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Skidrow Studios – TonyTee Interview – Street Art and LA Culture

05/12/12
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If you’ve been to Skidrow Studios, you’re familiar with the artwork that graces the walls of our studio. Here’s a candid interview with artist and philosopher, TonyTee as he tells us what it’s like to grow up with art in his blood and the city of Los Angeles as his canvas!

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Skidrow Studios – Sonny Donato

05/10/12
Mumferd T Farnsworth
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Here on Skidrow Radio we had the honor of hosting another Los Angeles poet. This time around we were fortunate to host Kenneth”Sonny” Donato here in our downtown L.A. studio. Sonny is a Hollywood poet who had his first drink with Jack Kerouac and drank and exchanged poetry with Charles Bukowski in the 70s. He got his nickname “Sonny” from Tom Waits while bartending at the Troubador, “Give me another drink, Sonny!” The nickname stuck. Sonny recently published a literary tribute to old school Hollywood haunts called, “A Poet’s Guide to the Bars.” Interview conducted by Justin Maurer, author of “Seventeen Television” and singer/guitarist in local punk bands Clorox Girls and L.A. Drugz.

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Skidrow Studios – Dan Fante

05/03/12
Mumferd T Farnsworth
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Skidrow Radio was proud to host author, poet, playwright and all-around L.A. legend – Dan Fante. He is the son of classic L.A. novelist John Fante (“Ask The Dust”, “The Road to Los Angeles”) He reads an excerpt from his new book, “Fante, a family’s legacy of Writing, Drinking, and Surviving,” as well as a selection of poetry from his collection “A Gin Pissing Raw Meat Dual Carburetor V8 Son Of A Bitch From Los Angeles”. Hear his interview conducted by Justin Maurer (of local bands Clorox Girls & L.A. Drugz and the author of “Don’t Take Your Life”, and “Seventeen Television”). Dan Fante will be reading at the Last Bookstore at 2pm on Sunday May 13th with Sonny Donato, Gabriel Hart, Justin Maurer and more.

Dan Fante Bio:
Dan Fante was born and raised in Los Angeles. At twenty, he quit school and hit the road, eventually ending up as a New York City resident for twelve years. Fante has worked at dozens of crummy jobs including: door to door salesman, taxi driver, window washer, telemarketer, private investigator, night hotel manager, chauffeur, mailroom clerk, deck hand, dishwasher, carnival barker, envelope stuffer, dating service counselor, furniture salesman, and parking attendant. Fante is married and has a two year old son named Michaelangelo Giovanni Fante. He hopes eventually to learn to play the harmonica..
Dan Fante knows a thing or two about surviving America. If you like your prose vodka-soaked, soulful and bleeding on the page, then Fante is your man. Born and raised in California, his father John was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century, yet poor sales begrudgingly forced him into working as a screeenwriter during Hollywood’s cinematic boom-time. By the time of his death in the early 1980′s, Fante Sr’s literary career was unknown to everyone but the die-hards, including one Charles Bukowski who, in his novel “Women” declared Fante his God and set about resurrecting his career. Dan Fante is, in my opinion, an even finer writer than his father. He has lived a life that would kill most people — acute alcoholism and drug use, poverty, divorce, suicide-attempts, therapy, yet has survived to pick up the pen and tell the tale. Dan Fante isn’t some two-bit, woe-is-me tortured writer, this is the real deal. Having read his first novel Chump Change , originally published in France, I couldn’t work out why he wasn’t one of the most famous writers in America — but then America has always had a way of shying away from the kind of home truths that Fante’s work meets head-on. His words cut through the whole sorry façade, make you feel alive, make you want to smash up the room. His word tears each page a new arsehole. Here is a writer whose work is immediate, outlandish and as downright sick and self-obsessed as any musician, and all the better for it; a writer whose works stands alongside Celine, Hubert Selby Jr and Knut Hamsun as modern confessionals from the gutter.A sequel and prequel, Mooch and Spitting Off Tall Buildings (both Canongate) have followed and Fante recently published his first collection of poetry, A Gin Pissing Raw Meat Dual Carburettor V8 Son Of A Bitch From Los Angeles (Wrecking Ball Press).

