KRASHCITY Magazine Issue 10

Manzin—I was very lucky and actually kind of resentful that I didn’t find him earlier. I would say it was love at first sight but it wasn’t even love. It was something completely different than that; it was something I just never felt before. I don’t know if anyone could really relate to that relief to know that there is nothing wrong with you because then if it’s wrong with you then it is wrong with him. I am just another dorky kid from Ohio that said “I don’t give a f***, I am doing what I want “ and actually have it work out for them. All I thought was “if he could do it then I could do it, f*** it I will do what I want!” And that is what I did.

KCM- That seriously sounds like me when I got into him. I got into him during the Eat Me, Drink Me era. The way I discovered was from being in dance school. I was waiting at a dress rehearsal practice and all the sudden I heard this f***in amazing drum beat. And I said to myself what the f*** is that?! I of course wasn’t the preppy one in dance school at that time. I was the black sheep and the one tap dancing to rock n roll and thrash metal.

Manzin—(laughing) I am trying to envision this and it's awesome! (laughing) KCM- Yup I was the one doing tap and ballet to thrash metal.

Manzin: One of my favorite strippers in a club I used to go to would dance to Slipknot.

All the other girls would dance to Cee-Lo, Usher, and all that shit but this one girl would come out and dance to Slipknot and some other crazy shit. There was another girl I knew in high school who would dance to the most ear-splitting music like the NIN remix album Fixed that has all the broken songs redone. It had this ear-splitting guitar and the bass that just keeps going along with drums and it’s so horrible to listen to. She would do a 6-minute stripper dance to this music and the guys would be sitting there just horrified because she would be kicking the wall behind her head and just dancing to this intolerable music. The guys would actually pay to make her leave and would say “please just go away and take your terrible music with you!” I had so much respect for her dancing the way she wanted to and using the music that she loved without caring what was popular or not. She just said “f*** you, f***this club. I am just doing it to pay for our drugs anyway “ (laughing)! Yea, college was only good for me experimenting sexually, learning how to smoke weed, snort drugs, and I learned fencing. All of which I’ve forgotten except the drugs and how to eat p***. (laughing)! Go to college, kids. It's very important! (laughing)!

KCM- (laughing)!

Manzin—These are life lessons that will serve you your whole life. Trigonometry will not serve you your whole life. Do you remember when your teacher would say “you are not going to have a calculator on you all the time and you have to know how to do this”? Well now there are iPhones and one side is a scientific calculator. That's all you need.

KCM- I don’t even what to talk about or think about math! (laughing) Manzin—I know. I don’t like math either.