11/20/2023 0 Comments Arrow de wildeI had a record with me for him to sign, and when he asked me my name, I literally forgot my name and my boyfriend had to spell my name for him and I was standing there in silence. I was so starstruck that I didn’t say anything. My boyfriend Gilbert got us tickets to Ozzfest New Years Eve 2018 and we managed to meet him backstage. I know you’re a huge Ozzy fan, have you met him yet? If so, what did you talk about? I find inspiration from weird characters in LA so I like going to those kinds of places. I also like going to bars where I won’t really see anyone I know and I’ll see random people I know I likely won’t ever see again. It’s just super old school dive bar vibes and then once you get hungry, Canters is right there. I don’t know, I just love all things trashy. I also love The Rainbow, which is legendary and just super trashy. ‘The Kibitz Room’ at Canters is one of my favorite bars just because it’s always kind of empty and everyone that wo rks there is super grumpy. It’s really sad because a lot of the spots that are my favorites are closing. What are some of your favorite places in LA? I know you were born and raised in LA and you love LA. I don’t want it to ever seem like I’m angry at the people in the audience. I want to be present enough to be able to pinpoint who those people are so if I am going to go up to an audience member, I can tell who is a fan and who won’t get upset. Some people will get mad because they don’t know who we are, but then there are fans in the audience who are excited to get fucked with. Someone would set their beer on the stage and I’d take it and douse them with it and most of the time they would cheer but sometimes they would get pissed. People in the audience were getting mad because I would throw stuff. There were a couple instances where I went a little too crazy so I feel that I have to be able to be present enough to see what I’m doing in the moment. Once we were touring all the time, I got used to performing and I learned to be at least half present half on stage so I at least kind of know what I’m doing. When I first started performing my whole consciousness would just go out the window and I wouldn’t remember a lot of the shit I did onstage for so long. You make Starcrawler shows not just a great rock show, but also performance art……I’ve seen these amazing moments when you’re rolling on the ground and there’s blood dripping from your mouth and you give the audience this amazing demonic grin and your eyes kind of roll back in your head…when that happens, where do you go? It’s not about whether or not you shave, that’s not the point, and you can still be a feminist and have fake tits and lip injections. I feel like a lot of people have this really messed up idea of what it is… I want to skew the idea of the typical stereotypes found in feminism. Yeah and kind of stereotypes of feminists too. Would you say you’re trying to redefine stereotypes of femininity? That was one of the first things that came into my head when I was trying to think of stage costumes. I was thinking about what could be shocking in an atypical way and I’d never seen a chick wear a dick onstage before. In the ‘Bet My Brains’ video, I wear a codpiece. For a while I’ve been really into freaking people out. I definitely have thought about different ways that I wanted to challenge people. I know I’m not Seventeen Magazine pretty or whatever, and that’s fine, that’s boring. I’ve always dressed or made myself look exactly how I wanted to look, but, at the same time, I did think about those things when thinking about show looks and videos. Half of me wants to say I never really thought about challenging any standard, which is true since I’ve always just done what I wanted. When and why did that become important to you as an individual and an artist? It seems like you strive to challenge the typical standard of conventional beauty through your videos and live shows. It just doesn’t exist, everyone has their own perception of what beauty is so therefore it’s not a real thing. If half of the people think I’m hot because I’m skinny, the other half think I’m disgusting looking because I’m skinny, you know. Beauty is fake because everyone has their own definition of what beautiful is.
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