This was done backstage at the Limelight in NYC on 11/25/95.

Interviewers: B., Ben, Lee, Judy, Jon Chang, Yasuhiro Koketsu

Melt Banana: Yasuko: vocals, Agata: guitar, Rika: bass, Sudoh: drums

MELT BANANA INTERVIEW IS GO!!!!!!!!!!

B: OK,we are lighting cigarettes....OK...

B: So what is your favorite brand of cigarette?

Yasuko: Mmmmm... ah, I don't smoke.

B: OK

(everyone in the room is smoking at this point)

Sudoh: We don't smoke.

Yasuko: (Laughing) Sudo smokes Marlboro.

B: Marlboro?

Ben: He got sick and he stopped smoking (pointing at Agata).

B: Only crack?

Yasuko: ha, ha and Rika she smokes "Sometimes"... Japanese cigarette called "Sometimes".

B: Oh! OK so what about Jon Chang?

All: (Pause)... HMMMMMMMMMM... (laughter)

Yasuko: I don't want to talk about him... (Laughing)

B: Do you think, he's sometimes pretty rude? Don't you think?

Yasuko: He is very polite.

B: Very (laughing)

Yasuko: Very, ah, nice.

B: He always thinks about your feelings before he says something.

Yasuko: AH...

B: He's afraid to hurt your feelings...

Ben: Brian and Jon Chang seperated at birth.

B: (laughing)

Ben: I don't know anybody worse then you, man.

B: Uh,here's Jon that's enough of those questions.

Jon: Shut up.

Jon: Is Yasu... (pointing to seat)

B: Yeah, Yasu is sitting there and you are sitting out in the hallway 'cause you're not in the band, you're kicked out. Ok, question for Rika, where were you?

Jon: Uh, hanging out with the T-shirt people.

B: Oh with Smelly (Mustafa of MRR fame)... How about Smelly? Has Smelly threatened you with knives or guns at anytime?

Ben: Dynamite? (Laughs)

Yasuko: Smelly is very kind, No knife for us (various Japanese spoken).

Yasu: Ask them about being cut-off.

B: Oh you were cut off in the car?

Yasu: No, no...on the stage.

Yasuko: Oh, we had 4 or 5 songs more but uh (Japanese) but the club said "one more song and leave" but I say "in 5 minutes we do 2 songs".

B: and at the end you made alot of noise.

Yasuko: ha, ha and the audience helped us (they yelled for more when the club told them to stop).

B: yeah... what do you think about this club?

All: ah... ah

B: You can answer in Japanese and have him (Yasu) Translate. (Lots of japanese spoken here for about 25 seconds)

Yasu: Do you know the movie "Cannibal Holocaust"?

Brian and Ben: "Cannibal Holocaust"?

Yasu: Yeah put all of the employees together...

B: Oh

Yasuko: Put them all in the bottom (point towards the bottom floor area of club) (meaning let them be eaten alive by zombies)

B: I haven't seen it. Have you seen Hardboiled?

Jon: That's Chinese!

B: I know, so? What like they couldn't see that?

Jon: Shut up.

B: You'd wish them (Limelight staff) to be in the Tea House in the begining scene. (talking in mixed languages)

Yasuko: Golgo 13.

Agata: My favorite.

B: How did you hook up this tour with Mr.Bungle?

Yasuko: Last year we came to United States and we played in San Francisico and he came to see our show.

B: Who?

Yasuko: Trey, the guitarist of Mr.Bungle, and at that time we didn't talk with him, but next time... we talked to him this summer... this summer he came to talk with us about Mr. Bungle tour.

B: And thats it? That's pretty simple.

Jon: Did Warner Brothers pay for you?

B: Who paid for the airplane?

Yasuko: No one.

B: No one? Somebody had to pay for it.

Agata: We borrowed the money and... (can't make this part out)

Jon: They got a loan.

B: Oh, so you're paying for it. (Talk in Japanese)

Yasu: They are paying this with the guarantee.

B: Yea, so they are paying for this then, mainly the record company isn't paying for this.

Yasu: Yeah, the record company gave them money before...

Band: Huh... (lengthy discussion in Japanese mostly Agata explaining)

Yasu: They are paying for the airfare with (gig) money but for food and hotel they are selling T-shirts.

