No Pussy Blues About a Cat // Jonas Brothers Who?

This little article (link below) about the Do You Love Me Like I Love You documentaries on the remastered collector's editions of the Bad Seeds stuff.

Includes these gems:

'What's immediately obvious is that Cave's stage persona is a bit misleading. Up close he's likeable, with a deadpan sense of humour and self-effacing charm which somehow coexist happily with his unmistakeable aura of rock. He's lost the 'tache too.

We learn Cave feels "physically sick" when he listens to his own music and that he reckons "the bar is pretty low" when it comes to writing lyrics. He gets a big laugh when he explains that his kids think No Pussy Blues is a song about a cat, and an even bigger one when he dismisses the Jonas Brothers in a single word: "Who?"'


From HERE

Whipping Christ // New Photos-What?!

N.C. quote of the moment:

"I wrote the whipping scene before Mel Gibson’s 'The Passion' and when I saw it, I said, 'Oh fuck, you can't whip anyone more than they whip Christ in 'The Passion'.'" - from HERE

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Oh, and I was checking for new NC news and saw this and, it being one a.m., I thought, "wow - whoever's doing his makeup has talent!"



"I am not amused by this mediocre post."

Playground Dad // '99 L.A. Record Interview

After deeply skimming through THIS ARTICLE from 1999, I came to the end and thought, "that is adorable". So here it is.

At the end of our lunch - during which Cave eats heartily - he asks me for the time and jumps up, stricken, when I tell him. “Oh God, if I don’t go now I’ll be late for Luke,” he says, looking like the 12-year-old I first saw. “You know what it’s like in the playground; I’m terrified of getting into trouble with the teachers.” His father, I think, would be proud of him.

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I was looking for more old interviews...WHY had I never read this interview before? [ LINK ] This is not the entire interview, just a taste. Read the whole thing if you've never done so - it's quite good.

How serious were the deliberations when you were a judge the World Beard And Mustache Championships?

To be completely honest I was at sea—completely at sea. I wouldn’t know one fucking mustache from another one.

How did you decide?

I just said what the guy next to me said. All I know is I felt humbled because I had this kind of pathetic sort of thing growing on my face, and I know there were some extraordinary mustaches and partial beards, particularly. You know—‘A man without a mustache is like woman with one.’

What kind of things do you write in your office that will never see the light of day?

Oh, the hardcore porn that I get into?

Would you be opposed to a posthumous collection of all your pornography?

Not at all. I’m just saving it for a rainy day.

What book have you given away the most copies of?

One book I tended to give away quite a lot which I think is extraordinary is The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis. I think it’s great book. I’m actually a huge fan of his. That particular book—The Informers—line for line is just extraordinary. It has this effect—you feel you like you need to read him fast, and if you don’t and you just check out one line followed by the next line, what he’s writing to me is just extraordinary. He’s definitely a contemporary writer that I’ve sort of turned people on to—that particular book of his.

What films? The Dark Knight?

I saw that—fucking wild! I saw that with my kids. They’re like eight and it blew their fucking heads off. They kind of walked out with the blood drained from their faces.

What’s something practical you can tell people to help them make daily life a little bit better for themselves?

Right now I’m hearing the most beautiful violin I’ve ever heard in my life being played by Warren Ellis.

You’re breaking my heart by proxy.

He’s unbelievable. I don’t know. Who wants to hear what I got to say? You have to try a bit harder than that to wrap up the interview. You want me to do all the fucking work.

—Chris Ziegler

Tori's Pubes

Many of you have read this before, but Jesus...it's fucking classic/amusing to me right now, so (as Mr. Cave says) "there ya go" (anyone else notice he says that after really lame questions sometimes? "There ya go..."

Anyway...

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Interviewer: 'What about Tori Amos. You said the "twinkling cunt" line in Green Eyes [also on The Boatman's Call] was about her sewing sequins into her pubic hair. I bet she wasn't flattered by that.'

Nick: 'That's simply not true. It keeps getting repeated in the press, but it's not true.'

Interviewer: 'It's here in this music magazine from 1997. The journalist asks, "You have first-hand experience of this?' and you say, "Yes."'

Nick: 'I lied. I start to lie when things get really tedious. Anyway, I met Tori in the lobby of a hotel once afterwards. She seemed a lovely girl. She didn't send any letters of complaint. I think even if it were true it's kind of flattering. I mean, how sweet. What a sweet thing to do...to sit there and sew sequins into your pubic hair.'

Bigger Than Jim Morrison

Why have I never stumbled across this interview before? [ LINK ] It features many amusing insights, including the gems below.

"Well, I was gonna pull my dick out but because I know for a fact mine is a lot larger than Jim Morrison's, but I thought, 'I'll let history stand.'"

"I don't even think they're mistakes. I think you just gotta fuck up. I don't think you gotta make mistakes. "

Poofter Homosexual

Expect loads of updates this week. Cave mixes and interpretations galore! For now, I leave you with this gay quote:

By the time [Nick Cave] was 12 he was getting into trouble, so his parents packed him off to a boarding school in Melbourne. That's where he met the boys who went on to become the Birthday Party. "We were interested in art and we weren't particularly interested in sport, so we were considered homosexuals. There's no two ways about it - we were the school poofters." There's a story that Cave and his friends walked through school one day carrying handbags, and when people shouted abuse at them, they walloped them with the bags, each of which contained a brick. Is that true? He looks weary. "Oh, you're only interested in the truth rather than a good, entertaining article." [ LINK ]