Who Else Should FT Interview?

Robert Mugabe

Steve Strange.

jessica simps- oh wait.

Me, of course. Forget these other nonentities!

If you *must* have a second choice, then clearly Kid 606 and/or Kid Koala. In fact, both at the same time.

Yeah, well, I'm with Ned. Interview me. I'm scintillating. OK, being non-flippant - Dave Eggers (well, it would be worth a go).

Eggers would do an e-mail interview, so that's a plus. :)

If we're on a literary kick, Richard Powers has been the author who I've found has said the most interesting things about pop music in interviews, but what are the chances of getting him, really?

Simon Reynolds seems the interesting choice who might actually be feasable. I recall the excellent Popped interview where they put Chuck Eddy through the ringer. They pulled that off by well, being so very into his work that they could pull together all sorts of quotes and contradictary arguments and theories and such, and it was a real idea-packed thriller of an article. I think, given how often the guy's name comes up, how the term (which Josh coined?) Post-Reynolds actually seems to mean something, and suchforth, I mean... it seems like it could be quite a ride.

Also, Jim Dodge would make a good interviewee.

I so did not coin that. But you're right, Reynolds is the ideal choice for FT. Get to it, Tom!

I couldn't do the interview with Reynolds, could I :) ?

it should probably be mentioned that tom doesn't like dave eggers.

hey, even better!

david. foster. mother. effing. wallace!!!!!

As if a Californian DFW is gonna have anything interesting to say.

Are you putting me down, Otis? *cries* ;-)

I doubt DFW will have anything interesting to say on pop music. Like with DE, I think you'd just get a long meditation on the nature of irony -- DFW would actually use the term, and DE would pretend that he wasn't talking about irony at all, but he still would be.

DFW and DE probably both like Moby. And as Sterling suggests, this is a pop fanzine not a literary journal, like. ;)

Reynolds is a good idea - I'd be happy though for someone else to do it, particularly as a couple of people here are in much, much more regular correspondence with him than I.

Ned and Vaughan may have been being facetious, but interviewing music listeners and consumers and writers is much more like what I'd want to do.

They seem to come to you, don't they, Tom? Reynolds did, if you hadn't been so starstruck you would've asked him for an interview. Rhodes did, Glenn Jones of Cul de Sac just posted elsewhere in the forum. As much as I dislike the man's work, I bet you could get an interesting chat out of Jim O'Rourke.

I want you to interview Robert Smith, preferably while the entire Cure catalogue is on continuous loop.

dan, there's a place like you said, where robert smith talks about himself all day long and the entire cure catalogue plays on loop in the background-- it's called HELL.

on potential interview subjects, i think you should do somebody who runs a fan website for one of the many teen pop stars the freakytrigger gang obsess over (but doesn't put the music into the same critical scope) and ask him or her why they enjoy the music and the tunes and what led them to the artist and so on. or you could just do me.

Who is this Chuck Eddy character by the way? His name is dropped quite often. i did a search on amazon.com and only found out that a lot of metalheads want him dead. And that Ned wrote a review on his book (jeez i'm starting to recognize I Love Music e-mails on other sites) :)

Hmm. Hell appears to be the place where they play The Cure non-stop while Heaven consists solely of Belle and Sebastian (according to another ILM thread).

Man, I'm REALLY looking forward to Hell now!

Ah, two of my favorite subjects. Sorry, Ethan, but you are WRONG WRONG WRONG. There, I've got that out of my system and Dan's description of the proper cosmology says it all. ;-)

Re: Chuck Eddy. A god. The metalheads are fuckups in this regard, because by and large, like all self-described purists, they focus on the trappings and not the sounds. Frankly, sitting down Simon Reynolds *and* Chuck together for an interview would be mind-blowing. Hm, wonder if they'll be free when I come through New York in August. ;-)

Philistines Jr; Julian Koster; Sigur Ros; Mark Mothersbaugh; Steward; Jon Bon Jovi; Brian Wilson. Thankyou, goodbye.

how about putting dfw and eggers together in the same room as eddy and reynolds?!

based on their stories, wallace seems to like "alternative" music, e.g. the flaming lips, mentioned in "a supposedly fun thing..." eggers probably has similar tastes as wallace but he likes journey's "any way you want it," whether he does so for real or ironically is anyone's guess.

Edna Welthorpe (Mrs).

Chuck Eddy and Simon Reynolds ! Man, I'd pay good money to read an interview of those two together, especially if someone brings up the post-rock thing !