- This is nothing about Fashion...One the other hand it is about NY. And NY it's always fashionable, isn't it? I think so. Anyway I found this article very interesting. I love NY and I'm sure a lot of you love this city too. So that's why It's cool to work on our feelings.
Interpol formed in New York City during the late ’90s and their dreary indie rock songs which were often directed at the city like “NYC” have resonated with residents ever since.
But
these days, drummer Sam Fogarino calls Athens, Georgia his home. Here,
the ex-New Yorker opens up about the parts of city life that were OK to
leave behind.
1. Insane, too-damn-high rent.
“When
I left New York in 2008 I was paying the same amount that I now pay for
a big Victorian house in the South. There’s many different reasons that
one would pay the premium to live in the city but after having gone
full circle in New York, especially after Interpol played Madison Square
Garden, I was just like, ‘I don’t need to rent this zip code anymore.’”
2. The feeling that the city might ACTUALLY swallow you.
“When
I first got to New York, it felt like the city was going to swallow me
or get lost in it. Then after I got used to it, it felt overwhelming in a
different way, like I couldn’t move or get out of the city.”
3. Round-the-clock traffic.
“Getting
in a cab to go somewhere that’s like a mile away, no matter what time
of day or night it is, and it takes 30 minutes and costs about 30 bucks.
That is something I don’t miss.”
4. Looking for a scene as cool as the ones you’ve read about.
“Where
are the radical subversive movements compared to the mainstream, like
the things you’d read about the ’60s or No Wave? Maybe the past always
seems brighter than it really was.”
5. The absence of the great ole’ outdoors.
“Nature
is pretty important [to me.] I grew up around Philly and lived on the
periphery of these woods. In Georgia I get more space. Now I actually
have some trees around me. I get more of the natural landscape, and
touring with the band I get to see a little bit of the city sometimes.”
6. People that are on a mission 24/7.
“Everyone is in a hurry and has to get somewhere because everyone has something way more important to do than everyone else. That’s the vibe I get walking down Avenue A or 6th Avenue.”
7. Tourists
“The
tourists who take up the whole side walk. In hindsight, I sounds like a
caustic New Yorker — ‘I know you’re having a good time in your Gap
attire, but you can walk in a single file line?’ I sound like a jerk.
But that’s another thing: you would see these tourists going into The
Gap. I don’t understand. You have a Gap?!”
8. The Midtown Suit swarm.
“When
we were recording our third album, Interpol holed up in the midtown
studio that was on 8th Avenue. It felt like a contradiction — we were
this indie rock band who were stuck in a 9 to 5 feeling, with everyone
around being like women in their suits and sneakers or Wall Street guys.
It felt bizarre, making music there.”
9. Times Square…
“I
remember visiting Times Square in 1991 and walking around at 3 a.m. I
went to McDonalds to get a cup of coffee, because Starbucks wasn’t even
around then, and a gang fight broke out! Times Square was intense,
compared to now. But just because its a tourist trap now doesn’t mean it
isn’t still dangerous.”
10. … and Williamsburg.
“What
happened to Williamsburg? I moved to New York to Williamsburg in 1997.
This is really going to make me sound middle-aged but there was like a
coffee shop, a couple bars, a couple Polish diners, and after dark there
was nobody on the street. It doesn’t feel like a small town in Brooklyn
anymore.”
11. Ultimately, no matter where you go, you’ll always have some New Yorker in you.
“There’s
a glacial pace to daily existence [in the South], and I’ll find myself
being the asshole. I’ve taken a taxi in Athens once and it was in a van
that picked up other people along the way. [Laughs] I didn’t like that
at all, and the New Yorker really came out of me. Like, ‘why are you
stopping?!’”
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