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Welcome back to DJ Rossstar's Punk Rock Show. Tomorrow night we will have a live phone interview with The Frustrators and a studio interview with Lido Beach.
But now it's time for our studio guest. She taught Snooki and J-Woww what it really means to be a ***.
And here she is, all the way from the Jersey Shore, let's say hello to Kerli.
Kerli: What the hell? What the hell do you mean Jersey Shore? DJ: Are you starting a fight with me already? Kerli: Yeah DJ: You really are a "guidette"
Kerli: It's a cyber fairytale DJ: (Laughs) Kerli: Silly. DJ: Welcome back, I feel like it's a reunion for us.
Kerli: Hi, good to see you. DJ: How are you? Can you believe... Kerli: Vespertine, come too. DJ: Yeah, come on in.
Kerli: I took my best friend, too. DJ: Best in the whole word? Kerli: Yeah. DJ: Number one?
Vespertine: Are you drinking my water? Kerli: He is number one. I don't know. DJ: Can you believe our last interview was November of 2008? Time flies. Kerli: Yeah.
DJ: It does, right? Kerli: It really does. DJ: Yeah, and I remember in that interview you said many time, my next record is coming out in '09, it's now 2011 and these kids can't wait any longer. Where's is this record?
Kerli: Well uh, I talk to the kids everyday online, too and uh, I've said to them before. I just think that like, if you want to make any that is worthy of anything, and uh, you know, keep your integrity full-on.
Kerli: Because I could have made a record already, but it wouldn't have been the record I want to make. So uh, my record is for sure going to come out this year, hopefully really, really, really soon.
DJ: Are these all new songs or have you... Kerli: Yeah DJ: ...taken music from '09, '08 and... Kerli: Oh, no. No, no. No, I've been writing like crazy.
Kerli: Like I write like everyday all the time. DJ: So it's all recent material on this record? Kerli: Well, like the past two years. DJ: Okay. I haven't seen you in over three, so I don't know what you've been doing for two years.
Kerli: Yeah, yeah. Just writing. DJ: You stayed in Los Angeles. Kerli: Yeah, and um, Estonia and, I don't know. DJ: You went back and forth.
Kerli: Yeah. DJ: Bi-country, like bi-costal. Kerli: Well no, I don't know. Where have I been? Vespertine: Where have you been?
DJ: Where has Kerli been? Vespertine: You're everywhere. Kerli: Where haven't I been? Yeah. DJ: Well, now you're back in the apartment, and you're excited to talk to these people. I understand you have been doing your own videos now, though, too.
Kerli: Well, I always have. DJ: Yeah, you're talking on Ustream to kids everyday. Kerli: Well not everyday, but I've always done like a lot of interactive. DJ: Do they always have questions or have they gotten to a point where they know everything there is to know?
Kerli: Well, they have questions, but you know, it's like, it's not um, when me and the MoonChildren have converstations it's not even so much about them asking questions and me answering, it's more like a discussion about life
DJ: Okay. Kerli: Yeah. We should play some music. Vespertine: You're a camp counselor basically. DJ: I mean, you have experiences that they haven't had yet, or that they can only dream of.
Kerli: Yeah, I just always felt like... Vespertine: ... are sauna-related Kerli: ...when I was... Huh? Vespertine: All of your experiences are sauna-related
Kerli: What do you mean "sauna-related"? Vespertine: Estonia, everthing's sauna-related. Kerli: Shut up. DJ: She's like "get off camera!"
Kerli: No, I just feel like um, I just feel like I wish there was internet, like the way that it is now when I was a teenager. DJ: Yes. Kerli: Because there was internet but it wasn't that interactive, you know? DJ: No
Kerli: And like, I wasn't going and chatting with Björk... DJ: Are you doing that now? Kerli: ...although I would love to... No. DJ: Have you been able to do that?
Kerli: No, I don't know. Does she do that? DJ: I don't know. Kerli: I don't know. DJ: But that, that's why you, I mean you obviously understand why I do this show, it's because like you said this is the show that I wanted to watch growing up...
Kerli: Yeah. DJ: ...and there was no interactiveness. Kerli: Yeah. DJ: You had to sit there and watch one host ask ten questions and you were not able to be involved...
