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band can't get in and they can create something, that's great. That's the kind of do-it-yourselfism that we encourage. And there always are some places in town that are going to book those bands during SXSW. That's fine. We want those bands to play, and if they can make something of it, great. But that's an entirely different thing than the big guys coming in.
I have to say, the thought of people clamoring for invies to see the Cult is pretty sad. I can only see going in there to have a good laugh. I'm not saying I'm not trying to go, though. . . So, we got rejected for our rock critic interview for this issue, which makes me wanna ask you why Raoul Hernandez doesn't play poker with you guys.
The thing is about our poker group, is that our poker group genuinely is friends.
It's just friends.
It's just friends that happen to control the media in Austin.
Yeah, we control it. There's gonna be a buyout of Geek Weekly anyday.
We're for sale cheap.
Our poker group is- this poker game has existed in some form or fashion for 17 years, and it's friends, and anyone who's ever joined the game has been a friend of a friend. ANd that's just it.
Raoul's not your friend?
I'm not saying that, I'm saying that right now we have too many people, we couldn't add people.
Should one of your members drop out, you'd be glad to take his money, though. Adding member to poker, part of it's serendipity. When Jeff Salamon first came to town, he was introduced to us by Pat Blashill. It just happened that somebody had left town around the same time, and Jeff had been invited over, a friend of a friend, and was gonna move to Austin.
Do you usually come out on top?
I think I've probably broken even. I think that's the case for most of us.
No big winners?
No, and everyone knows each other's bullshit.
Well, anyway, we were turned down by Raoul and we were very hurt by this.
Why did he turn you down?
We'll get into that in the rest of the issue. Basically he said, "I don't consider myself a geek, I'll have to decline." We're very hurt by this. First of all, by definition, he's a rock critic-
He's clearly a geek, but some people are proudly geeks, and some people are not. I think we should. I'll go on the record as saying that I consider this really unfortunately poor form on Raoul's part.
I'm sure he's not losing any sleep over it. I'd like to think we're good enough for any rock critic in Austin. That's the first time we've ever been turned down for

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Spring 2001

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