B: Ok,... typical tour thing... I had a question that I just lost...

Jon: Ask them why do they use hair spray in thier hair.

Brian: Why do you use hair spray?

Yasuko: EH! Because, because we are fashionable (laughing).

B: Your haircuts almost match now is that for the same reason? (Rika and Yasuko) Before she had longer hair but now you are trying to be more fashionable so having matching haircuts...

Yasuko: Actually I don't know why she cut her hair.

B: So it's not for the band image?

Agata: No.

Yasuko: MMMM...

Jon: I tell you she wants to be metal.

B: Is it just the 2 bands every night? (Japanese)

Yasuhiro: They played with another band in Toronto... (Japanese)... (Jon couldn't go see Mr.Bungle and returns at this point)

Jon: Ask him about his sex life...

B: Who?

Jon: Interband cause you know Yasuko and Agata are always together and Rika and Sudoh always hang out together on tour...

Band: Huh??

B: I have a question for you, how does it feel knowing Jon Chang is in love with you Rika?

Jon: What! (Laughter from Americans)

B: Translate, Yasu.

Jon: Shut up!

Yasuhiro: Are you talking about sex life?

Ben: We're talking about love. (Japanese)

Yasuhiro: Privacy.

B: Privacy? I was just trying to embarass Jon, geez. So much controversy, geez.

B: So what label are you on in Japan?

Yasuhiro: They are not signed to Malduck, they are just doing one distribution deal.

Agata: Maiduck signed with Skingraft and Nux to make japan version. (some trying to puzzle out what the deal was in English and Japanese here)

Agata: Nux and Skingraft made our master tape together and they licensed it to Malduck for only in Japan.

B: Oh, OK. So Skingraft is the main label?

Agata: Skingraft and Nux.

B: Oh, OK... so he (Jon) said Malduck is a major label, that's what he said but... (they nod and say it is so) Oh so it is. That's an unusual situation.

Yasuhiro: End of interview. (Laughing)

Jon: It's Japankore you can't interview these fuckin' (indeciprerable). Corporate... (noise on tape) It's gonna say Sony on your next issue.

B: Selloutkore. (more laughs) But it's only a Japanese major label so it's not the same thing.

Jon: Oh, fuck you. They're not on Devour, fuck 'em.

B: But you're still doing stuff with like HG Fact... EPs and stuff. You're free to do records on any label you want.

Band: (general head nodding)

Ben: Shitty compilation tracks.

Jon: Shut up! (They gave tracks to Jon for a comp CD he's doing)

B: So you didn't sign any contracts any papers with the major label?

Band: No. No.

Yasuhiro: How about Skingraft?

Band: No.

Yasuko: No paper (in japanese but she says something about Skingraft being an independent label)

B: So if they rip you off you have to go to court, you don't have a contract. (Laughing) That's what happened to us with our LP, we got ripped off.

Band: Ohhhhhhhhh...

Jon: The same thing happened to us, too. Our label... (Laughing)

Yasuhiro: I didn't rip you off! (Yasu put out the Discordance Axis LP)

B: He only sold 300 of them what do you think you're going to get out of that? (Laughing)

Yasuhiro: No, I sold more than that.

B: I know, I'm just kidding.

Agata: For Japan we can check the amount of our copy with distributor.

B: I have a question for Lee, do you want another beer?

Lee: That's disrespectful asking for another beer.

J: Dude, there's like a fucking case of them on stage.

Ben: Lee,do you know how many other people are drinking beers?

B: No one's drinking beer.I just want to have a laugh watching him get drunk.

Yasuko: His brother (pointing to Lee)!!!

B: Yea. HAI!! (with cheesy Japanese accent)

B: Is anyone in the band related?

Yasuko: No, haha.

B: OOOOO, hair mousse. What kind of hair mousse do you use? Loreal?

Jon: Animal Tested only!

Yasuhiro: V-05.

Yasuhiro: I use V-05.

B: We don't know what brand it is now (Yasuko hid it in her coat).

Jon: Special vivisection version.

B: Really? You torture the animals. Oh, no!

Jon: Yasuko sucks.

B: They spray that in the cat's eyes.

