THE NEW LOOSE

RN: Splunny, what kind of name is that?

SP: People have been calling me Looney, Lunny, Doughboy and Splooney.  No one ever called me Splunny.

RN: What is your favorite YouTube video?
SP: I’ve been watching a lot of strange kid’s videos with my daughter lately.  I currently have 148 favorites @  http://www.youtube.com/user/Splunny  

RN: Can you explain your affinity for Jeopardy?
SP: I love the awkward conversations during the first round break.  I love Alex Trebek’s asshole remarks when people get one wrong.  I also love counting how many answers I can get right.  My record is 21, but it was a High School Championship.  

RN: Your videos seem to have a common thread of vaginas, what’s that all about? 
SP: Spank Rock said “For the ‘PU$$Y’ video, can we have a bunch of puppies and kittens playing in the meadow?”  I said, “Nah, we must search for the truth.”  Alex Trebek once said, “If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.”

RN: What has been your favorite project you’ve worked on so far? 
SP: I loved doing ‘Lindsey Lohan’s Revenge’.  It was super low budget..  We went to Halloween Adventure on Columbus Blvd. and bought a ton of slime and rubber earthworms.  i made a Lohan cardboard vagina out of a pizza box and found an old plastic fetus that someone left in my beer bottle at a party.  It was hard to smoke through the vagina.  i couldn’t see the lighter and kept burning my lips.  When the babyrat snorts coke, I ran a tube from it’s nose to my mouth and sucked up a pile of baking powder.  I almost puked.

RN: How did you get involved with the N.A.S.A music video?
SP: I was working on a shitty job in Atlantic City, NJ. I stayed at the Borgata, playing a construction worker (bridge builder) silhouette behind a video screen for a team leadership sales pump-up meeting. Sam saw the ‘PU$$Y’ video and sent me an email about ‘getting down’ with him for the NASA project.  I didn’t mind leaving the Borgata under those circumstances.

RN: Is there a something you’ve dreamed about drawing or making a video for?
SP: I want to make a video for D’Angelo…if and when he returns.

RN: Are you currently obsessed with anything (movie, song, food, drink, toy)?
SP: Lately, I’ve been brewing a lot of beer, playing disc golf, and getting my hop plants ready for the new season.  These are the things that i do, now that I have a daughter.  I’ve been watching ‘The Wire’ too.  So, so good. 

RN: Do you prefer animation over drawing or vice versa, why? 
SP: I never planned to animate anything.  in fact, i took one class of animation in college and told my instructor I would never do it again.  I love drawing, but at this point i figured out how to make it all move.  There’s nothing wrong with that, except the time it takes.  This summer, my goal is to finish two full shows of drawings and,at least, one animation.  I will do it, if it’s in print.

RN: What do you find you have to defend most about Philadelphia to people who don’t live here?
SP: It’s not dressing in drag or racist if the Mummers are doing it.