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A brutally honest portrait of Honus Honus (Ryan Kattner), the surprising, shocking, and talented lead singer of experimental rock band Man Man.
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Transcript Provided by YouTube:
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oh you don’t want it back
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cooties I understand
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my life is biggest question how can I
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get my shit together I know how gave me
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like 30 years you know I feel like once
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the apocalypse happens and in twenty
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twenty twelve and the mines come down
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from the heavens riding gilded dolphins
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shooting lasers out of their holes you
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know I feel like then I will make sense
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then people will finally realize that I
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provided the perfect soundtrack for this
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it gets a little theatrical but the same
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time there’s a sense of mentality that
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that can’t be faked there’s a certain
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genuine aspect to the to the performance
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what people aren’t stupid they can tell
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if you’re faking a feeling and I feel
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most people do and I think I was coming
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from a background where I didn’t know
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how to write songs but I felt like as
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long as I cared and I believed in what I
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was doing that matters more than people
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who went to school or trained you know
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because most people were just they’re
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just they’re trained you know they’re
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gonna like they’re gonna fill out a you
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know there’s a format too and it’s like
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a not knowing how to write songs I felt
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qualified me to write songs at least try
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I mean I think that’s the thing about
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our music which is like which I love is
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that it is this balance of you know you
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can have a song which tastes really
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sweet but you know it’s it’s cooked with
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a batter mixed with a glass and I like I
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like that I like that imbalance I like
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those extremes kind of existed in the
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same in the same arena you know
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in the beginning like being on stage of
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being like a quote-unquote frontman it’s
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the last thing in the world I wanted to
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do I mean it’s when we started I I just
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I would just sing in the part so that we
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could find a really awesome girl singer
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to the earth person and then I just got
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stuck out of it absorbed that role so so
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for example the last thing that what I
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want to do is put on a fucking to rest
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on stage and like ladies shoes how can
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you say that well I mean it’s like it’s
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like I get myself into a into a mental
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place where I can do that but but it’s I
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think it’s a matter of that in itself
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it’s really uncomfortable than me so
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that’s why I kind of go towards it
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because it’s like it scares the shit out
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of me so maybe that’s maybe that’s the
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appeal of it is that I have to embrace
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that well yeah I mean I’m gonna own the
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dress I mean I’m gonna I’m putting the
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shit on and you can see my gams you see
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my beautiful legs I’m gonna own that
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shit you know I’m not gonna be like
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I got totally lucky that I found this
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beans to express all this garbage to my
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head just get it out there and you know
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music just happened to be what it was at
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the time and it just kind of became
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all-consuming
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and that’s why up on a rooftop right now
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I’ll do a piss yellow moon
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which I wouldn’t trade it for anything
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you know
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