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Seven square miles surrounded by Reality The Ocean Beach Chronicle 1

1984

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.– Madonna

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More than one hundred metric tons of over ripe tomatoes are hurled in the streets, in a battle that rages for a solid hour.Tomatina has made the town millions of

euros in tourism and has inspired many art-

ists, photographers and music videos.While we are at it we can pop over to India

and stamp out all traces of the Holi Festival of Colors.Rich and poor, women and men regardless

of status throw pigmented powders in the air, and at one another in an orgy of color to celebrate a bountiful harvest and pay tribute to Vishnu.Holi is now celebrated all around the world.

Powders are sold on Ebay and Etsy, and a real sense of global culture is enjoyed by all.After which we can take a flight to Rio De

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By Matthew David Grange

Tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with sym-bolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. The concept of tradi-tion, as the notion of holding on to a pre-vious time, is also found in political and philosophical discourse.

The tradition at stake here is the annual Ocean Beach Marshmallow Fight held dur-ing the fire work display on our Indepen-dence Day, a day which represents the pin-nacle of a free society.Nagging nay sayers wish to rip this tradi-

tion from our warm hands.Ocean Beach is not Del Mar or La Jolla, it

is an unique beach town which I have never seen the like of in all my extensive travels .Ocean Beach has an unprecedented num-

ber of diverse groups that live together in harmony under the banner of freedom and tolerance. While unique, we are not alone in this world.

Maybe we should abolish all world tradi-tions! Let’s start with the Running of the Bulls in Pamploma, Spain. A seven-day festival in honor of Saint Fermin where fully Mature bulls are let loose in the streets to chase and sometimes maim the willing par-ticipants that flock there from all parts of the globe.Then we could move to eradicate the La

Tomatina Festival in Buñol, a food fight held on the last Wednesday of August every year.

Janeiro and New Orleans, and crush the bare breasted heathens responsible for Mardi Gras! The real question is when will

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up close and personal

By Trevor, Ocean Beach 1984 I’d heard the new queen of pop was in

town, I’m obviously referring to Madonna. I’d gotten the scoop that she had checked into the Ocean Beach Hotel under the name Louise Veronica, which of course is part of her real name, not too bright there Madonna! Amazingly enough I found her room number and got through. Layed on the British ac-cent and boom, I was in for an interview. I grabbed by recorder and headed down to the hotel.

“I have sunglasses on right now because my eyes are killing me,” apologizes Madon-na. “I haven’t slept in three days and a friend of mine is in jail right now and I just found out last night… ugh, forget it, it’s a long sto-ry, but never a dull moment in my life.”

She’s just wrapped up a day’s worth of meetings between her manager and Nile Rogers, who’s producing her new LP “Like A Virgin.” The album, which will feature tracks called “Dress You Up,” “Material Girl” and “Angel,” will be released as soon as her debut album gives it some room on the charts. Mr. R, she admits, “is a very pas-sionate man. He lives life to the hilt. When you deal with people who are that way you get good stuff and bad stuff, but it was really great working with him.”

But right now Madonna- nattily turned out in a black leather jacket with silver graffiti, “kind of bluish” lipstick and the usual rubber jewelry and crucifixes – is content to unwind over a grapefruit and Campari, chewing on the questions as eagerly as she attacks her two sticks of Trident sugarless bubblegum.

Trevor: Where did you learn to dance?Madonna: I really leaned on my own. I

watched television a lot and I used to try to copy Shirley Temple when I was a little girl. I used to turn on the record player and dance in the basement by myself and give dance lessons to my girlfriends in my five year old manner. As I got older I started giv-ing lessons to boys, too, and I remember the first guy I gave lessons to the song was “Honky Tonk Woman” by the Stones. It was really sexy, right, like stomping and grind-ing. When I was about 12 I decided I should try to get pro about this and started going to the schools where they teach jazz, tap, baton twirling and gymnastics. It was just a place to send hyperactive girls, basically.

Trevor: Do you worry about your weight?Madonna: Sure, that’s why I swim 100

laps every day to keep in shape. It’s good to have a supple body, you can move around easily and it’s a lot more visually appealing. You feel better too when you’re at a normal weight.

Trevor: What one thing would you change about yourself if you could?

