2008 Woodie Awards
The Greyhound talks to established metal icons
Laila Hanson
Issue date: 12/11/07 Section: Arts & Society
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Laila Hanson: I'm a very big fan of yours. I can't wait to see you perform tomorow in Baltimore.
Otep Shamaya: Righteous, thank you. We are having a lot of fun on this tour.
LH: Yeah, I've noticed that you've been on the road quite some time. I remember seeing you about a year ago in Fletcher's, and you were on tour for awhile before then, too. You ever get sick of it?
OS: We've been out for about 6 weeks now - the monotony of it all does get to me sometimes but the time I have on stage, to play and perform our music, makes it all worthwhile.
LH: I'm glad to hear that. How's the reaction been with the new album live?
OS: It's been tremendous and overwhelmingly positive. It always surprises me to see people singing with us. The album has only been out for a month!
LH: I've noticed you've had a lot of fan interaction on your new album The_Acension, especially via the internet. I know that I've personally demanded Otep in numerous cities on and around this area via Eventful.com. Have you gotten a lot of positive feedback with this?
OS: Yes, the feedback has been wonderful. I enjoy being exclusively inclusive with fans and supporters of our music.
LH: In the midst of all of The_Acension promotion, you've released some poetry books too, Caught Screaming and Little Sins. Do a lot of your poems find their way into your lyric writing?
OS: All songs begin as poems. Before music, there was poetry. And yes, I am a sadistic scribbler. I write constantly and whenever creating an album or poetry book or whatever I will look back through my books to see if there is anything viable or meaningful to me.
LH: Do you think you're going to keep up with poetry releases in addition to your music?
OS: Yes. I will always write - as long as there is breath in me.
LH: I've read that you're a big fan of Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Keroauc. What do you think of the popularity of today's memoir compared with their style?
OS: The beat poets were trying to recreate poetry. They were revolutionaries. Their war was with the archaic, rigid rules that were suffocating interest in poetry. There's few people trying to do that these days, I wish there were more.
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