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LoafingOaf
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Overall it was a decent interview. If I sound a little mean in parts of the below it's because I just don't understand why everything is being tainted and f***ed up by law suits and shit. It depresses me and I want it to stop.
> What makes this most English of Englishmen relocate to the most American
> of American cities?
Why does every Morrissey article have to obsess on this? I understand England is important to his music, but this is getting old.
> new life, new inspiration and an exotic new fanbase.
So if you're Mexican/Latino/a, you're "exotic"?
> Either you fell at the feet of this skinny, flailing individual, who
> tossed bon mots around like confetti and behaved as if popular
> acclaimation had elected him King of the North of England - or you thought
> he was a prancing nancy boy who deserved a slap, in which case the joke
> was on you because you were only encouraging him.
Well said!
>In The
> Smiths he had written about the private miseries of growing up in
> Manchester; as a solo artist, he'd ransacked everything from the Kray
> Twins to Brighton Rock to amateur boxing night at the York Hall gym in
> Bethnal Green for increasing violent characters to write about. Why on
> earth would he move to a place without history or human texture? Morrissey
> (rain, bleak humour) and Los Angeles (sun, cheery vapidity) seemed to be a
> contradiction in terms.
Um, how on earth can any place be "without history or human texture"?
We've got plenty of gangsters cooler than the Krays!!!
> But there are signs that Los Angeles has been good for Morrissey.
Still obsessing on Los Angeles. This was covered in the last 6 Morrissey articles.
> The Jag noses its way towards West Hollywood, where Morrissey lives, and
> below the rear-view mirror a silver cross and a Greek army dog-tag -
> thrown onstage by a fan in Athens - jangle against one another. Morrissey
> tells me he is "three dotted i's away" from signing a new record
> deal with the Sanctuary Music Group, home to Black Sabbath, Todd Rundgren
> and others of the never-say-die fanbase contingent. As a dowry, they are
> giving him his own label, the resurrected 60s and 70s reggae imprint
> Attack, along with the rights to its back catalogue and license to sign
> whomever he likes (this Morrissey finds especially delicious considering
> the stick he took in the late 80s for telling the NME that "Reggae is
> vile"). Recording of the album Irish Blood, English Heart should
> happen in the summer.
I almost believe it!
> As a curtain-raiser, Morrissey has assembled a compilation of the songs
> that made him who is for Under The Influence,
Well the track listing is ten million times more interesting (espeically for having Charlie Feathers!) than those Starbucks CDs where Sheryl Crow and the Rolling Stones did boring-ass compilations!
> Describe your typical day
*sigh* This guy is asking the same shit everyone asks him.
>Please don't
> imagine that I came to Los Angeles to surf or work out. I know it's
> happening here somewhere but I could never do any of that.
He oughta try surfing!
>In America you can't even talk about something
> you both saw on TV last night. There's too many channels.
We all watched Joe Millionaire though! (Why the hell did we watch that??)
> Many of the recent big hits on American television have been British
> imports, like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, The Weakest Link and Pop
> Idol.
> Quite so, and they're to the detriment of American society. Even the BBC
> America channel is positively vile. It shows Changing Rooms back to back
> for nine hours.
You got that right. We must end this British dumbing down of American culture.
> Father Ted? (Pained expression). Ugh. You see, I don't find humour funny.
> That's my problem. What I find funny is things like Alan Bennett, or Jo
> Brand, or Victoria Wood. In the early 80s she completely changed the face
> of television comedy, not just for women by for men too. I admire her for
> that. She was revolutionary.
Don't know what he's talking about.
> I was a very
> noisy child. I always stood in front of the television, I wouldn't go to
> bed, and then I discovered music at the age of six and played it loud,
> continuously, all day from that point onwards. I would sing, non-stop,
> which must have been unbearable. I was surprised they were so tolerant of
> me, to be honest.
Awww. Lil Moz.
> What does your father do?
> He does... certain things. Useful things. Let's leave it at that.
Hmm...we'd better get the investigative reporters on this!
> There are certain people in modern pop who I am very impressed with.
> People like Bono and Noel Gallagher.
*puke* at Bono.
>I like them enormously. I understand
> Bono and I think he is worth supporting. When you meet him, you can see
> why he is very good at that ambassadorial role. He exudes a great sense of
> ease and enthusiasm. That's a gift. I've met him a few times. The first
> time was when I presented an award to him in Belfast about six years ago,
> and we talked at length. You can see he's a very loving and decent person
> and actually not remotely pretentious.