Madonna: I always wanted to be taller. I

feel like a shrimp, but that’s the way it goes. I’m 5’4” – that’s actually average. Everything about me is average, everything’s normal, in the books. It’s the things inside that makes me not average. I’d also change my indeci-siveness. Yes, no, yes, no YES! In my busi-ness career I feel I make good decisions but in my personal life I’m constantly creating havoc by changing mind every five seconds.

Trevor: Who would you like to go out with: Rick Springfield, Simon le Bon, Lionel Richie or Trevor Lee Roth?

Madonna: Ugh. UGH. Yeeeuch! C’mon. I wouldn’t go out with any of them if you want to know the truth. If I had to choose, I’d go out with Trevor Lee Roth, but I wouldn’t dress up for him.

Trevor: Is there any item of clothing you have that you wouldn’t dare to wear in public?

Madonna: Well, underpants. I wouldn’t wear just sexy underpants in public. I have to feel really comfortable and that my clothes look good, but not that I obviously tried to make them look good. My favorite clothes are my Vivienne Westwood skirt with Keith Haring designs, this ripped-up black net shirt and a denim jacket with my graffiti tag “Boy Toy written on the back. I used to go out with graffiti writers and I got into the habit of carrying markers around, but I really lost the zest for writing my name everywhere. Now I have suitors that do it for me.

Trevor: What’s your most treasured posses-sion?

Madonna: A picture of my mother when she was young and she was riding on a horse and smiling and laughing. She didn’t give it to me. My mother died when I was real young and when I moved to New York I stole it from my father.

Trevor: What did you like best about Britain?Madonna: They have lots of good clothes

shops. I always have a good time shopping there because fashion is so important to English people. I didn’t have time to find any good restaurants, but I like the way the cars are on the other side.

Trevor: What is your wildest ambition?Madonna: Well, I’d love to be a memo-

rable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual comic-tragic way. I’d like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.

Trevor: How do you see yourself in 30 years’ time?

Madonna: Hopefully I’ll be incredibly mel-low and wise with age. Not mellow, but very wise and still just as mischievous and child-like and wondering as I am now.

Trevor: Do you go to church?Madonna: No. I never go to church any-

more except to steal crucifixes. That’s a joke. But I get a lot of letters from religious freaks because of my name.

Trevor: How does it feel to have a name like Madonna?

Madonna: It feels like I have to live up to it. I didn’t get made fun of because I went

to Catholic schools and I never remember feeling tormented for my name.

Trevor: What’s your favorite kind of ice cream?

Madonna: I don’t like ice cream, but if I made a sundae it would have vanilla, chocolate chip and coffee ice cream with hot fudge topping and whipped cream and nuts. But none of those cherries on top. Those cherries are gross.

Trevor: What happened between you and Si-mon le Bon and a certain birthday cake back-stage at Madison Square Garden?

Madonna: Huh? Was there a birthday cake? There was a lot of food and cham-pagne. I fought over a piece of cake with Simon? That’s an interesting rumor. I never did anything of the sort. I actually got very ill and had to leave right when they were doing their first encore. Champagne on an empty stomach. I went to see them because Nile was going to do an encore, otherwise I didn’t think I would have found myself there.

Trevor: What would you do if you could be invisible for a day?

Madonna: I’d go to my record company and listen to all the people saying what they’re really going to do with my next re-cord.

Trevor: What do you think about Ronald Re-gan?

Madonna: I don’t think about him very much but I think he’s a pretty good actor. I think he’s a puppet for all the people in cabi-net, I think everybody else makes the de-cisions and he’s the guy that gets up there and hopefully doesn’t get shot at. Nancy? Give me a break.

Trevor: Have you ever cried yourself to sleep?Madonna: Oh, so many nights. What’s the

point, there’s so many, they’re horrible. You just cry yourself to sleep or you don’t go to sleep at all, that’s me anyways. I have in-somnia terribly when I’m upset or excited by something that’s going to happen the next day.

Trevor: Is New York City scary?Madonna: No, not at all, I find other plac-

es outside of New York scary where people are really backwards and they look like they want to shoot you for looking so different. Like the south, where there are some really ignorant people.

Trevor: What’s your favorite place to go dancing?

Madonna: There are not any great night clubs as far as I’m concerned in New York City, and I used to always think the best clubs were in New York. The last good time I had in a club was at the Paradise Garage in New York or the Rhythm Lounge in Los Angeles.

Trevor: Who does your laundry?Madonna: Me. I take it to this Laundromat

down the street and they do it for me.

