Photography by Jenn Silver
We caught up with Cecil Frena, mastermind of Edmonton’s GOBBLE GOBBLE. Tonight, you must go to Marquee Room to check out their one of a kind, video game inspired flu pop. Underneath the fuzzy vocals, bleeps, bloops and blips of Comcast’s past lies the melody of the next greatest club bomb. Also sharing the stage will be Mount Analogue and Extra Happy Ghost, who are having their cd release party.
What is Flu Pop and are you the procreatory influence of this genre?
Flu pop is a nervous psychic distillery: pour in snot and bile and humors and then inhale deeply over the humidifier as something laughably lovely rises up. A kind of carnivalesque coffee filter for your carnal fears. We all procreate, more or less.
What are history’s top three video games and why?
a. Pit Fighter (SNES): This often-overlooked gem simulates perfectly the vicious intensity of illegal prize fighting by rendering its character sprites as maximally compressed GIFs circa 1994. The controls are so carefully mangled and time-delayed that this feat of programming sublimates video gaming into dadaist performance art.
b. NBA Jam (Cross-Platform): NBA Jam is the game that finally brought encephalitis to the mainstream after so many years. I hate sports, but I love sports with big heads. Such simple arithmetic.
c. Shaq-Fu (Cross-Platform): It is axiomatic that 2D fighting games go from good to transcendentally amazing when they: a) feature jilted first-gen FMV-like animations; and 2) have a celebrity endorsement worthy of Kazaam! Shaq-fu proved that the universe does indeed resonate with karmic balance. Monks spend years sequestered and ascetic to achieve the heights that Shaq Fu propels you to in seconds.
If GOBBLE GOBBLE were to remix a classic album, what would it be
and how would people feel about it?
I think I would remix the record Michael Jackson was working on with Akon just prior to his death. Since everyone is suddenly a Michael Jackson fan, I imagine it would go over well, but really I just want to have this unbelievable collab in my collection as soon as possible.
Describe your ideal wedding.
Everyone would be wearing black and standing with their arms crossed and dour looks on their faces. Each person would have a green glowstick in their left breast pocket. Some people would be wearing vampire teeth. The priest would have suspension hooks in his back, and would refer constantly to his tatttered copy of the Penguin Anton Lavey. When the marriage vows are consummated, there will be a bass drop, and a smoke machine and strobe light would turn on. The first dance would be My Chemical Romance’s “Undead Lovers Quadrilogy”, at which point I would be unable to countenance the affair any longer and would initiate divorce proceedings.
Which is life’s most underappreciated natural sound effect?
Tiga’s girlfriend’s shoes.
Who is your favourite Edmonton band at the moment?
It’s a bit artificial and more than a bit political for me to pick a favorite band from my hometown, so I won’t, but to provide some response to your inquiry, I do want to say that Bayonets!!! Deserve much more attention than they’ve been getting. They play an absolutely caustic variety of no wave / theater punk . Their live performance is a sight to be seen, verily, intimidatingly awkward and confrontational in the very best sense of those words. Bayonets!!! laugh, cry, and above all, lunge.
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