That all may be, I'm sure he's a good guy, but his music blows. And I don't like the religiosity of it. "I think he is worth supporting." What does that mean? You either like the music or you don't. What, do people sit around going, "Hmmm, this song is pretty good, but now is this band member really WORTH supporting???"
> I don't work. I never really have. I don't consider what I do to be work.
> I just exist, and be.
This made me really f***ing envious. How lovely that sounds. I wanna find a way to a living that I won't consider work. Boy, what I do feels like unbearably tedious work every god damn f***ing day. = ( Feel sorry for Oaf, people!!!
> The received wisdom of how The Smiths made records was that Johnny Marr
> would create the music entirely separately from you, and you would then
> arrive with lyrics which had also been created in isolation, and you would
> often do it in one take.
> Yes, absolutely, and that is how it still goes on.
I find this bizarre and hard to follow how it can work so well. But it does indeed work!
> The music mystifies me, because I don't understand why I have the
> monopoly on the word "miserable". Both [Coldplay and Radiohead] sound very
> unhappy, with not a sign of a witty lyric. I might be wrong but I don't
> understand how they've escaped that accusation. I can't say I've enjoyed
> their records, no.
It's a good point. I love the second and third Radiohead albums, but they sure have gotten boring lately. Why would anyone listen to those last albums?
If you put one on at a party it's the surest way to kill that party. (Not that every album must be good for a party, mind you....)
> Robbie Williams is now your neighbour here in Los Angeles. Why do you
> think the Americans haven't taken to him?
Never heard of him.
> Personally I think
> that almost everything about Robbie Williams is fantastic... apart from
> the voice and the songs.
LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!
They're neighbors? Ouch.
> Did you hear TATU's version of How Soon Is Now?
> Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them
Yes it is magnificent, I quite agree. (Take that, Mindy.:>)
Although I felt like a dirty old man when somebody at class spotted their CD in my bag.
But the cover song and at least one other song are really good. It's about time some teenage pop had something going for it.
> Morrissey lives in Clark Gable's old house. Next door, Johnny Depp lives
> in Boris Karloff's old house -
Real good. This will ensure an uptick in stalker activity.
> Another room, however, is less sensually-inclined. It contains a
> flatscreen G4 Powermac and a giant plasma screen TV.
Ah, the computer on which he monitors this site for legal actions.
> The house, he feels, is a refuge. Friends visit often. In 2000 Kirsty
> MacColl, who'd sung on Interesting Drug and The Smiths' Ask and had been
> married to Morrissey's producer Steve Lillywhite, came over. She'd heard
> that he had been to Mexico - was it nice? Should she take the kids?
> Morrissey told her she absolutely must, must go. The day she arrived in
> Mexico she was killed by a speedboat which was in a swimming area.
> "She is irreplaceable to me," Morrissey says.
RIP Kirsty = (
> Fans, inevitably, have found him here.
Of course they have. You all but gave a map to the house.
>It said he was going to the Gulf and he must speak with Morrissey
> before he went. "What can you say?" Morrissey wonders. "Go?
> Don't go? Go but don't shoot anybody?" Again, there is nothing you
> can say that will make anything better."
I'd have told him: If you're morally opposed to what you're being asked to do, you simply cannot do it. However, one ought to have thought of this before joining the armed forces, rather than expecting to just take and not give back in an arrangement wherein volunteers get a pretty good deal. So, while he'd be a jack-ass for that...no, no one should fight in a war they oppose. I wish I could've gone in his place and been part of that history.
> Several of your new songs are about Mexican life. There’s The First Of The
> Gang To Die, where the typical Morrissey boy-hero is a gangster called
> Hector, and Mexico, about migrant workers. Isn’t this the first time
> you’ve written about people who aren’t British?
Is "First of the Gang to Die" about Mexican life? Just because of the name Hector? Wasn't that name chosen because it's both/either an English and a Spanish name?
> It’s about time isn’t it? I do like social observation and these seemed
> like natural subjects for my kind of songs. It is a fascinating culture,
> but also the Spanish-speaking audience is so valuable in America these
> days. Everybody wants the “Hispanic” audience.
He did NOT just say that! Am I reading this wrong, or is he saying he's trying to jump on a trend to help his career? I suppose he could mean the Spanish-speaking audience is important, so an artist should be in touch with them. Or I dunno.
But yeah, all Americans should learn some Spanish I think.
It's one of the languages of the land. In fact, some of our land was stolen from Mexico, of course. And several of our states were officially bilingual in the 1800s (take that, those in the Make English the Official Language movement!)
