"Am I still cool? Or is that over now?"
-Iggy Pop, to Rolling Stone, on the occasion of his being inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. It's a good question. (But, really. Come on. Forever forever forever forever...)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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Hah. This is the clip with the HYSTERICAL commentary from the local emcee. Worth your time.
That's... peanut... butter...
As far as I'm concerned, Iggy is like Cheetos. No expiration date.
Inducted in the same class as ABBA.
I just included 'Search and Destroy' on a playlist, so yes Iggy, still cool
Even when his bones are rotting in the earth and he is all smelly and worms are eating him, Iggy Pop will be theee cooolest.
i hate to break it to you guys but iggy pop quit being cool around the same time all of you stopped being cool. (sometime in your mid 20's for you, somewhere in his mid 40's for him).
Oooh, look! Look! It's the "sorry, kids" meme!
iggy pop is currently shilling for a telecomunications company in new zealand. i'm not even fucking kidding.
Are insurance salesmen cool? Exhibit A: http://www.swiftcover.com/
(Yes, that is Iggy Pop in the corner, wearing ridiculous glasses and selling car insurance.)
Iggy Pop was never actually "cool"... just timeless and yet strange, like a Rei Kawakubo matte black leather jacket.
But sweaty and maybe smelling slightly of vomit.
That's a good point. Maybe we're stretching the definition of cool. (Iggy's not so much like Miles Davis, is he?) But even his sweat and vomit, Iggy did have some kind of cool going onâ€"at least in his apparent obliviousness to what was going on. Like, vacancy is a kind of cool, right? And anyway, the word is used so much loosely nowadays. And we know Iggy likes looseness.
Are you saying what Miles Davis is to peeing oneself, Iggy is to sweat and vomit?
The Birth of Drool
On the Roadie
He can be my dog. Anytime.
I love Iggy, and I have all of his vinyl & etc., but that last Stooges album really sucked.