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Episode 2: From Comics to Canvas The Funky Garcia Story
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Welcome to a journey through the vivid world of art with none other than the dynamic Funky Garcia. Join us as Funky illuminates his path from a childhood steeped in the culture of comic books to his current role as the manager of Comic Book Hideout. With roots straddling Orange County and the Inland Empire, Funky shares how his upbringing shaped his artistic drive. He also opens up about his admiration for transformative artists like Alex Ross and Frida Kahlo, whose legacy continues to inspire his creative pursuits.
Artist Journey
Speaker 1but I'm like , yeah , almost try to get in their eyesight like hello they're like slump , like talking like this and stuff I love it . Yeah , they have their eyes down . They're like like they just got in the principal's office or something like they're in trouble . Yeah , oh , my goodness so I'm sitting on the couch tonight with the lovely on the couch . What am I ? On the casting couch ? I'm sitting with the lovely Funky Garcia tonight . We're going to go down the road of arts a little bit Might . I say you have a fantastic mustache .
Speaker 2Thank you . Thank you , I appreciate it .
Speaker 1And do you style it yourself ?
Speaker 2Yeah yeah , sometimes I actually do it legit with a little comb . And then mornings like this where I was just like , oh , on the way to work .
Speaker 1Nice In the car you've got it down . You're just doing it while you're driving Got down enough .
Speaker 2Yeah , nice Do one . Sometimes I'll hop out of the car and I only really have one , you know like that .
Speaker 1one is good One , perfect curl , and the other one's doing this whole other life over here .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , yeah , or it's just like all you know , it's all fuzzy still .
Speaker 1What is with hair ? I feel like it's like that all the time . One hair I'll be like , oh , that's great , and the other side's all . No , I just want to fly out here by myself . Yeah , it's kind of minus zone , yeah for sure . So let's get into it . Tell me a little bit about yourself . Let's start there . Where are you from ? Where'd you grow up ? How'd you get to where you're at right now ? Let's go deep .
Speaker 2I always like to joke . I'm like a hybrid between Orange County and IE , Okay , Like when I was real little I grew up out here in like between I was born in Santa Ana and then like Anaheim and Fullerton , Okay . So actually I went to the elementary school like a few blocks away here .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , that little one right there before you get to Raymond .
Speaker 2Or before you get to , it's on Orange Storp , it's called Woodcrest . Okay , nice , yeah , we used to call it Woodcrust . Woodcrust Sounds about right as a kid . Right , yeah , you're like I remember there was the other one down the road . It was like Richmond or whatever . I forgot what we called that one . But yeah . And I think sixth grade , I moved out to Corona but my mom and dad worked out here Okay , so I stayed with my mom . They would do like a little .
Speaker 1Oh , the back and forth . Yeah so 50-50 or like Orange County Corona kind of thing .
Speaker 2Yeah , but I mainly went to school there because like one work night , one work , you know mornings Right with my mom in the morning and kind of getting switched off .
Speaker 1Oh my goodness , that's a lot for a kiddo .
Speaker 2Yeah , but I think it like kind of taught me the grind , you know .
Speaker 1You're like I learned the work ethic .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Like real little .
Speaker 2I'm like I need a coffee . You got your little Stanley and you're like I'm ready , except for back then it was only a thermos .
Speaker 1Yeah , I didn't even have my little art grind then At school , like slanging pictures or what .
Speaker 2I used to do like I could do a rose in your name . I love it , you're out there doing like tat stencils Kind of . Yeah , oh my my gosh that's so funny , that's rad .
Speaker 1So then , so elementary into .
Speaker 2You know how did the art come about this has always been drawing , since I was a little kid , you know yeah I .
Speaker 1A big influence for me would be comic books okay , like , if you know me , yeah , I saw some of that . You had the pokemon stuff and that type of drawings , yeah , yeah , and I manage a comic book store now . So it's like I'm living the dream where you at , I'm at , like , if you know me , know me not . Yeah , I saw some of that .
Speaker 2You had the Pokemon stuff and that type of drawings , yeah , yeah , and I manage a comic book store now , so it's like I'm living the dream .
Speaker 1Where are you at ?
Speaker 2I'm at Comic Book Hideout . We're right down the street .
Speaker 1Ooh , I need to go in there .
Speaker 2And then we have art shows too . That's actually how I started working there .
