Nick Diamonds Interview Part 1
The Islands are coming! The Islands are coming to the House of Blues in New Orleans on November 19. Low and behold their tour has already started and their Decatur Street show is still nearly two months away. And that is a very long time to live with our Paul Revere-esque excitement. So as a small treat to us all, we here at AudioMonger sat down with Nick Diamonds to discuss: the good life, comics, great conspiracies of Rock-n-Roll, the departure of J’aime Tambeur, and grappling with our own existence. We are such, such martyrs. Enjoy.
Nick Diamonds: Hello.
AudioMonger: Hey, Nick.
ND: Hey. How’s it going, man?
AM: Good. How are you?
ND: Been better…
AM: Been better? What’s wrong, man?
ND: [indecipherable]
AM: I’m sorry…
ND: I just said, “I’m naked…” in my apartment.
AM: Laughs. Well alright.
ND: I’m living the good life. Turns out, I’m livin’ the good life.
AM: Yeah…Alright.
ND: Yeah. How are you doing?
AM: Good, tired. I’m in Chicago for the first time.
ND: Oh. Cool. I love that city.
AM: I like it too, man. It’s got a lot going on.
ND: Where are you from originally?
AM: Louisiana.
ND: Cool.
AM: Yeah. Well I’m just going to pick a spot to start and jump right in. I noticed on your website that you have a link to McSweeney’s (www.mcsweeneys.net).
ND: A link to McSweeney’s?
AM: Yeah. I’ve been a fan of that site and Dave Eggers for a while now. Are you a fan as well?
ND: Yeah. Yeah. Totally, man, I’m a fan: Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s, the pirate store, the whole deal… Everything those guys do is really cool.
AM: Have you been to the pirate store?
ND: Yes, I have. I actually went a couple years ago when I was first there. It was quite enjoyable to be in the midst of so many pirate things.
AM: When I went to San Francisco that was one of my first stops, as well. It really was quite something to see all the tubs of fat and all that.
ND: Yeah. Those big tubs of lard…
AM: Do you do any writing outside of lyrics?
ND: Yeah. I write comic books. That’s the other thing I’m doing right now. I have a little, like, place where I put them up on this little blog I’ve created. I can give you the link to it if you would like.
AM: Yeah. I would like that. Hold on one second
ND: Always into broadening my…
AM: So what is it?
AM: What kind of comics are you writing?
ND: All sorts: goofy and creepy.
AM: Are you illustrating those as well?
ND: Yeah. Yeah. I’m drawing them.
AM: Is it at all similar to another link on your site, www.paperrad.org?
ND: Hmm. It is an influence, but their more fucked up than me. They’ve done more acid than I have.
AM: Yeah. It’s pretty out there, man. It’s hard to look at for too long.
ND: Definitely. I’m, uh, I’m a little more into the cuter side of life.
AM: So what kind of subjects are you dealing with?
ND: Drug use, deformity, space invaders, schizophrenia, all the cute, goofy stuff.
AM: Yeah. Schizophrenia is real adorable.
ND: Well you can make it adorable. Just have a cartoon dog have it.
AM: I’ll have to check it out. When do you start the tour?
ND: We’re starting in, like, a week, about a week and a half. Yeah. Actually, we start a week from today and then we tour for two months.
AM: Do you like touring?
ND: It’s great. I mean you can’t complain, but I think it could be a little more balanced. A two month tour is a little long. But it’s a blast. I really can’t complain. You get to be a traveling salesman, you know. And you get to see a lot of small towns, and a lot of people.
AM: Is there anywhere you’re going that you’re particularly looking forward to or somewhere you haven’t been before?
ND: Um. Well, we’re going to New Orleans and the band that I’m in has never been there, so that is going to be exciting. I’ve been there once before with another band, but I definitely look forward to that. I haven’t been there since the hurricane, either. How’s it doing?
AM: It depends where you are in the city, I guess. If your Uptown it seems a lot more normal, but other areas…You’ll have a random house in a deserted neighbored that has a green lawn, while everything else around it is still dead.
ND: Wow. Wow.
AM: I mean to some extent it is getting back together, but for the large part it’s still really messed up. A lot isn’t going right.
ND: Shit. I mean it’s a pretty big scandal… big scandal.
AM: Did it get a lot of coverage in Canada?
ND: Yeah. We heard a lot about it. You know there were a lot of question marks about why it took so long to get help, and where people were being sent and how the people were being treated. A lot of criticisms about the administrations handling of the crisis, or not treating it as such, I guess. It all just seemed pretty fucked up.
AM: Definitely. Pretty fucked up. So, to go back to the tour, what can we expect, any tricks up your sleeve?
ND: Maybe creepy seven foot tall dancers or eight foot tall dancers. Just some really tall dancers, we might have some creepy eight foot tall dancing spider people.
AM: Well I look forward to that.
ND: Yeah, that’ll give you nightmares.
AM: [Laugh] So, I’ve noticed you talking about creepy stuff a few times, what kind of stuff do you like to read or art that enjoy? Or is that style just something you prefer to do creatively?
ND: Right. Well, um, yeah. I don’t read, like, R.L. Stine or anything like that. Yeah. I like fucked up art, like the PaperRad stuff. In terms of literature, the books that I read or really more, like, classic novels or whatever. I really don’t land on too many weird, esoteric, occult things. But I like this one book I read on rock conspiracies. I read it a couple of years ago. It was really creepy. It talked about how all these people who died mysteriously were killed by the C.I.A. or had something to do with the C.I.A. killing them. And it’s pretty fucked up. Bob Marley and John Lennon and Brian Jones, the original Rolling Stone, and all these other guys…
AM: What was the name of that book?
ND: Conspiracy of Rock or something, I can’t even remember what it was called. It was so good, though; so, like, insane. After a while you just have to kind of take a step back or you’ll really get sucked into this paranoid reality that everyone in the government is out to get you. But there are some pretty convincing arguments for some of these people, like Jimi Hendrix, who was found by his girlfriend. He drank, or he had apparently choked on his own vomit. But the weird thing is that… Or he drowned on a bottle of wine and then kind of choked. But the fucked up thing is that the alcohol hadn’t absorbed into his blood stream. So it was as if he downed an entire bottle of red wine in a matter of seconds. You’re just not physically able to do that, unless someone is force feeding you. You know?
AM: Yeah.
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