Bruce Answers Questions - 6/27/03
07/09/03
Ian Brendel wrote in asking what is apparently, the most asked queston to my website, (but team, it’s our website): "Will the shows ever be released on DVD?”
Well, I don’t know. Maybe I could take a jitney out to Amagansett and ask Lorne Michaels about this. The sad part is, and maybe it's not sad, how little effect we have on our work after its done. I think it outraged all of us (the troupe, for example) that Brain Candy was released without the original ending, cut scenes, commentary, and all the stuff the fans would want. You're just told one day it’s coming out.
Part of the reason I did my last record, "Drunk Baby Project," on my own is I got tired of people coming up to me and saying they couldn’t get my first record, "Shame Based Man" anywhere. And because I did it on a big label, I had no access to it.
But with the show, we may have more effect because we own part of it. So I will check. How’s that for a non-answer?
The second most asked question to our website, which Sheri recently asked is: "Do you and the Kids plan on doing another tour?"
No, we don’t. It’s odd how the energy of the troupe works. We end something, like the last tour, and then we’re reminded that we should do things together. Then we get together and talk about ideas, projects and possibilities and slowly we...forget. Also, we’re like five chickens and its hard to get us all in one bag... although one of us, of course, is not a chicken, but in fact, a badger, which makes it even worse.
I mean we’ve had an unbelievable amount of fun on the last 2 tours. The first one, because we were “back together” and the 2nd one because it wasn’t a reunion tour and in fact, we felt like we were better at it and cared more about performing together and for everyone than just the energy that rises when our theme song plays.
We came off the last tour really wanting to do a movie and it seemed like our unifying passion (the creepy word they use in Hollywood). But we just stopped talking about it. I mean, maybe touring is where we’ll be. It’s what we came from, it's what’s the most fun... because, don’t forget, all the years we did the show, we never got to commune with people. And making movies, well, we’ve done one... and look again at that chicken in the bag thing I said.
Nicole Chambers wrote: "I was talking to someone and they claimed that you had put out a 7" collaboration with Dave Foley called 'Shades of Teal.' What's up with this?"
Absolutely not true, but it reminds me that a.) I should do something with Dave Foley because he has a beautiful voice and the softest hands, and b.) if we do something, we will call it "Shades of Teal"... or maybe "Soft Hands in Oven Mitts," or maybe "Trade Secrets of Drunk Bakers” or perhaps even “Roofenero - the Pizza Place that God Forgot.”
Maggie asks: "I was wondering...what's your favorite TV show?"
Oh, Maggie... TV? Does it really still exist? Aren’t we all in our garages, talking into our CB radios, giving out our handles? Mine, of course, is “hick holler.”
But if I did watch TV, I would watch "Blind Date," looking for ex-girlfriends making the same mistake.
Actually my favorite show right now is "Making the Band 2." I think it’s beautiful. And sometimes I watch this old-fashioned thing... don’t judge me too harshly for it, look lovingly at your computer screen... it’s called...SPORTS.
Becky C. asks: "What are some of the things that you wonder about us, your fans?"
Exactly what you’d think I think. How did you get here? Who did you used to be? Who are you now?
Jane writes: "Dear Bruce, There's this big fat guy in my office who has one dead eye. It's kind of like the eye described in "The Telltale Heart." The kind of eye you shouldn't make eye contact with for fear of finally seeing into the void. I have looked upon this eye, and its pale blue with, like, a goat's pupil in the center. He's balding on top with long stringy gray hair all around the bald spot hanging down to his shoulders. He has a deep booming voice and he says to everyone, "Hey bu-uddy." Yes, sort of like Pauly Shore, but without any giggling. He wears a lot of different colored windbreakers and wind-suits. Should I trust him? Am I his 'buddy?' Why or why not?"
Jane, sometimes God’s angels appear to us in different forms. If he had beautifully formed wings flapping soft scented air that wafted over your cubicle wall you would know... “Oh, he’s an angel.”
But, of course, we all know many of God’s angels appear in the form of someone with an itchy ass or someone sitting on the street with an explanation written on cardboard about how they got there. I think the real question isn’t, "should you trust him?" It’s "should you trust yourself?" I suggest you hold him, cradle him, blow warm breath on his blue-hued eye and tell him about yourself. And if he really listens, you’ll both know what to do next.
Next time I will answer Andi's question: "If you hadn't done KITH and you weren't who you are now, what would you most like to be doing in life?"
The reason I'm not answering it now is because I have to think about it. It blew my mind. I have to go down to the river with my “satchel” to think things through.
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