Ben: Weep, weep, weep, weep, weep. (It's a thing from the Howard Stern show)

Yasuko: What?

Jon: Dead Neko... Shi Neko for your hair spray.

(shi=dead Neko=cat but bad japanese)

Yasuko: I'm sorry...

B: OK, it's OK.

Yasuko: I'll change ,ah, brands.

Jon: Ask them about how much meat they've eaten this tour.

B: I don't care.

Jon: Yes, you do.

B: No,I don't... I had a question and Jon made me lose it. (whispering) You rude bastard!

Yasuhiro: I say we all leave and leave Jon and Brian to talk about things. (Laugh) I'm more opinionated than thou.

Yasuhiro: You must have a good question.

B: Man, I lost it. So what do you think about Japankore?

Agata: Very good.

Yasuhiro: Koketsu Korner...

B: Koketsu Korner, the best feature of the whole thing. Big blow off.

(The last Koketsu Korner was a FAX from Yas saying he couldn't contribute anything)

B: I had a question and you killed me... dude. (Directed to Jon) I got one. Your new CD, what do you think of it?

Agata: Satisfied.

Sudoh: Very much. B: Is everybody in the band (satisfied)?

Sudoh: I think not bad.

Jon: Liar (in a fake whisper/scream). (Laughing)

Yasuko: The sound is different from the first CD. The sound quality...

Jon: It changes every song.

Yasuko: The first one is like Steve Albini sound (Japanese)

Yasuhiro: On the new one they wanted more of a studio recording sound.

Jon: I'm going to watch Bungle.

B: So what did they say?

Yasuhiro: The first one is more less produced so they put sound before they touch up a lot of masterings.

B: What?

Ben: huh?

Yasuhiro: So they went to Steve's again and they went more experimental with the mixing.

Ben: Not straight forward?

Yasuhiro: Not like straight raw live sound.

B: What about the last song on the first CD?

Yasuko: That was the idea of Steve.

Agata: We recorded 24 songs...

B: And it's all of them playing at once,like Anal Cunt 7"?

Band: Yeah.

Agata: There were 24 tracks and we record 24 songs so he put all songs together.

(Yasuhiro explains about the Anal Cunt 5643 song 7" where they did the same thing.)

(Laughs)

B: I thought my CD player was fucking up when I heard that. (Laughs) It's crazy.

Ben: You gotta write down questions before...

B: I know I just... I don't know.... Were you in any other bands before Melt Banana?

Yasuhiro: He (Agata) was in other bands before but they never did anything.

B: No tapes just rehersing that sort of thing.

Yasuhiro: Yeah... Sucky...

B: Did you play guitar in these other bands the way you do know?

Agata: No I didn't play guitar,I played Bass and vocals.

B: You play very strange style did you just invent that?

Yasuhiro: That was just like natural progression.

B: And the slide?

Yasuhiro: So when he covered Teenage...

Agata & Yasuko: Teenage Jesus and the Jerks...

B: oh yeah Teenage Jesus and the Jerks thats with a member of Friction, too.

Agata: Yea, yea.

Yasuhiro: When he covered a song he found out about slide.

B: And you use the delay pedal and (Stupid sound effects by me imitating sounds of delayed loop riff)

Yasuhiro: He started to use delay recently like a year or so.

B: So you had it at the Middle East with us, that's when I noticed it, I was like "That's fucking crazy".

B: How long have you been playing?

Yasuhiro: 5 years. Seriously.

B: Wow, you're pretty good for 5 years, I'll tell ya'.

Yasuhiro: He was playing before that but seriously for 5 years.

B: I have been playing for 12 years and I can't play like that.

Ben: I've been playing for 4 years and I still can't play.

Lee: I've been playing for 5 years but not seriously.

B: Do you consider yourselves good musicians or are you just doing what you want?

Yasuhiro: (For Yasuko) She's just doing what she wants to do.

B: Now you lyrics are... very...

Yasuhiro: Racist.

B: Very racist... No (Laughing) Nonsensical... Anti-white (Laughing) it's a joke. Like you write about animals.

Yasuko: Sometimes. (Japanese)

Yasuhiro: She doesn't have a message she just writes, whatever pops in her head.

B: It doesn't mean anything at all?

Yasuhiro: She doesn't have any message.

