Rambling on: Me And Mr. Zombie

 

 

( I get a dumb thing in my head and won’t be done with it until I let it out…  and when that happens you’ll find me RAMBLING ON!!)

I’m sitting here watching Rob Zombie be interviewed by Howie Mandel (which is not a grouping of words that I have a thought I would be typing when I woke up today) And I realize something about Mr. zombie and me. 

https://youtu.be/v6KkZB-92v4

I think Rob Zombie is the famous person I get … that I get the most?  or may be a type of famous person get the most … If is it that makes any sense? Like he’s just a weirdo guy who people still want to judge him on shit he did or said when he was 19. or he was such a good worker he want to believe he’s the monster he sold them as. 

When you’re younger, especially if you were starting your artistic uphill battle in the late 90s early 2000s I don’t blame anybody for thinking but I thought the only way you could cut through the fucking toxic awful of the toxic awfulness is be even more evil more shocking louder.

That era of someones creative life makes it easy for someone to call back and say “well this person said this person did this”  no matter how much different somebody has done since then or how different their actions were than what they were actually saying. 

I’ve been the idiot, so I get that idiot. 

I’m a big fa of RZ but sensibility wise couldn’t be more different . 

 where we conduct ourselves with a microphone in front of us couldn’t be more different, but when I watch his interviews or see him interact with the people he works with.. the good the bad the ugly of those interactions I get it . 

I get Loving something so much I don’t understand you may not be expressing yourself or coming across the way that you want to be coming across, like that, in that moment, there’s no or this angle or this light, or my line delivery is the most important thing, a significant other on the universe. But I get it. And while I don’t get being financially secure enough to call my own shots, I definitely understand. I’d rather walk away from something then do something that doesn’t feel right for me. 

I think Rob Zombie and John Carpenter. Rob Zombie.  Cm punk. Amanda Palmer.  Kenny omega. Kieth griffin. Clive Barker. Peter David. Erick Larson. Groucho. I get those folks. 

I don’t have a fraction of their talent. Not a fraction of a fraction.

Honesty makes folks easy targets. On my old podcast, are used to literally give facts factual information either something I’ve lived with for real life or figures that contradicted what some yo-yo thought from the suburban basement never doing anything, and those people labeled me a dick and confrontational, because the truth into their version of how media was made.  and while you’re always the hero of your own story, sometimes the blindness of your passion makes you a fucking jerk. You hurt folks feelings… which makes you a easy and deserved target. 

I get that too. 

Not wanting to work somewhere that won’t rehire your friend even if you don’t deserve to be rehired or casting someone who may not in the public, I deserve that role… well all you have to do is look at my artistic output to know where I stand on that. 

So yea.., I get that too!

So I was, I’m watching Mr. zombie on Howie Mandel (mr. Mandel is a very good and subversive interviewer) I realize that there’s a reason that I sympathize with these maligned creators. Why I’m always sticking up for the people everyone loves the hate. 

It’s because I think on a small scale (smaller both in talent and Bandwith) I’m like them. You never really know somebody, but there’s something in there that resonates with what they’re putting out behind the scenes that I understand.

Folks are generally more complex than what you’re able to get from what they put out publicly

But now I’m rambling..

And that’s really all I ever do !