Speaker 1Yes , I honestly love it . I collect the elvira comics , oh yeah , and the um , all the vampirella dude . They're so hard to find . I've noticed they're harder and harder . Like I get all the vincent price ones and they're like no , we don't have any , they're so they go so fast anyway , I digress , I can go into the comic book land all day long , so we move into um growing up loving art . Who are you influenced by mainly ?
Speaker 2So like real young , like on the comic , it's a little bit of everybody Like comics . I loved Alex Ross and Tom McFarlane Nice . I'm trying to think of another big artist that I used to like a lot , but those two were Stanley . He's a writer . Oh , he didn'tby the art . Right , you love jack kirby ?
Speaker 1okay , so this is where I , where I suck at all . This is remembering names .
Speaker 2Yeah , he , he did the real old school stuff . That kind of took me a second to like love okay I always joke that they got like shovel hands , like all the older stuff . They totally do , yeah yeah , but he had like great dynamic poses and I think once I understood that I was like oh , this guy is awesome , you know . Um . And then like from like painters , like dolly's a big one , you know . Uh , frida , I've always loved frida . I actually have the same birthday as her no way , yeah , oh , I love that .
Speaker 1So I always thought that was like oh wow , that's crazy you're like born to be an artist . It it's done , yeah .
Speaker 2And I've always kind of drawn myself too , which is like kind of what she's known for .
Speaker 1Yeah , so did drawing like run in your family , like artists in your family .
Speaker 2Yeah , my mom could draw really well , so can my grandpa on her side .
Speaker 1OK , so your mom's side of the family's mom's side of the family is a lot more creative , yeah nice .
Speaker 2Well then , my dad's side too , in different ways okay , yeah , okay .
Speaker 1Well , multimedia type situation , very cool , very cool . So then , how did you ? Where are you ? What area are you at now in this area ?
Speaker 2I'm back in fullerton , okay back in fullerton . That's cool yeah , I , when I moved out there I was in Corona and then go to school in San Bernardino , lived in Norco for a second .
Speaker 1Kind of all over the place .
Speaker 2Yeah , I think I've been out here for six years now .
Speaker 1Nice and so young funky Garcia coming into art , was high school a big influence in the art world for you , totally .
Speaker 2Yeah , high school I was still drawing from like comics and stuff and trying to do like my own personal work . But then I got into graffiti , which is where the name started to really come from um writing , I was actually writing the funktastic one . I went like way up .
Speaker 1Oh , I love it , funktastic one , and it was supposed to be like alter ego .
Speaker 2Nobody ever find out who it is . It never really lasted like people in school , found me out pretty quick they're like uh , that was you .
Speaker 1Yeah , are you ?
Speaker 2doing the funky stuff .
Speaker 1I'm like you're like no , not at all . Why do you ask ?
Speaker 2oh , that's rad yeah , and I just started , uh wanted to kind of dive into more like fine arts and stuff and uh , but I don't know , a pen named funky garcia just worked yeah , I feel like that's amazing .
Speaker 1It's drawing me in . It makes me want to see what the art looks like . For sure , what would you say your basic medium is ?
Speaker 2uh , like acrylics and uh , just illustration . Uh , I love animation . That was I was going to go into a whole nother avenue of like animation . People like tex , avery and stuff , um , so that's , that's the the big dream I really would love to have , like an animated show oh , that'd be fantastic .
Speaker 1Is that something you're working on like ? Are you working on more of the animation type stuff ?
Speaker 2unfortunately . No , I I need to get on that , but uh , I've , I've always had the ideas . Yeah , I've brushed up some , uh , some short comic books that , like one day I'll clean this up . I have the characters in mind you feel like you're building the minerals , though , right yeah , it's either like I have to let it consume me and it'll take like a few years to really get some legs on it . You know , or when I'm ready , I can take the time and like know how to build a team yeah you know , because I do , I follow , I follow and know a ton of animators .
Speaker 2Um so , like that would be the dream to be able to like produce it yeah , so walk us when it comes to that .
Speaker 1So , talking about coming to with your creative process and stuff like that , walk us through what that looks like . Whether you're coming up with your comic book ideas or maybe a painting or something like that , what's your process ?
