Interview Series (Installment #6 / The Final Installment) - D’urban Moffer
Electronic Blanket’s Interview Series (Installment #6 / The Final Installment): D’urban Moffer
interviewed by Wolfgang Carnifex
D’urban Moffer is an artist of some sort. It’s unclear really. I know he’s written a novel and has a blog and does music or is doing like a comic book with some people or something. Anyway, D’urban claims that everywhere he goes there is a disaster awaiting him with open arms, that everything he sees is a train wreck calling him aboard. Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🤶
WC: I know you as the author of American Kashayas. It’s been described as “a carousel projector of Middle Western malaise, a nightmare-logicked magick-text scrapbook of alchemy.” But your work isn’t confined to writing. Tell me about some of the projects you’re currently working on, or ones you have planned for the future.
DM: Let me start off by saying, it’s nice to have you back from the dead, old chum. That molting period was quite a time, eh? I do adore a good stunt and I’m glad I was a part of it.
WC: Sometimes in life you have to die in various symbolic or metaphorical or trolling ways, before your true terminal death, which I'm looking forward to, because I have no doubt it will be an adventure and I will be armed with a Claymore. The Dark Souls games taught me that. Detroit did too. Let's not make a big thing of it, Moffer. Proceed with your explication of future projects, please.
DM: I’m currently working on a graphic novel in collaboration with Elytron Frass and @EDGINGONDEATH. It’s Elytron’s script and he’s given me free reign to add any flourishes I see fit. The subject matter isn’t something I can discuss due to a byzantine blood contract and non-disclosure agreement. A few of the finer points of "litigation" have me beset by plagues of undifferentiated vermin or morphing into a human boil. After this project is complete, in about another year or so, I plan to spearhead another collaborative audio project entitled Boofbag. I’ll be working with my friends Oramier Griswold and W. South as well as a host of other talented musicians and video artists. Oramier has conscripted me to supply ornamentation on his personal brainchild sound project entitled Soundwraith. At the same time, I’ll be assembling my next book which I believe will be the biography of a friend of mine who died during quarantine. He lived three different lives from porn star to rabbi to psychic working with the Columbus PD. I have hours of interviews and will have to conduct more to fill in gaps, as he died during the course of our meetings.
WC: Well good luck with all that. No, I mean it, Moffer, good fucking luck with all of that shit. So… Who are some artists you’re digging right now? I mean for inspiration or just ones you “enjoy”. Music, film, writing? Anything really.
DM: I’m extremely interested in any kind of lost media, the more obstruse the better. Analog horror has also been tripping my trigger. Local 58 is a good example. I’m currently exploring The Walten Files. Oramier Griswold is a great source for recommendations on this front. We’re positively goons for this stuff. Musically, I’ve been on a glitchy, atmospheric instrumental kick. As much as I like to write, I’m tired of lyrics in music. I want the music, alone, to make me feel something. Then there’s the genre mallwave and dozens of other waves. This is what’s been in the musical rotation. No movies come to mind as far as being standouts other than Hard to Be a God, to which Elytron introduced me in preparation for the graphic collab. I guess I’m late to that party but I’m late to all of them not being much of a partygoer in general. Scavengers Reign is a streaming series I thoroughly enjoyed, recommended by the Agitator boys.
WC: I know people hate picking favorites, but what would you say your favorite novel is? Or one of your favorites. By the way, Merry Christmas, D’urban. I forgot to mention it’s coming up on Christmas. Would you like a glass of egg nog or something?
DM: No thank you.
WC: Fine. Favorite book then? I don’t think I even have any egg nog laying around here anyway.
DM: I always return to any number of books by mystic and scholar Israel Regardie. I treasure my Joel-Peter Witkin book of photographs stolen from The Wexner Center in the mid-nineties. I got a lot of great stuff with these sticky fingers. I purloined a whole library in my youth. The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) and Flowers for Algernon (Keyes) were influential on me as were The Wild Boys, The Western Lands, Exterminator!, and Cities of the Red Night (Burroughs). Krall’s The False Magic Kingdom Cycle and The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Ligotti have a special place in my heart. I will wait for the collective sigh of disgust after I cite The Shining as one that rattled me as a kid and will always get under my skin - the novel, not any of the movies. I hate the movies. King claims he wrote The Shining in a blackout and it shows. His demons were in charge and steering the ship. All glory to the him that was then.
