Rev. Bubba Levi Greenacres, Nerd Rock Deejay
If you’re a radio fan who craves the offbeat and simply weird, there’s no better place to tune in on a Friday night than KBCS, 91.3 FM. From 11 pm until 1 am, the esteemed Reverend Bubba Levi Greenacres spins a strange audio web from a techno remix of Lawrence Welk to the Muppets to Shooby Taylor to Leonard Nimoy to Shonen Knife to the Latin Hebrew Hip-Hop of the Hip Hop Hoodios.
The program is called "Nerd Rock" and Greenacres will celebrate the official three-year anniversary of the program on Friday, April 22. Seattlest caught up with the Reverend recently and asked him some random and somewhat nerdy questions.
Name?
Rev. Bubba "Levi" Greenacres
Age?
27.4 of your earth years
Birthplace?
Oklahoma City, OK
What’s the idea behind Nerd Rock?
Nerd rock is silly music for silly people. I like to describe it as Dr. Demento vs. Stereolab in a steel cage outer space grudge match. I have a rather particular taste for music and art of every kind that does not take itself or life too seriously.
Most people don’t want to be called a nerd but you embrace it. Why?
To me, being a nerd is about having an unabashed and open passion for something, often of an esoteric or unusual nature. I feel that just because music makes you laugh does not lessen its musical value. I hate that the only music in this world that gets taken seriously is of a "serious" nature, love songs, tragedy, ballads, odes to the assumed fountain of youth from which the artist drinks from, and the disturbing ramifications thereof. I play songs that allow the listener to learn as well as be entertained--about the history of Belgian painters, the Civil War, the 11th President of the United States, comic books, and professors of mathematics who get all the action.
Why is your web site "hometowngravy.com?"
When I am cooking for myself or for my friends, my favorite food is biscuits and gravy. The thing about "gravy" when you're from the "country" is that there is no such thing as "country gravy." You just have the one kind. That would be the white variety, with white onion, sausage, black pepper and whole milk, which is rarified into extinction in this part of the world.
Where do nerds like you eat in Seattle?
I’ll give you my top three. Thai of Wedgewood (7520 35th Ave. NE)--they have the best peanut sauce on the planet. J&L Home of the Good Barbecue (on 19th and Yesler), which is the best barbecue I have found outside of the southern U.S. and Beth's Cafe on Aurora, natch. Their gravy is not homemade with love, but the attitude and crayon drawings on the wall, and the pinball selection, in addition to their could-be-located-on-Interstate-40 greasy spoon fare make for a supremely satisfying eating adventure.
Best part of Seattle?
Mostly imported fascinating people that flock to this part of the world to do great things in relative inexpense compared to other US metropolitan areas.
Worst part of Seattle?
Starbucks culture.
Note: You can see the Reverend live every Monday night for free at Fado near Pioneer Square when he hosts a new band and deejays.
