In a new Facebook post, SAIGON KICK frontman Matt Kramer commented on the band's 'Hostile Youth' video, taken from the band's 1991 album The Lizard:

"I hung out of a helicopter as the camera guy sat on my left foot and the director Mark Racco held my right foot during the filming of this video. Lot's of magazines had to write a retract saying it was cheesy that we would fake such a dangerous move so blatantly. I though it would be cool at 23 years old to die falling out of a helicopter into the jungles of Mexico..."

As previously reported, Kramer recently released his second book of poetry, entitled A Book Of Poems From The Smallest Of Towns. Kramer recently spoke with BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai about the book; an excerpt from the story is available below:

Kramer unwittingly borrowed a page from DEVIN TOWNSEND's recently executed assault, in which he wrote four albums simultaneously – each one completely different from its partners – and released them over a period of two years. Then again, Kramer has been chipping away at his five book project since 2007, so maybe Townsend is a mind-reader. Kramer’s second volume, A Book Of Poems From The Smallest Of Towns, is even more of a surprise than An American Profit.

“This new book is just my time, a lot of it spent in Nebraska,” Kramer reveals. “I went to Nebraska and stayed at a cottage. I spent a lot of time there, took many vacations there with family, and it just turned out that I wrote and wrote and kept on going. Not just about my surroundings, but about other small towns that I love as well. I was in this town of 340 people, and it’s a throwback to yesterday that is just so unique and different and charming. I made the best of it, I wrote about it, and made a charming little book. I don’t think I’ll ever put out something like this again, and I really don’t know how it came out of me. It’s a really cool book, and it doesn’t talk about fucking, or bucking religion. I’m always creating some kind of lyrical trouble, but this book doesn’t do that (laughs).”

“It was a really great experience for me – and I’ve told you this before – because it was me being totally out of my shoes. I was able to step back from me and have a snicker like everybody else does, and see where I’m at. It allowed me to see that there are other roads I can take, which is very important. I see a lot of guys, my colleagues, travelling the same old roads and coming across the same footprints; I don’t know if that’s healthy. I think you should do other things, not just the same old stuff.”

Go to this location for the complete interview.

A Book Of Poems From The Smallest Of Towns is now available via www.mattkramer.net. Kramer's first poetry book, An American Profit, is available below.