Malcolm McLaren Fires Off!
He godfathered the Sex Pistols, partnered with Vivienne Westwood, and got snubbed by Anna Wintour at the Costume Institute Ball on a night he should’ve been knighted. Let's just say, he's earned his right to gripe about a few things in life.
BlackBook
March 24, 2008
1. I hate airports: They smell like old socks, rotting bodies, and filthy food. The cattle ranch aspects, the airless, timeless, boring sense of death about them. Their pretense at being beacons of knowledge about the cities they are built around. They’re presumptuous and odious products that are supposed to inform us and celebrate the city they fly out of and the cities they fly into.
2. I hate warm, red wine from California. I hate the words “Californian zinfandel,” Californian “champagne” (Champagne is a place, a part of France where only champagne can be made.)
3. I hate the English. They are a nation of liars. Their survival depends entirely on how successful they are at practicing a culture of deception.
4. I hate TVs in taxis; London and New York both have them. They make you lose faith in information. They destroy your imagination. They ruin your appetite for everything, including sex. They are a curse on people and animals. Taxis were the last place you could rest your feet and not have to buy anything, be sold anything, where you might simply make love in the back seat. Now, it just feels like war getting from A to B.
5. I hate certain people who speak with dull confidence. I experienced it once with an English girl’s parents whilst Christmas holidaying in France. I locked myself up in a church afterwards, just to get away from them. I never had sex with that girl again.
6. I hate anyone who speaks badly of Apple (the company). It is the best thing about America besides Thom Browne.
7. I hate music that doesn’t look like anything.
8. I hate fashion that doesn’t have the “beat.”
9. I hate myself if I can’t understand an idea.
10. I hate not being an artist all the time.
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