this interview is so interesting because he immediately mentions the trauma that happened to him - deep rejection and alienation from a parental figure at a vulnerable age - and then spends the rest of the interview talking about the coping mechanisms he sought out to alleviate that pain, but he seems not to connect that inner void with the early trauma? I hope he's doing better now. thanks for resurfacing this interview!
Proving that time is indeed nothing, I vividly remember reading this interview back then right down to the record store where I got my copy, to the records I got along with it and the shows I went to and played that week into weekend,... and it's a little surreal reading this again today and having the same giggle factor thinking about Richie Birkenhead walking in during that scenario (mostly because I imagine his reaction being the same as watching Into Another live). Which reminds me,...
If anyone ever animated The Chronicles of Porcell per this interview, like those 911 tape animations with the animal characters or maybe Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories, that would be pure comedic gold.
Thank you for making 1995 feel like it was this morning again.
I remember this interview when it first came out and at the time I could totally relate to porcell’s feelings of isolation when at college. When I went to college I was the only straight edge kid there. It was pretty bizarre. Some people took my presence as a threat. I remember on one Saturday night I returned to my dorm room and found a drunk guy passed out in front of my dorm room door. The reason he showed up was to beat me up for being straight edge. About the breaking the edge at the time I saw this really bizarre clip on mtv about straight edge that focused on the Syracuse straight edge. And they interviewed this kid who said, “you can never remarry straight edge.” That’s when it started to remind of some kind of cult. It was pretty disheartening to see that. Unfortunately I was curious and I found that clip on YouTube and as a whole the Syracuse straight edge from an outsider looking seem pretty disturbing. But on a positive note I have a ticket to see judge at the end of the month play in Brooklyn pretty excited. It is good to hear porcell is doing okay and that interview made porcell seem like a human being with all the foibles attached to be human and not some infallible punk rock god but a real person. Great interview.
this interview is so interesting because he immediately mentions the trauma that happened to him - deep rejection and alienation from a parental figure at a vulnerable age - and then spends the rest of the interview talking about the coping mechanisms he sought out to alleviate that pain, but he seems not to connect that inner void with the early trauma? I hope he's doing better now. thanks for resurfacing this interview!
Proving that time is indeed nothing, I vividly remember reading this interview back then right down to the record store where I got my copy, to the records I got along with it and the shows I went to and played that week into weekend,... and it's a little surreal reading this again today and having the same giggle factor thinking about Richie Birkenhead walking in during that scenario (mostly because I imagine his reaction being the same as watching Into Another live). Which reminds me,...
If anyone ever animated The Chronicles of Porcell per this interview, like those 911 tape animations with the animal characters or maybe Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories, that would be pure comedic gold.
Thank you for making 1995 feel like it was this morning again.
I remember this interview when it first came out and at the time I could totally relate to porcell’s feelings of isolation when at college. When I went to college I was the only straight edge kid there. It was pretty bizarre. Some people took my presence as a threat. I remember on one Saturday night I returned to my dorm room and found a drunk guy passed out in front of my dorm room door. The reason he showed up was to beat me up for being straight edge. About the breaking the edge at the time I saw this really bizarre clip on mtv about straight edge that focused on the Syracuse straight edge. And they interviewed this kid who said, “you can never remarry straight edge.” That’s when it started to remind of some kind of cult. It was pretty disheartening to see that. Unfortunately I was curious and I found that clip on YouTube and as a whole the Syracuse straight edge from an outsider looking seem pretty disturbing. But on a positive note I have a ticket to see judge at the end of the month play in Brooklyn pretty excited. It is good to hear porcell is doing okay and that interview made porcell seem like a human being with all the foibles attached to be human and not some infallible punk rock god but a real person. Great interview.