Traveling is often very stressful for me. I also cannot stand the 30 minutes leading up to the show. Not because of the nervousness, but because I want to get up there and play.
I hate backstage. I never go backstage. I just go to a bookstore or gallery or something nearby. Backstage is to me like the break room of a large retail store or something like that, which I spent a lot of time in when I was growing up, because I had a job at age Oh my god. If every backstage were a library.
Not so much rhythm and music anymore, because I find the rhythm and music of present day is a little bit like LED lighting, you know? I mean, sirens will never change and car horns will always be car horns. One thing I started doing is wearing the air… what do you call them, Airpods? My phone broke, so I went to this Apple store. I like to actually walk around in the world.
Confidence man. They know that my life is not paid for by some kind of inherited wealth. And so, they want to know how they can make their life like that. Live someplace where what you do is not just a speck of the static. Live someplace that you can afford. Get a dog. That is all the companionship you need. Or a cat. We were never an aspirational group. We never aspired to any of this. We aspired to open for the Fall once. It was like an art project. I guess a lot of people are really asking how to make their work more marketable.
I would never need advice from anyone about that. Certainly not about content. I mean, I always find it interesting how people relate to the content or how they analyze it, but it has no effect on the content itself.
I am analyzing it in real time just as the listener is. Do you wake up in the morning and work for three hours? Do you use a certain kind of pencil? Do you have rituals around what you do? I know, but occasionally that kind of stuff can be inspiring. And in its most useful capacity that kind of thing can inspire you to not want to copy their pencil, but to find your pencil.
And what should I look for in a pencil? The best way to make a record is to walk into a room, clap your hands, and see how things sound. Just think about what you can achieve. Use that. A good artist can make a great piece of work with anything. Be creative. I think he was taking it out of the realm of levels. We got to make this next level. I think of Tumblr. I think of competition. I think of corporate images. Just a parade of images, each one designed to have more impact than the last image.
I think true art has no interest in what came before or after it. Evergreen sources of inspiration. Number one, William Faulkner and the structure of his sentences. I find musicality there. The first lines of his novels always seem to come in the middle of a thought. William Faulkner. July 29 We talk to the globetrotting Black Lips about everything from their upcoming movie project to a drink inspired by the band to the one-dimensional party image they're still sometimes burdened with.
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Cole Rachel. Guest List: Best of A journeyman Georgia indie rocker who once played in a band with River Phoenix, McKay replaced Josh Fauver, who later died young at 39, a subject Cox will not talk about. McKay and keyboardist Javier Morales had themselves dodged death the previous week, after a car smashed into theirs. Cox is not massively sympathetic, slightly scolding McKay for not buying his previous Volvo; McKay breathes his irritation in through his nose and swallows it.
It is the only glimpse all weekend of the frictions that have sometimes flared up in the band, that first formed in All the members seem to agree that they are in a better place now than when they were making previous records.
The waitress brings over the bill with a Deerhunter lyric quoted on top in Biro. The next day, Faulkner leads us around their cloudless Atlanta neighbourhood as we talk about town planning.
In the local cafe, they know how Cox likes his tea: on ice, steeped for seven minutes. And the rush to synthesise some sort of meaning out of the versions of ourselves that we create and promote.
In a peaceful and contented culture, art becomes subdued — all of its art is going to be based on designs for living. We feel entitled to a national identity, and tribalism, which is sad.
They become a mad pack, tongues wagging, happy to be together. Another song, Element, is even more stricken, seemingly taking place in a painterly nuclear apocalypse. Are they nihilist? Do they have safety pins through their cheeks?
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