Blissed Out: The Pendu Magazine Interview
26th
2010

[Outside the club, Glasslands Gallery, Johnny Sagan of PENDU interviews Sasha and Alex of BLISSED OUT after their live performance for PENDU DISCO at Glasslands Gallery]
Johnny Sagan: Okay, so I’m here with my PEOPLES, Blissed Out. SO glad I didn’t miss your performance.
Blissed Out 1: Chill.
Blissed Out 2: Dark.
Johnny Sagan: Yeah…”a lickle darkah!” You guys killed it.
Blissed Out 1: Dark!
Blissed Out 2: Dark!
Johnny Sagan: Love it that you had sequencers and drum machines on stage! There was not a laptop screen in sight.
Blissed Out 1: Fuck that shit.
Blissed Out 2: I don’t own one! At this point, I wish I did.
Blissed Out 1: Hahaha.
Johnny Sagan: It would make things easier, to like organize all the files?
Blissed Out 2: In my home life, it would make things…more easy.
Blissed Out 1: Fucking touring on smartphones is hard.
Blissed Out 2: But it’s doable…
Blissed Out 1: You can’t listen to Myspace songs.
Blissed Out 2: It’s hard, though…
Johnny Sagan: No, that’s true! Like, someone’s like, “Listen to my shit…” Yeah.
Blissed Out 1: But yeah, we want a laptop for other stuff, but not for making music.
Blissed Out 2: For porn!
Johnny Sagan: Communication.
Blissed Out 1: It’s all about, like…it’s really important to have things that are, like, special…
Johnny Sagan: Dedicated to different…
Blissed Out 1: Dedicated to music!
Johnny Sagan: …functions, yeah.
Blissed Out 1: It’s like the idea that, like, someone could be on their, like, laptop talking to their friends on AIM, you know…
Blissed Out 2: And they could also be on…oh, on AIM, yeah!
Blissed Out 1: Yeah, and, like Tweeting, or whatever, while they’re making music. It’s like, no: it’s like you have these special objects that you use sort of ritualistically to come back and, like, Do That Thing. Which is music, you know?

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