Speaker 2Usually I want to think about how I want to make somebody feel , and usually I want it to be something lighthearted and fun . In the past I've done darker pieces and stuff too , where I'm just like , oh , I want this to feel weird . That's cool , though , surrounding it with feeling , that's really cool yeah yeah , I feel like that's a major part of art is how does this make , make you feel , or how does this change up the vibe of a room ?
Speaker 1I feel like that's a common question , like when you're going through a gallery , they're always like um , how does this make you feel ? Yeah yeah , that's crazy . That's really cool , though , to surround that , you know , with the feeling , without that . And what's your to date ? What's been your favorite piece ?
Speaker 2I really love this piece I did called Galaxy Goddess . It's a three-piece canvas series and it's just an outline of a goddess surrounded by the solar system , and it's really one of the first big pieces I've done that was heavily in blacklight colors .
Speaker 1Ooh , I like that .
Speaker 2I've been for a while . I've been messing with something that looks cool under black light and something that looks great like with regular lighting too like it's like a secret , like that transition when you turn the light on it's something else all together yeah , because it's like kind of switches up the vibe of the room yeah , absolutely yeah .
Speaker 1Of course you're like , let's turn that black light on and see what happens . Yeah .
Speaker 2That's awesome .
Speaker 1So , when it came to like your art progressing and things like that , what's been your hardest thing to overcome ?
Speaker 2Not being you know , I'm still figuring that one out I would say like not being too caught up in details or being too like . I call it like noodling . When you're like messing with the smallest little detail , you're wasting this time on like oh , you can fill out the rest of this , but you're like really hyper fixated on like making one thing really clean do you feel like that will sometimes like take the piece in a different direction .
Speaker 2Maybe you weren't looking to go to , or maybe it'll completely like lose your focus you know , sometimes it can like lead into a new direction where I'm like actually like the way this is coloring , like is switching up , like the , the texture . Oh okay , maybe I should do it over this whole thing . So I'm going to redo this whole section .
Speaker 1Oh man .
Speaker 2It's constantly experimenting .
Speaker 1Yeah , and evolving . That's so cool . So , as far as experiences you've had through art and things you've done in your art and maybe art shows people you've met , experiences you've had what's been your most memorable experience through the art world .
Speaker 2I've met so many people I love that though yeah , I've , uh , I've been curating uh for a long time now . I'm coming up on 10 years curating art shows , like .
Speaker 2So I got the opportunity to to do a show at my friend's gallery in pomona and I was really only like confident like five pieces , so I hit up a bunch of other art homies yeah and then uh , but I would say the one that stuck out for me the most , I uh , I did a series over at , uh , at this , uh , uh , what used to be a gallery , uh attached to delicious pizza , uh off of West Adams in , uh , la , kind of by fairfax , oh yeah , um , I did about four years of shows there , or do something every season , but
Artistic Breakthrough and Future Plans
Speaker 2we did . The third year was a was a series I do called heartbeats .
Speaker 1This is like uh , during like like february , valentine's season and it's just like a love of art and music kind of combined together oh nice , so you do like music shows too , bringing like musicians in , or just yeah , yeah yeah , so I I know a lot of people in like the hip-hop scene nice um , from like producers , the mcs , to other organizers , a ton of djs so it's kind of a fitting space for you here .
Speaker 2Huh , yeah , yeah exactly that's what I was drawing here , but that the third one was probably one of my favorite ones because I got to work with uh , I had uh , some pieces from archer one , uh , he , he , uh . He had these really rad simpsons pieces that were like on , like I forget if it was like louis vuitton oh , I saw those .
Speaker 1He had those in palm springs for a while , right .
Speaker 2Yeah , yes , I love that stuff .
Speaker 1He did Monopoly stuff too right .
Speaker 2Yeah , he did a bunch of different ones .
Speaker 1I love those pieces . Those are really cool .
Speaker 2Yeah , so he was really cool . And then , if you don't know , like he was doing most of the artwork for the Marathon Company with Nipsey Hussle .
Speaker 1Oh , I didn't know that yeah .
Speaker 2So it's like that's cool , that like connection with hip hop and art and working with him .
Speaker 1I feel like that all kind of goes hand in hand , though .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1I mean , I feel like you know that art meeting , being being an artist , they kind of you know artists and singers and things like that . We all kind of like mesh , I like that .