> The 90s were quite a hard time for you. You were pilloried as a racist for
> producing the Union Jack onstage at a Madness show in Finsbury Park in
> 1992, yet within a couple of years British pop culture had wrapped itself
> in the flag. Did you feel vindicated by Britpop?
Duh, this interviewer knows the answer to this, because he got this question by looking at other Morrissey interviews. Why do they bother rehashing the same questions. If you wanted to address the racism thing, it would've been far more interesting to talk about "Bengali In Platoforms," which I still don't know how I'm supposed to take.
> Why did you wave the Union Jack at the Madness show?
> Truly, honestly, I can’t remember. It was not a great choreographed plan,
> it was just there. I wasn’t making any statement.
> What, in front of Madness’s audience?
It's funny how waving a flag is such a big deal in England. They've been asking Morrissey about this one waving of a flag for how many years? 11 years?
Strange. Truly strange.
> What goes through you mind when you’re onstage?
> The joy of final human fulfilment. There’s nothing to touch it. It’s as
> good as life gets, and never more so than the last string of dates I did
> in Blackburn, Bradford and Glasgow. They were the best nights of my life.
> The audiences were so astonishing and I though, “There is nothing that
> life can give me that will take me beyond these night.”
I like to hear this. = )
> What is the current state of play in your legal dispute with Mike Joyce?
> [The Smiths’ drummer was awarded £1.25m in back royalties in 1996;
> Morrissey lost an appeal in 1998]
His whole thing on the Joyce case is rather sad. And, at least based on what I can gather from the appellate court's opinions, Morrissey's doing some serious spin control here.
> I think he knew it would stick with the media. Because his findings were
> so wrong and perverse, he had to make that extreme comment or people might
> have examined his judgement a bit more closely,
Pure rubbish. I guess he thinks the fans will believe it though, because when are they gonna hear the other side?
>and seen that his reasons
> for finding in favour of Joyce were non-existent.
That's a lie. The reasons were well stated.
*sigh*
If he really believes his whole line on that case, that's one thing. He'd be fooling himself, but at least sincere. Though I must say he seems far worse. Like a ridiculous liar when this subject comes up.
In my humble opinion.
> Are you well off?
> No, and I think that has propelled Joyce somewhat. When I signed to RCA
> and did the Southpaw Grammar album it was announced that I had signed a £9
> million deal. In truth I received £250,000. And when I signed to Mercury
> in 1996, Q magazine said I was in line to receive £21 million! People
> actually believe these things. What I got was a mere dusting of that
> amount. I mean, I can go on trips to Mexico, I treat myself to First Class
> travel and nice hotels, I have a reasonably nice car and I own this house,
> but I am not well off. I don’t see money from tours either. They are very
> successful but on the last two or three, I’ve had not a Mars bar to show
> for it at the end. That’s not why I do them, of course, but people think
> you are rolling in it and I’m not.
Lets see. He drives a Jag and...what was that other sports car? He drives those to his mansion, where Johnny Depp lives on one side and some famous British singer on the other. He goes inside and watches his plasma big screen TV. He doesn't have to do anything on any given day he doesn't want to do; he can just exist and hang out.
More power to him. But, honestly, how should one react when the rich pretend they are not. He may not not be "rolling in it," but what the hell are the rest of us doing? I feel rich and I f***ing live paycheck to paycheck and am barely middle class in a teeny apartment. BUT I FEEL WELL OFF. And this joker doesn't, living in his limosine Hollywood life.
It's laughable. "Yeah, I'm in the .01 percentile of wealth, but I'm not well off."
What is that about? Excuses for not paying people?
Proof he's not living in reality?
More power to the man for being rich; I wanna be too. But don't pretend otherwise. That's asinine.
> Again, disregarding the court case, did The Smiths achieve what you wanted
> them to achieve?
Yes, go back to better subjects. I don't wanna hear about that other shit any more. How about the music????????????
> There’s no doubt that The Smiths could have gone on and would have got
> better too. I thought it could have easily run to twenty albums.
DAMN YOU, JOHNNY!!!!!!!!!
But...eh, it's okay. The solo stuff pretty much rules too.
> In the driveway, he asked a favour. He wanted to modify a few of the
> things he said. “Please don’t have me say anything unpleasant about
> Coldplay and Radiohead,” he said “There’s no point to it, it just looks
> silly and mean. They’re perfectly good bands, they’re just not to my
> taste.”
> You called them Oldplay and Radiodead.
