A edição desta semana da revista Rolling Stone norte-americana traz mais uma matéria em busca da essência de Kurt Cobain e antecipa um trecho de uma demo inédita gravada pelo líder do Nirvana que está no novo documentário Montage of Heck:

A mesma edição também traz uma infame entrevista com a filha de Kurt, Frances Bean Cobain, que, entre outras coisas, disse que não curte tanto a música da banda do pai:

“Eu não gosto tanto de Nirvana assim (sorri). Foi mal pessoal da divulgação, da Universal. Eu curto mais Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre (ri). A cena grunge não é algo que me interessa, mas “Territorial Pissings” é uma música muito foda. E “Dumb” – choro sempre que escuto essa música. É uma versão desconstruída da percepção de Kurt sobre ele mesmo – sobre ele usando drogas, sem drogas, se sentindo mal por ter virado a voz de uma geração.”

E o Lucio crava que “Montage of Heck” só vai passar em uma única sessão, em uma única sala de cinema, em uma única cidade do Brasil. Tomara que se liguem que isso é uma burrada.

David Frickle entrevistou um dos dois beastie boys vivos sobre o que acabou de morrer, na Rolling Stone:

“My wife is like, ‘I want to make sure you’re getting it out.’ But then I’m walking the dog and I’ll start crying on the street.” Horovitz shook his head wearily. “It’s pretty fucking crazy.”

Yauch was the oldest of the Beastie Boys. Was he a leader in the early days?
Yauch was in charge. He was smarter, more organized. In a group of friends, you all come up with stupid shit to do. But you never do it. With Yauch, it got done. He had that extra drive to see things through. We each had our roles. One of his was the make-it-happen person.
I’d be like, “We should take these pictures where we’re dressed as undercover cops. That would be funny.” But Adam was really into movies. So we made a whole video of that [“Sabotage”]. It wasn’t just a nice picture for us to have.

What was Yauch’s musical role in the Beastie Boys?
He was a really good bass player. He loved Daryl [Jennifer] of the Bad Brains. And he could sound like that. When we met [producer-musician] Mark Nishita, he and Adam would talk all this musical shit: “You should go up a fifth here.” I’d be like, “Tell me where to put my fingers, and I’ll play that for four minutes.”
Adam was the Techno Wiz – that’s what me, Mike and Rick [Rubin] called him. I went to his apartment in Brooklyn once. He had a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and he had strung the tape all over the place – through the kitchen, around chairs. He was cutting up this Led Zeppelin beat, playing it over and over. I was like, “How did you figure that out?” He said, “I heard Sly Stone did that.”

A entrevista continua lá no site da revista.

E por falar no grupo inglês, a revista Rolling Stone aproveita sua passagem pelos EUA para lhe dedicar a segunda capa com toda a banda (pois na segunda vez que o grupo apareceu na capa da revista, em 2008, o único fotografado foi Thom Yorke).

Foi o que ele disse em entrevista à Rolling Stone gringa. O motivo é a paternidade: não quer dar mau exemplo pra filha de oito anos.

“I smoked my share. When you’re bringing up a youngster, your sense of responsibility does kick in, if you’re lucky, at some point”

Tá certo, 70 anos… Tá na hora.

Eis que o show do SWU foi mesmo o último da banda. Pelo menos de sua biografia oficial. Lee Ranaldo, na Rolling Stone:

You just came back from a tour of South America with Sonic Youth and as you said, Kim and Thurston just recently broke up. How did that affect that tour? Was it something that had been going on for a while, or was this a sudden thing for you?
Well, it’s not as sudden for me as it’s been in terms of the press and what not. Actually, the tour went really well. It really didn’t affect it all that much. It was a pretty good tour overall. I mean, there was a little bit of tiptoeing around and some different situations with the traveling– you know, they’re not sharing a room anymore or anything like that. I would say in general the shows went really well. It kind of remains to be seen at this point what happens to the future. I think they are certainly the last shows for a while and I guess I’d just leave it at that.