B: Same answer.

Yasuko: The first album I didn't think about any message...

B: Just use words that fit. Like you're just another instrument?

Yasuko: Uh, huh. (Yes). Message is a very small part.

B: Like "Iguana in Trouble"? What does that mean? (laugh)

Yasuko: When we put out first album many people asked me about the message. Like do you have any meaning.

B: Right, I don't see any! (laugh)

Yasuko: So I recognized about the message... I didn't try to write any message but maybe some if it about writing message was in my head.

Yasuhiro: When the first album came out she was asked alot about lyrics so for the second CD she had a thing in her mind like conscious...

B: Like trying to put continuity in it so like through the whole song theres one line of reasoning...

Yasuhiro: No, No No. So for the second CD she tried to...

B: To add more meaning?

Yasuhiro: Not really but she had this thing in the back of her mind about lyrics having meaning.

Yasuko: But still no message?

B: Rika are you sleeping?

Rika: I'm OK.

B: Have you ever hurt yourself on stage? Did you ever hit your head on a guitar or anything?

Yasuhiro: She hits her. (Rika hits Yasuko)

B: You go pretty crazy for such a little person with such a big bass.

Rika: It's not such a big bass it looks big...

B: It looks big on you. (laugh) It looks pretty big to me,it looks bigger than his bass (pointing to Lee).

Yasuhiro: Ask her what kind.

B: what kind of bass is it?

Rika: Ibanez.

B: Ibanez? I didn't know...

Ben: A rocket ship.

B: It doesn't look like a normal Ibanez. So more cigarettes... you have a very individual sound, I don't think there is anybody who sounds like Melt Banana,l ike who has had an influence on you like obviously No Wave kinda sound... I would think... any cartoons?

Yasuhiro: Musically its by anything they listen to.

B: When they first started rehearsing was there anybody in the band who first came up with this kind of sound and the rest of the band picked up on it?

Yasuhiro: They started without drummer.

B: So was it to make the drums by making the guitar and bass very rhythmic? (What a piece of english that was, I mean, of course, did the lack of drums make the guitar and bass parts more rely on a strong accent on the beat to punctuate the music and give it more of a dynamic feel)

Band: Yes.

Yasuhiro and Brian: Ho, Ho!

B: So what was he doing? (Pointing to Sudoh)

Yasuko: Before Melt Banana we were doing band with drums but he quit and we started new...

B: New different band with 3 people..

Yasuko: Without drums maybe normal people think that it will be very acoustic sound... but I didn't want to do like that.. I didn't want like an... acoustic sound but a more aggressive sound so we have to think hard to make the rythmic so this style we invented naturaly...

Ben: it progressed..

B: ..to where you are now.

Yasuko: In about 2 or 3 months we just played with 3 persons but..

B: And your vocals add a sort of stacatto percusive sound like a drum a little bit...

Yasuko: But it was Noisey stuff.

B: more industrial sound...

Jon: well what do you mean by industrial?

B: Real industrial.

Jon: people think 9 Inch Nails are industrial...

B: No, Not 9 Inch Nails!

B: No I mean bands like Hijo Kaidan they have vocals they have vocals but usually they are nonsense or they are just screaming... they have the guitar and noise generator and vocals, so like that only more structured... but you wanted to get away from that and do something with drums or did you...

Jon: they had drums, i think.

B: No they just said they were a 3 piece with no drums... orginally

Jon: Really? Who the Kittens? or Melt Banana?

B: Melt Banana.

Yasuko: First we didn't think like just we wanted drums...

B: hmmm, Disagreement.

Yasuko: We were thinking... no... we needed something else... one more thing...

B: To fill out the sound? or...

Agata: Make it clear.

B: To project it... but you weren't thinking of a drummer? Just any instrument... Accordian... chello?

Yasuko: We put any instrument on the flyer...

B: To find band members...

Yasuko: Yeah.But after we thinking we needed drums and he appeared.(Laugh)

B: It was Magic. (laughs)

Yasuko: So he joined as Drummer...

B: So how long ago what Month and Year?

(counting in Japanese in Unison)

B: Japanese Sesame Street in here...

Yasuko: 8 Months.

B: oh 8 months ago,no not 8 months ago...

