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Dean Ween fields questions on
the band's new record, the internet
and drinking horse urine.
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SFS: So when's the last time the Boognish appeared to you?
Deaner: The last time the Boognish appeared? We don't really talk about the
Boognish. It's a matter of policy.
SFS: Okay, can you talk about Joppa Road?
Deaner: Joppa Road? Joppa Road I guess, ah, the first time we were going to
uh, I forget where the hell we were going. I think we were going to a gig in
Richmond or something and me and Aaron and our friend Chris Williams, the
Mean Ween, we were in the car and we saw the sign for Joppa Road. And I
don't know why we were so amused by that (laughter) so we started passing
this little piece of notepaper around the car writing the song "Joppa Road".
That's a great song actually. I like "Joppa Road". I forget that that's
even on any of our records because we've never played it live and no one
ever mentions it to us.
SFS: Did the bitch really fuck up?
Deaner: What? "You fucked up?"
SFS: Yeah, you know the song that goes "you bitch, you really fucked up."?
Deaner: Yeah, I know it very well.
SFS: Did she really fuck up?
Deaner: Yes. That song, that song I remember like you're just going to make
me reminisce like an old man I can tell. That song, I remember we were in
like 9th grade, tops. I remember passing Aaron in the hallway and I got the
idea for it like between class. I was like, "Dude, I wanna do this song that
goes [mimics a I'm-in-the-hallway-between-classes whisper] you fucked up",
and then we went
home and we did it. And then he wrote the words for it about his stepmother.
SFS: What do you wear when you clean the house?
Deaner: Me? That's easy (laughs) I don't clean.
SFS: You don't clean?
Deaner: I'm pretty much totally useless in a handy sort of way.
SFS: You still live in New Hope, Pennsylvania?
Deaner: Yep.
SFS: You gonna be a New Hope lifer?
Deaner: I'd like to think not. But I am so far. And I have certainly had the
opportunity to
leave. Nothing has prevented me from leaving. We have families there. My
parents and my wife and I own our house.
SFS: So you live with your parents and your wife?
Deaner: No, no. I live with my wife. But my parents also live in New Hope. I
grew up in
New Hope and my whole family, my extended family lives there. I love it. The
whole thing about Ween is that we get to travel every where every year and I
haven't seen a place yet that could lure me away permanently. I'd like to
live in Italy for the summer but I can't see ever moving out of America or
New Hope.
SFS: Have you ever tipped cows?
Deaner: No, but I've done all that stupid urban shit. I was the king of
that. Up until like
four or five years ago actually, I'm 29. Running over mailboxes and shit.
SFS: Is there such a thing as dumb and dumber?
Deaner: What's that?
SFS: Is there such a thing as dumb
and dumber?
Deaner: What do you mean?
SFS: You know, like the movie Dumb And Dumber.
Deaner: Yeah.
SFS: Can you get dumber than dumb?
Deaner: Jeez I don't know man.
SFS: Have you ever seen The Tom Green Show?
Deaner: Yeah, a few times.
SFS: Now that's dumber than dumb.
Deaner: (does Beavis laugh, huh, he, he huh)
SFS: Explain the six degrees of separation connection between Ween and Spike
Jonze.
Deaner: I don't know that there's six degrees, it's just one right?
SFS: Right. Being that my parents are from Philly, it still annoys to no end
that when I
order a Philly cheesesteak in North Carolina, it ain't a Philly cheesesteak.
Deaner: Yeah, they give you a Steak Em on a hot dog roll.
SFS: Doesn't that piss you off?
Deaner: It does, but I don't order it when I'm not in Philly. Even worse is
pizza outside of the Northeast. As you get outside of Philly and Jersey and
New York everybody's concept of pizza is so fucked, it's like not even pizza
but just some spongy, rubbery shit.
SFS: Right. Have you ever been to Wildwood, New Jersey?
Deaner: Of course.
SFS: That's where I think the epicenter of pizza greatness is: Wildwood, New
Jersey's boardwalk.
Deaner: Yeah. I'm into Trenton, New Jersey tomato pie actually. And New
York, what can I say?
SFS: Yeah, it's a whole different ball game. Speaking of ball games, are you
into sports?
Deaner: Yeah. I'm watching Sports Center right now with the sound off while
we're talking.
SFS: Damn, your multitasking as we speak.
Deaner: Yeah, I'm a massive sports fan. Before we play, every single night
of this tour, I'm on the bus watching the NBA and the Flyers.
SFS: Do you guys have Sega on the bus?
Deaner: No, no. I have a PlayStation at home but I haven't been playing as
much. I went Through my Sega Genesis phase where that's all I did every
night.
SFS: Yeah, I'm a FIFA soccer guy but I have since given it up. I went Sega
Anonymous meetings for about six months.
Deaner: Sega Genesis golf is all we played on tour for years. Year after
year. PGA Tour.
SFS: Have you ever drank horse urine?
Deaner: No, have you?
SFS: No. So who is the biggest dick in the music industry?
Deaner: That I've ever encounter personally or just in general who bothers
me the most?
SFS: Either or.
Deaner: I'm a very anti-British person. I have no use for anything out of
England at all whatsoever.
SFS: So you're not a Gay Dad fan?
Deaner: I don't know them. Hmm. The biggest dick? We've tried to make a new
policy of not dissing everyone whenever we get the opportunity because we've
done that and it has caused us a lot of problems.
SFS: Do people often call you guys dicks?
