Ryan Adams calls up Pitchfork!

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Ryan figures 'why not just call them up?'.

From Pitchfork's website:

Ryan Adams' sprawling public persona is its own kind of self-aggravating prophecy: incessant public squabbling (see spats with Jack White, Jeff Tweedy, Paul Westerberg), shrill admonishments deposited in critics' voicemail boxes (then promptly leaked online), and increasingly unpredictable live shows have cast Adams as rock's newest, and oldest, firecracker. Subsequently, trying to decipher Adams' intentions is almost impossible; given the stylistic scope of his discography and the shiftiness of his recorded work, which ranges from haunted and sincere to absurdly bombastic, Adams is a bafflingly spastic public figure.

In November, I wrote a review of Adams' latest full-length, Rock N Roll, calling the record "overblown," "humiliating," and "ridiculous." In January, Pitchfork's Hartley Goldstein deemed the Love Is Hell EPs "maudlin," christening Adams "diet Chris Martin." In early March, newswriters Micah Harding and Ashford Tucker reported on Adams' new label Paxamerican, suggesting that Adams has finally been "run ragged by utter failures."

Last week, Adams' manager contacted me to request an interview on her client's behalf. I said okay. It turns out he talks really fast.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The interview is here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/a/adams_ryan-04/

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

is he still laid up with a broken wrist or whatever? A guy like that shouldn't have downtime.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, yeah. It's weird how not contentious the interview is, almost suspiciously so.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

This made me laugh:

But if I wasn't me, I probably wouldn't be like, "Dude, you have to check out this record, Gold, it kicks ass."

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

What about, "I mean, I am super into records. Today I got the first Pussy Galore record for $50 from Final Vinyl, which I've been looking for for so fucking long. So I get cool records."

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

So how long till he shows up here?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 22 March 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ryan Adams should quit making records and just have a reality TV show, I would totally watch that.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 22 March 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

What a nice young man.

I read that interview and found it very amusing even though I've never heard a note of his music.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"I really don't like Sting's new music very much, but he has a total right to make records."

It all comes back to Zoolander, doesn't it?

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Monday, 22 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

he is such a dick!

― ddb, Monday, 22 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

these niggas got me tossin' shit
I put the top down, now its time to floss my shit
keep your head up nigga, make these muthafuckas suffer
up in the Benz burning rubber
the money is mandatory, the hoes is fully strapped
cuz criminal lifestyle equipped with the bulletproof vest
make sure your eyes is on the meal ticket
get your money, muthafucker, let's get rich and we'll kick it
all eyez on me

― Ryan Adams, Monday, 22 March 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

that seems suspiciously like a Trojan Horse maneuver on Adams' part.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 22 March 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

he definitely comes off as more lucidly self-aware and honest about things than, say, his "I'm a fucking rock star" comments of a year or two ago.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 22 March 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

He has found his level.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 22 March 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

And been hit over the head with same.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 March 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes...

Ryan Adams: "I do smoke cigarettes sometimes"

― Vek (vek), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The title of his inevitable spoken word album.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

surely a Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God compilation awaits

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

This...is all too true. I think Mr. Daddino said as much when The DeRogatis Message leaked.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I steal all my good ideas from Mike

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"One Piece at a Time, a column by Michael Dadd...er, angelo Matos"

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Well yes. Like any sane human.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

1. It all comes back to Zoolander, doesn't it? OTM!
2. The Jim DeRogatis message was a spoof, no?

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

fave part = typical hipster sign-off:
Ryan: Yeah! Listen, I'm gonna go make some food now, but it was nice talking to you.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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