Jon: 8 Months after they started before they added him.

B: Oh Oh I get it.

B: So hey good thing you are here what Month and Year did they start out? (Addressing Yasuhiro Koketsu)

Yasuhiro: '92 in October

B: Ok, you are currently unemployed (to Yasuko)

Yasuko: eh?

Ben and Brian: No Job.

B: What is everybody here doing?

Agata: Nothing.

Yasuhiro: Rock n'Roll. (laughs)

One of male MBers: No Job. (some more unprintable stuff here)

Rika: I am professional Karaoke singer and Amateur Pachinko player.

Sudoh: Is a student.

B: So your parents pay for it?

Yasuhiro: Ah thats normal in Japan.

B: No I just meant like does he have another job besides.

Yasuhiro: ah... Physical Labor.

Jon: All right!

B: Shoveling Shit in other words.

Yasuhiro: Yep.

Jon: You should see this guy with his shirt off.

Yasuhiro: Muscular?

Jon: Dude, he's like a terminator.

Yasuhiro: Have you ever seen Tsukasa from Hell Child?

B: Mi Casa, tsukasa.

Jon: He's a brick Layer.

B: Yeah, What I said: shoveling shit.

Jon: (To Yas) Tell him (Sudoh) to show Brian his chest. He's so muscular.

Lee: Luekemia or white blood cells.

Yasuhiro: Leukemia is like

Jon and Ben: That's cancer.

B: Were you in the hospital for this?

Agata: ya.

B: oOooo.

Yasuko: So he has to protect himself from any virus.He is very weak he has to stop...

Ben: From being infected.

Jon: And the cloth mask will prevent that. (laughter)

B: And it looks so clean right now, too.

Jon: It looks like you wiped your ass with it.

B: He gave Jon a rimmer before the show.

Jon: Woo Hoo!

Ben: I thought he was a dentist.

(Talk about Hellchild for a few Minutes, unimportant stuff)

B: ::Quietly to Yas::: Ask them if they like to make out with their lover on the subway. (laughing)

Yasuhiro: Really?

B: Yeah, Go Ahead! I want to see the reaction.

Jon: Ask them why Kenichi (Hellchild) is joining Melt Banana and why they are kicking Rika out. (laughs)

(Yasuhiro askes the Subway kissing question now in Japanese)

Yasuhiro: Why do you ask this?

B: I heard it is considered rude (public displays of affection).

Yasuhiro: No, We don't do that stuff.

Jon: What are you talking about?

Yasuhiro: Like about Necking in Public place.

B: I heard it is considered uncool.

Jon: Oh Making out... what are you talking about these 2 ... Yasuko and Agata Last time in Action Park

(Jon Makes Kissing noises here)

(Mix of laughs and Melt Banana go ohhhh ahhh).

Rika: You Liar.

B: So they never have kissed on a train?

Yasuhiro: No, we express ourselves differently.

Jon: Yeah, they buy underwear out of a machine on the street!

B: Have you ever bought used underwear out of a machine on thestreet? (laughing)

(talk about how the interview has degenerated)

B: What bands to you like? (sarcastic)

B: Do you like Oi?

Yasuko: Oi Panku? (punk in Japanese)

Yasuhiro: Eastern Youth.

B: Japanese Movement...Cobra

Yasuhiro: They are not familiar with Oi.

B: No? Not like you?

Yasuhiro: No.

Jon: Well,Yas hates Black people

B: That is true

Yasuhiro: No,I don't.

Ben: And Koreans.

Yasuhiro: Spazman from Osaka.

Jon: They don't have anything out.

B: I never heard of them, wow thats one I've never heard of. Are they Japanese Power, Yellow Power?

Yasuhiro: Hardcore But with a twist.

B: Do you like Techno?

Yasuko:Huh?

B: (imitates Techo Beat)

Yasuko: It's OK. Before I came to United States I went to see Mark Stewart

B: I don't know who that is I don't like techno.

Yasuko: It's not much techno it like..

Yasuhiro: Dub.

B: Do you Like Jazz? John Coltrane... Charlie Parker?

Yasuhiro: Megadeth........ they are not familiar with it.

B: Do you smoke marijuana?

Jon: No they don't.

B: I think it would influence your music greatly.