Are you optimistic about the future of the band?
I’m feeling optimistic about the future no matter what happens at this point. I mean, every band runs its course. We’ve been together way longer than any of us ever imagined would happen and it’s been for the most part an incredibly pleasurable ride. There’s still a lot of stuff we’re going to continue to do. There’s tons and tons of archival projects and things like that that are still going on, so there are so many ways in which we are tied to each other for the future both musically and in other ways. I’m just happy right now to let the future take its course and I guess I’m kind of thankful that I’ve got this other project that kind of came about on its own. It wasn’t kind of like, well, “Oh the band is ending for a while and I’ve got to figure out what to do.” It kind of naturally happened in the course of things so that was a nice way for that to come about. I played my first show the day after Kim and Thurston announced [their separation.] That was completely weird.

Quem assistiu ao último show dos caras?

É sobre isso que o Matt Taibi escreve na Rolling Stone gringa – que talvez a importância do OccupyWallStreet esteja em iniciar um foda-se contra tudo o que está aí:

Occupy Wall Street was always about something much bigger than a movement against big banks and modern finance. It’s about providing a forum for people to show how tired they are not just of Wall Street, but everything. This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness, short-term calculation, withered idealism and intellectual bankruptcy that American mass society has become. If there is such a thing as going on strike from one’s own culture, this is it. And by being so broad in scope and so elemental in its motivation, it’s flown over the heads of many on both the right and the left.

(…)

We were all playing the Rorschach-test game with OWS, trying to squint at it and see what we wanted to see in the movement. Viewed through the prism of our desire to make near-term, within-the-system changes, it was hard to see how skirmishing with cops in New York would help foreclosed-upon middle-class families in Jacksonville and San Diego.

What both sides missed is that OWS is tired of all of this. They don’t care what we think they’re about, or should be about. They just want something different.

We’re all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful future. But modern America has become a place so drearily confining and predictable that it chokes the life out of that built-in desire. Everything from our pop culture to our economy to our politics feels oppressive and unresponsive. We see 10 million commercials a day, and every day is the same life-killing chase for money, money and more money; the only thing that changes from minute to minute is that every tick of the clock brings with it another space-age vendor dreaming up some new way to try to sell you something or reach into your pocket. The relentless sameness of the two-party political system is beginning to feel like a Jacob’s Ladder nightmare with no end; we’re entering another turn on the four-year merry-go-round, and the thought of having to try to get excited about yet another minor quadrennial shift in the direction of one or the other pole of alienating corporate full-of-shitness is enough to make anyone want to smash his own hand flat with a hammer.

If you think of it this way, Occupy Wall Street takes on another meaning. There’s no better symbol of the gloom and psychological repression of modern America than the banking system, a huge heartless machine that attaches itself to you at an early age, and from which there is no escape. You fail to receive a few past-due notices about a $19 payment you missed on that TV you bought at Circuit City, and next thing you know a collector has filed a judgment against you for $3,000 in fees and interest. Or maybe you wake up one morning and your car is gone, legally repossessed by Vulture Inc., the debt-buying firm that bought your loan on the Internet from Chase for two cents on the dollar. This is why people hate Wall Street. They hate it because the banks have made life for ordinary people a vicious tightrope act; you slip anywhere along the way, it’s 10,000 feet down into a vat of razor blades that you can never climb out of.

That, to me, is what Occupy Wall Street is addressing. People don’t know exactly what they want, but as one friend of mine put it, they know one thing: FUCK THIS SHIT! We want something different: a different life, with different values, or at least a chance at different values.

De novo: se alguém traduzir o artigo, posto aqui. A íntegra tá no site da Rolling Stone.

Da edição gringa. Será que a versão brasileira arrisca ir por aí? Queria ver só…

‘- Cecília reativou o blog;
– Pedro manda notícias sobre seu doc sobre o Rec Beat (com a minha participação especial entrevistando a Nação);
– Maceió começa a respirar o mesmo ar do resto do Brasil (depois eu conto direitinho, mas, por enquanto, dá uma sacada no podcast do Coelho);
– Bruno aos poucos vira vidraça;
– China transforma uma comunidade de Orkut em algo útil;
– O Bonde do Rolê aparece na Rolling Stone;
– Mateus é o garoto da capa do Link;
– Imunização Racional pra download no UOL;
– Arnaldo lança sua candidatura à presidência.
– O Eduf também aderiu ao podcast.

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