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(Message started by: Iggy_the_Cat on Mar 18^th, 2005, 1:20am)

Title: Rolling Stone
Post by Iggy_the_Cat on Mar 18^th, 2005, 1:20am

Ok, the old Rolling Stone article was mentioned in another post - in regards to the meaning of "Black Balloon"

I hadn't read this article since it was published years ago... and I forgot how ridiculously hillarious it is...

I figured we could post our favorite parts of the article...

here's mine:

"Once, in 1995, they argued for fourteen hours in a Paris stairwell, drinking cheap red wine. When Takac adjourned to buy a new bottle, he drank it, immmediately threw it up, walked back into the shop and bought another bottle."
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/9427/rs11993.html

Title: Re: Rolling Stone
Post by blessed_by_goo on Mar 20^th, 2005, 10:40pm

I think this is one of the most informative interview they ever did. I remember back while reading it for the 1st time ~ I got kinda choked up a couple of times. Does anyone know of any others that are better, or just as GOOd pls advise if so.....I'm in the mood for GOO storytime!

It's a great story. Anyone who hasn't read it I encourage you to go read.

Title: Re: Rolling Stone
Post by nmf016 on Mar 21^st, 2005, 1:26pm

I always liked this comment:

Quote:

The irony was that, freed up by thinking he was writing about a movie character, he wrote a song which perfectly distilled the ideas and emotions that splish-splosh around many of his songs: the near impossibility of love in a difficult universe where people try to discourage your best impulses; the elusiveness of hope and freedom in a land of despair and rules; wanting to be understood in a world that always lets you down.

One, I think it is true. Two, it was refreshing to hear someone talk about John's songwriting instead of his hair.