Speaker 2Yeah , so that was on one end , and on the other end I had a cardboard boombox with like these cool animations that were projected on it and that was from an artist named Barminski .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2And he actually worked on like two big projects with Banksy oh cool . I don't know if you remember that Dismaland that they did . Yeah , yeah , yeah yeah , he did like the whole entryway with the security guards checking you and everything , and it was like all cardboard , black and white .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's so cool , and he did like .
Speaker 2I think pretty much all the signs that were throughout the whole park .
Speaker 1That's really rad .
Speaker 2Banksy just like secretly works with a bunch of people .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Yeah , so that was just cool to have like those two big artists that like I really love and respect , you know like on both sides of the gallery and then filling it with like me and my friends .
Speaker 1Yeah , you're like all right . Yeah , you feel like that was like your kind of breakthrough moment , or almost like showing your art for these big artists that you looked up to . I feel like that was a good moment , just so , like it really pushed me to just like don't give up , just keep going . Yeah , kind of solidify what you're doing next year , next year yeah , like you said , it's your year .
Speaker 2It's your year of the dragon , yeah what's coming up for you ? What shows you got going on uh , actually I'm gonna have my first uh booth with my own like merch and stickers , like the little funky moms and stuff , oh yeah yeah yeah , I'll be at DesignerCon in Vegas 35 days from today .
Speaker 1That's huge , that's a big show .
Speaker 2Yeah , not nervous at all , no , no .
Speaker 1You're totally calm , cool and collected . You're like I got this . So , you're probably taking a lot of stuff out there with you .
Speaker 2Yeah , I'm going to take an original piece . Yeah , I'm going to take an original piece , and then I have about like six confirmed like shirts designs that I'm bringing in and a couple other ones that I'm messing with still .
Speaker 1I was going to say you're coming up with some new pieces for that show .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , it'll be all like a new and old pieces kind of mix it's like my classics and stuff .
Speaker 1So did you do any um schooling or anything like that ? Did you go to art school ? What have you done as far as like education ?
Speaker 2yeah , yeah , um , I actually went to art institute in san bernardino , um , so it's like , luckily that one .
Speaker 1they really cared , actually that's good because I've heard good and bad things about the art institutes .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , unfortunately , Shout out to my buddy , thomas . He would like hand select and curate artists to come down and do like panels with us and stuff and teach us some stuff .
Speaker 1Oh , that's cool .
Speaker 2So he really connected us to a lot of dope artists that were in like video game industry , animation , film , uh , because , because I was pursuing animation , yeah , yeah , but but the the schooling kind of leaned more towards gaming so like I learned a lot of principles and stuff , so saying I know like a you're like I'm ready for that . Yeah , if I get all the tools together , I can make that cartoon and that's more all digital design right uh , yeah , you could do traditional too okay yeah , but now it's like with all the tools I know , I feel like everything's pushing towards , towards digital
Speaker 1yeah , it's kind of sad . I'm kind of sad about it . I mean I feel like that kind of takes the natural art out of it .
Speaker 2Yeah , but every once in a while there's a gem that comes from traditional stuff . Do you ever play Cuphead ? Yeah , yeah that's all traditionally drawn .
Speaker 1That's what I mean . Yeah , I love the traditional way of drawing and way of doing the art . They do it all by hand back in the day .
Speaker 2Yeah , I love that . I forget how long that game took . Probably forever those poor artists that did all those freaking hand drawings they're like , can we ?
Speaker 1digitize this please . So yeah , there's plus and minus , of course . What's been your um ? I know you said like hyper focusing on art pieces can be like a big thing to overcome . What's been like your biggest battle as far as , like you know , art industry things you've kind of like maybe that turned you off for a moment when it came to art or anything that kind of detoured your path .
Speaker 2Yeah , I guess like , uh , just not getting like a lot of invites and stuff to to showings and things like that , always had to just kind of find my own space yeah , push your way through yeah , like like the only reason I was showing with them is because I I talked to them about it and you know he , he was great , gracious enough to let me do shows with him .
Speaker 1Um you think that's made yourself a stronger artist , though .
Speaker 2I the grind , yeah , yeah , and like I feel like I'm . You know , it's like diamonds under pressure , you know , and that's a great way to look at it too .
Speaker 2You've made I mean you've made a positive out of a negative , though yeah , you know pushing through that adversity and that's very inspirational to other people as artists yeah , and I think like that's just kind of naturally how it is , like you , you uh , the doors don't the doors of opportunity don't really open up for you . You gotta like find them and knock on them and you gotta use those boots and kick them open .
