Thurston Moore Rates Harry Styles, Vaping, and ’90s Nostalgia

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I recently played in Austin, Texas.

It was in conjunction with a food festival

cause Austin, Texas is a food festival,

and they were making different food products

that were named after musicians,

and I was really happy that they made these Thurston s'mores

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But, you know, at my age, I'm in my late fifties

sugar is like wicked, oh, my god.

It's just like, I'm like the police chief

on the Simpsons,

like when he sits at the table, takes his belt off,

it's like boom boom boom boom boom,

he's like Ah, dear Jesus.

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He's finding himself right now.

And anybody who comes up in a massive boy band

at that young an age,

you're kind of born overrated,

there's nothing you can really do about it.

It's not his fault.

I have seen pictures of him recently though,

he kind of has his shirt off,

and he's kind of hiding himself.

It's kind of a black metal thing, right?

You just, you don't want no one to see you.

That's cool.

If Harry Styles is into black metal,

(whispers) Harry!

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Vaping blows.

The only people who successfully vape

are French people.

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I'd be really interested to hear

what she has to say in 2017.

Especially since the USA has been hijacked.

I would hope that she would be able to come out

and serve, just like, you know,

throw that voice to that golden fake penis

that served as a, in upper midtown Manhattan.

And to watch it just like, um, fall like this.

And I hope she would ask me to join her in doing this

because I will.

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Cassettes and CDRs, it's like, there was really just,

people were just really doing it.

You know, making actual, physical, you know, things.

As opposed to like, what it's become now,

where it's just like, you know,

put your shit up on SoundCloud, you know,

keep doing it.

Um, it's fine, it's great, it's an open library,

it's a utopia, that's what we've been working for.

Here it is.

But, make that book, make that cassette,

make that record, whatever kind of coin you have,

you know, it's just like, you can make something.

You don't have to do that,

but, I mean, if you really wanna know, like,

what my advice is,

give things to people that way.

Maybe they'll, you know, maybe they'll put it on the table,

but at least it will be there.

I mean, it's just this thing, it emanates.

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It's a brain dead exercise of plastic sound.

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I'm sorry, I actually really like a lot of techno,

I think it really needs to be,

it needs to really be discussed in a more academic way

than, you know, just as a music for ding-dongs

who like to snort coke and try to get laid,

but they're not going to, so,

they're just stuck with their shitty techno records.

It's not that, I think it needs to be discussed more,

more academically, and I think we should

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Aw, man, have you heard my techno record?

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