Who knows.įor the purposes of this conversation, let’s tell ourselves there is nobody who knows the whole truth of the Andrew W.K. I doubt he completely remembers a whole bunch of it, and there are some details about which even he surely knows nothing. I think there are so many long-abandoned dead ends and red herrings and random acts of misdirection - so many layers of illusion interspersed with so many other layers of “reality” - that I can’t believe he can keep it straight. I am absolutely certain he wouldn’t tell you even if he could, but I think even he would get lost if he were to try. I don’t think anybody knows the whole truth of the Andrew W.K. I don’t know what’s true and what’s not true. I can’t, not because I’d betray any confidences or violate any agreements or put myself in harm’s way, but because I don’t know the Andrew W.K. I would spill everything and spare nothing. story is like nothing else in music - maybe nothing else in the world - and there is no story I’d rather tell. We can talk about how we got here in the first place, all the reasons why we’re here now. Why don’t you watch that and get comfortable, OK? And then, when you’re ready, we can start. It still doesn’t look much like the person in the video, though. photographs shot over the course of his professional career. Instead, I have created this Cubist-inspired collage, put together using a handful of “official” Andrew W.K. My own sketching abilities, though, are a bit rusty. to a police sketch artist, I could probably do a pretty good job. I have watched him on stage and seen him in literally hundreds and quite possibly thousands of pictures and videos. I have shaken the man’s hand and looked him square in the eye. But it brings to mind a question I’ve been meaning to ask: This, of course, is a result of the filming technique. It’s odd, though, because at points, the figure on the screen looks nothing like Andrew W.K. It’s an odd clip, a negative-image video allegedly meant to illustrate the following bit of Andrew W.K.’s worldview:īy inverting every polarity and reflecting every opposite, we can unite the highest and lowest parts of ourselves, and rejoice in the ever-contrasting intensity of being alive. On my end, now is roughly two weeks after the release of Andrew W.K.’s video for the title track from his 2018 LP You’re Not Alone. Or as close to now as can be defined in this conversation, between the time and place I am in as I write these words and the time and place you are in as you read them.
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