Deaner: Yeah, Ween has had everything had written about them more than any
other
band, so we are kinda of numb to it.
SFS: So you don't care if I call you a dick?
Deaner: No. I'm trying to think of who I've encountered that was a dick.
SFS: Elton John?
Deaner: No. No one on that level.
SFS: They don't let you hang out with them.
Deaner: Yeah.
SFS: Well, when you guys come to Raleigh I'll be the guy up front spitting
on you.
Deaner: Oh, don't do that. I'll be the one jumping off stage bludgeoning you
with my guitar.
SFS: It'll make for an interesting show at least.
Deaner: Yeah.
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Ghetto Cop Stories
BY Teamo Bigg
One of the bad guys leapt a fence with my partner right behind him. The bad man was grabbed in mid air, wrestled to the ground and handcuffed to a pole. I thought this was very smooth, and I thought I should do the same to the guy I was right behind. My suspect leapt the same fence, and I was sure I had him now. I leapt just like my partner. I grabbed a handful of air and landed in a Weber kettle with something or another grilling on top of it. My bad guy got away. I ran off before the owner of the grill could find out what happened.
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Dean Ween fields questions on
the band's new record, the internet
and drinking horse urine.
Ride Again
by greg e boy
SFS: So when's the last time the Boognish appeared to you?
Deaner: The last time the Boognish appeared? We don't really talk about the Boognish. It's a matter of policy.
SFS: Okay, can you talk about Joppa Road?
Deaner: Joppa Road? Joppa Road I guess...
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Marcus Durant of Zen Guerrilla
by greg e boy
SFS: So how is it different being on Sub Pop as oppose to Alternative Tentacles?
Marcus: Um, they are further away then AT. It's a little bit of a hike to stop by and say 'hello' to the people working on your record.
SFS: Which you did all the time with AT?
Marcus: Oh yeah, they were right in my neighborhood.
SFS: Went and ate tofu w/ Jello Biafra.
Marcus: No, Jello didn't really hang out in the office much. But, you know, steal a cup of coffee from them. Hang out, help pack singles and whatever. The only real difference between the two is that Sub Pop has a little bit more resources to get our record out to more people.
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Titz Interview:
The End of Rock
by raymond grant
SFS: How did you get your first guitar?
Sean: Mike just pawned his, so ask him how he will get another guitar.
Sean 2: I'm the drummer and I know how I got mine. I was walking with Mike down in Copperspoke Texas where we used to live. We were skeezin' for girls and happened upon a pawnshop where Mike saw a $30 guitar with the Dukes of Hazzard decal on the pickguard. I ended up buying it that day, you drunk fucks don't even know how you got your first guitar and I'm the drummer.
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The Mendoza Brothers
Ride Again
by Mike Jasper
Jerome and I sat on the sidewalk of Lavaca Street in Austin, Texas as the cops searched the vehicle. Two days earlier, Jerome had bought a used Volkswagen bus and the cops believed it to be stolen. They spotted us tooling down Lavaca, put on the lights and sirens, made us get out of the bus, patted us down for firearms, told us the license plates matched a stolen vehicle and instructed us to sit on the curb.
Life was good. For once I was innocent and the roust only made me feel young again.
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Dynamite Hack
by shara sprecher
SFS: What is the weirdest encounter you have had with a fan thus far?
Chad: White Rabbit. I think he wants to kill Mark and take his place in the band.
Mark: This cat named White Rabbit in Dallas was following us around and wouldn't leave us alone and he kept telling us the most fucked up shit. I think he was tripping on acid or something.
Mike: Having them want me to sign an autograph in general.
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"I killed Kurt Cobain"
and other tales of extraterrestrial nonsense
with the Foo Fighters' Nate Mendal
by greg e boy
Greg: So do you all live in the same house in Virginia?
Nate: Uh, no, that would be weird. There are a lot of fucked up things about our band but we don't live in the same house.
Greg: Ah, I got the vibe that you all live in the same house and then seeing those videos where you guys dress up in drag, I'm thinking there's some gay love goin' round.
Nate: That would be cool. That would be awesome. That would be a good thing to pin your band on. I mean, how many homosexual rock bands are there?
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Copping Out:
My Hell at Dell
by ran scot
I know you have seen those late night infomercials where this toad-like human is pumping up a crowd of paid actors for whatever flavor of the month hype he is peddling this time. This was not unlike those, and yes I was getting paid to care. During this mind inoculation, I asked how they expected this trend to continue with their newfound status of saturation of the only highly profitable PC market sector. I believe this was their first inkling maybe I was not corporate material. Either way, I do know it was more than likely marked in my permanent Dell record.
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GET READY TO RUMBLE AMERICA IT'S WORLD WAR IV!!!!!
by asher
The fact is, most Americans have little interest in politics when anything less than a hyped sex scandal featuring women with heads shaped like bundt cakes is the topic of the day. This, combined with an overall deadening of the senses through television and the widespread use of prescribed psychotropic drugs, will ultimately position the rabble for the final blow. The attack of the corporate cops!Read More
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Crackhead Jones Update
by gene slacks
I slid my 6'3" frame sideways and lower in the tight backseat and tried not to look nervous.
Mr. Jones cranked the window down and yelled a clarion call: "Hooty, Hoo! Hooty, Hoo!" Three dudes quickly strolled up to the vehicle.
"Whatchoo want, whatchoo got," they said.
"Gimme a 20 rock, man. Don't fuck me, c'mon, lemme see what you got for 20. Don't fuck me."
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