Why Cinnamon Kennedy of the Egg Eaters smiles vaguely at strangers in the grocery store
Cinnamon Kennedy is the co-founder and co-editor of the Holy Crap Podcast and Music Magazine. She is also the drummer for the Egg Eaters, and one half of Bad Banker, a band that sort of exists.
My favorite thing to wear onstage
Sleeveless shirts. Because I have some biceps, like Larry Mullin Jr. I put in some work there. I want people to see
Me. Iconic U2 drummer circa 1987. Pretty much identical.
The last musical instrument or musical-performance-related item that I bought and loved was:
A pawn-shop violin. Actually I requested that this be purchased for me. I’m terrible at it and I almost never play it. But I like looking at it.
The musical instrument or musical-performance-related item that I really really really want is
A looper. Bad Banker is a two-person band, and when two people in a two-person band don’t really know how to play, you gotta start making shit up
(check out me and John learning the looper here)
Something I wish I’d known before joining/starting a band:
The drummer is seated, and in the back. Therefore, nobody in the audience can ever see the drummer.
The Egg Eaters at the Town Pump in Black Mountain. Do you see me here? Nope!
I live in:
Black Mountain, NC. Because it’s the sha-zizzle. The general vibe of this city is `it’s ok to wear yoga pants’. Everyone at the grocery store knows everybody else. Since I teach yoga to a lot of people in this town, and also have extremely poor vision, I have to smile vaguely at everyone in the grocery store because it’s safe to assume that I know them but can’t see/recognize them.
Black Mountain. Probably you should move here.
The best place to play music in Black Mountain, NC is
The Town Pump in Black Mountain. It has probably smelled like beer for over a hundred years. I have received two marriage proposals from blind-drunk strangers at the town pump. Thumbs up
The best place to SEE music in Black Mountain, NC is Pisgah Brewing. They have kombucha. As a non-drinker, I love a place that thinks to stock interesting fermented-mushroom-yoga-drinks for those of us who need it. Honorable mention is Grey Eagle because they have tacos.
In my fridge you’ll always find
mayonaise
The last music I downloaded was
‘The Lust I Lost’ by the White Eyes. Because I have the best job in the universe #holycrappodcast4ever
(Check out our mini review of the album 可笑的一天 here)
A beauty staple that I’m never without is
My yoga mat. Because if you can move, you’re beautiful. But much more important than that, if you can move then you can fucking move.
The best place to eat breakfast in my city is
I don’t eat breakfast. I’m too vain.
My favorite websites or apps are
wikimedia commons, freesound.org, bandcamp, spotify, youtube. It’s the age of aquarius! I would not want to be alive anytime but NOW! This is IT, baby!
When people come to visit me, particularly if those people are cooler than I am, I take them to
Dynamite Coffee on highway 70. Because they have a record player, and people are allowed to just get up and put on whatever record they want. This kind of behavior is not encouraged outside of small towns. It’s a good reason to live in Black Mountain
Dynamite Coffee on highway 70 in Black Mountain
The last meal that truly impressed me was
puff pastries filled with cranberry and camembert from Trader Joe’s . I ate them yesterday. Still thinking about them.