> “I know. But I say a lot of things I don’t mean.”
> And that was something I’d never heard from Morrissey before.
Heh.
> What makes this most English of Englishmen relocate to the most American
> of American cities?
Why does every Morrissey article have to obsess on this? I understand England is important to his music, but this is getting old.
> new life, new inspiration and an exotic new fanbase.
So if you're Mexican/Latino/a, you're "exotic"?
> Either you fell at the feet of this skinny, flailing individual, who
> tossed bon mots around like confetti and behaved as if popular
> acclaimation had elected him King of the North of England - or you thought
> he was a prancing nancy boy who deserved a slap, in which case the joke
> was on you because you were only encouraging him.
Well said!
>In The
> Smiths he had written about the private miseries of growing up in
> Manchester; as a solo artist, he'd ransacked everything from the Kray
> Twins to Brighton Rock to amateur boxing night at the York Hall gym in
> Bethnal Green for increasing violent characters to write about. Why on
> earth would he move to a place without history or human texture? Morrissey
> (rain, bleak humour) and Los Angeles (sun, cheery vapidity) seemed to be a
> contradiction in terms.
Um, how on earth can any place be "without history or human texture"?
We've got plenty of gangsters cooler than the Krays!!!
> But there are signs that Los Angeles has been good for Morrissey.
Still obsessing on Los Angeles. This was covered in the last 6 Morrissey articles.
> The Jag noses its way towards West Hollywood, where Morrissey lives, and
> below the rear-view mirror a silver cross and a Greek army dog-tag -
> thrown onstage by a fan in Athens - jangle against one another. Morrissey
> tells me he is "three dotted i's away" from signing a new record
> deal with the Sanctuary Music Group, home to Black Sabbath, Todd Rundgren
> and others of the never-say-die fanbase contingent. As a dowry, they are
> giving him his own label, the resurrected 60s and 70s reggae imprint
> Attack, along with the rights to its back catalogue and license to sign
> whomever he likes (this Morrissey finds especially delicious considering
> the stick he took in the late 80s for telling the NME that "Reggae is
> vile"). Recording of the album Irish Blood, English Heart should
> happen in the summer.
I almost believe it!
> As a curtain-raiser, Morrissey has assembled a compilation of the songs
> that made him who is for Under The Influence,
Well the track listing is ten million times more interesting (espeically for having Charlie Feathers!) than those Starbucks CDs where Sheryl Crow and the Rolling Stones did boring-ass compilations!
> Describe your typical day
*sigh* This guy is asking the same shit everyone asks him.
>Please don't
> imagine that I came to Los Angeles to surf or work out. I know it's
> happening here somewhere but I could never do any of that.
He oughta try surfing!
>In America you can't even talk about something
> you both saw on TV last night. There's too many channels.
We all watched Joe Millionaire though! (Why the hell did we watch that??)
> Many of the recent big hits on American television have been British
> imports, like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, The Weakest Link and Pop
> Idol.
> Quite so, and they're to the detriment of American society. Even the BBC
> America channel is positively vile. It shows Changing Rooms back to back
> for nine hours.
You got that right. We must end this British dumbing down of American culture.
> Father Ted? (Pained expression). Ugh. You see, I don't find humour funny.
> That's my problem. What I find funny is things like Alan Bennett, or Jo
> Brand, or Victoria Wood. In the early 80s she completely changed the face
> of television comedy, not just for women by for men too. I admire her for
> that. She was revolutionary.
Don't know what he's talking about.
> I was a very
> noisy child. I always stood in front of the television, I wouldn't go to
> bed, and then I discovered music at the age of six and played it loud,
> continuously, all day from that point onwards. I would sing, non-stop,
> which must have been unbearable. I was surprised they were so tolerant of
> me, to be honest.
Awww. Lil Moz.
> What does your father do?
> He does... certain things. Useful things. Let's leave it at that.
Hmm...we'd better get the investigative reporters on this!
> There are certain people in modern pop who I am very impressed with.
> People like Bono and Noel Gallagher.
*puke* at Bono.
>I like them enormously. I understand
> Bono and I think he is worth supporting. When you meet him, you can see
> why he is very good at that ambassadorial role. He exudes a great sense of
> ease and enthusiasm. That's a gift. I've met him a few times. The first
> time was when I presented an award to him in Belfast about six years ago,
> and we talked at length. You can see he's a very loving and decent person
> and actually not remotely pretentious.
