Word: thingness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...experience of death interests you? Lazarus was sort of comic, I guess. He was brought back to life but he had no say in it. With Bunny, I didn't want to write a novel that's a normal redemptive story. I don't buy the whole redemption thing anyway. We're human and we are capable of love and destruction. These things are a part of what we are. Why do we need to be redeemed in the first place? We're human, why apologize...
...that? I wanted to change the way the novel was presented. We looked at all the different formats we could do and the audio book was extremely exciting to me. I read the novel onto something like seven CDs and we scored it and put music to the whole thing. If you listen to it on headphones it's extraordinary, like a hallucination or something. It's psychedelic. It's an audio book like nothing you've ever heard. There's also a Bunny Munro app for the iPhone but I haven't worked out how to download...
...made up of members from your original band, the Bad Seeds. All your projects involve the same people. Why? I have huge trust issues. That's basically it. I've worked with these guys for so long and we understand each other incredibly well, there's a near-psychic thing going on which means I can work incredibly fast. I don't have to explain things or teach anyone anything. It serves me well...
...they wanted to do. The Lyre of Orpheus record was this massive juggernaut of sound because we had eight people playing each song. I wanted something rawer and leaner so I got a few members of the band together and we did this record, Grinderman, which loosened the whole thing up. And now we're making another Grinderman record even though it's largely the members of the Bad Seeds. It's quicker, much freer, it's not in anyway like the first record...
Acne is a diabolically cruel thing: somehow it strikes your most visible feature just at the age when you become most vulnerable to a gaze. Not surprisingly, acne is often accompanied by serious depression among teenagers. In fact, a 1999 study found that kids with acne bad enough to prompt a trip to the dermatologist reported having emotional and social problems as severe as those reported by patients with disabling diabetes and epilepsy...