The new Moistboyz album is finished being mixed and it is an excellent album even by our lofty and biased standards. It will be out very soon, we are planning on touring before the year is out in support of it. We have total control (!) of our Facebook page (not as easy to get back as you think) as well as moistboyz.com (which we haven’t done anything with it just yet. Check out the facebook page for all sorts of nuggets and archival material for now though.

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From Austin I went to Fort Lauderdale, FL to do a week of charters, followed by three days of filming a pilot episode of a new fishing show with Les Claypool. We had some issues with bad weather but we did get some fishing in and shot some great footage of us hanging out on the boat jamming as well. Les is an avid fisherman and a great guy and I had a great time jamming with him, we hit a groove immediately and he is one of the most talented musicians I’ve ever played with. The charters that I ran from 2/17 to 2/24 were some of the best I ever did. We caught Sailfish and Mahi on EVERY TRIP. Anyone who has ever fished before should appreciate how unlikely that is—there are no guarantees in any kind of fishing, especially when targeting Billfish though and in very tough conditions to boot. We even hooked a Blue Marlin on our Tuesday charter and gave it everything we had. Here are some pics from the trip. Special thanks to my buddy Capt. Phil Dunn and his brother Greg—we all worked our asses off despite 16 hour work days to make this happen and were rewarded with a lot of beautiful fish.

-Mickey

A- I could eat nothing but cheese all of the time if it didn’t kill me. I like sharp provolone that smells like stinky feet, I like hot pepper jack cheese on burgers, I love Stilton Blue cheese, I love Alpine Lace Swiss on a chicken breast sandwich, I like all cheeses actually. What a dumb website this is.

A- We like the same kinda foods first of all. I could eat nothing but Italian food every day for the rest of my life and be happy. I should probably live in Italy actually. I’m not a big fan of pork related foods–pork chops, ham, pork loin, that kinda thing. I do love bacon though, man do I love bacon–and pork roll too.

A- I get asked this so often that I figured it’s time to answer it. Way, way, back (like in 1993) Andrew Weiss took me to see Boredoms first in Philadelphia, and then again in Hoboken a day or two later. They were the heaviest band I had ever seen since the Butthole Surfers, but on a similar level of psychedelic transcendence with a Japanese point of reference that was unlike anything before or since. Last time I saw them a few years ago they were just as heavy and still evolving. At the time not a lot of people knew their music stateside, but the singer of the the band Yamatsuka Eye had released a solo album full of samples of “The Pod” so we knew he was a fan. After meeting at these 2 shows we arranged for him to come to our studio (we were working on “Chocolate and Cheese” in Pennington, NJ) and he stayed with me and my family for about a week. His English was minimal at best and he spent the whole time at my house roughhousing with my border collie Jimmy, which I loved. He couldn’t get enough of Jimmy, throwing the ball, chasing the stick, it was incredible to see and Jimmy loved it, being a Border Collie and all. Not being able to really communicate in the studio was an advantage, we tried anything and everything. He spent time inventing contraptions to sing through, like an Evian bottle as a megaphone taped to a snare head with the other side mic’ed up with vibrating snares, shit like that. He was an animal on the microphone. One night he and I were driving home at 3am and a deer jumped in front of my little Nissan. I totalled the car and the deer lay dead, steaming in the road. Eye was going batshit, I dunno if he’d ever seen a deer in person and I was laughing my ass off, it’s pretty typical around here to run into deer and I hated the car. Anyway, after he left he went back to Japan and the Boredoms wrote the second half of the album and mailed it over to us. We overdubbed our tracks and that was that. Eye named the band “Z-Rock Hawaii” which was the most perfect name in the world for the record. In the studio it was just me, Aaron, and Andrew Weiss and Eye. I think Claude may have played some drums on there too actually. We did some 4-tracking at my house which I’ve never been able to find for some reason.

A- I have a great concept for a game, “Call of Doody”. You’re dropped into any of 300 random levels and you have to take a shit (there is a pressure meter on the top of the screen). Say you’re at like Macy’s, you have 3 minutes to find a bathroom and it might be out of order, the seat might be covered in vomit, etc. Or at a bus station in Gary, Indiana–the possibilities are endless and everyone would love this game. I have copyrighted this idea. if anyone knows how to write the code I will personally commission the project.

A- I love it! Yeah, you need some surf rods and fishing gear! It is the perfect way to relax and get inspired when you get tired of recording or uninspired. You can also make day trips to A.C. to gamble, I brought my golf clubs and played golf in Manahawkin sometimes if that’s your thing. Cool stuff though, I loved my time there writing and recording.