R.E.M.
TG: Now the new CD is 34, 35 minutes long which is short for a Cd but it works for me. I prefer listening to CD's to just (looks for the right word) songs you know by a different artist collected and scrambled together. But I often don't have enough time to make it through a whole CD in one sitting so this is a kind of very, a very uh nice amount to handle in one sitting. Why did you want to keep it that short? Because it is short for a CD.
The band went on to gamely try to explain to Gross the history of vinyl vs. CD.
TG: I'd like to ask each one of you about your music background which is so not the image like of the like the indie band performer. Like Mike, you were in marching band (Laughs) which must have really been fun. I love marches, uh ...
Philip Roth
She has asked him a question about death and cemeteries. He goes on for a bit. She then asks him, "So do you have a plot picked out? Do you know what kind of cemetery you'd like to be buried?"
PR: Which would be easiest for you visit my grave? (This elicits hearty laughter from Terry. I'm not sure if she knows he's making fun of her or not.) And I'll pick out a plot that is convenient and we can continue this interview series into eternity. (Lot of laughter from Terry which she ends with a "Ah yeah" before moving onto her next question which leads to a lot of soul searching for Terry.)
TG: But do you want to be buried? I mean (Roth tries to answer the question but she interrupts with this doozy) I have this sense that cemeteries in their own way are almost, um, outdated? Because people are so scattered all over the place geographically, friends and family all over the place, and they're not tied together in a physical community anymore and ... um ... uh ... and cemeteries, I don't know, they seem like ... you need to take care of the neighborhood, you know. You go in there and it's as if like you bought this home for somebody (laughs) in a neighborhood and it's like, "Is it a nice neighborhood? Is the neighborhood being kept up? What are the neighbors like? And it's just like this weird way sometimes of thinking of the dead.
PR: Well, I feel differently. (He went on to talk about visiting the graves of his family members and how it is a powerful thing for him.)
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She doesn't have enough time to listen to a whole album b/c she's busy working on interview outlines.
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I kind of see her point with the cemeteries though. They did seem to originally be very community oriented and the peopl eburied there were people who lived in that town, probably for generations. Our local cemetery has family plots that date back to the early 1800s. With people being much more transient these days, where should you bury them? Thinking of myself, and I don't want to be buried so the point is moot, but for daydreaming's sake, I couldn't come up with a proper burial site. Where I was born? I was only there for a year. UT or MD? No, I no longer feel a connection to either place. Here? Possibly but I'd need to be here another 30 years for that to really feel right. So I think that's what she's getting at but she spit it out so horribly. She obviously is not one of those people who is quick on their feet when it comes to thinking and speaking and seems to be so lost in collecting her own thoughts that she doesn't listen to the responses she requests. What a maroon.
I'm liking listmaker vs. Terri Gross- it reminds me of Can't Stop the Bleeding vs. Deadspin.
TERRY GROSS: Can I ask you one dumb question?
ICE CUBE: Please.
TERRY GROSS: This is very dumb.
ICE CUBE: Ok.
TERRY GROSS: Do you think of yourself as being Ice Cube or Ice Cube? Or does it.. does it matter?
ICE CUBE: I don't know that, what was the difference between Ice Cube or Ice Cube?
TERRY GROSS: What, where the emphasis is.. on the first or the last word, and if it's Ice Cube, it really sounds like the ice cube.. and if it's Ice Cube.. I.. I don't know, I've never..
ICE CUBE: All my friends call me 'Cube'
TERRY GROSS: Ok.
ICE CUBE: And you know, if you know me real good, call me 'Cube', I'll respond to that.. but uh.. I don't know, I think I'll debate that.. whether I'm Ice Cube or Ice Cube.
TERRY GROSS: I'm over thinking this.. I've obviously overthought this.
overall, i like terry gross. she's had her bad moments, but for the most part (and we're talking about daily interviews with different people for like 15+ years) she's good. but if you wanted to start a hater column about leonard lopate, i'd sign up in a second.
but if you really don't like her, look up the audio of her interview a few years ago with gene simmons. personally, he was such an ass it made me like her more, but it's the closest to sexual assault on the radio that i've ever heard. no longer on her archives... you have to do the google.
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