Obey Giant Page #2

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And I knew that

when I'd seen things

like the Bob Dobbs

Church of the SubGenius,

the '50s guy with the pipe,

I was like, "What is that thing?

What's the story

behind that thing?

I want to know, I want to

get to the bottom of this."

I just had a feeling

that it would be

likeminded people

perpetuating it,

and I think that

that was the effect

that my Andre sticker

had on other people.

Not all of them.

There's a huge range

of reactions.

I remember seeing

somebody writing very small

in the negative space

in ballpoint pen on one:

"Nazi sh*t."

Any painter, any poet,

any musician sets a trap

for your attention.

That is the nature of art.

The great thing about

Andre the Giant Has a Posse

is that it somehow

doesn't have to mean anything

and it's still very cool.

It must be a cult,

it's deviant.

There's no--there's

no overt purpose.

By proclaiming this posse,

it was talking about

skate posses, right,

this idea that, like, you know,

kids form tribal communities

in music and art and

skateboarding, whatever.

But it was also

talking about how,

on a mass cultural level,

that we are unconsciously

aligning ourselves

with forces all the time.

This is my propaganda.

See, a lot of people

use models for propaganda.

You associate the product

with an attractive person,

and therefore that

makes it desirable.

I don't want to be as

straightforward as that.

One time I was in

the grocery store

behind a couple,

and the girl said,

"Hey, have you seen that

Andre the Giant sticker?"

And the guy's like,

"Yeah, I've seen that."

She goes, "What is it?"

And he goes,

"I think it's a band,"

and she says,

"Nah, I don't think so.

I think it has something

to do with skateboarding."

And he goes, "It's a band.

I've heard them before."

He just made that

up on the spot.

I thought, that's so fascinating

how, you know, people want to...

really trust their instincts

and their interpretation,

and then they're

gonna argue for that.

This paper in Providence

called The Nice Paper

printed an Andre

sticker, and they said,

"Anyone who knows what

the Andre the Giant

sticker campaign is

about wins free tickets

to The Living Room

show of your choice."

The Living Room was where

I saw Jane's Addiction,

the Ramones,

Suicidal Tendencies,

Bad Brains.

I wanted those tickets.

But I wasn't gonna let

the cat out of the bag,

so I put some

stickers in an envelope

and wrote a note that says,

"I'm sorry, I can't

tell you what it is

'cause that would ruin it,

but here's some stickers

if it's any consolation,"

and left them at their address.

Then the next week,

they ran another

picture of the sticker

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