White to take out a couple of his hostile employers by over pressurizing a hydrogenation vessel and have the resulting shrapnel riddle their bodies. Among the schemes I suggested was for Mr. There was talk about Jesse joining up with the Banditos MC as well. We discussed how the production facility should look, what the drums should be labeled as, and various schemes Mr. How did they approach you about script consulting, or whatever?įESTER: In late 2010, one of the writers, Phoebe Eaton, contacted me by e-mail and asked if I would like to help out on the scripts and we corresponded back and forth a lot over the next few months. THH: Heh, I figured the producers had to be familiar with your stuff. I would have ditched Jesse ages ago, since he is nothing but trouble. White is me, and I wouldn’t mind hanging out with him, nor planning some schemes with him. Little of what they show is real chem, but that’s not the point of the show. White is cooking through the phenylacetone routes (that was implied earlier in season three) and using phenylacetic acid. I helped out with the scripts last year and the dialog at least got better. They didn’t want to have to get real gear made as they have a budget. UNCLE FESTER: Yes, the equipment they have on the show is actually beer brewing equipment, along with a culture incubator they picked up. I'm a fan of the show, but I have a feeling the chemistry can be a bit fanciful. THE HOOVER HOG: When I mentioned to friends that I was planning to interview the infamous "Uncle Fester," everyone said, "Oh, you have to ask him about Breaking Bad !" So I guess that's where we'll start. In the following interview, Uncle Fester shares his thoughts on meth use and abuse, headshop highs, the future of underground publishing, and his stint as a script consultant for a certain popular TV show.Ĭoffee or Something Stronger: An Interview with Uncle Fester If that's true, his influence is even greater than I imagined. It has been rumored – and I'm spreading the rumor now – that Uncle Fester was the real life inspiration for Walter White of Breaking Bad. It was around this time that a taste for tweak landed Fester – then known as Steve Preisler – behind bars, a fateful turn out of which, like Sade and Genet, he would find his true calling, and have his revenge. A onetime National Merit Finalist who repeatedly aced his SATs, Fester double majored in chemistry and biology at Marquette University, graduating with a BS degree and a bright future. It may not help that Fester is a competent – and damn entertaining – writer who knows his shit and does his homework. Indeed, the mere existence of such literature can be enough to disturb the sensibilities of otherwise stalwart defenders of the First Amendment. Although they present information that can be gleaned from standard chemistry texts, books like Home Workshop Explosives, Silent Death, and of course, Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture are perennial candidates for state censorship. While his name may not come up in graduate dissertations and intellectual salons, the import of Fester's oeuvre can be descried in the hand-written labels of sealed evidence bags and in the photo-documented environs of police-cordoned clandestine drug labs all over the globe. And while chin-clutching café habitués strain to wrest meaning from the first few pages of their freshly downloaded Kindle editions of The Pale King, odds are vanishingly small that David Foster Wallace's posthumous Bildungsroman will ever be linked to the mass-murderous deeds of an apocalyptic terrorist cult.įor two decades and some change, the underground writer known as Uncle Fester has been writing genuinely influential books. Whatever may be said of Rick Moody's clotted prose, copies of Purple America seldom turn up in criminal inventories. Writers like to imagine that their work will have some lasting influence, but rare are those scribes who can demonstrate the worldly impact of their words by clear reference to court documents and federal committee reports.
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