Interview by Smalls.
Who is Joe Piff?
I met Joe when I was in middle school, maybe 6th or 7th grade. The crew back then was myself, Joe, Trivs, Blake, etc. One story is we were driving up to visit some friends in college at Cabrini and we headed south foran hour by accident before we realized we needed to be going north. We turn around to head back, miss an exit, and he whips his Monte Carlo (rip) around and stops in the middle of the grass highway median, and he decides to start smoking weed out of his popeye corn cob pipe, just chillin there. So then we get to Cabrini and we walk into the dorm, and theres this girl crying about how her boyfriend cheated on her or something. Joe just lights up again and blows smokeon her and starts screaming the lyrics to a backstreet boys song, the one where it’s like “keep playing games with my heart.” I dont think I’ve ever laughed so hard in my life man, it was great.
So is that who came up with your nickname, Quilt?
Yeah Joe came up with that one. At the time he was really into putting the letter S in front of his words and changing people’s names to Slangela or Slake. I was in the back of the car complaining about something one day and he told me shut up Swalt. But then it turned into Swilter? Then Swilter turned into Quilter then Quilt. Everyone thinks I’m soft as fuck, I can’t believe it’s been going on for so long, it’s ridiculous.
I don’t think an 8pm bedtime/three beer max is doing anything to change that reputation. When the three of us lived together on Ridge & Ogden, a pack of 5 year old terrorists roamed the block. What’s one of your favorite memories there?
So we lived in this shitty, blue, two story house and it sucked, and everything around us sucked. All I know is that there were at least 30 little terrorists and I was scared of them. We all pitched in together and got them a complete setup, and that just further pissed them off because only one of them had a board and not all of them. They would bully me and anyone I invited over. They carved their initials into my pickup truck. I took a nice photo of two of the terrorist leaders along with the guy who lived below us, who accused me of being a white devil if you remember.
I do remember that, as well as the game where they threw rocks at cars. Give us something gnarly you’ve witnessed at Love.
I guess the worst thing I’ve witnessed is seeing this kid across from the gentlemen’s ledge and thinking “wow he is really hungover.” just lying there with a can of Four Loko next to him, and finding out he died later that day. But besides that nothing really sticks out, mostly just bums pooping on the walls, bums fighting and shit like that. I’m probably forgetting something but whatever.
Okay let’s wrap this up. Laura Palmer, Audrey Horne, Donna Hayward, or Shelly Johnson?
Shelly Johnson. No actually flip a quarter between her and Audrey Horne..but probably Shelly or the log lady.
