 Goo
the-hold.com
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Hot outside, cold down here, where I write, where I write my words, words and nonsense, nonsense and words, nonwords, wordsense, I write purely for profit, purely for the profit of my limbic system a thing they sometimes confuse for the soul, I write for the profit of one or two good eyes to chuckle once or twice from what the see, I profit from making someone think once, I profit from giving someone an idea if only briefly and if only for the etch a sketch, I profit from disturbing the uninitiated.
I forget my age when I write, I forget Im a man, I forget Im a human, I am just a device that batters together strange symbols that someone told me is a word, a sentence, a paragraph.
I don't care for rules or oppression, I don't care for the unscrupulous that flock about me or for the places they eat and swim.
I am just another thing this universe shat out as it did all things and one day it will swallow me back up as it does all things and when this happens I will again be gone.
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• What do you do for a living?
I go to the university of Iowa full time, I study sociology and english Literature. I also work about 3 or 4 nights a week at a hippy bar called The Deadwood just off of campus. Its the smokiest, darkest fucking bar in Iowa. Leave your dope at home, somebody else will have plenty. Its hip, I work with a bunch of cool chicks and some decent dudes. The boss is a bit of an oblivious idiot, but he ain't so bad. Thats at the moment, you can never tell what I'll be doing next or when. I'm pretty squirrely, I like to get around, ya know?I smoke alot of dope too, that's important. I should get paid for that, I'm good enough for it. But there seems to be no demand for Potsmokers in the job market, so I'll be a bum until then. Though I'm a busy fucker right now. I go through sloftful and busy phases, guess I'm in a busy one for the time. • Who are your favorite artists?
Aww shit, thats a tough one man. To narrow it down to just three, shit. Um, I'd have to say...Salvador Dali's always been a favorite of mine with his wild shit. MC Escher was kinda cool, but overdone. R. Connett, he's a contemporary with some bad ass wicked evil shit, very trippy. It depends when you ask me, what comes to mind...ask me in another week and I'll tell you others. Check out R Connett's shit, interesting guy, interesting stuff. I always liked the weird shit, freaks and strange oddities, bizarre twisted things. I wouldn't have really minded been born a freak, it'd be kinda cool. I could do alot with no arms no legs and a chickens head I think... • What influences you to write about/how you do?
I live my life and observe the world around me. I have an interesting view that isn't uncommon to how alot of people feel and shit. I think I just have a good way to communicate it from a different view. I write about my world, my life, my feelings, my ills and inner conflicts. How I interact with my world in my way, Im unconventiaonal and get around alot, I like to experience shit, especially weird shit and enjoy it as an experience. Life is nothing more than a string of experiences had before your dust, I like to write about my experiences. Alot can be found in the every day, in things you come across during the day, thats why i enjoy sociology, I enjoy interacting with humans, interacting in my world, we all do it, I just write alot. I write alot of crap, but through the years and the pages certain shit truly shines through. I write to me, for myself. I've no desire to make a dime at it or to really try to get published or anything. I love it too much. • Where do you see the underground writing scene in 25 years?
I dunno, in smoking cinders with the rest of civilization? fuck, what is the underground writing scene? is that us? uh...well, well all be writing in some capacity, some of us will not, some of us will be dead. The scene will exist, in some form or another, depeding on communications technology, we'll see how the underground scene fits in with it. One day may come the ability to get your shit out to alot of people easily and readily and that will be exciting. The internet did a ton for the scene and its flourished since. I'm no Malthusian, so I have hopes for it, hell its just fine as is, it won't flounder. • from cait: make up your own question and answer it honestly! ?
