Iggy Pop, Truffaut and Amis

From: StephenP
Category: Amis
Date: 9/14/99
Time: 12:59:39 PM
Remote Name: 195.171.125.1

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From 'Q' magazine, 9/99:

Iggy Pop sez:

Truffaut would seem the more consistent and complex, the more rooted in what is commonly known as the social or material world. Whereas Godard's stuff tends to jump at you with a stylistic surprise. You see Le Mepris and it's like, Look at Bardot with Jack Palance- who would cast that? You have these leaps with juxtaposition, and what he chooses to show can be really shocking. In literature, then, Truffaut would be Martin Amis, which would make Godard Will Self. Both are good...and different. But I have not read an Amis since The Information. He lost me with that one.

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So there you go. At least he doesn't talk about the interesting indigents of Milwaukee. Mind you in the same interview Mr Pop spuriously declares himself a stranger to David Bowie's hampton so you've got to take anything he says with a goodly pinch.