bonnie Prince Billy and some others. But yeah, I don’t listen to much Hot Chip. I just thought it was pretty amazing that technically we opened up for them. I listen to only old music. I don’t know anything new or modern. The older and weirder the better. And of course, on Aqua Teen we recently had Chickenfoot: Sammy Hagar’s super group,

FPH: Speaking of Sammy Hagar, Van Halen. They had their infamous ”no brown M&Ms in the green room” contract rider. Now that you guys are on tour, how do you guys plan to push your weight around?

DAVE: We have a rider that insists that both of us receive a massage with raw Ahi tuna, right before we go on stage actually, so, you know. We’ll see how the venues respond to that.

DANA: I like to request buckets of Miller Lite beer.

DAVE: That’s right. If you see us, just hand us a Miller Lite. I think I’ve learned from you that’s just got a little more kick than water, you can drink about twenty and still remember the lyrics, and what you’re supposed to be doing.

FPH: Do you think that the success of ATHF has helped —

DAVE: — helped other people with shitty ideas to get shows made?

FPH: Haha exactly.

DAVE: Of course! It’s wonderful. I feel like we just shattered the glass ceiling for idiots with terrible ideas everywhere.

FPH: Now, I read online that Dave went missing for a while, can you guys tell me what happened?

DANA: Dave has a number of properties around the world… (laughter)

DAVE: Yes, I’m an international slumlord. Well what I actually do is I provide low-income housing for people in, you know, “special” financial situations where they can’t afford to pay for housing. I use that as an opportunity to trap them in a situation where I can sue them.

lucinda contributed two songs for the ep. 30-seconds-only “ain’t it odd” with gillian welch (a match made in heaven in my opinion), and “listen to the animals”, with drive-by truckers, gillian/dave, will oldham et al. alas, she got just a couple of verses of the latter.

lucinda’s a blue bird and gillian, a red one. bring those birds back for season six.

Here is Lu in the studio re:Squidbillies musical episode.
Sure sounds like she had a lot of fun on this one.
http://video.adultswim.com/promos/squidbillies-making-a-squid-musical.html

lwj

@punchdrunklove wrote:

lucinda contributed two songs for the ep. 30-seconds-only “ain’t it odd” with gillian welch (a match made in heaven in my opinion), and “listen to the animals”, with drive-by truckers, gillian/dave, will oldham et al. alas, she got just a couple of verses of the latter.

lucinda’s a blue bird and gillian, a red one. bring those birds back for season six.

Here is Lucinda ” Blue Bird ” in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRNOjPJeEso
lwj

Boy another banner year for Lucinda that this is playing out to be.
New album, mini tour, Americana Music Awards, duo with Elvis, appearing on Over the Rhine, appearing on Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Lucky Peterson, Blue Bird on the Squidbillies 😆 and the list just goes on and on.

lwj

Amos, you forgot…Amos! *jumping up and down*