There`s No Time To Explain With Brian Parra

I have a conversation with artist Travis Shorey. Travis draws and paints three-eyed monsters and geek-culture characters engaged in mostly eating tacos and drinking beer. His colorful painting can be seen on his Facebook page, Jankety Art. Travis is a huge fan of beer, and I delight in going through his beer inventory in Brewbacca, his beer-toting Chewbacca backpack. Over the course of nearly three hours, we cover various topics as censorship in art, Randy Newman dropping the N-word, the Savior of Rock and Roll, who is obviously Bruno Mars, and whether Travis has ever been too drunk to fuck. We discuss Travis' self-diagnosed Autism and his obsessive painting, which brings him happiness. We are interrupted by a bit of neighborhood drama as my son Ted's friend falls out of a tree and we deal with Ted's guilt over letting his friend fall. Our talk turns to kids, and how Travis avoids becoming a "Disneyland Dad" and is seemingly unconcerned with his mortality. I had to cut over an hour and a half of recorded