Speaker 1That's why you got those boots on my friend , that's why it's that year exactly , exactly . So you got that big show coming up yeah , that's gonna be .
Speaker 2Uh , november 15th , no 16th , 17th , 18th yeah , 16th , like the vip night .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , yeah , I think it should be really
Artistic Influences and Future Aspirations
Speaker 1fun .
Speaker 2there's also complex con going on up the street too , and what's that ? It's like another art and fashion like showcase Okay okay , and music .
Speaker 1Oh , there you go . So they're big things .
Speaker 2They got a big concert going on . That's like attached to it .
Speaker 1They'll probably trickle down , though They'll probably trickle over and like go and like yeah , that's good when there's multiple things going on out there . I feel like people are like oh , what else can I see while I'm out here , so I'll probably work to your benefit , I think .
Speaker 2I think so , and there's a lot of bleed over , I think , from like the community , from both sides Like I have friends that are at ComplexCon , that they have a cool art show going on , so it's like big group show .
Speaker 1Oh , that out there too oh yeah , yeah , there's like big headliners . I think they got playboy cardi and travis scott . Oh okay , yeah , so like big shows okay , yeah , yeah , that's .
Speaker 2Yeah , complex con complex is like a big uh like a news outlet , oh okay media .
Speaker 1Yeah , I have no idea . I'm totally disconnected from that , like that poor world . I don't even know it's like a .
Speaker 2There was a hip-hop magazine called the source kind of like the source okay , yeah , okay where they add in more fashion and art along with uh , what's going on with music ?
Speaker 1okay , all right , I get it .
Speaker 2I'm gonna have to check it out now I have to get up to date , apparently .
Speaker 1So what kind of advice would you give people that are aspiring to be an artist or kind of you know , a young kid out there looking to get into art ? You know , what kind of advice do you have ?
Speaker 2Don't get too frustrated .
Speaker 1Don't hyper focus .
Speaker 2Hyper focus when you need to . Yeah , don't get disgruntled , you know ? Uh , don't give up . Yeah , a lot of don'ts on how to do yeah absolutely yeah , and then like but do what you love yeah , do you feel like it would ?
Speaker 1it took a while to find your voice in your art , like what you really wanted to put into the art , or like , let me put it this way , how has your art progressed and changed over the years ?
Speaker 2I would think it's like finding my uh , my like own thumbprint , you know , on like how , how would somebody look at this and know it's like a funky garcia piece without me having to sign it ? Yeah , um , and it's like all the little things that you do that nobody else does , and you just kind of experiment and you find that along the way . Yeah , I think for a long yeah , I think for a long time I kind of battled on not being the guy that just draws the thing .
Speaker 1Oh , you're like you don't want to get pigeonholed . I'll adjust you comics or adjust you oil Like you use multimedia .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , but it's also not a bad thing for being the guy that does the thing . If it's the thing you just do , yes , Can we get that on a t-shirt ?
Speaker 1I've never heard it said better yeah , that's fantastic . Yeah , no , that's a hundred percent . You don't want to get , you want to be the guy , but you don't want to be the guy yeah , you don't .
Speaker 2you feel like you don't want to get pigeonholed , but then eventually you find a thing you just love to do , but then you end up being the guy that does that thing .
Speaker 1Well then , that makes you .
Speaker 2But you weren't trying to do it .
Speaker 1That's magic though .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1And that's I feel , but that's the guy that does this certain thing . And then there you go . You've created your name , you've created your calling card , like you said , your thumbprint . Are there any artists or art movements that have influenced your work ?
Speaker 2A ton . I'm going to go down the shout outs and stuff . Shout out to Exhibit . Shout out to the Hideout . Shout-out to GCS Santa Ana . I showcased with them years ago . And then shout-out to Brick to your Face and Homegrown Radio People with music that I really connected to . Shout out to delicious uh vinyl . Uh for giving me those opportunities . Um god , yeah , there's a lot of people uh yeah , how long have you been in gallery ? It's over 10 years now . I love it .
Speaker 1Yeah , so it sounds like you've been steady . You've had good experiences . You're just been hustling because that's a lot of that's a lot of galleries to do , shows that . I mean , that's the point of pride , right there , I think you've , you're the guy , I think you found it , you got the minerals , you know , yeah , um , and then appreciate that , absolutely , absolutely .