www.danfante.net
www.justin-maurer.com

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Boogie By The River Festival – Sleepy Cycle, Moosaj Karmatron, and Raheem Cohen

03/03/12
Mumferd T Farnsworth
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On Friday, March 2nd, Edwin Diaz-Estrada conducted an impromptu interview session with three bands playing at March 10th, Boogie By The River festival happening at Space Camp, 1726 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA.

Get a taste of what Boogie By The River is all about. For more information about the event, check out our Facebook Events Page (https://www.facebook.com/events/345293268814432/)

In the studio, we have Sleepy Cycle, Moosaj Karmatron, and Raheem Cohen.

Enjoy!

Boogie By The River Festival

Annabelle Brady XXX Talks about the Porn Industry

01/02/12
Mumferd T Farnsworth
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Skidrow is looking for people in the porn biz to give us the inside look at what goes on behind the camera. Think of it as the WTFpod of the adult world.

Annabelle Brady was kind enough to stop by the studio and give us her perspective on the $10 billion dollar industry.

If you work in the porn industry and you might be interested in giving Skidrow Studios the inside scoop, please contact us at info@skidrowstudios.com.

Enjoy

Annabelle Brady XXX

Waylon Bacon – Skidrow Studios

06/28/11
Mumferd T Farnsworth
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Filmmaker, cartoonist, storyboarder, and all around good guy, Waylon Bacon is in the studio to talk movies, music, LA vs SF, and what it takes to actually put something out there for people to see.

From the outside looking in, LA is thought of as that place where a bunch of self-important wanna be actors, directors, and producers come to jerk each other off and snort a bunch of coke….and you’re right…but…

The most talented people are those who do what they do because they have to. They have no choice. Ed Gein used human flesh. Waylon Bacon uses film.

Waylon makes me happy. Myself, being one of those guys who pretend to shun the celebrity aspect of living in Los Angeles, it pleases me to have a conversation with someone who would be making movies regardless of whether he lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco or Chesterpeak, Arkansas. Not everything is for money, not everything is for fame.

Watch Waylon’s movies now including is latest, “Help Wanted”:

http://www.waylonbacon.com

My Students Tried To Kill Me – Skidrow Studios

03/07/11
Mumferd T Farnsworth
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A Skidrow Studios exclusive, this is a story about a friend who teaches in the Los Angeles area public school system. Over a three month period, his students were trying to kill him by adding hand sanitizer to his coffee twice a day. He tells the story and I try to understand how it’s possible for young kids to not give a shit about what kind of damage this could have caused. Give a listen and let me know what you think.

Not intended for coffee

Episode 5 – Rain, Tron, Miley Cyrus, Salvia

12/18/10
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It’s raining in LA. Tron doesn’t hold up. Miley Cyrus is probably a lot of fun. Salvia is fucked up. Happy Holiday with William Burroughs’ Junky Christmas.

They should have played this shot for 2 hours instead.

Episode 4 – Customer service, Cuban cigars…

12/14/10
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I rant a bit about customer service and how it sucks. I talk about the Cuban embargo and how it’s fucking up my cigar purchasing abilities. This really wasn’t supposed to be a full episode but I was in the mood so here ya go. About 15 minutes.

Episode 1 – The Pilot Podcast

12/04/10
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We went to King Eddy’s Saloon. We got drunk. Then we drank some Cisco.

We talked about the good ‘ole days of Craby Joe’s. Cindy didn’t talk about Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project and Charles Bukowski’s “The Genius of the Crowd” inadvertently closes the show after started puking up Strawberry Cisco and Sushi.

Cisco. It’s a bitch.

Cisco, the shit that dreams are made of.