Breaking News: Slightly bored rockstar on NPR, area geek flips out
So I ran home from the bus stop this afternoon, slogging through the mud and pouring rain to get to my computer and the Nick Cave Fresh Air interview. I arrived in my room, prepared some delicious steamed microwave vegetable medley and settled in for the greatest experience of my life.
The Fresh Air website came up, and I nearly wept with joy and anticipation. I clicked on the NPR media player link and waited. And then I waited more. And then I noticed, to my absolute horror, that the internet was down in my building. I screamed. I desperately searched for wifi. I threw myself on my bed and rolled around in agony.
10 minutes later, the internet was back up. Those were the worst 10 minutes of my entire life.
And now, an exhaustive analysis on THE INTERVIEW!!!
Overall, it was not particularly illuminating, because Terry ridiculously asked the same questions everyone asks him, ever. Why did you write a song about Lazarus? Why with all the Bible stuff all the time? Australia? Heroin?? Come on, Terry! You're supposed to be expert in question asking! I do wonder if she asks everyone the ridiculously common questions, and I only noticed this time because I have read a thousand Nick Cave interviews.
I did learn the fascinating tidbit that his first record was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
At first I thought he was sighing the entire time, which I thought was fairly rude, and then it occurred to me that he was actually audibly smoking. This is hilarious to me.
I knew Terry was going to ask about the drugs. She loves that shit. It's fine, though, because I love hearing him talk about his attitude towards drugs, which is extremely casual. In his telling of it, he did drugs, it helped him write songs for awhile, it stopped helping and became "impractical", so he quit. No big deal. Terry did not seem to be buying that, but I'm just going to take a wild guess and assume that she was never a drug addict.
Also, it never occurred to me that you can't say pussy on NPR. I don't know that it's ever come up before. I also love how Terry kept reminding him that they couldn't say it. It's prerecorded, T. You can edit it out if the unpredictable Australian man busts out some vagina talk.
In conclusion, I enjoyed every minute of this interview. They seemed to get along fairly well, even though he was slightly annoyed about the bible business. It was no John Waters interview, but I still highly recommend it.
There's also a really good interview with him in the latest Radar, where he weighs in on the important matters of the day such as Amy Winehouse's drug problem. Now that's good interviewing, Terry!
The Fresh Air website came up, and I nearly wept with joy and anticipation. I clicked on the NPR media player link and waited. And then I waited more. And then I noticed, to my absolute horror, that the internet was down in my building. I screamed. I desperately searched for wifi. I threw myself on my bed and rolled around in agony.
10 minutes later, the internet was back up. Those were the worst 10 minutes of my entire life.
And now, an exhaustive analysis on THE INTERVIEW!!!
Overall, it was not particularly illuminating, because Terry ridiculously asked the same questions everyone asks him, ever. Why did you write a song about Lazarus? Why with all the Bible stuff all the time? Australia? Heroin?? Come on, Terry! You're supposed to be expert in question asking! I do wonder if she asks everyone the ridiculously common questions, and I only noticed this time because I have read a thousand Nick Cave interviews.
I did learn the fascinating tidbit that his first record was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
At first I thought he was sighing the entire time, which I thought was fairly rude, and then it occurred to me that he was actually audibly smoking. This is hilarious to me.
I knew Terry was going to ask about the drugs. She loves that shit. It's fine, though, because I love hearing him talk about his attitude towards drugs, which is extremely casual. In his telling of it, he did drugs, it helped him write songs for awhile, it stopped helping and became "impractical", so he quit. No big deal. Terry did not seem to be buying that, but I'm just going to take a wild guess and assume that she was never a drug addict.
Also, it never occurred to me that you can't say pussy on NPR. I don't know that it's ever come up before. I also love how Terry kept reminding him that they couldn't say it. It's prerecorded, T. You can edit it out if the unpredictable Australian man busts out some vagina talk.
In conclusion, I enjoyed every minute of this interview. They seemed to get along fairly well, even though he was slightly annoyed about the bible business. It was no John Waters interview, but I still highly recommend it.
There's also a really good interview with him in the latest Radar, where he weighs in on the important matters of the day such as Amy Winehouse's drug problem. Now that's good interviewing, Terry!