>Q: Scott, goo...Mr. Dragoo...Have you ever gone 'insane'?>A: yes, I have the papers. I was highly medicated for a time, and a mess. I experienced some trippy shit, dealt with alot of crap, had a DR feelgood who is now out of practice. I got sick of being a zombie after a while, I was all dosed up on shit. Then I got divorced...it was a miracle cure, I was suddenly fine and have been perfect ever since. Crazy shit. But I've always walked that fine line between this and that. Too many drugs haven't helped I'm sure. But all in the pursuit of Experience, and thats what its all about. I had some painful times, but they were weighed out evenly with the experiences I had from that shit. It changed me, and not for the worse. Thats important. My ex is a fucking wacko though..whoa!!!!
• questions submitted by contributors (no names) • • Talk about what being an editor gives you that keeps you going from issue to issue despite the above and other challenges you face.
> huh? I don't do so much now as I did in the past and I'm sure will again in the future. The Holds important to me, I got in on it a long time ago and have been a steady regular since. Not just that, but its the only ezine or any real publication that I submit to regularly if at all. I don't put shit out there, too busy or too lasy depending...I used to archive the old pages and shit online, Ive worked alot on it, doing varoius stupid shit, no offense, but I've mostly been a regular columnist in some regard over the years. My columns changed forms a few times, though I don't have access+time enough to get it done these days. I write pen and paper longhand anymore. • What goes bump in the night, lives in the basement and /or haunts your dreams?
I've never really had any fear of anything, never had a bad dream or nightmare. Well, maybe what you'd call nightmares, but I enjoy them, I always wake up in the morning startled and gladly amused from that shit. I look forward to them. Sure, i was scared of the same shit as a kid, I grew up in the cold war shit living near the biggest aresenal on the planet worried the nukes were going to come in the night. These days Im not scred of much, it sometimes gets me in trouble, I've been known to do some stupid shit. Death doesnt worry me, Ive dealt enough with that. Maybe some of my exes, some of them are frightful! But on the other hand, I still fantisize about a few of those same bitches when i masturbate... • How many pinwheels does it take to start a tornado?
I'm in a statistics class, maybe I could figure that shit out. I'd say....200,000,000. And theyd have to be set up in a certain configuration to get a vortex I'm sure. • Jump?
Yes, professionally. • Is there any subject/object not properly a subject/object of art?
Of course not. Things need to be created. Create them. Its just showing that shit to people sometimes is what gets fucked up. There are alot of tight asses out there, some tighter than others • What taboos, if any, remain for the artist in general and/or for you personally?
None. If done properly (though not necessarily tastefully) If something is 'taboo' for us, its though about or been addressed as some such 'thing', therefore it especially needs to be written about. We think up some fucked up thoughts, shit you don't want anyone else to know. We all do it. Someone needs to write about that shit. Its important. Especially as a testament to our times in the future. They appreciate that shit in the future man. • What are your top three artistic priorities?
hmm. Write for myself. Write about my world as best as I can to convey the way 'I' see it for others. Fuck everybody else. • Tell us what makes you melt and why.
Melt? uh, extreme heat Im sure. I'm a very romantic fellow. I'd rather be with a chick for a while and fuck her exclusively then to play around town. I've always been like that, I love women, but I'm a gentleman, and I've control of my cock and testes, I've no freaked out desires or ego to fullfill. I like a chick around I can fuck anytime, who I can cook for and smell. So I'd say a smiling, good smelling, cute, happy, eccentric, girl whos a head and wants to scratch my back and head on a regular basis makes me melt...hehe • It's obvious that the idea of community is important to the editors of The-Hold. Talk to us about how this community developed over time and what you see as its future.
Oh yea, shit...Daev and I share the same fucking needle when we shoot up. Caits already had 2 of my kids. Its building on itself, its a growing family. Its changed alot over the years and continues it, the question should be, wheres the hold community going to be in another few years? Convention in Vegas? I find the people who frequent the hold the people of any who would want to read and appreciate my shit, its a trippy group of freaks and I enjoy their shit, its hard to find the kind of shit that is written here anywhere else. I enjoy the content and the people that make it flow. as I think we all do, and happy to envelope new members into our cultish fold! Hail Caesar!! |
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