Kid 606
On the dancefloor at a club in Las Vegas, Kid 606 walks up to me in a talkative mood. The music is so loud we're yelling...
Kid 606: I’m trying to figure out what medications work best... Balancing the clinical with the medical. The street medicines with the pharmaceuticals… But overall it’s all about being macrobiotic, and it’s about like, forgetting where you came from, and not worrying about if people are dancing or not, but if they ARE dancing it’s good.
Bronques: Oh, good... (mis-understanding medication for meditation) How do you meditate?
Kid 606: I read a David Lynch book once that says how to meditate and thought, if it works for David Lynch it’ll work for me.
Bronques: How does HE meditate?
Kid 606: David… like transcendental… Basically you breathe through your nose. But the best form of meditation is basically having sex and forgetting where you are. If you can manage that… Meditation is something, not everyone can do it. It’s like having an orgasm… Guys can do it all the time, but girls, it takes them time… You definitely have to like wait a while… I never had any reason to meditate until I was 27. Now, I’m 27 and meditation is great.
Bronques: It influences your music?
Kid 606: It makes me not do shitty music. I used to release everything I make. Now I can only release about a tenth. If people don’t want to hear it, I can’t release it anymore.
Bronques: Are you serious?
Kid 606: Yeah, it’s like, I hung out with Green Velvet and all he does is read the bible. He’s like a born again Christian. You gotta not believe in yourself, and most musicians, once they stop believeing in themselves, they make really good shit. It’s like with girls… Girls are hotter when they’re insecure. They’re more interested in being attractive and attracting other people when they’re insecure. It’s the same with musicians.
Bronques: Where are you at now?
Kid 606: I’m not insecure and that’s a problem. I need to be like the girl with really small tits, that everytime she goes out she says 'I need a boob job'... The girl that says, ‘I need someone to buy me new boobs!’ I need to feel really bad about myself. It sucks… After 27 years of not having to work that hard, it really fucks you up! I like all these new kids that are really hungry. They don’t have girlfriends. They can’t get laid.
Bronques: Are you on your way to that hunger?
Kid 606: I think so. I just have to try not to get laid for like 3 months.
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