That all may be, I'm sure he's a good guy, but his music blows. And I don't like the religiosity of it. "I think he is worth supporting." What does that mean? You either like the music or you don't. What, do people sit around going, "Hmmm, this song is pretty good, but now is this band member really WORTH supporting???"
> I don't work. I never really have. I don't consider what I do to be work.
> I just exist, and be.
This made me really f***ing envious. How lovely that sounds. I wanna find a way to a living that I won't consider work. Boy, what I do feels like unbearably tedious work every god damn f***ing day. = ( Feel sorry for Oaf, people!!!
> The received wisdom of how The Smiths made records was that Johnny Marr
> would create the music entirely separately from you, and you would then
> arrive with lyrics which had also been created in isolation, and you would
> often do it in one take.
> Yes, absolutely, and that is how it still goes on.
I find this bizarre and hard to follow how it can work so well. But it does indeed work!
> The music mystifies me, because I don't understand why I have the
> monopoly on the word "miserable". Both [Coldplay and Radiohead] sound very
> unhappy, with not a sign of a witty lyric. I might be wrong but I don't
> understand how they've escaped that accusation. I can't say I've enjoyed
> their records, no.
It's a good point. I love the second and third Radiohead albums, but they sure have gotten boring lately. Why would anyone listen to those last albums?
If you put one on at a party it's the surest way to kill that party. (Not that every album must be good for a party, mind you....)
> Robbie Williams is now your neighbour here in Los Angeles. Why do you
> think the Americans haven't taken to him?
Never heard of him.
> Personally I think
> that almost everything about Robbie Williams is fantastic... apart from
> the voice and the songs.
LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!
They're neighbors? Ouch.
> Did you hear TATU's version of How Soon Is Now?
> Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them
Yes it is magnificent, I quite agree. (Take that, Mindy.:>)
Although I felt like a dirty old man when somebody at class spotted their CD in my bag.
But the cover song and at least one other song are really good. It's about time some teenage pop had something going for it.
> Morrissey lives in Clark Gable's old house. Next door, Johnny Depp lives
> in Boris Karloff's old house -
Real good. This will ensure an uptick in stalker activity.
> Another room, however, is less sensually-inclined. It contains a
> flatscreen G4 Powermac and a giant plasma screen TV.
Ah, the computer on which he monitors this site for legal actions.
> The house, he feels, is a refuge. Friends visit often. In 2000 Kirsty
> MacColl, who'd sung on Interesting Drug and The Smiths' Ask and had been
> married to Morrissey's producer Steve Lillywhite, came over. She'd heard
> that he had been to Mexico - was it nice? Should she take the kids?
> Morrissey told her she absolutely must, must go. The day she arrived in
> Mexico she was killed by a speedboat which was in a swimming area.
> "She is irreplaceable to me," Morrissey says.
RIP Kirsty = (
> Fans, inevitably, have found him here.
Of course they have. You all but gave a map to the house.
>It said he was going to the Gulf and he must speak with Morrissey
> before he went. "What can you say?" Morrissey wonders. "Go?
> Don't go? Go but don't shoot anybody?" Again, there is nothing you
> can say that will make anything better."
I'd have told him: If you're morally opposed to what you're being asked to do, you simply cannot do it. However, one ought to have thought of this before joining the armed forces, rather than expecting to just take and not give back in an arrangement wherein volunteers get a pretty good deal. So, while he'd be a jack-ass for that...no, no one should fight in a war they oppose. I wish I could've gone in his place and been part of that history.
> Several of your new songs are about Mexican life. There’s The First Of The
> Gang To Die, where the typical Morrissey boy-hero is a gangster called
> Hector, and Mexico, about migrant workers. Isn’t this the first time
> you’ve written about people who aren’t British?
Is "First of the Gang to Die" about Mexican life? Just because of the name Hector? Wasn't that name chosen because it's both/either an English and a Spanish name?
> It’s about time isn’t it? I do like social observation and these seemed
> like natural subjects for my kind of songs. It is a fascinating culture,
> but also the Spanish-speaking audience is so valuable in America these
> days. Everybody wants the “Hispanic” audience.
He did NOT just say that! Am I reading this wrong, or is he saying he's trying to jump on a trend to help his career? I suppose he could mean the Spanish-speaking audience is important, so an artist should be in touch with them. Or I dunno.
But yeah, all Americans should learn some Spanish I think.
It's one of the languages of the land. In fact, some of our land was stolen from Mexico, of course. And several of our states were officially bilingual in the 1800s (take that, those in the Make English the Official Language movement!)
