Jesse Hughes loves women. I mean, he really loves women. If you read the first of our Eagles of Death Metal interviews with Joshua Homme, you may have got the impression that the boys, who grew up together in Palm Desert, are shameless flirts. That’s doubly true with Hughes, the second half of this fun-loving act.
INTO: ET, My Little Pony, toy collecting, comics, anime, cameras, photography, painting, raves, dancing, retardedly huge things and retardedly small things, Hello Kitty, drug references on little kids shirts, the beach, vintage things, vegans, extreme mods.
NOT INTO: Attitude problems!
MAKES ME HAPPY: Toys, raves, beaver lighters, music, Care Bears, comics, conventions, TV, getting tattooed.
MAKES ME SAD: People who lack respect.
HOBBIES: Everything. I’m a serial hobbiest/collector – no, really, it’s getting scary.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Sugarfree Red Bull, dancing, cigarettes, spell check my sketchbook.
VICES: Sugarfree Red Bull.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Surfing the web, and working.
I pride myself on knowing quite a bit about TV. Sure, the shows I have backed this season have been canceled (Lone Star and Terriers) and sometimes I tend to read far too much into the more trashy fare (Jersey Shore) but, hey, that’s part of being a fan of America’s most populist art form. Sometimes you just make some bad calls.
Q. I’m 17 years old and I’ve been with this girl for about a year and a half on the 27th. The only problem is that she moved to California in July, and I don’t know what to do anymore. I miss her so much and talking on the phone doesn’t fill the hole like it used to. I need advice.
“I think music is a pleasure device, and it should be used as such.”
– Joshua Homme
If music be the food of love, then Eagles of Death Metal are a super-sized serving. Though their music has little to do with The Eagles or death metal, core members and BFFs Jesse Hughes (a.k.a. The Devil) and Joshua Homme (a.k.a. Carlo Von Sexron) have embraced the hard rockin’, easy lovin’ ethos of such bands. The pair went from kicking a football around together during their formative years in Palm Desert, to kicking musical ideas around as adults on the road.
INTO: Bicycling, ceramic animals, collecting old stuff, records, vinyasa, a good rhyming thesaurus, word masters.
NOT INTO: Mosquitos.
MAKES ME HAPPY: My dogs Igby and Fred.
MAKES ME SAD: Friends who live far away.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My dogs, coffee, iPhone, bicycle, paint.
VICES: Cigarettes, tattoos, olives.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Raping department stores and designing synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. I also river dance the shit out of spiders from time to time.
This Sunday (Jan 16th) our very special in-studio guest will be award-winning music video director Doug Freel, who is the filmmaker behind the Al Jourgenson / Ministry documentary Fix. He’ll be talking about his new rock doc, and sharing stories of life (and death) on the road with the band that defined the industrial genre.
