For June 23rd, 2003
Bumble Bee
^ Photographer: Patrick Reardon ^
^ Photographer: John Bean ^
^ Photographer: Patrick Reardon ^
The Misfits may have sung about being 138, but RU486? Ms. Bumble Bee is! Rather, that's the name of her riot grrrl band. Hotpunkgirl.com interviews her at an exclusive, secret bungalow in the heart of a bustling Massachusetts resort town. Home-baked cookies were provided by her fan club.
"I sing!" she exclaims, spraying us unapologetically with bits of cookie crumb. "I also write several 'zines, design clothes, perform spoken word, flesh hook suspension, model, and, when I've got the time, I participate in breakdancing competitions!"
Should we keep on the lookout for Bumble Bee II: Electric Boogaloo?
"Watch it," says Ms. Bee through gritted teeth, "I'm wearing steel-toed boots and sometimes my leg just...KICKS, randomly, like."
Busier than...well. It's obvious to see that Bumble Bee has honed a wide variety of talents in only twenty-two years on Earth. Enquiries into where she was before she came to Earth incite a clandestine kick beneath the table and a dropped plate of cookies. Youch!
"I'm tatooed, pierced, scarred, dreadlocked and mohawked," continues Bumble Bee, not missing a beat, "I've arm-wrestled gorillas in Cameroon, bathed in piranha-infested tributaries of the Amazon, scootered across Europe with mobsters on my tail, fistfought Tom Waits in an alley outside a Poughkeepsie dive bar, and scaled cathedrals with the minimal aid of toilet plungers. Mind your manners!"
We agree that this wouldn't be a bad idea, and offer to clean up the cookie and broken plate mess, posthaste!
Intrigued by this Hotpunkgirl who floats like a butterfly and stings like a...Bumble Bee? Then give her website a visit or drop her an email, pronto! And tell her we sent you (so she doesn't beat us up)!
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