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4 Sep, 2014

The Cut interview

Emma SulkowiczPaul Nungesser0 Comments

Sulkowicz is interviewed in New York magazine’s The Cut section. She talks about the mattress project, her alleged rape, and the reaction so far:

Physically, I’m really sore. The reporter response has been really aggressive and not what I expected. It is a sensitive subject, and I can’t be accosted in the middle of campus to talk about it. One guy, while I was carrying the mattress, he just opened up my backpack and threw his business card in, which was a real violation of my space and made me really upset and triggered a lot of memories of being raped.

On the student response:

So far students I have never met before have helped me carry it. As I was walking across campus last night I heard someone shout, “Go, Emma!” and I’ve gotten such an overwhelming positive response on the internet. One girl seems to be organizing some sort of website that will allow students to organize and figure out how to help me carry it to all my classes.

On the perception of the protest:

In the news, people have been calling my piece a protest, and just ignoring the fact it is not really a protest but a performance-art piece. Yes, I would like for my rapist to get kicked out of school, but I realize that the university is so stubborn that it may never happen and I may be carrying this mattress for a while.

She also claims to have dropped the police action:

It got transferred to the district attorney’s office, and I decided I didn’t want to pursue it any further because they told it me it would take nine months to a year to actually go to court, which would be after I graduated and probably wanting to erase all of my memories of Columbia from my brain anyway, so I decided not to pursue it.

Tavis Smiley interview

Sergio MendesTavis Smiley0 Comments

Mendes discusses his five decade spanning music career and his latest projects in this interview for PBS.

You know, I was playing Beethoven and Ravel, Debussy and things like that. All of a sudden, I hear this Dave Brubeck record, Take Five. I said, oh, man, I love that. So from that day on, I start, you know, learning those chords and listening to more jazz and, you know, being exposed to people like Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker. I mean, so jazz was the love of my life.

Gwyneth Paltrow interview

Gwyneth PaltrowJimmy KimmelJimmy Kimmel LiveTV Appearance0 Comments

Paltrow describes the strange hippie school she went to as a child and she talks about her kids’ first day of school on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

I know we went out to dinner because it was my kids first day of school. They go to a real school. I love my school but I didn’t learn anything.

Terry Crews interview

Jimmy Kimmel LiveTerry CrewsTV Appearance0 Comments

Crews shares his passion for art and reveals what his first job in entertainment was. Crews had an Art Scholarship before anything else.

When I saw Star Wars in 1974, this is what I was going to do.

I would get cut from a team, I played on 6 teams in 7 years so I got cut a lot.  I would go back into the locker room and ask players if they would like a painted portrait.

Nick Jonas interview

Nick JonasOn Air With Ryan SeacrestRyan Seacrest0 Comments

Seacrest interviews Jonas during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and asks him questions about the writing process for his new single, Jealous.

I was out with my girlfriend the night before I wrote this song … and I got heated. I was doing all this fighting training for this show I just finished up [DirecTV’s Kingdom], so I was ready to go. [But] I contained myself … and I came in the next day to the studio and wrote this song. I think it is true … a lot of people can relate with this, a lot of men, they don’t talk about it, it makes them uncomfortable. But I think vulnerability is good and it’s what makes us human.

Talk is Jericho interview

Triple HWWE0 Comments

Triple H talks to Chris Jericho about his start in WCW, the Klig and the name “Triple H”.

Shawn started calling me Triple H day one, I think it was an Arn thing. He was like what’s your gimmick again? Hunter Hearst Helmsley, holy crap Triple H and he just walked off. With him it was always Triple H. When we switched from out of the gimmicks to be a bit more real, Vince asked me at the time, do you just want to use your real name? I was like not really, I’ve got some time with this Hunter Hearst Helmsley thing like the Hunter and all that stuff.

3 Sep, 2014

New York Times interview

Charli XCX0 Comments

Charli talks about her growing mainstream appeal, creating a Justin Bieber shrine at art school, eating fried chicken for breakfast and making the new album.

Part of the stuff that I do, the V.M.A.s and the events, is definitely a circus. I don’t care about belonging to it, not at all.

Tavis Smiley interview

Billy ChildsTavis Smiley0 Comments

Childs discusses his career and his latest project, a tribute to singer-songwriter, Laura Nyro, in this interview for PBS.

Joni Mitchell’s a genius. I think she’s brilliant, you know. I think she and Laura Nyro are kind of like the two most important singer-songwriters, although the term singer-songwriter is kind of like a limiting description of what they are. And I think they’re kind of like, in my opinion, the two that stand out the most.

Steve Buscemi interview

Steve BuscemiThe Late Show with David Letterman0 Comments

Buscemi appears as a guest for the first time on The Late Show with David Letterman to talk about how he almost got into the show in 1994. He also shares his experience being a New York fireman during his early days as a stand-up comic.

Engine 55 is on Broome Street, and so we covered Little Italy and Chinatown and Soho and the Lower East side. Certainly in the early 80s it was probably busier than it is now, but I missed the heyday of when it was super busy in like the 60s and 70s.

 

Kristen Wiig interview

Kristen WiigThe Late Show with David Letterman0 Comments

Wiig guests on The Late Show with David Letterman to talk about her upcoming film with Zach Galifianakis and Owen Wilson. She also describes the “hippie” culture of Asheville, North Carolina, where they filmed some of the scenes. She also tells Letterman about her father’s reactions to her intimate scenes in movies.

I try to tell him the scene before, so he should go to the bathroom or something, because it’s uncomfortable. But the sex scene he was most uncomfortable was MacGruber.