The K Holes are three guys and two girls conveniently married to and dating two of the dudes. Unconveniently the ladies ditched their men to go to Mardi Gras so the K Holes have turned into a circle-jerk-type band who sound like that creepy band from the strip club in Fire Walk With Me. The all-male line up hasn't decided on a new name, but the chief contenders are the Man Holes, the XY Holes, and the Gay Holes. Personally, I hope they go with the Gay Holes.
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Jack (guitar, vocals): I like New York better right now. I lived in ATL for a long time, y'know? Everybody I love the most is in Atlanta but I was kinda frozen there. I gotta lotta bad memories there. Lotta bad baggage attached to the town. Me and my wife had to get the hell out of there.What do you like about New York?
There's always something going on. You feel like a jackass if you're not doing anything. The people in Atlanta are just paryting all the time. I got tired of that. I couldn't find my footing there.Are you guys really big into ketamine?
Nobody in the band does Special K. It was just a joke we had for a while, "Oh sorry, I'm in a k hole." It's just funny.I made out with a girl in a k-hole once. She started crying in the middle of it, which freaked me out a little.
I've been with friends who were in k holes. My friend was driving me one time on this back road in Alabama. He kept telling me that all he could see were the lines on the road. I would have taken the wheel from him but I was on acid.When I first saw you play you told me your band wasn't very good.
We hadn't practiced in a long time. We've always been a completely thrown together band. That's how I wanted to approach this band. Different each show, thrown together every time.
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When we record it. I want to be grandiose like a Ween record. All kinda different shit.Does the smell of cat shit in your house ever drive you nuts?
I didn't clean the litterbox today. Would you like me to do that now?It's OK. [interrupting phone call from my roommate] Every time I get a phone call from my roommate I immediately think the building is on fire.
My house burned down one time. I was living in Charleston, South Carolina.How'd it burn down?
There are two theories. I'd been smoking cigarettes on the porch and then gone to bed. Charleston some of the strictest historical preservation laws in the country so all the buildings are made of dried-out old wood. My roommate at the time kept all these chemicals and oily rags underneath the stairs. So that's the first theory—I did it by accident.BUT around the same time there were a string of arsons in that neighborhood. They eventually caught the arsonist but we never found out if he'd done our building. It was a very depressing situation. The man upstairs from me and my roommate died. The Red Cross put me up for two days and bought me a bunch of thrift store clothes. It was pretty desperate.Were you in the house when it burned down?
Yeah I had to jump out the window in my underwear at four in the morning.Jesus.
I woke up and there was smoke in the room and I went and opened the door and the living room was engulfed in flames. The doorknob was hot. Remember how they tell you in elementary school if the doorknob's hot get the hell out of there? Place went up like a matchbox.
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Cameron (drums): At the moment, "Speedy Greedy." Jack can tell you what that's about.
Jack: That song's about when you're waiting for the guy next to you to take a hit and you just want him to drop dead so you can take his hit. You're like "HURRY UP AND GIVE ME THE FUCKIN' DRUGS!" You've got the speedy greedies.Tell me about your other songs.
Jack: Let's see. "Creatures of War" is about vicious animals. "Doodle" is about not being able to get your mind into any kind of groove and you just stare at your wall and pace around. "Swamp Fires" is about having violent bloody diarrhea.Have you ever had blood in your shit?
Jack: Yes, but I knew I'd get over it. "Don't Get Sick" is about partying a lot and feeling bad about yourself but trying to stay positive. What are the other songs?
Cameron: "Going Down South." "Werewolf With a Tan."
Jack: "Werewolf With a Tan" is about a really cool werewolf. He's a really hip guy and you admire his style.What are the lyrics to that song that goes "Oh Yeah"?
Andrew (guitar): This makes me seem like a dork but it's about my girlfriend going down to Atlanta.It is not dorky to love your girlfriend.
Andrew: You can't choose how gay your feelings are.NICK GAZIN
