Talk:Homer Flynn

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Notes From Ralph

"I'm the person who has historically done not all of their graphics, but 90 to 95 percent of it."

"I have mixed emotions and feelings around [Hardy Fox's retirement]. To be completely honest, he was the best friend I ever had. So you don't replace relationships like that. But at the same time he was kind of done with The Residents, and had grown increasingly distant over time, both physically and emotionally. You know, we used to go into the same office every day for, I don't know, thirty years or something like that. It reached a point where we saw each other once every month or two. I mean we would exchange emails and phone calls or whatever... and with that physical distance came emotional distance too... Once again, you know, you don't replace the friendship, but, you know, I have been able to replace his work, you know, his position. Basically, you know, I'm a good collaborator, and so the fact that he was gone has made room for a lot of other people to get involved to collaborate, so in a lot of ways, there's almost been a certain renaissance or resurrection. And with him having become distant before that, his departure before he died kind of made room for that. And from my perspective, that's been a good thing."

"My mom is still around, she's 96 years old. Her health is not great, but overall she's doing pretty well. And I have a brother and sister back there, so I'm back there usually once or twice a year. You know, her birthday's in October, so I always try to get back for her birthday. You know, Shreveport, honestly, is about as middle America as you can get. I mean, you know, it's a culture that is really dominated by fast food franchise mall culture. And I live in San Francisco, and... I left there to get away from that."

"I moved [to San Francisco] in 1969. So I have lived much more of my life in San Francisco than I did back there."

"The number of conversations that I've had about The Residents with my family I can almost count on one hand. I mean, I may say something about 'oh yeah, they're about to go on tour again', or whatever, but my brother who is five years younger than me, at one point, totally out of the blue, he said something about, 'you know, you know that Eskimo, I really like that!' And, like, I'm completely blindsided. He was talking about the t-shirt."

"He's retired at this point. He was at one point the top Chevy truck salesmen of North Louisiana. There was a Chevy dealership,there's a couple of them I think, in Shreveport, and he worked in the truck department of one of them for several years, and that's what he was doing when he retired."

"I have a sort of, shall we say, a restless creative spirit, and always looking for new ideas and new directions. But once again I am a collaborator, and a lot of times working with other people brings in fresh energy and ideas, pushes me in directions that I wouldn't necessarily..."

"The thing that I think is most interesting about the music business now, you know, it used to be there were all these gatekeepers. Labels, primarily. But you know, you could also put radio stations in that same category to some extent. And if your music didn't fit within a certain category, or appeal to a certain demographic, there was no way you was ever gonna go anywhere. And you know, the internet has enabled access to everything. And also too, the tools have become so accessible at this point, you can make an album on a phone... But the flipside of that is that... you can now be a needle in the haystack, but the haystack is the size of the sun, you know? So, how you get your stuff heard, seen, noticed, becomes a totally different challenge."

- Homer Flynn, Industry Tactics with Friendly Rich, "Ep. 145 - Homer Flynn", February 13th 2022

ImaginaryJacques _(Admin) 💀 (talk) 09:39, 18 February 2023 (UTC)