March 2nd, 2011 / 8:46 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Blake Butler—
Hot shit flies in this fly shit at Interview where Will Oldham interviews R Kelly: “It’s like you go to parties and they give you these little bags. I got everything I can ever want, and I’ve been blessed, but I want that little bag, you know? I want what’s in the bag. You’re like, “Where my bag at, dawg?” And they’re like, “Ah, we ran out, man.””
HTML Giant isn’t Twitter. So this must be Interview spam….
WILL OLDHAM: Do you watch 30 Rock?
R. KELLY: No. What’s that?
WILL OLDHAM: Do you watch 30 Rock?
R. KELLY: No. What’s that?
KELLY: Well, a party that I gave at my house influenced me. I gave a Christmas party last year—well, two Christmases ago—where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn’t perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
OLDHAM: You performed the whole set?
KELLY: I did the whole set. I invited, like, 1,000 people out to my house, and everybody had to be dressed like it was the ’60s. People had the long-stem cigarettes and the zoot suits and all that stuff, man. It was just a good time.
KELLY: Well, a party that I gave at my house influenced me. I gave a Christmas party last year—well, two Christmases ago—where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn’t perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
OLDHAM: You performed the whole set?
KELLY: I did the whole set. I invited, like, 1,000 people out to my house, and everybody had to be dressed like it was the ’60s. People had the long-stem cigarettes and the zoot suits and all that stuff, man. It was just a good time.
I want to go to that.
I hate it when people say “I’ve been blessed.”
i went to a will oldham show in this really small dark place in mississippi, where he walked the crowd before the show and slipped things into people’s pockets. i don’t know what the stuff was, but it seemed to pencils and erasers. then a friend and my girlfriend got him to sign cds and they read “remain blest” and “carry on big.” then my other friend’s girlfriend came late and was drunk and screamed at will oldham, while he was playing his last song, “i just got here and want you to play more” to which will oldham replied “daddy plays as much as daddy wants to play.” to which she replied, “my dad’s an asshole” etc and will oldham said, “daddy is sorry for that.”
though, almost none of this may be true, but i’m sure a good half of it is.