Yasuko: I don't have any..

B: Good Connections? Money?

Yasuko: I don't have any ah.. it's needless, I don't need it.

B: Have you ever tried it?

Yasuko: Yeah.

B: Oh but you have bad weed in Japan.

Yasuko: Really?

B: Ask him. (points to Yasuhiro)

Jon: Shut up, Yasu doesn't smoke pot.

B: He doesn't?

Yasuhiro: No, Not at all.

Yasuko: I see no need to buy it... if someone has some..

Yasuhiro: She won't go out and look for it...

Lee: That's it you smoke Pot or you commit suicide

B: Has she ever had any good American weed? Hashish?

B: How about Speed ever do that?

Yasuhiro: No.

B: It's a valid question speed is popular in Japan.

Yasuhiro: No, not them. Only scary people.

B: I thought alot of business men did it.

Jon: Yeah, Scarey people.

Yasuhiro: Yeah they're evil man.

B: Evil Business men!

B: But they are on a Major label now that is major business.

B: Ok anyone have a good question? "Oh Brian this interview sucks" well whats a good question?

Jon: Ask them how many times they've been laid in the US. (laughter) Go on Yas you know you want to ask it.

B: So, the Night Stick, Dropdead, Discordance Axis show in Boston, was that the worse show of the tour?

Yasuhiro: Everyone asked them about that night back in Japan,that was the only question.

B: Oh so it's a famous show now?

Jon: A whole 20 people where there.

Yasuhiro: No 46.

B: It's like that Necros, Minor Threat, SSD, and everybody show in Boston everyone will be talking about it for years. (It was a famous old Boston show...)

B: Are you very tired right now?

Yasuko: a little (talk about going to 42nd st. and getting AIDS)

B: What about Action Park? (Water slide/Amusement park I gather)

Yasuko: Fun.

B: Fun fun fun...do you want to go back?

Yasuko: In Summer.

(Laughing it's about 15 degrees F this day about -10 degrees c)

Yasuko: Not in Winter.

B: Why not? It's fun. You don't like cold water? Cold Water enema going down the 100 foot slide.

B: So what's next for Melt Banana?

Yasuhiro: They want to go to Hong Kong and Israel.

B: Israel huh?....

Jon: There is actually a good scene there.

B: But it's real death metal... it's almost all deathmetal bands not many punk bands

Jon: Well here you go...

(dissolves into a few minutes of open conversation in Japanese)

Yasuhiro: They want to go to Amsterdam.

B: Oh we've been there..you can get lots of bestiality movies (laughs).

Yasuhiro: I don't want to defile my mouth... (by saying beastality movies to them... haha)

B: Ha, Defile my mouth!You should hear the shit he says!

Yasuhiro: How about release wise?

Jon: A split with Discordance Axis.

Yasuhiro: Jon Chang's Discordance Axis. (laughs)

Agata: Split with Discordance Axis, Compilation on Japankore, and (Jon Chang's) compilation CD. And now we are writing songs for colaboration with Evil Moisture from England.

B: So have you ever seen a ghost?

Agata: No.

Yasuko: No.

B: How about a UFO?

Yasuko: My sister did.

B: How close?

Yasuko: I don't know.About 10 years ago she saw it.

Lee: Tell them where I live UFO's come out and paralyse you. Where I live there's all UFOs, aliens that zap you.

B: Do you like Sanrio characters?

Jon: Kitty Chan!

Yasuko: :::nods her head:::::

B: Keroppi?

Yasuko: Kerokerokeroppi? They are OK.

Agata: Also next March our LP.

B: O n Skingraft on Vinyl and CD?

Yasuko: Vinyl and also CD.

Yasuhiro: Ho ho.

Jon: I have to wait to March to get LP.

B: I thought you didn't even like that record? Why are you gonna get it?

Jon: 'Cause if I don't it'll be Boredoms syndrome where I have to beg one off you at some point.

(Running out of ideas in case you didn't notice)

B: So do you collect records?

Yasuko: No, I'm not a collector. I just buy what I like.

B: So do you like computers?

Yasuko: They are very convient.

B: Does anyone in the band know how to use a computer?

Yasuko: I know a little bit.

B: Well then what are your hobbies and interests?

