Flash.

Click.

Plastic.

It's okay.

Sleep tight,

Wish you might.

Wish you may

See them,

Be them,

Follow the fold.

Trade this.

Buy this.

Sell your soul.

1. Who are you and what do you do?

Herro.  I'm Jeremy Dean Henry.  I am a recreator.

2. What's the origin of your artist name?

Well, there are a lot of meanings behind it.  But I really like it when other people tell me what they think it means.  :)

3. What has been your biggest challenge with your art so far?

Hmm.  *thinks hard*  Art is an expression.  And I wanted to express every part of my being, so I quit my day job.  But in doing that, I made "art" my job.  I beat myself up if I'm not inspired quickly enough, or if something doesn't come together the way I planned.  If I spend an entire day without working on music, I get really frustrated with myself.  That's not entirely a bad thing.  But it can be.  I tend to focus on the output rather than the process.  For example, I did a remix once that I couldn't wait to finish, but I worked so hard towards "finishing" it that I forgot to enjoy the process of creation.

4. Who or what is your biggest influence?

Life.  This beautiful process of living.  And growing.  And changing.  And realizing who we truly are.  And becoming that person a little more each day.  I live for the growth.  And I bless the change.  And I'm inspired by the beauty it creates.

5. What is your wildest story?

 Picking just one story might be a problem.  But I can give you one word of advice, if a cop shows up to your 30th birthday party, NEVER ASSUME IT'S A STRIPPER!

6. What is the last book you read?

Fiction: The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney by Christopher Higgs

It's amazing.  It's like a glitch-novel.  Very meta.

Non-Fiction: Crystal, Colour & Chakra Healing by Sue & Simon Lilly

7. If you could be any character in fiction, who would you be?

The Pied Piper.  I would use music to lead the children away from what they were taught by their parents so that they can think for themselves.  Oh wait...

8. What couldn’t you live without?

My cat/son, Nashville Thunderpussy.

9. What is your secret talent?

I'm a cat whisperer.  Animal whisperer, actually.  My friend's started calling me Dr. Doolittle.  (Oooh, maybe that should be my answer for #7.)

10. Tell me about the last dream you remember having?

It was a sex dream.  But the guy had no face.  Not like a scary/gross Twilight-Zone kinda thing.  But more like I couldn't make it out.  Either my subconscious didn't want to know who it was, or I wasn't meant to know.  How interesting what our mind chooses to let us see, huh?

11. What are you craving right now?

A cigarette.  It's been almost 2 weeks now.  The nicotine is out of my system.  Now it's just the habits I gotta kick.

12. What was the last song you fell in love with?

"No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" by The Guess Who

I re-discovered this song about 9 months ago, bought it on vinyl, and I play it all the fucking time.  I can honestly say I truly fell in love with this song...and 40 years after it was made too.  That's even cooler.  That means that some of the songs I make that people didn't like, someone 40 years from now could hear it and love it.  I could be making a song for someone 40 years from now.  That is very inspiring to me.

13. Can you hula hoop?

Shit, my hips don't lie.

14. What do you like?

Love, Reese's, Janet Jackson, paisley prints, thrift stores, home-grown marijuana, the "rave" setting on my camera, exploring, kissing, being a Nomad, going to the movies by myself, talking to animals, talking to myself, pretty much anything on Adult Swim, how sexy James Franco looked in Pineapple Express, wearing cardigans in fall weather, getting caught in a rain storm so your only choices are to dance or make out with someone, taking long road trips by myself, collecting fortunes out of fortune cookies, building forts in my living room, sleepovers, making my own accessories, making people laugh, recreating, being a male feminist, long phone calls with my mom where she forgets that she's my mom and talks to me like I'm a friend and says bad words, the look on a store clerk's face when I pay for something with the change from my piggy bank, Tokidoki, looking younger than I really am, the way the banjo sounds, and answering surveys about myself.

15. What do you dislike?

Mayonaise.

16. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given?

"When you started this, your only goal was to make music...your music.  And YOU are the one that said you didn't care if no one ever liked it, or understood it, or if you never made a penny off of it.  And now you're depressed because you're broke and Gaga isn't chasing you down to produce her next album.  So what changed?  Either you were lying when you said that, or your priorities have changed.  Get back to why you started this journey."

17. How and why did you start RECording?

I started RECording when I was very young.  I have a cassette tape of myself singing Laura Branigan's "Gloria" from when I was real little.  I used to see my dad recording music all the time, so it was natural for me to hit record.  I never thought I'd be doing it as much as I am now though.  And I'm so happy that I am.  

The Starfish sat on the sand, crying.

"I look up at the stars in the sky, but I cannot fly.  I look at the fish in the sea, but they are not shaped like me.

Where do I fit in?"

The ocean sighed deeply, replying,

“If sky-stars tried to swim,

Their lights would grow dim

And they would twinkle no more.

But on swimming starfish

Is where sky-stars will wish,

That they could be stars on the shore”

(tootwofoursquare wrote a beautiful ending to the Tiny Story I started, so I wanted to combine them into one text record.)

The Tone-Deaf Diva can't believe a thing she hears.