Another nice post. What immediately grabs me about this interview is how well Thurston keeps his composure as he is unexpectedly accosted by this whack-job of an interviewer, who assaults Thurston with some unfair questions. It's pretty obvious to me that this media-jester's original intentions were to sneak attack Thurston and make him look a fool, but Thurston keeps his cool and totally executes a power reversal, where the media-jester is left looking foolish.
I expect Thurston was able to handle this interview with grace because he has likely had ample experience in similar situations. He must, by this point in his career, be a "media-pro."
Imagine how a dude with zero media or interview experience might navigate this situation. Would certainly be different than Josh's post. I'd probably freak out and throw a punch at the media-jester, or call him really mean names because I felt threatened, ambushed and extremely annoyed. I certainly wouldn't be nearly as polite as was Thurston. (Although, I guess he did try to break the album again).
Which reminds me of the inserts from the media-jester's first encounter with a much younger (and likely more inexperienced) Sonic Youth. Interesting to consider the difference in reactions to this jag-bag.
Spot on about CDs being the 8-track of the yuppie generation.
Keep posting.
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