Speaker 1this is where we're talking to you today . You're talented . How do you navigate your business side of stuff ? I know it's an ugly word , it is the ugly word , but at the end of the day , I mean , you know that's not the fun side .
Speaker 2It's fun when it's doing well .
Speaker 1Absolutely , and there's those hardships and things like that . And how have you worked to overcome those and made this ? You know , obviously we can't make art our , you know , end all be all because , like they say , you know , most artists don't get famous till they're dead , unfortunately , yeah . So we hope that day comes before then . But how are you striving to like push through any kind of like hardships and things that like might stand in your way ?
Speaker 2uh , just like keeping at it and like . Luckily , like I said , I get to work at the comic book store , which is great yeah we have a gallery , so like I curate and like get to help out a ton of other artists to do you put your art in there too ? Too . I have like pieces here and there .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's great .
Speaker 2Yeah , I haven't done like a solo there , just because it feels like I'm there all the time .
Speaker 1Yeah , You're like this is just my home . Yeah , I love it .
Speaker 2Yeah , like I have a mural in the front and in the store .
Speaker 1That's great .
Speaker 2So it's just like I got that and that you , yeah , and everything else is tucked away . Yeah , I get to show at like other galleries and stuff , uh , and then with group shows I'll like add a piece nice .
Speaker 1Well , you said you do like t-shirts and things like that . Do you have like an online store ?
Speaker 2uh , that's all starting . This is funky garcia .
Speaker 1It's kind of kicking off with this show you're doing exactly .
Speaker 2Yeah , designer crime's like my first like big , and that way I can uh the rest of the year and do a pop-up with delicious . You know , I could do a pop-up here , kind of have a show rig ready yes , you can be cheers ready .
Speaker 1You got all your gear .
Speaker 2I love that yeah , so I'm like the business side of just the art is just starting that's good , though .
Speaker 1I mean , you're obviously hustling , you're obviously doing the thing and it makes you happy .
Speaker 2I mean I can see the smile on your face .
Speaker 1You got passion in your words . That's what it's all about . And then being an artist , such as marketing and selling your work . Where can we find all of these things ?
Speaker 2You can DM me .
Speaker 1Perfect , and that's Funky Garcia on Instagram . You got a website .
Speaker 2Funky underscore Garcia , and the website is pending . Okay , perfect .
Speaker 1I'm waiting for the the drop we'll put all the links down below so we can find you , yeah yeah , I got a funny little skip popping up too . Oh yeah , that's like an announcement more of your stuff , your future goals right there , yeah , yeah , that's cool , so little actor in acting on oh , so you did it . Oh , so it's not animated . It's you doing the little skit .
Speaker 2Oh , I love it , I love it I do one every week at the store really , that's awesome this week I did terminator , but I have the boots you gotta showcase those boots all the time .
Speaker 1They're amazing , um so from here , we've got our launch coming in november yes what's your like , your dream show ? Let's put it that way like what's your future dream show ? And it could be . You can get wild . Like what do you want it to look like ?
Speaker 2well , those would be like separate little galleries for different vibes . Uh , because , like stuff I used to do at delicious , we would paint up the wall and it'd be like a different theme for the , for the showing oh nice but uh , if I can have like , this section is like this is what I'm going with .
Speaker 1You know , maybe have like four different moods nice , so as you walk through the gallery it just changes . I love that .
Speaker 2That's good and then have a little side area for like , like a concert , you know dj uh , man , I don't know . I don't know if I want to go down that rabbit hole of who I would want to perform do it , do a few , a few friends and like somebody I look up to .
Speaker 1Okay , who do you look up to Give me like top three ?
Speaker 2Top three oh dang .
Speaker 1Putting you on the spot , my friend , yeah .
Speaker 2That's hard . I mean I always wanted to just like as an emcee I'm putting up , like Kendrick up there , of course , but I mean , there's no .
Speaker 1Yeah , I literally was listening to him on my way here today . Yeah , so good .
Speaker 2But if I were to do like more like producers and stuff , I've always wanted to work with Dame Funk . He's like a dope funk , like new funk producer , nice . So I'm like one day get that going um , dang battle cat , be a cool dj yes , so good , so good .
Speaker 1These are good , these are good . Okay , you got your top three .
