Also, on a related note, check out this interview from about three years ago with Spinner: http://www.spinner.com/interface/black-lips. It includes three performances of tracks off Good Bad Not Evil and then a humorous Interface that has Joe asking Cole questions.
I want to say that’s one thing I love about Canada so much:
In Montreal, I made out with about five chicks on stage
and last night was about the same. And that’s awesome.
Jared Swilley in an interview with The Maneater: I try to keep politics out of music. I don’t think musicians have any role being politicians or having too many political views. That always seems kind of silly. We’ll maybe mention stuff that’s going on around us, our kind of observations, but we definitely don’t try to have any political message except have a great time and do what you want to do.
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Ian: I mean, when I was washing dishes for the man, that was a mother fucker. I used to do this (mimics dish washing), and now I do this (mimics guitar strumming). It’s a lot better!
These days it’s just annoying when a person is referred to as an “intellectual.” Most are pseudo-smarties with predictable and usually still-born thoughts regurgitated from some other pseudo-smarty. But if we had to name just one guy worthy of the honorific, it would be Noam Chomsky. Ever since he re-invented linguistics and moved onto bigger social-justice concerns, he’s been a political agitator nonpareil—an itchy thorn in the hoof of all things imperial. Chomsky’s the kind of guy who blows your mind when you’re in high school, and then does it all over again when you’re in your mid-forties—and looking back you wonder what else you’d been reading all that time and who else you’d been listening to. VBS’s Kate Albright-Hannah tracked him down in Belfast, Ireland, and this is what came of it.
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 