WHY I WON'T KISS JOHN LYDON'S ASS
You know, it's quite a dream of mine to break out of Tulsa and become a professional journalist or work in the record industry, screwing over the little guy and making big bucks. Honest. I want to say fuck it all, get a promo job for Sony, and let the good times roll while I sit back smoking some big black guy's extremily potent KB all afternoon in a barcalounger. What do I love the most? interviews. Drunk, stoned, sober, in person, or on the phone; I am always ready with my microcasette to capture the soundbytes that will get me somewhere one day. After interviewing Keith Levene, I knew for sure it was what I wanted to do. Sitting on the phone, hearing someone with a cockney accent and thinking "god damn it man... here I am talking to someone I've idolized my adolescent life" is an experience I just can't put into words. Now, like any young hopefull, I have a list of people I'd bend over backwards to capture on my Radioshack recorder, but surprisingly enough, John Lydon isn't one of them. Yes, my top ten includes roughly my dead grandfather, Michael Savage, and John Walsh over this highly original man that I have dedicated the last year to making this website about. Why? Well, it is my experience, when reading interviews, and talking to normal John Lydon fans, that he has an heir about him. It is true. People just love to kiss John's ass. Why? Doesn't that seem a sort of contradiction to everything he stands for? Well, maybe so, but I have to admit, having your ass kissed feels great. Being in a band, I get ass kissing. Being a drummer, I get ass kissing, even on the smallest level. I have a certain amount of rep, which also, equals ass kissing.
However, John really really seems to enjoy this. When he is being interviewed it is either "see my way, quote my words, and hate the Sex Pistols or die." Anyone who doesn't have a certain level or artsy fartsy commie attitude in them doesn't fly well with him. In a word = he is an elitist bastard in my eyes.
John is one of my top ten heroes, but I could never kiss his ass... in fact, that's exactly WHY I could never kiss his ass. An interview with him conducted by myself would be catostrophic and probably result in me making a horrible enemy in the music industry. I hate his political views, I hate the pompous attitude he surrounds himself with, and I hate people that kiss ass.... which is probably why I never hold a job. - - - - Flea 2004 - -
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