"I don't listen to Radiohead because I don't need them."
"I respect the fact that Kid Rock worked his way up from the trailer park or whatever. But I don't respect Eminem for cursing a lot about the way he says he's going to beat up fags and his wife. It doesn't mean anything to me. It's completely retarded. I just pretend that everyone is speaking Chinese."
"I just wipe my ass with most urban contemporary culture. I think it's elementary. It doesn't move my brain whatsoever. If someone asked me to go on tour with Korn, Outkast, and Limp Biscuit, I wouldn't go. I wouldn't have a good time. But in a situation like Reading, or a European festival, sure I would play with those bands. For me it's about the music. Less about knowing how to do Kung Fu and beating the shit out of someone on MTV."
"I think that it's great that people have opinions. People have their opinions about what they like and what they don't like. People have reasons why they believe things. In the 1980s there were little girls who made up their own words to songs by theCocteau Twins, every when there wasn't any. People buy Japanese versions of The Smiths records and you read the lyrics and it's not even what the guy was saying. "
"The way I got hooked up with Bomp was I got a hold of a Spaceman 3 record. I thought that they must have open minds because they were a junkie band that will never tour. And I thought that they would understand my music. And they did. "
Great huh? and this is all from one interview!
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)
don't you have anything better to do with your time?you can sit around and talk shit about me or my art till the day you die.does anyone talk about you,and what you have done?thought so.cheers,anton alfred newcombe
p.s.total fucking tit.
― otto, Monday, 5 April 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)
The point is that Anton refused to leave the van unguarded, so he slept in it. He was, of course, severely fucked up.
The next time they were in town, we went to an instore they were doing, and had a bit of a chat with Anton while waiting for the equiptment to be put in the van. He told us how, the morning after sleeping in the van, he stumbled out and went in search of his band, and ended up walking a good ten blocks down, where he ran into a pole. He looked around, and saw that he was in the police station parking lot. So, because he's from California, he said, he was trying to figure out whether he should leave a note on the pole with his contact information, lest he be charged with a hit an run.
The band also told us of Anton antics with the Brian Jonestown Massacre vs. Dandy Warhols rival, but I believe those are stories of public record, so I'll refrain.
― Nick Lanham, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alec Magnet (poop), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)
"(yelling at the drummer) “You have all these friends that want you to play for them in their bands. They’re in all the magazines, but NO, you want to stayin my band and fuck up my life."
(When a guy from the crowd yelled to play a song)“Shut the fuck up, art boy! I am trying to have a discussion with the audience.”
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― My Dinner With Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)
― dan (dan), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago)
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)