Sausage Factory: The College Crier's Infamous Interviews of the Freaks and the FamousThe world is full of things we don't want to look at too closely. Even the things we do want to scrutinize, it isn't always for the noblest of reasons. Sometimes we want to give the toupee a little tug, take a peek at Oz standing behind the curtain. Most of us are like that. Winston Churchill warned that people who love sausage should never watch it being made. However, for those intrepid few who positively obsess about sausage; they simply roll up their sleeves and feed the grinder. Many of the people in this book are among the most fulfilled people on Earth; others are facing demons that would blanch the bones of weaker souls. If you pump all the wonder, pain and glory you can snatch out of life into the grinder, what comes out of the other end may be sublime, or hideous, but will always be profound. One thing Winston failed to point out about sausage; you never really know what's in there. You might find out that your favorite midnight movie maven got her start acting for the most heralded art film director of all time. You may discover a man who had to make up a song, live, in front of half a million people; or a musician and filmmaker who is worshipped as a god in the South Pacific; an actress who impersonated someone else to audition for her first big acting role; a man who walked barefoot across the Middle East armed with only a guitar; a comedian funding an art museum for Chicanos by stepping in a bowl of cereal. You may encounter a journalist who was a hero for a generation casually grilling lobsters while firing up a fatty. |
Contents
An Interview With | 9 |
Mitch Hedberg | 30 |
21st Century Renaissance Man | 37 |
An Interview With Henry | 46 |
Grace of the Sun | 57 |
Barefoot Bodhisattva | 68 |
Major Talent | 88 |
Critics Line Up to Get Her Wrong | 98 |
Elsewhere With Umphreys | 230 |
SciFi Icon Becomes Prophet of | 237 |
The Kerosene Queen | 251 |
The Rhythm of the Infinite | 259 |
A Woman of Many Parts | 272 |
Wheres Poe Going? | 284 |
Kicks in a Kilt | 302 |
A Good Catch | 320 |
An Interview With | 116 |
Pummeling Global Poverty | 124 |
Something to Get Naked About | 135 |
Higher and Higher | 141 |
All in the Music | 154 |
Warren Haynes and the Improvisational Lifeboat | 166 |
Missy Suicide Got the Ball Rolling | 172 |
At the Intersection of Beer Pong | 179 |
Keller Williams | 186 |
Angels Anarchy and Atavism | 195 |
Princess Provocateur | 201 |
How Sweet It Is | 330 |
The Montbleau Mystique | 341 |
Chiaroscuro | 347 |
Method Man Exclusive | 355 |
Free Booze and Tossing Off | 373 |
Mistress of Darkness | 380 |
Future World Emperor | 396 |
Sneaky Medicine | 413 |
More Than Skin Deep | 427 |
Dave King of Flogging Molly | 435 |
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