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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. >>