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Marv Albert’s my favorite sportcaster of all time. I’ve spent more hours than I can calculate listening to him. I’ve kept watching bad basketball games just because he was the guy calling them. The best description of his style: “Albert broadcasts like a man who has bet every penny he has on the game, and […]
posted 9 June 2008 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
I almost wrote a college recommendation for Rivers Cuomo. Between Weezer and Pinkerton, he had decided to go back to college, and so he left me a voicemail asking if I would write him a recommendation for his Harvard application. We weren’t able to connect on the phone for a few hours, and by the […]
posted 4 June 2008 in Archives, Articles, Links. no comments yet
Deluxe magazine was a very fine but short-lived men’s magazine in the UK, circa 1998. I knew its editor, Andrew Harrison, because he had been my successor as music editor at Details. (He provided many amusing moments in the office, including his British bafflement at the Offspring: “What is this ’self-esteem’? I’ve never heard of […]
posted 28 May 2008 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
As promised a couple of weeks ago, I’ve added my 1996 profile of Oasis to the archives.
I did most of the interviews for the article in London (I met up with the band again a few weeks later in Boston). I went to the UK on a redeye flight; because I was young and stupid, […]
posted 21 May 2008 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
As you may have heard, this is Robert Downey Jr.’s summer. He’s currently ruling the box office in the hugely entertaining Iron Man, and he’s even better in the upcoming Tropic Thunder (written and directed by Ben Stiller), in which he plays an over-the-top Australian actor who dyes his skin black for a role in […]
posted 19 May 2008 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
My favorite unpublished piece ever might be this profile I wrote of the late, lamented Darkness. It got spiked for wholly unremarkable reasons: two issues in a row it got bumped because pages were tight in the magazine, then One Way Ticket to Hell… and Back (the band’s second album) came out and did a […]
posted 14 May 2008 in Archives, Articles, Unpublished. no comments yet
Last month, The New Yorker published a fine profile of George Clooney by Ian Parker, which quoted from my 2005 Rolling Stone conversation with Clooney on the subject of suicide bombers and the afterlife: “But really, who wants seventy virgins? I want eight pros.”
So I’ve put my interview with Clooney up in the archives. Unsurprisingly, […]
posted 12 May 2008 in Archives, Articles. 5 comments
One of the reasons I started this website was to archive some of my articles. Then, well, a few years went by.
Let’s try again, shall we?
This is an interview I did with Joss Whedon the week his Serenity movie was released. It’s funny and enlightening, yet previously unpublished.
posted 27 April 2008 in Archives, Articles, Unpublished. no comments yet
