this interview courtesy of enooze
"I will claim in no uncertain terms that I am the best electronic music performer
on the planet. Including ANYONE. And if someone wants to battle off live, they
can bring it. Because I walk the walk."
-ryjan c. kidwell aka cex [tigerbeat6
records]
cex is ryjan c. kidwell and last night i dreamt i was rapper ludacris and i axxed him to rmx my booty anthem "what's your fantasy" and he said yes and i took him out for some chitlins and grits..............
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name: see above
age: under
sex: half man, half human [...all love]
occupation: huster, buster, high roller, low rider, occasional zood hobbies:
dice, dance partys, thinking up good ideas for tattoos, shopping for Polo, collecting
royalties, collecting residuals.
turn-ons: girls who steal, girls who bend you over on the dancefloor and freak
you gender-reversed-doggystyle-style, cuteness, digital digital getdown.
turn-offs: street mung, dumpster juice, a stack of urine-soaked towels, bringing
fish sticks in bed and trying to read People magazine while you eat the fish
sticks, blonde hair.
intro>
of all the people in the world who make this techno music, only a tiny small
percentage manage to come up with a name as sexy as cex..dont believe me? ok
weiserheimer, try and think of one.... not counting "not of this earth" starlet
traci
lords, no one has a sexier name:comma,
er, i mean, period! ok...- cex runs a little indie recording label out in cali
called tigerbeat6 with
fellow beater of tigers señor miguel depedro aka kid606,
they are a relatively new label but host an unusually fragrant roster of artists
which include themselves along with fellow funk mauraders lesser,
pimmon, electric
company and [my personal fav] blectum
from blechdom- i was first inspired to approach cex for the following Q
n A after reading an especially hilarious episode of hilariatude in the daily
diary dealie he maintains at his site which dealt with showing up to play
at a party and discovering it was a make out party...at that point, or soon
afterwards, i was happily typing a "will-you-share-with-the-world-whatever-i-ask-you-about-you"
message to which he, like ludacris in my dream, said yes>
so, will out further apu,
coming to you like a case
of the flu, enooze in association with tigerbeat6 records and ky
lubricants ["for that deep down oily lub'"]present the guy i'm refering
to: ...cex!!!
what are yer fondest make out memories?
My fondest would be making out on the floor of the dinosaur museum that I work
at with this girl Rachel. I was trying to hook up with Rachel for what seems
like forever. She's in the same little group as me that hang out at the coffee
shop where she works. See, at first I didn't think she liked me, but then eventually
I found at the she did, but at that time I had this other girlfriend named Julie
who was asian, and I really liked Julie but I had the biggest crush on Rachel,
and it was really hard for me to decide whether or not I should dump Julie --
who had been there for me and really cared about me -- or not. So I made this
list of pros and cons of each girl and Rachel accidentally saw it and hated
me, but at that point I was so crazy that I dumped Julie anyway and kissed Rachel
when she was closing the coffee shop. Then we were trying to find some place
to go do it but for some reason we couldn't so we went to the museum and did
it in one of the exhibits and slept there, where a touring group of children
ended up finding us the next day.
My least fondest make out memory is definitely the time I made out with this
girl and then I was brutally murdered by a guy in a goofy Halloween costume.
And then my girlfriend was running away and it turned out that I wasn't brutally
murdered, but in cahoots with the guy in the costume and that we had perpetrated
this whole slew of murders of my girlfriend's friends and classmates, all because
of some thing involving murdering the girl's mom a year ago because she slept
with my dad or something weird like that. And then I was going to kill my girlfriend
but instead she killed me (for real this time) and I can't really remember what
happened after that.
have you ever been horrified at the mere prospect of having to make out?
If it's with a Frankenstein monster, yeah, that would be horrifying. Or a zombie,
with dead lips falling off in your mouth and guts.
what famous people would you least like to make out with?
OJ, Eminem, Samuel L. Jackson, Calista Flockheart, John Travolta, Bill Clinton,
Oprah, Robin Williams.
what is the worst way a make out session could be brought to an abrupt stop?
Being 14 and having your grandmother walk in your bedroom when you have no shirt
on and then making the girl you were hooking up with leave. And that actually
happened to me, unlike the things I answered in question #1 which were very
obviously cribbed from the show 'Friends' and the movie 'Scream.'
what is the longest you've made out?
