Why do i love julian casablancas

Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. As we were sitting down, he tucked a sheaf of index cards and a pen into his coat pocket.

No, I was late to all technology. It was probably when I got a laptop. Probably after I had cell phones here and there. I fought it for a long time, and I still fight it. Did it seem like a time suck? In a way, it kind of mirrors the years in which the Internet ascended. It depends on what you mean.

I mean, when you first started playing, people received you through an album, through live shows, through magazines.

The way you were disseminated was very limited. It just seems much less controllable now. You can move to Wyoming and not have the Internet. I just feel like so many artists rely on the Internet in order to get their music out there, their persona out there. I think, in my soul, not interested. But there is a dance you have to do, and a price you have to pay, if you want to have a positive impact on the world. For some of the ways that I would like to have an impact, unfortunately, how well known you are, how respected you are, they do affect your success rate.

No, not really. I think that can be unfortunate, but I try to use it to my advantage. You need a certain level of vanity to go onstage and say, Hey, look at me. I think all musicians have that. But I look at it as a sort of fifty-fifty thing. Just dig it in the ground and set it on fire. We want a community, we want people to be our friends, we want to have social gatherings where everyone supports each other. Like, universal. Animals in the forest eating each other.

Is that good or bad? Anyway, sorry. The only reason I did it is that I realized that I wanted to have a political outlet. And the Voidz kind of needed attention, in the same way that, when I worked with the Strokes in the early days, I was more cognizant about the image and the magic show. Before you started speaking more publicly and definitively about politics, did you have a political consciousness?

I did. I think that the music journey was political all along. But I saw it as a springboard. Well, for me, from Tupac to Bob Marley to early Bob Dylan to certain punk music to certain folk music.

Even blues is essentially, like, slavery sadness. So I think that I was interested in politics, but I was a kid. Yesterday I was walking uptown and trying to remember the acronym. Dwight was fine. It was definitely like the lowest end of the private schools. Even the public-school system is totally fucked. Nice neighborhoods get huge funding and. Even as a kid I could see that, and it was part of the reason I dropped out. Which is fairly rare, no? This might be just anecdotal.

I grew up thinking people in the suburbs had more money because they got, like, a car when they were sixteen, and the houses were so big. I think that people who grow up in bubbles have to undo the weird biology of fearing the neighboring tribe or whatever.

Samuels, had taught Howard Zinn. But it was more in , , that I really started to understand. My dream was that image of bands that play Irving Plaza.

And Casablancas was the one in the band upon whom all this fell hardest—the guy anointed to resurrect a genre whose very name made him cringe. He kicks the ball my way. I kick it back. At the end of the meal, I buy. Just over a year ago, his dad died. He was complicated, John Casablancas. Founder of Elite Model Management, proto-fashion-world sexual libertine, and maybe not the nicest guy from a wife-and-child perspective.

A photographer, seeing Cecile in a bikini, asks if he can photograph her. In the same article, Julian himself appears, not yet born. John Casablancas warns his then wife, Jeanette Christjansen, that he is not the type of man who would ever change diapers.

I wrestle with that stuff. Julian learned more about being a man from his stepfather, the painter Sam Adoquei, who would talk to him about art and ultimately gave him an inkling of how one might pursue a life of making things.

It is a not particularly well-kept secret that Casablancas wrote the first two Strokes records more or less by himself. Even now, talking about this is uncomfortable for him. With his hair. This is from one my fave CD-R albums ever. You gotta know your limits with a Boombox. This video is particularly graphic at the end, so if you are of a sensitive nature, do not watch it.

Reason 0. I was expecting something more fun or more honest opinion but nah…. Alas, Oui. Cool is is in the eye of the beholder. No worries. Wanted to retain some journalistic integrity, otherwise it would be overkill. On it — that was in my other collection of hotness. Here he is, sorry about that. On it like a car bonnet. I liked this post on over on tumblr, Jane mcconnell you are literally the most gorgeous blogger ever.

When is the Guardian going to get you a column? I think Julian is cool too, and for many many other reasons too! Nice, Jane! I like it. I love him! Thank you for It… He deserves the world :3 He looks like a loyal and wonderful man. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content. The following is not only a paradoxically concise and detailed list, it is a list made of pure fan love for the man we never knowingly want to see without a microphone and a good jacket.

That man is Julian Fernando Casablancas. The list beginneth. Jeanette Christiansen, former Miss Denmark. Hark: Exactly.