DJ Dog Dick is the persona adopted by Brooklyn-based producer Max Eisenberg, meant to deal with the weird realities of daily life. He’s been making music forever and resolutely doing his own thing for the same amount of time. He was nice enough to let us premiere his new video for the weirdly ebullient “She Weed,” so we talked art, music, and the wonders of the natural world.Noisey: Where are you at currently with your art life and what's your practice look like at the moment?
DJ Dog Dick: My practice is being an artist and being kind of a persona-entity out in the world. Being an individual and coping with my individuality on a daily basis, doing things that make life worthwhile to me. This comes from a passion when I was very young to be an artist. I just dove into it. At some point I found myself as DJ Dog Dick and that's a cross I've carried now almost 10 years.How has your sound evolved over time?
My sound I would say comes from the years of experience I've had experimenting with music and how it relates to my persona. Over the years of doing that, building my own electronics and whatnot, I developed some sort of sound. I'm not a musical genius or anything. I don't think anyone is calling me that. My sound is something that's forged of my inspiration, abilities, and collaborations.What's up lyrically and conceptually with “She Weed?”
It's a love song but broader, in that it's an abstract physiological reality song. There's an entity in the song that's a male perception seeking love from a female entity that's not only a woman, it's the sea, it's the essence. It abstracts to something outside the duality of man and woman. The meaning can be sought out if you're seeking it. It's forces of nature in humanity, a thematic realm I pursue often. Something that's been inspiring me a lot lately is where I perceive the flow of human knowledge going these days. The sciences and humanities and creative pursuits are all funneling into this quantum vortex of information. It all relates.Where the hell are you in this video?
It was shot along a recent North American tour I did with R. Mexico. There was the Utah Salt Flats, Lake Tahoe, the Sutro Baths in San Francisco, and Joshua Tree National Forest. We explored all the natural wonders we encountered along the way. I realized later that some of these places are the most common landscapes you see in car commercials. Pristine, stark, natural vistas. Besides an ominous boat out in the distance and a few sandy ruins I'm the only figure of civilization in the video. There's an apocalyptic vibe I suppose.You were inhabiting these spaces doing whatever.
Yeah. I'm just there like a weird… entity. That's how I sometimes cope with reality. I just think of myself as a weird entity and there's a levity to that thought. It's inspiring, empowering. The mundane modern life can be devastatingly trivial, but I know there's another realm here and I want to share it.That freaky existence.
Some weird entity guy with a hat and sunglasses that sings.Lindsey Leonard is a living human. She's on Twitter - @choderainbow--Listen to DJ Dog Dick's "The Rot Is Hot"Babymetal Is Your New Favorite Japanese Nü-Metal Girl GroupWhat the Fuck Is This Band: Neurotic Neuromancer
DJ Dog Dick: My practice is being an artist and being kind of a persona-entity out in the world. Being an individual and coping with my individuality on a daily basis, doing things that make life worthwhile to me. This comes from a passion when I was very young to be an artist. I just dove into it. At some point I found myself as DJ Dog Dick and that's a cross I've carried now almost 10 years.
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My sound I would say comes from the years of experience I've had experimenting with music and how it relates to my persona. Over the years of doing that, building my own electronics and whatnot, I developed some sort of sound. I'm not a musical genius or anything. I don't think anyone is calling me that. My sound is something that's forged of my inspiration, abilities, and collaborations.What's up lyrically and conceptually with “She Weed?”
It's a love song but broader, in that it's an abstract physiological reality song. There's an entity in the song that's a male perception seeking love from a female entity that's not only a woman, it's the sea, it's the essence. It abstracts to something outside the duality of man and woman. The meaning can be sought out if you're seeking it. It's forces of nature in humanity, a thematic realm I pursue often. Something that's been inspiring me a lot lately is where I perceive the flow of human knowledge going these days. The sciences and humanities and creative pursuits are all funneling into this quantum vortex of information. It all relates.Where the hell are you in this video?
It was shot along a recent North American tour I did with R. Mexico. There was the Utah Salt Flats, Lake Tahoe, the Sutro Baths in San Francisco, and Joshua Tree National Forest. We explored all the natural wonders we encountered along the way. I realized later that some of these places are the most common landscapes you see in car commercials. Pristine, stark, natural vistas. Besides an ominous boat out in the distance and a few sandy ruins I'm the only figure of civilization in the video. There's an apocalyptic vibe I suppose.
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Yeah. I'm just there like a weird… entity. That's how I sometimes cope with reality. I just think of myself as a weird entity and there's a levity to that thought. It's inspiring, empowering. The mundane modern life can be devastatingly trivial, but I know there's another realm here and I want to share it.That freaky existence.
Some weird entity guy with a hat and sunglasses that sings.Lindsey Leonard is a living human. She's on Twitter - @choderainbow--Listen to DJ Dog Dick's "The Rot Is Hot"Babymetal Is Your New Favorite Japanese Nü-Metal Girl GroupWhat the Fuck Is This Band: Neurotic Neuromancer