A Random Question to Blue Party

I am not sure if as I get older I am getting weirder, or more interesting. I hope it is the later.


I have decided to start asking random questions to bands. That will be my thing to keep me, and hopefully you interested. The lucky first contestant is The Blue Party, from my home town of New Orleans.

I had a great conversation recently with a friend of mine. We spoke of a time when we would no longer have fancy things like Twitter and Cell Phones and lawn mowers. I then proposed the question of what actual practical survival skills do we have if the switch went out today, and we were back in a pre-industrial state. Later that night, after a few drinks, I received an email from Blue Party about a tour documentary they were working on (I would highly recommend not clicking on this link unless you are OK with the F word). I then decided to respond, probably in not the best state of mind, but I may have started a neat little thing here.

I told them I would mention the documentary in exchange for their answer to my question about survival in a doomsday scenario, much like The Road. Here is what Reid from the band sent back.

"Alex Bachari was a Bear scout, so he knows how to kill mountain lions with his bare hands if necessary (feel free to ask him about it - akbachar@loyno.edu). He also has a survival handbook, a Volkswagen emergency kit, and book on communicating with bears. Thus, two of our main predators are neutralized by Alex's knowledge of talking to bears and killing mountain lions."

Sounding good; I may be looking for you guys then. What else you got?

"I will have stolen a portable DVD player in the mayhem of the world ending, and several packs of batteries. This will be used for watching all the episodes of Man vs. Wild and Survivorman to figure out what to do in each climate."

I would also recommend watching Grizzly Man for Alex's sake. I doubt we will have time for such things and batteries may want to be used for things like flashlights and the such.

"Al would grow a bear (this is what they typed. I feel like they meant beard, but growing a bear does sound more interesting) and fashion a double-edged battle axe to fight off any non-bear/mountain lion predators. He also would become best friends with a volleyball because he hates the rest of us."

My problem with this one is I have a feeling there will be more guns than axes to deal with. Good Castaway reference though. I am hoping the rest of you aren't as crazy as Al here.

"Hannah would be tolerant of all her band mates except Al, since he has chosen a volleyball over the rest of the band. While Al is playing with his volleyball, Hannah would try to kill him because he has the meatiest body."

Now I know I am not going to try and find you in the end times!

"George would accept the fact that the world is ending and "open his third-eye and embrace the abyss". (Apparently this is taken from Kabbalah, a heretical sect of Pre-Christian Judaism that places a heavy emphasis on mysticism and the apocalypse... George is our bouzouki player. He's kind of weird.)"

How many people are in this band? I have my doubts there will be much time to switch religions at this point. I will be sticking to the faith that has gotten me this far.

"Ross would finally change his name to Boss and negotiate on our behalf when we meet other renegade bands in the wilderness. You don't want to get into a negotiation with Boss - he can stare anybody down."

Well, I wish the best of luck to you guys. I have a feeling you guys may want to just listen to Alex if God forbid we have to see such days.

I also want to let you know what the deal is with the bunny, in case anyone else was as curious as me. Their guitar player, Alex, bought the bunny suit a few months ago and it travels wherever they go. They usually find a drunk fan to wear it at gigs (The picture above is one of Andrew Hartsock from Big Rock Candy Mountain wearing it). The Blue Party claims "The democrats have a donkey, republicans an elephant, The Blue Party has a bunny. " Well good to know. Here are some MP3s for you too:

MP3: The Blue Party - Homeless
MP3: The Blue Party - Prison