September 2010
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Public Speaking Engagements! About Music Writing!...
“My feeling about rock and roll is that it’s a bunch of garbage! It’s everything your parents ever said it was, it’s in one ear and out the other, it’s trash – here today and gone tomorrow – so what? The only people who are more unnecessary than rock musicians – who are totally interchangeable – are rock critics, because who gives a fuck, right? I think this whole thing is ridiculous, but...
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WHY Won't Bono Shut Up?
More often than even I hear that question, I hear, “Why won’t you shut up about Bono, Elmo?” I don’t know? Maybe I will now! I’ve tried to get it all down here in this cover story for the Big Issue. In it I’m arguing the (compelling!) case for why U2 should have split up in 1997 and the glorious, spotless history* they would have left in their wake if they...
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The Hands Of Time Are Neatly Tied
Taken at 3:45am at the Judgement Bar in Sydney. I was looking for photos of the Judgement Bar to post along with this piece when image search turned this up, which Dan took in 2005. He was just a little babybean photographer back then, taking lots of shots of what we were up to, which at that point in our lives was a lot of weekends at the Judgement Bar. I wasn’t there the night he saw...