Bunny Bennett

Years of my life have been marred by this dirty lens I see myself through. I want to find a way to be the unstoppable powerhouse who doesn’t hate themselves. I get there sometimes. I just don't know how to stay.

Midwest tour photos. The Pokemon Field exhibit was amazing!

Thanks for that sentiment! Yes, its so rough to be an artist right now! And its very difficult to be a queer person right now or neurodivergent. I fall in those categories and its hard to not let the fear get to you. It's good to hear you use the word nostalgic with the band, because I always thought we were capturing the nostalgia of the music, the setting, the history of the band as Milennials born in the 90s...looking back on history we didn't really experience but with a warm nostalgic filter. The nostalgia from the 80s and 90s is my childhood, and listening to some of that music is an absolute nostalia overload. Its a little sadder and beautiful when its you reflecting on your own history, something I think we keep trying to capture with our music. For the band's lore, creating that feeling of a phantom nostalgia, a time and place that you never experienced and may not even be real...is where the story of ageless robots who dabble in every music genre really glows for me. Revisiting the media that helped shape you as a kid is such an experience. I feel like each time I revisit something every ten years its like experiencing it for the first time again. I hope you always find that warmth and memory in your favorite SPG songs.

Thanks, I'm so glad it has helped you. It's a pretty deep Rabbit hole to fall down (heh) and I hope you enjoy the journey. We made the world with a lot of sweat and love and I hope people can appreciate that, it always makes me happy.

This is so cool! Its good to re-meet you on the interwebs a little closer to who we were meant to be, yeh? I'm happy for you. I'm happy for me. It's tough, I hear it in your message. But yeah, if there's one thing I like about getting older...is that if you're doing it right, you're learning a lot along the way. I am not the same person I was 15 years ago, but who I am now is so much happier and healthier.

I'm so happy younger me left you with a good experience. That's all I hope for when interacting with anyone, and its so lovely to hear I had some impact on you in a positive way. Seriously, if 2012 me could see this post...this is what its all about, paying it forward to the next traveler. You're never alone, we're all traveling this big blue world together :3 And congrats on getting married...I just got married last October and I keep joking with my wife that writing good songs for me is over because I'm getting too damn happy.

I know how hard it can get. Thank-you for discovering the band and giving us a go.

It really means a lot that you took time out of your day to send me this message. You are not just a drop in the pail, you are an individual and how you connected with our art is important to me. I'm so glad you've found continued value in the art, that's the greatest compliment.

Please know, I love talking about myself and my art like most artists. So pretentious of me, but I love to see interest! I do a piss-poor job of managing my time and stress. Really. I've been on a personal journey for the last decade of trying to iron myself out, and its been a really tough run of it. But finding the balance is the key to success. I'm so close, but I've still got so far to go. The problem is, who figures out they've been doing life wrong before they hit their late 20s? I really couldn't see through the fog and the constant go-go-go of my life and career. Then the pandemic happened. My mental health has been a priority ever since. I've struggled with it since the day I was born and will continue to feel excruciating amounts of emotional turmoil for the rest of my days... So managing that is what leads to a more consistent balancing of time. My problem is finding the sweet spot between my manic hyper-drive explosions of creative/work energy and the week-long depressive stints or more. I also love to just work in a constellation of projects. I jump around a lot sure, and my energy fluctuates between them...but I tried for so long to work differently and...I just found this is how my brain works. The benefit is that this thing I thought was a problem...is actually my greatest strength. But, it is also why I can't finish things or get distracted. Despite that, the best advice I can give is that you cannot be scared to start something and fail. You cannot be afraid to never finish a piece of work. Here's what I tell my own kids: Starting something is doing 90% better than most people. Even if it doesn't stick. Create anything and you're doing great. It can even suck. Most people don't even begin let alone have their own creative work, band, what-have-you. For me managing the constellation of all the things you have to do can be fun and challenging; it can be a pitfall and it can also be an amazing tool. But I'm still trying to find my groove. I am not succeeding in any visible sense I think at the moment, but I know I'm trying to get there.

I'm just happy to this day people come up to me and say they love her design. The fun of not defining her is that the listener gets to be the girl in Spine's arms. But just to be clear, I would write a backstory and plot arc for a talking trashcan, so be careful what you wish for.

Well, I have no money to offer anybody at the moment, which really makes doing the comic harder! But first, thank-you this is such a huge compliment just you being interested in that way. And second, just theoretically: if we get this off the ground going again and we decide we need some outside help I'd always look for innovation and creativity. That's very generic, but delegating the comic is hard for me to do...Sam did storyboards and helped with writing and did full page line art. Gabi did background art and a bunch of coloring...so...I love Gabi's love of the weird and her work is super sleek looking. Sam and I both have really disturbing looking art (but Sams is more disturbing, and I LOVE it) so we just meshed well together. He is a very efficient and dedicated artist, and I was always blown away by everything he did. It oozes his personality. Style is a big thing for me. Line quality and readability... But...to reiterate I don't have anything for anyone to do atm. I'm always thinking about what I'd need to do to get in someone else's help, and it would be a boon to save time. But I am also very possessive of the work and I'm still learning how to delegate stuff. You can tell I've been thinking a lot about the comic.

This is a funny thing to kind of stumble upon when it should be more obvious... Do you know that feeling you get; perhaps after seeing a good movie in a theater? You leave kind of half in that world you saw and you take a piece of it with you. You almost "become" a part of the film in a way. You may suddenly feel pumped to change the social order, or want to call your mom and tell her you love her, or any other sort of introspective emotional energy galvanized by whatever media you just enjoyed. Isn't that a wonderful feeling? I can remember so many times how I floated on air after enjoying a good movie, show, or book. The feelings can sometimes last 24 hours later...just kind of slowly coming back to the rigors of your own life little by little as you get further away from that inspirational high. These positive feels seem so helpful. How effective do you think this is for treating mental illness? I've never really thought it about... I remember having a mental breakdown a few years ago, and I went and saw Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Silently ugly crying in the theater really sort of put my perspective at the time back on track. It was a difficult day, but it turned around majorly after that film. There's probably a lot that goes into it that helps...calm lighting in a theater or quiet vibes for a book...something to focus on...but when it works, I find myself drifting on a sort of cloud made out of the elements of whatever piece of media I just saw. It feels so good, this is why watching Lord of the Rings for the 17th hundred time will always give me those chills...like when Boromir dies in Aragorn's arms, or Samwise does his speech at the end of Two Towers...ugh...I'm already tearing up thinking about them. This is really why I love art. Its the only thing I did with my feelings back when I lacked any other tools, and it continues to guide me along. How effective can it be? Sometimes focusing on media can be hard with stress or too many distractions, but I find myself trying to recreate that environment of in-taking something good for the soul as often as I can without really planning it or knowing why... That hunger for something that's gonna give you tingles. Its addicting. And cathartic.

Mistress Bella I drew looking a little less like she'll crack open your skull and drink your brain juice, for a change.

They're so bad they're good. And sometimes you find one that is actually really good...which is how I discovered Return of the Living Dead as a kid. You never know what you're in for.

so cool!!!

I watched every Tim Burton movie as a kid and really fell in love with old sci fi and horror films; so I just try weird things and get very goth-style vibes