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Have you listened to the BONE SOUP FOR CHRISTMAS Holiday Mix from Rich Uncle Skelleton and the House of Grizzly Andrews?  (If not, follow the link!)   BUT WAIT!  In case those magical sounds aren’t enough, here are some words between your RICH UNCLE and GRIZZLY ANDREWS.  Read! Listen! Put a Candy Cane in your mouth and enjoy the orgy of the senses.

Rich Uncle celebrates 32 years in only a few days.  Are you feeling old?

Capricorns get younger with age, I am told.  I’ve always looked forward to being old but it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen for a while.  To me, old people are definitely cool because they don’t give a shit about ‘being cool’.  They roll their eyes when you ask them idiotic shit like “Do you think music has gotten better since your day?”   When my grandpa was in his late 90s I used to watch him turn off his hearing aids when people would ask him dumb shit.  For him, young people might even be in their 50s. He’d raise up his arms and look blankly, shrugging his shoulders in defeat.  And then walk away.  When he’d notice I had caught him in the act, he’d just grin the best kind of grin.  One that only someone who is truly old as fuck can give.   I am not this old yet.  But boy, I can’t wait. 

  What is Rich Uncle-Skelleton’s proudest accomplishment to date?

2013 was a really good year.  I got to work with pretty nearly every musical artist I like, partner up with some super rad festivals and premiere a digital-baroque opera with Frances Adair Mckenzie.   I’d say getting to watch the faces of 300 stupefied people as they watched a 50-foot digital Mozart’s Sister (looking like a cross between Marie-Antoinette and Cindy Lauper) in a 19th century bank, singing music I wrote was pretty rad.  But honestly, every time people even show up to something I do I’m happy.    I’m usually more shocked than proud   Like, “Oh, so this is happening.  Huh”. 

  What is your relationship to the Holiday Season?

My parents moved to the legitimate middle of nowhere some years ago and it’s always a bit isolating to get out there and it’s nearly always prolonged due to inclement weather.  There is a kind of calmness that is represented in the physical landscape of the country.  There’s also a kind of calm needed to deal with the stress of travelling.  Or when your Chinese mother calls you fat.  That’s what I thought about when putting this mix together—being with the people I love and chilling the fuck out. 

  If you had one Christmas miracle granted to you, what would it be?

To wake  up in a world where everyone respected themselves and each other and placed living in harmony with nature over simple profit.   Barring this, I would settle for waking up to an iPhone that wasn’t smashed. 

  What will we see next from Rich Uncle-Skelleton?