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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jul 31, 2015 7:55:53 GMT 2
There are few musicians out there nowadays who really have much to say and aren't afraid to say it. Noel Gallagher is one who always gives good interviews; funny, knowledgeable, sarcastic..and Billy Corgan can always be relied on to give good copy, even if he makes you roll your eyes so hard you almost pass out. Wasn't always like that, though. There was a time when Mr Corgan was a bright eyed youngster with hopes and dreams and who even agreed to sit down and interview other bands for some dead station called MTV. And thank God he did, otherwise we wouldn't have this terrible gem, an interview with Nick Cave so awkward it's almost a work of art. youtu.be/pQ6SuW7RDKII love how he tried to save himself by asking his own intelligent question and made himself look like an even bigger jackass. And comparing yourself to a teenager and then having to admit you're 27? Who wrote that line, Ricky Gervais?
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Post by trashcanman on Jul 31, 2015 19:00:45 GMT 2
"To us in America it all looks like one country". Ugh. So true, though. Americans are terrible about that stuff. Corgan's mistake there was in not making it self-deprecating and trying to explain it away in such a dumb manner. Trust me, most American adults don't know much more about foreign countries than teens. We're just too far up our ow ass. There was this Irish girl who worked at my plant for a while and everybody kept calling her Braveheart like it was the most clever thing ever. I can only imagine what that sounded like from her end.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Aug 1, 2015 10:06:40 GMT 2
I remember my sister used to live in Memphis and a guy asked her "where d'you learn to speak such good English?"
The Braveheart thing is weird, though. I mean, it's.. famously Scottish. Like, there's 1000 things you could jokingly call an Irish girl but that's a head scratcher. Did she never correct them?
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Post by trashcanman on Aug 1, 2015 19:02:16 GMT 2
I'm not sure. She seemed really soft spoken and was in another department so I just kind of passed through every now and then and overheard.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Aug 2, 2015 0:39:33 GMT 2
Maybe she just wanted some.. freedom?
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