> The 90s were quite a hard time for you. You were pilloried as a racist for
> producing the Union Jack onstage at a Madness show in Finsbury Park in
> 1992, yet within a couple of years British pop culture had wrapped itself
> in the flag. Did you feel vindicated by Britpop?
Duh, this interviewer knows the answer to this, because he got this question by looking at other Morrissey interviews. Why do they bother rehashing the same questions. If you wanted to address the racism thing, it would've been far more interesting to talk about "Bengali In Platoforms," which I still don't know how I'm supposed to take.
> Why did you wave the Union Jack at the Madness show?
> Truly, honestly, I can’t remember. It was not a great choreographed plan,
> it was just there. I wasn’t making any statement.
> What, in front of Madness’s audience?
It's funny how waving a flag is such a big deal in England. They've been asking Morrissey about this one waving of a flag for how many years? 11 years?
Strange. Truly strange.
> What goes through you mind when you’re onstage?
> The joy of final human fulfilment. There’s nothing to touch it. It’s as
> good as life gets, and never more so than the last string of dates I did
> in Blackburn, Bradford and Glasgow. They were the best nights of my life.
> The audiences were so astonishing and I though, “There is nothing that
> life can give me that will take me beyond these night.”
I like to hear this. = )
> What is the current state of play in your legal dispute with Mike Joyce?
> [The Smiths’ drummer was awarded £1.25m in back royalties in 1996;
> Morrissey lost an appeal in 1998]
His whole thing on the Joyce case is rather sad. And, at least based on what I can gather from the appellate court's opinions, Morrissey's doing some serious spin control here.
> I think he knew it would stick with the media. Because his findings were
> so wrong and perverse, he had to make that extreme comment or people might
> have examined his judgement a bit more closely,
Pure rubbish. I guess he thinks the fans will believe it though, because when are they gonna hear the other side?
>and seen that his reasons
> for finding in favour of Joyce were non-existent.
That's a lie. The reasons were well stated.
*sigh*
If he really believes his whole line on that case, that's one thing. He'd be fooling himself, but at least sincere. Though I must say he seems far worse. Like a ridiculous liar when this subject comes up.
In my humble opinion.
> Are you well off?
> No, and I think that has propelled Joyce somewhat. When I signed to RCA
> and did the Southpaw Grammar album it was announced that I had signed a £9
> million deal. In truth I received £250,000. And when I signed to Mercury
> in 1996, Q magazine said I was in line to receive £21 million! People
> actually believe these things. What I got was a mere dusting of that
> amount. I mean, I can go on trips to Mexico, I treat myself to First Class
> travel and nice hotels, I have a reasonably nice car and I own this house,
> but I am not well off. I don’t see money from tours either. They are very
> successful but on the last two or three, I’ve had not a Mars bar to show
> for it at the end. That’s not why I do them, of course, but people think
> you are rolling in it and I’m not.
Lets see. He drives a Jag and...what was that other sports car? He drives those to his mansion, where Johnny Depp lives on one side and some famous British singer on the other. He goes inside and watches his plasma big screen TV. He doesn't have to do anything on any given day he doesn't want to do; he can just exist and hang out.
More power to him. But, honestly, how should one react when the rich pretend they are not. He may not not be "rolling in it," but what the hell are the rest of us doing? I feel rich and I f***ing live paycheck to paycheck and am barely middle class in a teeny apartment. BUT I FEEL WELL OFF. And this joker doesn't, living in his limosine Hollywood life.
It's laughable. "Yeah, I'm in the .01 percentile of wealth, but I'm not well off."
What is that about? Excuses for not paying people?
Proof he's not living in reality?
More power to the man for being rich; I wanna be too. But don't pretend otherwise. That's asinine.
> Again, disregarding the court case, did The Smiths achieve what you wanted
> them to achieve?
Yes, go back to better subjects. I don't wanna hear about that other shit any more. How about the music????????????
> There’s no doubt that The Smiths could have gone on and would have got
> better too. I thought it could have easily run to twenty albums.
DAMN YOU, JOHNNY!!!!!!!!!
But...eh, it's okay. The solo stuff pretty much rules too.
> In the driveway, he asked a favour. He wanted to modify a few of the
> things he said. “Please don’t have me say anything unpleasant about
> Coldplay and Radiohead,” he said “There’s no point to it, it just looks
> silly and mean. They’re perfectly good bands, they’re just not to my
> taste.”
> You called them Oldplay and Radiodead.
> “I know. But I say a lot of things I don’t mean.”
> And that was something I’d never heard from Morrissey before.
Heh.