Kerli: Yeah. DJ: ...at all, and here we are. Kerli: Yeah, this is pretty cool. Remember like uh, maybe ten years ago, like it was like a complete fantasy. I was dreaming of like a phone where you could, they said that it was going to come, like a phone with a picture, where you could see the person while they're talking...
DJ: Yeah. Kerli: ...and like, look at this... DJ: Why didn't you make that? That could've been your creation? Kerli: ...way of talking... Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were already working on it. That *** doesn't happen overnight.
Kerli: That's somebody's work for like fifteen years. DJ: Um, so you're talking to these kids, a lot of them are, they live at home with their families, are you intrigued by their life? I mean, you didn't get to go to college or senior prom or anything. Does that interest you to hear their stories of regular day life?
Kerli: Yeah, it does, and uh, a lot of it is not even so much about regular day life, but a lot of it is actually really tragic stories. DJ: Tragic?! Kerli: Really tragic stories of, I don't know, just you know.
Kerli: A lot kids that connect with me are the kids that are maybe like, uh, I don't know, teased in school, or have problems with their parents, or um, a lot of like young gay people. DJ: Yeah. Kerli: So I put them in touch with each other.
DJ: That's awesome. Kerli: You know, we share email addressess and um, yeah, just so, you know everything, I trying to do everything that, like you said, that I would've wanted to be a part of when I was a teenager. DJ: Um, when you plays shows, do...are you seeing a good amount of these people, that show up?
Kerli: You know what? I haven't done too many shows actually. DJ: Yeah, strange. Kerli: I haven't, because I don't know, I get like the stuff online and I'm solo and uh, whenever I play like a small show I have to, you know, put together like a whole band and I have like a different band in Estonia when I go play there.
DJ: Yeah Kerli: But then when I do play, like I just played uh like one and a half years ago, I played like a huge show in Estonia, it was like ten thousand people and... DJ: That's like the whole city right there, ten thousand.
Kerli: Yeah, pretty much the whole country DJ: (Laughs) Kerli: And like uh, I went there and I made, you know, all the outfits, regular huge. So I put together like this big production. DJ: Well whose this guy? Is he part of your band?
Kerli: Yeah, usually he is. He's Vespertine, he's my best friend. He also takes all my pictures. DJ: Ah ha, so he's responsible. Let's give him the mic for a second. Let's hear your story
Vespertine: My story? My story's not as... DJ: Culver City native. Vespertine: Yeah. DJ: How did you end up in this part of town?
Vespertine: How did I end... I uh unfortunately bought property here, now I'm stuck here. DJ: "Unfortunately". How long ago was this? Vespertine: This was like, five years ago and now we're just neighbours. DJ: You must be doing very well if you can afford to live here.
Vespertine: Yeah, I live close to the glamourous DJ Rossstar studios. DJ: You had no idea. Vespertine: I had no idea, like literally, I can see it from my balcony.
DJ: You know what great is we've had thousands of artists here and um, I know there's a couple of teenagers in the building that I've seen that have been wearing shirts like All Time Low, Metro Station, Boys Like Girls and I always wonder, have they watched these shows? Do they not realize that this took place in their actual building?
Vespertine: Maybe they are such a fan of yours, that they're acutally shy to say "I watch your show all the time" DJ: Wouldn't that be cool though? People in the acutal building? Because I've been here for like seven years and no one knows that this show even exists in the building.
Vespertine: How about some "Yes, I am DJ Rossstar" t-shirts? DJ: That's an idea. Kerli: Or, or you have a pool outside. DJ: I do, we have two pools.
Kerli: Why don't you do like a live streaming from the pool? DJ: I could get electrocuted but it might work out well. Vespertine: Yeah, it's a lot of electrical equiptment to have around the pool, isn't it?
DJ: Yeah, well you could [?] Vespertine: Or in the gym while people are running on the treadmil. DJ: So, aren't these kids dying to see you live, though? You said you haven't played in like a year and a half.
Vespertine: You did the 'Alice' stuff. Kerli: Yeah, I did the 'Alice' stuff. Um, I want to go on tour but it's very tricky. I'm a complete perfectionist, so it's, you know, I need a lot of competence to be right, and I have been really focused on writing the new material, so, I don't really want to go on tour with the old songs.