WC: King said the same thing about Cujo, which I feel is his best novel. It's very experimental in a way. After this interview, I'm going to go invade players in Elden Ring and absolutely fucking obliterate them with the Stormhawk Axe. Just so you know. Favorite album? Or one of your favorites.
DM: OK. As a former podcast cohost and quasi-spergy interviewer, I object to this question on principle and refuse to answer it.
WC: These questions aren’t to probe into some abstruse concepts you and your lot find “deep,” Moffer. They’re for readers to glean recs from. Make yourself useful. Favorite film? Or one of your favorites.
DM: Yeah, I’ve never been asked this one before. What, did you snag an interview template from US Weekly for Arf Tarts? Bless your heart. I don’t want to answer this one either, but here’s a list of all-time favorites: Brazil (most Terry Gilliam projects save for Baron Munchausen and that dreadful Heath Ledger / Johnny Deep vehicle), Eraserhead (most David Lynch projects actually), any movie by Kenneth Anger. Andy Warhol’s movies. Also, much of what Fellini and Harmony Korine did / do. Tetsuo: The Iron Man was pretty unforgettable. They all have high scores for me. Next.
WC: You should be so lucky to be interviewed by US Weekly. Furthermore, Baron Munchausen was assistant-directed by the great Michele Soavi. What the fuck are you on about, Moffer? (long, tense pause) With your audio / video work and your visual art, what are you trying to convey, if anything? Like, is there a point?
DM: I want to be able to force someone out of their body through the sounds we make in the Boofbag collective. My hope is that it will be an immersive project for that special audience, if indeed, there will be one. I’m interested in putting the listener through something both harsh and beautiful, because that’s life, baby. I want people to experience schizophrenia, hysteria, dissociation, and attention deficit full-stop before lulling them into a nirvanic coma. I also hope to plant enough subliminal information in these to enrich myself in a dubious, yet charismatically distinctive, way.
WC: I know you’re spiritual in some way. We’ve discussed Stregheria in the past. What are your thoughts on the practice and on spiritual disciplines in general?
DM: To dare, to will, to be silent. These practices are deeply personal and need to remain private. I’ve already said too much. This goddamned mouth of mine.
WC: Your silence works for me. Do you have a music project you’re doing? I seem to recall you mentioning one. Or a graphic novel or something along those lines? Care to tell the pop culture anything about it? You know, for all the fans and such.
DM: Okay... now... are you fucking with me? Like, seriously dude.
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WC: Are you unwell? What kind of porn do you watch?
DM: I’m strictly anti-porn. I’m no nut januaryfebruarymarchaprilmayjunejulyaugust septemner ocotobor novmberdecember. I hate my body and everyone else’s. I’m saving myself for the angels. I don’t think anyone should have access to porn and it should be made illegal. If you’re caught distributing or masturbating to it, maybe have your hands cut off like they do in more elevated cultures. If they’ve told you once, I’ll tell you for the gajillionth time, porn is all part of a globalist plan to feminize men and masculinize women. It’s turning otherwise maladjusted people into absolute dregs, and absolute dregs into guinea pigs. I’m revirginizing. I’m sliding on a purity cock ring, maybe a cage. Ha ha. JK. Fratboy hazing/gangrape videos. FYI, this is, by far, your best question.
WC: I don’t need you assessing the quality of my questions, Moffer, just answer them for fuck’s sake, would you? (pause) Since consumption is the Grand Design of this existence, we end interviews with the question - and this is the last time this question will be asked, because this is our last interview: what are some of your favorite foods?
DM: Both my feet, obviously.
Read D'urban Moffer's blog Black Boulder - The Nexus of Nowhere or holler at the man himself on X or Instagram
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