― Horridmonsta (MichaelCostello1), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Because he says "Easy" a lot in his songs.
― Razzle (MichaelCostello1), Sunday, 24 July 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Monday, 25 July 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 25 July 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm gonna try for an uptown girlShe's been living in her white bread worldAs long as anyone with hot blood canAnd now she's looking for a downtown manThat's what I am
― Rob Upt1ght, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Fucking hell, Billy!
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Horridmonsta (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
sure...can you them up on yousendit?
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
...in my hot blood.
― Rob Upt1ght, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Well maybe one artist he doesn't have on there. Or maybe he does.
An instantly canonical fake-deep shithead rock star interview — your fave could never https://t.co/cIGMYyR6zS pic.twitter.com/7Hc2k2dcSW— Jeremy Gordon (@jeremypgordon) March 12, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
Yeah, step one is being informed. I just feel pulled to this kind of struggle. The struggle could have been against England way back in the day. It could have been the civil-rights struggle. There have always been oppressive governmental systems but there’s a new form of that happening now and people need to step up. But to go back to your question about how I go about what I do: My mission is the same as it’s been from day one, which is to try to make something that has artistic value and bring it to the mainstream. Nothing about that has changed. I strive to build a world where the Velvet Underground would be more popular than the Rolling Stones. Or where Ariel Pink is as popular as Ed Sheeran.
fun fact: julian casablancas is thirty-nine earth years old
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
Apparently a commenter is miffed that Marchese challenged Casablancas.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
I don’t blame corporations for anything. I blame the laws. It’s like if there were no laws against murder and then there were roving pirate-gangs of murderers, I wouldn’t say the problem is the pirate-gangs, I would say the problem is the lack of laws. The mystery to me is that the business world somehow is allowed to be a lawless place where decisions are made that destroy people’s lives, but if you did those things person-to-person you’d be put in jail.
rly makes u think, if only there was some explanation for a legal system which allows corporations to act like roving pirate gangs
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
Let go of your conditioning.
― jmm, Monday, 12 March 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYof9tyHEY
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
Essentially I’m disappointed so far in the internet.
Same tbh
― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
At least he didn't mention crisis actors or go down the Mandela Effect/Flat Earth/Pizzagate rabbit hole. Give it time i guess..
― piscesx, Monday, 12 March 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
in a way i guess it's kinda sweet that julian is unleashing these banal, vaguely confused takes on the workings of the world like he's moses bopping down mt sinai to lay some real shit on us sinners
in another, more accurate way: god what a dumbass
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
See? This is the cost of sobriety.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
So, who was the one-eyed man in this company?
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
i was gonna say, this is likely either the result of a lot of cocaine or not enough cocaine
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
"He didn't have hits" is p close to accurate, tbf, assuming that refers to singles.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
he had 4 top ten hit singles in the uk, including a no.1 (posthumous)
― mark s, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
but apart from that,
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
Ha, well, until now, I didn't know that either (or had forgotten it) tbf!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
to be equally fair, you're also not confidently trotting out misunderstandings of jimi hendrix's career in support of a maturing worldview which would seem painfully callow to people half your age
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
this is an instant classic
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
And that was the New York City Cops, and their new single "Julian Casablancas.. "
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
a shame Casablancas has such faith in capitalism, otherwise he might find a way to accept his favorite artists not as commercially succesful as others
anyway since "art is objective" what does it even matter
― niels, Monday, 12 March 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
"Piss on'em now that he's older..."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
i just read some of this, lol whadda maroon
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
i'm very shocked that his Swiss bordering school didn't teach him better....
― Isi, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:42 (six years ago) link
^ Julian and Kim Jong Un, eh
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
one is the chinless offspring of a distant, successful father who has ascended to international visibility as a tyrannical leader despite obvious educational deficiencies and the other is kim jong-un
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
this is an unboring interview & as an ilxor i enjoy this type of nonsense
― ogmor, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
That interview scans as either the last one he did after a weekend of hundreds of them, or the first one he did before he's even had a cup of coffee. What are Bobby Gillespie interviews like?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:51 (six years ago) link
tom d to thread to answer that one
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 12:05 (six years ago) link
strange logic is many execrable Boabby G interviews somehow making this Julian Casablancas effort beyond ridicule.
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
he's been reading Howard Zinn and that's probably about all we need to know
― stuck on the darraghmac (qiqing), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
If you could sum up your philosophy in three words, what would it be?Wake up sheeple
― stuck on the darraghmac (qiqing), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
A world where Ariel Pink is as popular as Ed Sheeran is a zero-sum game
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
i am v happy to not live in a world where the velvet underground are more popular than the rolling stones
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
otm. for me that would be a nightmare. because you can't just have more popularity free of any real world impacts of that success. and that'll be that. the band would be different. the music would be different. it would no longer be the band we know.
does this mean there is new material? does it suck? there would have to enough new material to support a popular (touring) band for 3 decades. we could say the members cannibalized this universe's solo material for VU albums but there is a possibility they won't be writing any of the same songs our VU members have written. would we not have any Lou Reed/John Cale/Nico solo albums? or just less of them? does this mean Lou Reed never makes a "Transformer" solo album, recording "Perfect Day" together with David Bowie? being in a big successful band is physically and mentally exhausting. their material and performance in general may lack the wiry energy we know and love.
what if Mo Tucker/Nico/John Cale/Lou Reed leaves the band anyways and you have the post-Lou Reed Velvet Underground being the one everyone loves? and you are the jerk saying only their first 4 albums were good, that would be quite ironic. i wonder if in that universe there is a Julian saying the exact same thing he said in this one.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
he meant to say he wants to live in a world where Ed Sheeran is about as popular as Ariel Pink
― had (crüt), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
I really can't believe purportedly intelligent men -- always men -- over thirty still have this implicit disdain over phantom popular forces that kept this or that favorite band from triumphing. Unless you're Reed, Chilton, or Pink, who the hell cares?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
Earth-2 Julian never started a band, b/c he was too busy going to VU stadium concerts and tracking down elusive mint copies of the Stones' (only) four albums.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
on what planet of opium must you live on to imagine that City of Night would top the NYT best seller list for months?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
yeah, alfred otm, also VU is not in any need of attention
I guess if you look at it very idealistically it is conceivable that there are currently overlooked artists whose style could be hugely influential in a way that would push popular music towards a completely new sound
if so, it's probably not Ariel Pink
― niels, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 07:17 (six years ago) link
What are Bobby Gillespie interviews like?
Glaswegian and completely incomprehensible. No way is Boab as dense as this guy btw.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 10:05 (six years ago) link
You know Paul Robeson?
D'ye ken John Peel?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
i blame John Peel
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link
relieved to know that we can still rely on tom d to answer the boaby signal when called upon
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 10:15 (six years ago) link
No way is Boab as dense as this guy btw
way
― mark s, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
mebbes, but i'd say boab is a markedly more entertaining kind of dense - the smacked-out postgrad to julian's stoned undergrad perhaps
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Boaby ahem, escuseme..
Bobby is more a performance eejit at times. Like back in his "Bomb the Pentagon" days, he'd just as likely to eventually say ".. Obviously not really!"
Whereas J is a more sincere kinda dude..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
I'm probably over-compensating vis a vis Boaby because I've spent so much time rippin' the pish oot the cunt, albeit in a spirit of fun.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link