Marcelo’s Rockola: Kinky’s Gil Cerezo Talks Music, Technology, And Lucero’s Flatulence

G: Technology is a tool, like the invention of the wheel or the Mac Book Air. Everybody makes use of it how it best suits them. For example, my computer allows me to quickly do hundreds of things that could potentially take a very long time. Even with all it’s vices and distractions, a day doesn’t go by without me feeling it’s an extension of myself. It’s like another arm or ear. Sometimes I catcall it when I walk by, even blow a kiss here and there. Still, it’s very important to cut off any dependence, to stop and think; not look at the phone, tv, or anything, and to step back and look at our lives with clarity.

M: There’s this festival called ‘All Tomorrows Parties’ that’s held in the UK. They usually choose a well known band or artist to curate the entire festival. Say they picked you to curate this year’s festival, what acts would you pick?

G: A balanced diet is the best thing for any festival. I would put new bands like Late Of The Pier or Band Or Skulls, who are still pretty small. I would season it with Mono Blanco and Ramon Ayala just to make it folkloric. Then something old, but with taste, like Tom Waits or Juan Gabriel. Maybe have Beck, Beastie Boys, or Radiohead as a main act, cause you know, we need ticket sales. I would probably finish it with some dj’s like Rusko, Shinichi Osawa, or Zombie Nation. Afterwards I would serve pozole and bbq tacos while the sun rises.

M: I got a fax saying that you recently wrote a song for Ahani of RBD. Tell me about that.

G: You don’t even have a fax machine. But yes, I actually have a bunch of songs I’d like to put out there. We are starting to play producer with other artists. We did Amanditititas last cd, Chico Sonido, and we’re working on other fun pop stuff too. For a change to happen there always has to be a martyr!

M: Ok. Now I’m going to ask some stupid questions.

G: Go Ahead. Maybe I’ll enjoy answering them.

M: Since you’re a ‘regiomontano’ [born in Monterrey, Mexico], do you believe your colleague Gloria Trevi should work with Sergio Andrade again? I think I told you he just got out of jail. And seriously, all her recent songs, the one’s Sergio didn’t write, suck burro balls. We can almost say Andrade is our very own Phil Spector.

G: I’d love to listen to some of his stuff, but not only what he wrote for Gloria. Especially [if he wrote] something about his acid trip-esq stint in jail. But he should probably write for Moderatto or Panda.

M: A couple of months ago a video that featured Belinda and Giovanni Dos Santos was leaked. In it, allegedly, Belinda was giving Giovanni head. A week later another one surfaced where Belinda was getting groped by another dude. It was inside a seedy fresa club and she looked like a ‘fichera’ [woman that dances for money in Mexican cantinas] from La Doctores neighborhood. What do you think about all this? Do you think today’s teens are too wild and out of control? Are the Paris Hiltons or Lindsay Lohans, who influence impressionable young girls, at fault? Give me an opinion.

G: That sounds like an order. Starting with you, teens now-a-days don’t have the same parameters of morality that used to hold together our society. It’s good and bad but definitely more fun. Liberty of expression unchained a bunch nonsense everywhere and the easiest entertainment to digest is, naturally, the one that’s consumed the most. Nowadays the dictators of what’s good or bad are people like Paty Chapoy [Mexican gossip personality] or her equivalent on the E! entertainment channel, who basically feed on everybody else’s shit. There should be a show where celebrities get together to destroy the lives of the Paty’s and Origel [another gossip personality.] Now we’re reduced to personalities like Brozo [political comedic clown], or in the US, The Colbert Report, as having the most credibility. And we have to dress the real messengers as clowns in order to become aware of what really goes on in politics. But we are definitely heading towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and not to Noah’s ark.

M: Gil, you are the most democratic and humble person I know. It’s because of that, I know you’re going to answer my next question with supreme consideration and sincerity. Do you remember that mythical Siempre En Domingo Lucerito appearance? The one where she supposedly farted next to Raul Velasco and into the microphone. Do you think that really happened?

G: Puruuum [fart sound]