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| Dale Stephanos via Boston Phoenix |
When you're a veteran music journalist, especially one as miserable and jaded as I am, it takes a lot to get you excited for an interview. Then again, it's not every day you get to talk to the only musician you've ever really cared about, one who's played a huge role in shaping your worldview and identity over the years. That day still hasn't come, sadly, but, as consolation, I did manage to score an email interview with Morrissey, the legendary erstwhile Smiths frontman and solo artist whose current tour brings him to Boston October 5.
I'd be negligent in my duties — and fandom — if I didn't report that I got a little teary-eyed just reading back the responses which, to use a technical term, could not have sounded more Morrissian if he tried. What's the big deal, though? He's just another human being, just like anyone else, right? Maybe not, he says. I asked him his thoughts on meeting his idols, about his forthcoming biography (reported to be out by year's end), and his memories of Boston. No, I didn't propose a Smiths reunion. Stop us if you think that you've heard that one before....read the rest at the Boston Phoenix.
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First. Hey can you post your workout routine for all of your husky readers our there? No homo.
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This was amazing! Are you not much a Smiths fan? By this stage it's reached a kind of toxic co-dependency thing between Morrisey and everyone else; he obviously loves the attention he gets for being such a curmudgeon and we all love to see him being such an arsehole. He's a professional grouch - but he can still sing amazingly and he still puts out good music. Ultimately I'd rather hear his views on stuff than anodyne cheeriness of rock establishment twats like Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger. This was my favourite part: "It all amounts to a particularly poor form of love. I've actually been shot at 43 times. And then people say, "You're looking tired. . . ." Was it hard to get hold of him?
I am a huge Smiths fan, why do you ask?
Agreed, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Not too hard to find. I always assumed he didn't do interviews for tours though. Guess he does.
Just because you said speaking to him was a consolation after not getting to speak to one of your heroes. But then I suppose you can love The Smiths without being a huge fan of Moz himself.
shit that joke got mangled. it was supposed to be i didn't get to speak to him, i got to email with him.
Tell him that vegan jules just got fired from a 60,000 a year marketing firm job because of him and his stupid ideas.
Heaven knows I'm miserable now!!!
oh brother, what happened?
Too many yogurt company assignments made the vegan say something. Vegan got the axe. Oh well, I'd only been hired for 24 hours anyway.
I know Morrissey is just vegetarian, but it can be a gateway drug. You're in quicksand yourself O'Neil.
Do you listen to the Gay Beach? This shit is great: http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/nowplaying.aspx?contentid=1260&showid=162576
VJ: we demand a full post about how you got fired from a sweet job after just 24 hours of employment. (Actually also tell us how you managed to get hired in the first place.)
seriously dude
Patrick, I don't comment on your brilliant postings such as 'Sometimes I wish everything would revert to caveman times so that I could walk around and kill everyone and take their girlfriends...'
But if you must know. My rich NY real-estate investor uncle lined up the job. I've had a few interviews for 60k jobs. It's because of my website, resume, and portfolio, nigga. This is the only one that bit though. Luke's gonna hire me on his tv show!!
Oh right, as for the guy who wants my work out routine: work from home all day on the computer that way you can peace the fuck out and go to the gym whenever you want. Go every single day. Don't eat too much. Do that for a few years obsessively then you'll be in kind of ok shape.
Jules - daughters, not girlfriends!
It's called 'Mexico' buddy. Have a good time!
P.S. How do you 'Peace the fuck out' and go to the gym 'everyday'. Don't you feel like a bored rat on that treadmill? Don't you get bored staring at the rising weights on the lat pulldown? Every fucking day? The only way I can exercise anymore is by playing pick-up soccer. You do this soulless, repetitive, activity every day yet you are still a decent writer
Yo, check it out, sometimes exercising is boring, sometimes it isn't. It's crazy right? Sometimes it's drudgery, but mostly it makes me feel high and/or peaceful. I am literally addicted in the way that if I don't go I cannot relax wherever I am at.
I also get a lot of reading done at the gym, so it's good for the mind too. I dunno, do what you have to do, but it feels pretty great to be in shape.
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