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November 30, 2005

Depraved Fangirls Interview with John Roderick

DFG: I get the feeling from hearing "Everything is Talking" that our whole information on demand, instant communication way of life these days is seriously compromising notoriously famous reclusive nature. Or is this another example of that famous Long Winters ambiguity? You're quite a visible presence on the band's message board and elsewhere about the Interweb, so it doesn't seem like you're too much of a Luddite. Is your relationship with technology a love/hate one?

JR: Technology is fine for me, as long as it's people driven. You know, I love to surf people's photo sites, or read their blogs, or catch up on my High School Reunion, or read their MySpace pages. What I fucking hate are when cash machines address me by my first name, or when I get auto-dialed, or spammed. That song is about the distance that's growing between people as a result of some corporate shit-for-brains thinking that a recorded message in a hip-hop dialect is going to make me forget that I wanted to talk to a fucking person.

Posted by timothompson at November 30, 2005 12:04 AM