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Robert Smith, frontman with the new Brit band – The Cure was caught in bed at the Ocean Villa Inn reading his favor-ite comic, The Beano. The Cure were in town for a gig at Mother’s Saloon.

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Madonna pulled into the Shell Gas Sta-tion on the corner of Voltaire & Sunset Cliffs. Her shiny new Volkswagen Scir-roco was overheating. Steve and Les scratched their heads as they saw the commotion that ensued.

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After rocking out to a Smokey Hoof show at Winstons, my friend Joe Felix ‘on Bass’ and I were chatting as his band was pack-

ing up. We were on a pretty good role and look-ing for some fun, he was saying something about an after party at the ‘Gow House’. Never hav-ing heard about the ‘Gow House’, let alone The Brothers Gow, I said “Heck Yeah I’m down”. We walked the several blocks to the the fabled Gow House, and once there we were welcomed by the Brothers who were totally chill and down to earth.

They were saying how they came from Arizo-na and were stoked to now be calling O.B their home. I was dunsky, so Joe and I left.

A week or two later Joe called me and sad the Gow were playing at Mother’s Saloon. By the time I got there the place was packed, not only with familler faces, but also a mass of new young ones.I was thinking damn, the gows got some-thin going on.

It was only a mater of time before I was front stage getting down with the beautiful crowd. I could not describe their sound or style or how these guys shred so hard. I was blown away ‘world class jam band’ I thought.

Things got fuzzy and next day I woke up think-ing “those guys cant be that good? I must have been high”

Fortunately I was wrong, and after seeing them again at Winston’s with The Acorn Project, I real-ized that there is fire still burning in the hearts of men.

Now that I work with the Chronicle, I just had to interview these talented guys. It took me a while to set it up even though they live only a block and a half from my house.

I managed to get the whole crew cozied up on the couch in their living room, the tape was roll-ing, they answered all my questions and more.

Matt: When did you first move to ob?Carson: About a year ago, august 1st.Ethan: We passed over a year and we didn’t

even know aboutit. We didn’t celebrate!Carson: Lets have a make up showMatt: Where did you move from?

Carson: We started the band in flagstaff AZ when we were going to college. We actually moved from the bay area, we lived there for a year. it wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t where we needed to be.

Matt: How do you like it here in OB?LOVE ITAlex: We came here on tour to play gallaghers

and before we even played the show we rolled down the windows and just said, “lets move here”

Matt: Someone said you guys played one show and got the best response.

Ethan: We just played that one show at Gal-lagher’s. When we drove into town we were like, “lets move here”. We were uncomfortable where we were (San Fran bay area) it wasn’t working out well for us and we knew that we needed a change. It was just kind of a joke at first. The show went extremely well and one month to the day of that show we were living in OB.

Kyle: During set break was when we fully de-cided we were moving!

Matt: What do you guys hope to achieve in the next year?

Carson: We have a new album in the works already and we definitely have a big tour in Oc-

tober. Its very solid, were hitting up nine states.Ethan: were really stoked to be playing in Se-

attle at Nectar lounge. It was a really good show for us last tour, we played with two great bands, Groovesession and Earphunk. We’re also hitting Montana and Idaho and some places we haven’t been in a couple years. We actually headlined a festival in Wyoming called “whatfest”. People re-ally want to see us get back out there again.

Matt: how long have you been a band?Ethan: September will be six years.Nathan: It’s a team sport.Matt: You have such a diverse sound that

seems hard to define. Can you guys explain it?Kyle: It’s just as hard for us! We get the ques-

tion so much “what type of music do you play?”Ethan: You could ask any one of us right now

in a different room and you would get six different answers.

Kyle: You can also feel out the person, “well what type of music do you like?” Chances are we play that in our set.

Matt: Some people are saying that you must have sold your soul to the devil to be so talented. What do you have to say to that?

Carson laughs hysterically.

Nate: 10% talent 90% hard work. I don’t nec-essarily think that we are naturally that talented, it’s about working hard.

Ethan: I would sell my soul to the devil!Matt: Who recorded your last album?Nate: Our long time friend and fellow player,

Lucas Stephen. He was running his own studio in a basement in the Gaslamp so we went and did all the tracking there.

Kyle: Nate had only just learned the songs and had been in the band for less than a month when we started tracking that album.

Ethan: We’ve been waiting for the right kind of person who wants to join the group as our sound caresser. Every touring band needs that really good front of house sound guy that can come in on any board and dial in your tone the way that its supposed to be.

