Pulping the past

An excerpt from Kylie Northover's interview and subsequent article of former Pulp frontman - Jarvis Cocker; re his inner rock star and new album: Further Complications:

"The idea of a performance being a one-off appeals to Cocker.

"It gets on my nerves when people seem to be so intent on filming everything on their mobile phones. I just wish people would experience it and be in the moment," he says.

"It used to be when you went on holiday you'd see families where the father couldn't interact with anyone, so he'd stand there with the video camera filming the whole holiday and you'd think: 'What a sad character.' Now young people are doing it - it's bad. They're becoming middle-aged before their time."

"Cocker says having something that lingers only as a memory is better, as it changes over time.

"It gets altered by your brain, by your perception, whereas if you've just got a crappy, hand-held phone footage version of it, it brings it all crashing down to earth, you know what I mean?"

[My pilfered copy of Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum, June 13-14, 2009, p 11.]