Read Klosterman IV?
 

I am currently in the middle of this book, or collection of interviews/essays, or whatever this is classified as.

After reading the Radiohead article yesterday I started to wonder if reading interviews a few years after they came out is even relevant.

Robert Plant says quite emphatically that there would be no Led Zep reunion. Obviously he has contradicted himself less than half a decade later.

So I began wondering if this shit is real or just a public record of what someone believed in at a certain time or is it the truth? Should what is said carry on beyond the moment or does it dissolve at the conclusion of the interview? What it quite possibly is not is an account of how a certain person really feels. Are interviews even the truth or are they merely someone telling their audience what they think they will want to hear, or even worse the subject trying hard to sell themselves to a potential audience they have not tapped into yet.

Do we even subscribe to a certain feeling for longer than a year or two or are we always changing? Is it even worth recording what is said today if tomorrow our minds are changed? Is this just human nature?

I know, lots of questions about something so trivial as a rock interview. But sometimes you just want to think about things and this was one of them.

What are your thought on either the book or interviews in general?

I Love Chuck Klosterman.

Read the book "Killing Yourself to Live" a few months back.

Totally agree. He is an excellent writer and often makes me laugh even in this one.

Yes, it's human nature. We grow, we evolve, we change.

In some sad cases, we regress.

Thanks for the response DaddyHalbucks.