Speaker 2And what location give me dream location I think I would find something kind of off the grid , just like in the cut , like you have to know where to go like you know , like secret old warehouse party days kind of yeah , but not like it like an established place . You know , I think , oh yeah , like you gotta get a secret map kind of situation that's how they used to raves back in the day .
Speaker 1So you'd get like , oh yeah , I'm old as shit and back in the day you used to be told okay , you got to go to this street , talk to this guy , he's going to give you a flyer , right you have to talk to a whole guy . Oh yeah , you got directions , you got you got a directions to the dude that was going to give you the flyer to give you directions to the other place . That's going to give you directions to the other place .
Speaker 1They make a fake flyer to get to the real flyer there was a whole situation , because they want to know how hard you're going to work to find the secret club .
Speaker 2I didn't even know that I wanted that buddy , I guess .
Speaker 1Now I put it in your brain . Now you've got to make it happen A pirate map . Yes , exactly , it was like a scavenger hunt . You've got to find the . I really want to do that . There you go , there you go , put it out there okay , so we're gonna we're gonna go way off topic .
Speaker 2What's your favorite ?
Speaker 1scary movie oh dang uh I have a weird one .
Speaker 2I , I , I loved uh . Event horizon was like one of my favorites . For some reason I gravitated towards that movie because there's like so much weird stuff going on and it was sci-fi okay , so you're the sci-fi , okay , yeah , I love sci-fi yeah , uh , phantasm used to scare the crap out of me that was a creepy ass movie right dude , that guy was creepy that old man like you're like , can you please not ? Somehow that movie taught me stranger danger where I'm just like For real , Honestly that guy was not creepy .
Speaker 1He was along the lines of like Warlock . Did you watch those movies ?
Speaker 2Oh yeah . I feel like I feel like I blocked that from my memory . Great yeah , I'm just triggered , I'm triggered , something .
Speaker 1He's like no , I can't sleep this bitch . What's a recent movie you've seen you really like ?
Speaker 2a recent horror movie um are you big into movies big into horror is that your jam ? I love movies uh , I love movies yeah , horror , yeah , but I just there's so much , there's so many , there is so many yeah .
Speaker 1I mean , it depends on if you want psychological . You want nasty like gory , you know 80s style slasher films , yeah .
Speaker 2I think I usually lean more towards the psychological ones . Me too . I'm like those are messed up like in a different way , you know you hear the twists and turns .
Speaker 1You're like what I saw . A good one recently called oddity . Like that , some good twists some good like jump scares we're like what the fuck ? And like theaters . No , no , it was um a shutter . Oh , okay , see that's just .
Speaker 2There's a whole .
Speaker 1There's a whole app oh yeah , okay , you get all the horror movies so many new horror movies it's hard to . They're coming out like every day . I can't keep up . Yeah , like I know that terrifier just dropped , or whatever oh , oh yeah , terrifier 3 .
Speaker 2Yeah , those I have a weird like the . The practical effects and everything are amazing . Yeah , the story . Oh yeah , there's no story . There's no story , there's no story . And I love how they try and make a story .
Speaker 1I a story that's my problem . It's like slashers , it's just like all right , cool , like the new um evil dead .
Speaker 2It was amazing I'm like , was it though , because ?
Speaker 1I feel like the part . Did you watch the new one ? Yeah yeah , I feel like the part where the girl falls into the basement and she finds the book and she talks about like all the monks
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Speaker 1and stuff like that . I'm like dude , go into that story yeah , like go into the backstory about the book and like the monks and stuff . Instead you got the mom running around in the apartment building trying to kill them yeah , you got a little bit of lore yeah , I was like I want that story .
Speaker 1I think that would have been cool yeah yeah so what's your ? Any words of wisdom to your fellow artists that you want to leave them with ? I ?
Speaker 2don't know , I thought I had a good one with the whole rant about do what you love .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2I don't want to rehash , all right .
Speaker 1That sounds good to me .
Speaker 2Well , I thank you for being here , yeah absolutely .
Speaker 1I thank you for doing what you're doing and hopefully we see you back here at Exhibit very soon .
Speaker 2Yeah , obviously , yeah , yeah , obviously .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , you're fantastic , so um everybody can come see you in November in Vegas .
Speaker 2Yes .
Speaker 1We'll drop links and things below . And it was a pleasure meeting you and talking to you and seeing your fabulous mustache . It was on point . Thank , you . Yeah , thank you so much .