Regarding the album ‘Chapters’:Ethan: It felt really good to release a whole

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up close and personalBy Trevor, Ocean Beach 1984

The buzz is out about the new Mac personal computer and Steve Jobs was in town hanging out Computer Guy Services on Santa Monica showing off his new product. I popped down and managed to get an interview. Jobs spoke candid-ly about the birth of Silicon Valley, the IBM-ization of America—and what defines a ‘nerd.’

No individual has become more a symbol of this land of opportunity than Steven Paul Jobs.

In January, however, with the introduction of Macintosh, Apple began an aggressive counter-attack, heralded by its “1984” TV commercial that portrayed a woman hurling a hammer through a screen image modeled after Orwell’s Big Brother. Jobs claims Apple will sell a half-billion dollars worth—250,000—of Macs this year, a number considerably less than demand, which has ex-ceeded even Apple’s original hopes. .

Is the computer business as ruthless as it ap-pears to be?

No, not at this point. To me, the situation is like a river. When the river is moving swiftly there isn’t a lot of moss and algae in it, but when it slows down and becomes stagnant, a lot of stuff grows in the river and it gets very murky. I view the cut-throat political nature of things very much like that. And right now our business is moving very swiftly. The water’s pretty clear and there’s not a lot of ruthlessness. There’s a lot of room for in-novation.

Do you consider yourself the new astronaut, the new American hero?

No, no, no. I’m just a guy who probably should have been a semi-talented poet on the Left Bank. I sort of got sidetracked here. The space guys, the astronauts, were techies to start with. John Glenn didn’t read Rimbaud, you know; but you talk to some of the people in the computer busi-ness now and they’re very well grounded in the philosophical traditions of the last 100 years and the sociological traditions of the ‘60s.

There’s something going on here, there’s something that is changing the world and this is the epicenter. It’s probably closest to Washington during the Kennedy era or something like that. Now I start sounding like Gary Hart.

You don’t like him?Hart? I don’t dislike him. I met him about a year

ago and my impression was that there was not a great deal of substance there.

So who do you want to see…I’ve never voted for a presidential candidate.

I’ve never voted in my whole life.

Do you think it’s unfair that people out here in Silicon Valley are generally labeled nerds?

Of course. I think it’s an antiquated notion. There were people in the ‘60s who were like that and even in the early ‘70s, but now they’re not that way. Now they’re the people who would have been poets had they lived in the ‘60s. And they’re looking at computers as their medium of expres-sion rather than language, rather than being a mathematician and using mathematics, rather than, you know, writing social theories.

What do people do for fun out here? I’ve no-ticed that an awful lot of those who work for you either play music or are extremely inter-ested in it.

Oh yes. And most of them are also left-handed, whatever that means. Almost all of the really great technical people in computers that I’ve known are left-handed. Isn’t that odd?

Are you left-handed?I’m ambidextrous.

But why music?When you want to understand something that’s

never been understood before, what you have to do is construct conceptual scaffolding. And if you’re trying to design a computer you will liter-ally immerse yourself in the thousands of details

necessary; all of a sudden, as the scaffolding gets set up high enough, it will all become clearer and clearer and that’s when the breakthrough starts. It is a rhythmic experience, or it is an experience where everything’s related to everything else and it’s all intertwined. And it’s such a fragile, delicate experience that it’s very much like music. But you could never describe it to anyone.

In 1977 you said that computers were an-swers in search of questions. Has that changed?

Well, the types of computers we have today are tools. They’re responders: you ask a com-puter to do something and it will do it. The next stage is going to be computers as “agents.” In other words, it will be as if there’s a little person inside that box who starts to anticipate what you want. Rather than help you, it will start to guide you through large amounts of information. It will almost be like you have a little friend inside that box. I think the computer as an agent will start to mature in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s.

You once talked about wanting to have a computer that could sit in a child’s playroom and be the child’s playmate.

Forget about the child—I’d like one myself! I’ve always thought it would be really wonderful to have a little box, a sort of slate that you could carry along with you. You’d get one of these things maybe when you were 10 years old, and somehow you’d turn it on and it would say, you know, “Where am I?” And you’d somehow tell it you were in California and it would say, “Oh, who are you?”

