Comments on: The Rumpus Long Interview with Jessica Anthony http://therumpus.net/2009/07/the-rumpus-long-interview-with-jessica-anthony/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:45:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: L.L. http://therumpus.net/2009/07/the-rumpus-long-interview-with-jessica-anthony/comment-page-1/#comment-19090 L.L. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:55:31 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=25377#comment-19090 Has Mr. Nester not read Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"? Both these works of "realist fiction" have become iconic in modern literature, and with good reason. Anthony's debut pales in comparison. I don't mean to sound like some tripped out New Agey guru but what is "reality" and "history" anyway? Where does "reality" begin and "fiction" end in recalling and writing down past events? Has Mr. Nester not read Tom Wolfe’s “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” and Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”? Both these works of “realist fiction” have become iconic in modern literature, and with good reason. Anthony’s debut pales in comparison. I don’t mean to sound like some tripped out New Agey guru but what is “reality” and “history” anyway? Where does “reality” begin and “fiction” end in recalling and writing down past events?

]]> By: Jessica Anthony http://therumpus.net/2009/07/the-rumpus-long-interview-with-jessica-anthony/comment-page-1/#comment-6068 Jessica Anthony Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:07:16 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=25377#comment-6068 Thank you for pointing out such a gross omission! My music producer husband quite agrees with you. The song is far superior in song structure, with a better verse/prechorus/chorus. Sussudio, he says, is "all chorus". It is also complete gibberish. But I have this thing with gibberish song lyrics. (Shamon! Ob-La-Di! Wooly Bully!) And listening to Sussudio hurtles me right back to the summer of '85 when I was eleven, lying on the roof of my parents house with nothing but a pitcher of Kool-Aid and a tape radio, listening and knowing, somehow, that I was living a moment that would not last... Thank you for pointing out such a gross omission! My music producer husband quite agrees with you. The song is far superior in song structure, with a better verse/prechorus/chorus. Sussudio, he says, is “all chorus”. It is also complete gibberish. But I have this thing with gibberish song lyrics. (Shamon! Ob-La-Di! Wooly Bully!) And listening to Sussudio hurtles me right back to the summer of ’85 when I was eleven, lying on the roof of my parents house with nothing but a pitcher of Kool-Aid and a tape radio, listening and knowing, somehow, that I was living a moment that would not last…

]]> By: I Am Not Hugh Padgham http://therumpus.net/2009/07/the-rumpus-long-interview-with-jessica-anthony/comment-page-1/#comment-5579 I Am Not Hugh Padgham Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:19:46 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=25377#comment-5579 I definitely enjoyed the novel but I do have one bone to pick with the author in this interview. "Invisible Touch" is the best thing Phil Collins ever did but that whole album is great -- "Invisible Touch", I mean. That's because of Hugh Padgham, producer, engineer, genius, earthly god. He is the inventor of the drum noise in "In the Air Tonight," which isn't on "Invisible Touch" the album. When I hear that sound I think of a wave of colourful rainbows breaking on a seagull-strewn beach. "Invisible Touch" is better than "Sussudio". And it has always annoyed me that Phil called it "Sussudio" but sings "Sussu-sudio." One of these days... I definitely enjoyed the novel but I do have one bone to pick with the author in this interview.

“Invisible Touch” is the best thing Phil Collins ever did but that whole album is great — “Invisible Touch”, I mean. That’s because of Hugh Padgham, producer, engineer, genius, earthly god. He is the inventor of the drum noise in “In the Air Tonight,” which isn’t on “Invisible Touch” the album. When I hear that sound I think of a wave of colourful rainbows breaking on a seagull-strewn beach. “Invisible Touch” is better than “Sussudio”. And it has always annoyed me that Phil called it “Sussudio” but sings “Sussu-sudio.” One of these days…

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