Ausschnitt
aus einem Interview von www.hermenaut.com
mit Dan Clowes:
<< CLOWES: She (Enid, die "Heldin" aus "Ghost World")
hates that music exactly as much as I do! I live in Berkeley now, and every
pizza place is blasting one or the other. I've always hated the Grateful Dead.
I couldn't even tell you what their music sounds like, that's irrelevant. It's
the whole mentality that gives me the creeps. I never liked hippies at all.
I grew up in-not quite a hippie family, but a family that was sympathetic to
that kind of thing. When I was a little kid my older brother would have his
hippie friends over and they'd smoke pot in my room and walk around naked, and
at the time I just really disliked it. I was obsessed with Jack Webb when I
was a little kid, and I agreed with his attitude about hippies - I still do.
HERMENAUT: What, specifically, do you dislike about hippies?
CLOWES: I think they generally have bad taste. I don't like any of the things
they like, their taste in art or music, or anything. I'm not even that crazy
about the Beats, really. I like the idea of the Beats more than anything they
actually wrote. I can relate to the whole '50s anti-conformity thing, but then
to go from that into abstract painting and cut-up poems! I find that stuff to
be antithetical to the kind of work I like, which tends to be much more labor-intensive
and which strives to communicate a concrete idea, rather than just throwing
out impressions in the hopes that someone will "relate" to them. >>
Cover für Thee Headcoats:
"Heaven To Murgatroyd, Even!
It's Thee Headcoats! (Already)" (1991)