(Thinking hard here....)

B: Pachinko?

Yasuko: Once.

Agata: Horse racing.

B: Horse Racing?

Jon: Horse Racing! (laugh) (pointing to Rika) Is she a Jockey?

B: Anybody in the band in Yakuza?

Yasuko: No answer!

Jon: She comes from the town where, did you ever hear the story "Woman in the Dunes"?

B: No. What the hell was that?

Jon: You fucking ignorant fuck.

B: Oh, "you ignorant fuck", What is that?

Jon: Its a really really famous Japanese book..

B: Ok, if you read Japanese literature it might be...

Jon: It's in english and it was even released here.

Yasuhiro: Who's the Author?

Jon: Abe Koba or Koba Abe.

Yasuko: Abe Kobo?

Jon: You know who I mean, we were talking about him once.

Lee: Yasu? Can you tell them UFO's do exist and they.. uh... brainwash you and scare tactics, paralyzing you.

Yasuhiro: Hoho...

Lee: For real.

(Yasu tells them)

Lee: This is not a fairy tale like religion... this is something you are not suppose to talk about, 'cause were I live there is a lot of abductions and everyone can't remember it, black outs and rumors.

B: Are you a true believer now?

Yasuko: I've never seen it so...

B: But he tells you its real.

Lee: I've seen it, I did.They Paralyze you and do stuff to you, they just zap you up like... tell them it's like mad chaos when they get you.

B: Ask them if they believe in supernatural events... like life after death or UFOs.

Yasuhiro: They don't pay attention.

B: What!??!?!

Yasuko: I haven't experianced that kind of stuff, I haven't seen ghost or UFO, I haven't seen the world after the dead so I am not sure about it. Maybe people say about that kind of stuff, so I don't deny them, because I'm not sure if it is true or not.

B: Do you want there to be those things? Or do they scare you?

Yasuko: I'm a little bit scared about it, but I'm not sure, at all.

B: But after you are dead do you want ther to be nothing? Or do want to have more experiances?

Yasuko: I will see when the time comes.

B: What would you like? (there to be...)

Yasuko: ahhhhhh, very difficult question...

B: Yeah. It's a tough choice. (laughs)

Yasuko: I'll just wait to see. (talking to Agata in Japanese)

Yasuko: He said after the death he doesn't want there to be anything.

B: Me too.

Lee: I tried to commit suicide and when you die you go to hell.

B: It's not just a chemical reaction Lee had noooo you go to hell. Why don't you become a good christian Lee? Cause if you believe in Jesus you will go to heaven.

Lee: It has nothing to do with religion,it has to do with what happens after you die,after you're dead right hereafter this its very very bad.

B: Are these questions more interesting?

Lee: I drank too much,and I tried to commit suicide like on many ocassions and after that I had the same reaction its very bad like hell and it had nothing to do with religion.

B: Ok Lets find out right now.

Lee: You know what I mean? It might be nothing.

Yasuhiro: Did you see colors or anything like that?

Lee: No, it was like...

Yasuhiro: When you saw that chaos.

Lee: Bad, hell, hell chaos either you just say you love it or you never accept it. You know what I mean? It's either you like hell or you don't like hell. And thats forever. Tell them thats infinity.

B: Do you think the US military should get out of Japan? (talk) But what if say Korea...Korea Promised terrorist attacks on Japan after last year.

Jon: Really.

B: Yeah.

(talk that goes off the original topic)

B: But if The US left there would have to be a remilitarization of Japan.And Since the US goverment had to spend enormous amounts of money to support their military Japan would suddenly be in the same position.It would change the economy...

Jon: Toyota would start making tanks again.

Yasuhiro: Yeah, but it would create new jobs.

B: But what are the tanks used for? If they aren't in use its just like another form of welfare. To give more people jobs for like worthless things... If the US military go out of Japan that would mean a major change in the Japanese Economy, don't you think?

(after minutes of mincing and shit)

Yasuhiro: They don't give a shit.

B: OK, Do you still like me after this interview do you still like me?

Yasuko: I'll think about it. (laughs)

B: I want my T-Shirt back.... (we had givin' them some T-shirts before the interview as a gift) (laughs)

Yasuko: We love you!

(THE END!)