Re: Adam Curry (fwd)

[chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)]

In article <2klo6v$cok@hubcap.clemson.edu> you write:
>In article 5@CompuServe.COM, 100276.2176@CompuServe.COM (Marcel Rijs) writes:
>> ..._but_ Adam Curry is also the man who started his "career" some
>> 10 years ago as John Holden on an Amsterdam illegal radiostation,
>> and a few years later, in 1985, interviewed Kate Bush in England
>> for Dutch television. The moron wasn't even prepared: he 'forgot'
>> that Kate had made not 3 but 4 albums before Hounds of Love, and
>> assumed she had only one brother, which is quite stupid.
>> I mean, when interviewing someone, you have to prepare yourself,
>> right?
>> ...
>
>Actually, when introducing MTV's premier of the video for "Love and Anger,"
>Mr. Curry brought up this interview and what an impression it had made on him.
>He was apparently still relatively new at that sort of thing, and Kate sent a
>big Bentley limo, then met him at the gate (to the farm) personally.  He was
>quite overwhelmed--or so he gave that impression--and seemed to be quite
>taken with Kate herself.

    He insists that Kate sent someone out for food from (of all places)
McDonalds! I wrote him to confirm this, and he was quite firm on that
point. 

>I'm no raging fan of MTV (although The State is very well done), or of Adam
>himself, but I think his work on setting-up and maintaining the MTV.com WWW
>server has been excellent.  I wouldn't be quite so quick to write him off as
>the typical MTV looks-no-thought pinhead.

   A *lot* of help from the fine folks at Panix.


                          Chris Williams of
                             Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
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