DJ: You want it to be perfect. Kerli: I want it to be perfect and I want the new music to be out and I want to be able to, you know. I might do actually something in the near future but I'd rather not talk about it
DJ: Because then you'll come back in three years and we'll watch that video and you still won't have it done... Kerli: Shut up! DJ: Okay, I'll shut up. Kerli: Don't you say that.
DJ: Did you bring any music with you or should we play some of my stuff or you're going to play live later, right? Kerli: Yeah, I'll do a song. DJ: Okay, then that's cool, because that's almost like they're watching you play live because we're here on the computer, right?
Kerli: Yeah. DJ: So, alright, we're going to play a song... what have we got here? Do you like Neon Trees? Vespertine: Yeah. DJ: Yes? Neon Trees? Okay, sure.
Kerli: Sure. DJ: Cool. Vespertine: "Sure". She's always so enthusiastic. DJ: When we come back we're going to start with yourrquestions, so if you're watching at home, here's what you got to do.
DJ: Click on the name "DJ Rossstar" at the top of the chat and send your questions there and we're going to see everything on the screen and when we come back, we're going to get right to it, we're going to let you speak to them directly and find out what's on their little minds. We'll be right back after this, don't go anywhere.
["1983" by Neon Trees plays]
DJ: Welcome back to DJ Rossstar's Punk Rock Show, while Kerli is uh, out of commission here, I want to take a special moment to thank the wonderful people at Hearst Castle. Um, if you're not from California, you should know that Hearst Castle is located in San Simeon, California and that's about four hours from Los Angeles.
DJ: Uh, William Randolph Hearst owned this castle. He is no longer with us but he owned this gigantic castle, he was havily involved with publishing in the newspaper buisness and um, this is a site to see. The castle has 128 rooms, and there is pools that make you feel like you're in Rome, and it's on top of a gigantic mountain, thousands of feet above sea level
Vespertine: When was it built? DJ: Well, funny you ask me that, it was actually built in 1949, and it's more than 90,000 square feet. Vespertine: It's crazy that you know that much about it.
DJ: I do, and he has uh, free roaming animals on the property still, so you can see all kinds of deer and cows and zebras just roaming around the property. Kerli: You're kidding. DJ: No, it's fantastic. So you got to check it out. Actually, there's four different tours you can take, they're each an hour and a half long and it's only $25.
DJ: So it's really affordable to go see this castle and it's worth it, because you can make a whole weekend out of it like Kyle and I did and you can see everything. Here's a good picture of it on the mountain, right there. Kerli: I want to shoot there.
DJ: Yeah, you should shoot there, Hearst Castle is great. Look at that here, 56 bedrooms, 61 bathrooms. Kerli: ... Oh yeah, it's Kerli. DJ: ... It's Kerli. Check it out, they got tennis courts, outdoor indoor pools, movie theatre, air field, they used to have a private zoo back in the day they don't anymore, though.
DJ: So, pretty cool, so, huge thank you to them. That was extremely nice to let us come check that out. Once again, it's Hearst Castle, H-E-A-R-S-T, and you should definitely check it out and Kerli, did you know we have a brand new sponsor here on the show tonight? Kerli: I do not know that.
DJ: The company is called Macbeth shoes, and um they do a lot of signature shoes, they have shoes done by Anthony Greene from Circa Survive, Mike Dirnt from Green Day, Hunter from AFI and a lot more and we're actually going to give away a pair of shoes tonight on the show.
Kerli: Yeah, can I see them? DJ: Well, you can pick them out on the website. Kerli: Oh. DJ: We don't have them in our hands.
Kerli: That's awesome. DJ: But you can help us decide for sure. Now, here's what we're going to do, we're going to take some questions and we'll try to take the best of the best for you. Kerli: Oh, and now as your talking about the competitions?...
DJ: Yes. Kerli: ...I want to annonce something as well. DJ: Let's hear it. Kerli: Last week we were doing a little Twitter competition with Sugarpill Cosmetics, and uh, all you guys were doing so great and Twittering it some much
Kerli: And "Army of Love" was actually the most tweeted video for a couple days because of all of them, and uh, we're now going to do even a bigger competition with Sugarpill, it's called the war...