mercoledì, 22 marzo 2006
The music-loving novelist and the book-loving musician
Douglas Coupland vola a Roma per intervistare Morrissey.
Ed è già leggenda.
«To me, interviews are mostly about trying not to make the interviewer think I'm too much of an asshole. I think that's the experience with most interviews these days, mine and most everybody else's. Let's face it, pretty much any info you need is already out there on Google. Interviews never go away any longer. They just pile up and up and up for the rest of time. If people want to know something about a subject, they can just find it themselves. All that remains is control of the asshole yes/no switch. Do you want an interviewer to flip it? Remember - if you don't want people thinking you're an asshole, it means you allow your interviewer to torture you. It all boils down to how strongly you believe in the totemic Sony.»
«And maybe what all this further boils down to is the fact that Morrissey is interview-proof. Don't bother. He's not an asshole and he's not the Dalai Lama, but you could interview him for a thousand years and you'd learn nothing. And this is just fine.»
Ed è già leggenda.
«To me, interviews are mostly about trying not to make the interviewer think I'm too much of an asshole. I think that's the experience with most interviews these days, mine and most everybody else's. Let's face it, pretty much any info you need is already out there on Google. Interviews never go away any longer. They just pile up and up and up for the rest of time. If people want to know something about a subject, they can just find it themselves. All that remains is control of the asshole yes/no switch. Do you want an interviewer to flip it? Remember - if you don't want people thinking you're an asshole, it means you allow your interviewer to torture you. It all boils down to how strongly you believe in the totemic Sony.»
«And maybe what all this further boils down to is the fact that Morrissey is interview-proof. Don't bother. He's not an asshole and he's not the Dalai Lama, but you could interview him for a thousand years and you'd learn nothing. And this is just fine.»