Twenty, twenty-five minutes, tops.
if making out were a record, which would it be?
Ginuwine, "100%."
and to rephrase that question to warent a different answer, what is the
best record[s] to make out to?
Woob, "1194." The beginning is all nice and ethnic, with the tablas and the
chanting and whatnot, which is nice and frisky for the start-up, but not too
invasive. Plus, it can make you sound all cultured. Then it moves into a lot
of big rhythmic beats -- which, once again, aren't disruptive but still get
you in that rhythmic, pulsing, raw type of mood. And then comes the floaty,
sublime ambient stuff. At the very end it gets weird but you should either be
done or in a place where you're not paying attention to the music anymore by
that point.
to the best of yer knowledge,who invented making out?
Walter "Buck" Leonard, aka "the Lou Gehrig of the Negro Leagues," invented making
out in 1941. Leonard was the star first-baseman of the Homestead Grays, who
won the Negro League titles every year from '37 to '45. This is why we call
making out "first base," because of "Buck" Leonard.
have you ever made out in a moving vehicule?
It's funny that you mention that because I've been listening to the new Memphis
Bleek album, "The Understanding," a lot recently and this guy is absolutely
OBSESSED with getting head while driving. Or, as Memphis frequently calls it,
"getting brain in the whip." I swear to god he mentions it in every track at
least once, sometimes two or three times.
a parked vehicule?[of course we all have,no?explain]
I can't really remember an especially memorable time of making out in a parked
vehicle. I think I've always had basements and bedrooms available to me for
that kind of thing. I've had a lot of "talks" in parked vehicles, though. About
love and life and that thing.
>>>in his own words, cex describes HIS ideal romantic evening:
go to the Superbowl, sit in the luxury box and eat popcorn shrimp and strawberry
lemonade, Ravens win and then we go to the after-party with Qadry Ismail and
Ray Lewis in a limo. Cee-Knowledge and the Cosmic Funk Orchestra play at the
after-party and we all get freaky on the dancefloor while somebody videotapes.
Later I'm in New York City on business and I see an over-exposed screen capture
of us mid-freak on the cover of a low-budget video under the glass counter at
the pager store. It's a video of the party and there are little stars censoring
the naked boobs of girls taking their tops of for the crazy party.
how much influence has making out had on yer music?
"Theme Song to Cex" was directly caused by a few separate instances of people
making out, some of those people being me.
is tricking some into making out wrong?
I guess it depends on how you trick them. If you say something that's very obviously
a blatant lie, then that's cool. Like, "I've been put under a curse by a witch.
I need to make out with a gorgeous person! If you don't make out with me, I'm
going to die of boils."
have you ever tricked anyone into making out?
Not yet.
have you ever really wanted to make out with a friends younger sister? if
you have made out with a friends younger sister, did you think "damn, i'm making
out with my friends younger sister"?
I don't have any friends with hot younger sisters. Although I think my man Jones'
sister might be kind of cute, but I haven't seen her around in a while. Plus,
come on. She's Jones' sister.
if you could go back in time, with historical figure would you want to make
out with?
Christina Ricci. Uh, I mean President Christina Ricci.
what impresses girls most[leading them to make out with you]:guitars or
laptops?
I guess if I have to pick one it would be guitars. I seriously doubt some girl
is going to be impressed by a laptop. Especially mine -- it's a blue Ibook.
Although I guess it's possible someone might think it's cute that I try to pass
myself off as an "electronica guy" or whatever with a blue Ibook.
what advice could you impart to all those young bucks out there fogging
up windows all over the country for the first time?
Don't hate. Reciprocate. If she goes there, you gotta go there, dude. It's the
rules.
summery>
goat sez:...half human, half man indeed...go visit
his site and read
his diary, it's real funny
........
• the house of cex
• cex on mp3.c HA !
cex pretty much whole heartedly endorses these sites>
• mcsweeneys.net
• this
site about eskimo poetry
• sissyfight.com
• the ultimate HOMESTARRUNNER.COM
• hiphopsite.com for
gossip
• hot link for links and funny talking
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