4:20 INTERVIEW WITH DANIELLE MAY ROSA

by Max

Danielle Motherfucking Rosa is my best friend and also my room mate. She is a truck driver, sculpter, painter, performance artist and writer. She wrote my favorite pun in the world, which is “Absence makes the heart Jane Fonda”. She recently launched a website of her visual work, at http://www.daniellerainbowrosa.com

Check out this awesome playlist she made to share with you, as well

4:20 INTERVIEW WITH DANIELLE MAY ROSA

Me: Ok let’s do an interview. Are you ready?

Danielle: Have we begun?

Me: Yeah this is the end of the interview

Danielle: I took that away

Me: Huh? so Danielle, first question: tell me about drawing: what time of day do you usually make your pictures? Like night time or in between bites of a sandwich?

Danielle: Usually immediately after when I see inspiration

me: So all times of day and night?

Danielle: See or receive inspiration. Yes.

me: Ok I have another question: why does this give me a boner?

Danielle: Cuz you love women

me: Interesting… So tell me about animals that you draw. Do you like to draw pets or wild animals?

Danielle: Happy 4:20

me: Happy 4:20! So tell me about animals

Danielle: I like to draw things that aren’t too hard to draw. So i like to draw: turtles, bunnies, lions…

me: Do you have a favorite animal to draw?

Danielle: Yes. Lions, from the front on. When they’re sitting down.

(Universal Truth & Stretch of the Truth, 2008)

me: Oh I see. So my next question is, solve for x:

5(-3x – 2) – (x – 3) = -4(4x + 5) + 13

Sent at 4:24 PM on Friday

me: Well?

Sent at 4:29 PM on Friday

Danielle: Ok hold on

Sent at 4:33 PM on Friday

Danielle: Ok. I did my best and this is all I can simplify that too 30-(x-3)= -x-12.25

me: No Danielle, the answer is zero

Danielle: That could make sense. But I don’t believe you.

me: Google the problem. Eating a salad from the Thai restaurant and someone put a tomato on it! Ewwwwwwwww

Danielle: Is this still the interview? huh

me: No gimme a sec

Danielle: I love you. After thing can I interview you for my clog

me: Ok. So let’s talk about your favorite artists / influences: influences that aren’t artists too. What inspires you?

Danielle: Taboo subjects

me: Ooh! Like what?

Danielle: Looking at cats and dogs. Oh I don’t want to mention them here

me: I just had the five hour energy shot

Danielle: tee-hee. I never did one of those. What they like

me: It’s actually amazing. You get a niacin rush.

Danielle: Max

me: Uh huh? Anyways… taboo like what? Ok next question. When you put your fingers inside your pussy what do your pussyjuices smell like?

Danielle: Strawberries. Next question.

me: Really? I’ve never been with a girl so I don’t know. So do you eat a lot of strawberries?

Danielle: Never

me: Let’s set the record straight about something, in this interview

Danielle: Please bring some home

me: DANIELLE ROSA versus FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

Danielle: Oh man

me: Give our readers the story. Explain your theory.. it’s part of your art

Danielle: Where do I start? How I think they’re dirty…

me: Just what you do and do not eat and why

Danielle: and I’m like a freak about dirt. I don’t like tomatoes or raisins

me: Yea? but you can wash them

Danielle: Everything else I learned to love but later in life. I know but I think I was terrified of bugs in my salads because it happened a lot when I was growing up, because my grandma’s poor eyesight and her garden

me: Bugs in your salads?

Danielle: Yes

me: Wow, yucky

Danielle: So I got scared and then would only trust my mother to wash salads

me: So you’re work in some ways reminds me, I hope you don’t take offense at the comparison, to the work of the artist Pablo Picasso. Do you know him?

Danielle: And therefore never learned to wash shit and cut it up or so I thought. I hate him

me: Oh, I’m sorry.

Danielle: We encounter him a lot in the arthandling world. And the people accompanied to them usually are huge dicks

me: Oh word

Danielle: and he had a LOT of work

me: Who is your favorite artist to handle?

Danielle: Tara Donovan. Is that her name?

me: Why is that?

Danielle: I moved a button sculpture of hers and basically every time it moves it gets broken

me: Did you break it?

Danielle: but it gets fixed the next time its displayed… No, but it probably happened in transport

me: Do you care about how people handle your art a lot?

Danielle: Like a few buttons fall off

me: I’m getting really hot from the niacin rush. I’m listening to Captain and Tenille and the sound of her voice is kind of turning me on. Why do you think that is?