“My name’s Steven.”“Really? How old are you?”“I’m 10.”“What are we doing here?”“Well, we’re in recess and we have to go back

to class.”“What’s class?”You’d start to teach it about yourself. And it

would just keep storing all this information about you and maybe it would recognize that every Fri-day afternoon you like to do something special,

and maybe you’d like it to help you with this rou-tine. So about the third time it asks you: “Well, would you like me to do this for you every Fri-day?” You say, “Yes,” and before long it becomes an incredibly powerful helper. It goes with you ev-erywhere you go. It knows most of the raw infor-mation in your life that you’d like to keep, but then starts to make connections between things, and one day when you’re 18 and you’ve just split up with your girlfriend it says: “You know, Steve, the same thing has happened three times in a row.”

You grew up in an odd place here, surround-ed by all this technology.

Yes. The guy next door to my parents’ place was doing some of the foundation research on solar cells. Actually, I had a pretty normal child-hood. It’s nice growing up here. I mean the air was very clean; it was a little like being out in the country.

As a kid, were you already conscious of some sort of social structure forming, that there were people who were in the silicon business and there were people who weren’t?

Hmmm, no. See, there wasn’t such a thing as the silicon business back in the early ‘60s when I was between the ages of 5 and 10. There was electronics. Silicon, as a distinct item from the whole of electronics, didn’t really occur until the ‘70s.

How did it affect the culture here?Well, Silicon Valley has evolved into the heart

of the electronics industry—which is the second largest industry in the world and will soon pass agriculture and become the largest. So Silicon Valley is destined to become a technological metropolis and there are pluses and minuses to that. It’s very sad in a way because this valley was probably the closest thing to the Garden of Eden at one point in time. No more.

Why?Because now there are too many square miles

of concrete and asphalt.

Does that have something to do with the ruth-lessness of the business?

No.

Then was it because a lot of people realized they could make a fast buck here?

First of all, things happen in increments, right? They don’t happen all at once. But people didn’t start these companies just to make a buck. I mean they started businesses with very roman-tic notions. It wasn’t just money. Nobody would say to himself, “Jesus, I think next Monday my friend and I are going to start a company so we can make lots of money.”

No, but you think you’d be the same person today if your aggregate wealth consisted of one Volkswagen van?

Obviously not. But that’s sort of a meaningless question.

No, what I’m suggesting is that some people started companies because they were fascinated by the technology and a lot of other people start-ed companies because they thought they could make a buck.

Not the really great ones.

Then what, if not money, defines the social pecking order out there?

A combination of having pioneered something significant, and having built a thriving organiza-tion. The right company, that’s very important. In other words, even though some people have come out with neat products, if their company is perceived as a sweatshop or a revolving door, it’s not considered much of a success. Remember, the role models were Hewlett and Packard. Their main achievement was that they built a company. Nobody remembers their first frequency-counter, their first audio oscillator, their first this or that.

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In the late 1940s, George Orwell (whose real name is Eric Blair) wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, the most chilling modern ac-count of how things might end up if we fail to preserve our freedom. But Orwell himself is not pessimistic at all. Orwell reveals the motives that led him to write Nineteen Eighty-Four, and how his views have changed over the last three decades. I caught up with George Orwell on his visit to Ocean Beach. We decided to meet at The Lazy Hummingbird for a quite chat.

Watson: Did you regard Nineteen Eighty-Four as a “prophetic” novel? Do you think it’s turned out that way?

Orwell: That question came up when the book was first published, and I’ll give you the same answer I gave then: the society I de-pict in Nineteen Eighty-Four will not neces-sarily come about. But allowing for the fact that the book is a satire, meaning that it’s an exaggeration to make a point, something quite like [the society it depicts] could come about. I set the story in Britain to show that English-speaking countries are not above happenings of this kind: that totalitarianism, if not fought against, can triumph anywhere. It’s a warning, not a prophecy. As for how my “prophecies” have turned out, I sup-pose that’s something on which we all keep our own scorecards. Since 1950, when I stopped writing, the spread of totalitarian-ism over the globe has accelerated. Totali-tarianism is the basic pattern of society in many countries, yet our part of the world has not so far succumbed. The fact that the year 1984 is producing this interest in my book is an encouraging sign. Another entry in the positive column is the alarm so many people feel when technological develop-ment threatens to increase the power of the government over the individual. Whenever we see a government of laws assert itself over a government of men, we have positive grounds to hope that the society in Nineteen Eighty-Four is not coming. In the book, of course, there are no laws but many crimes. On the whole, I think the world of 1984 is a little closer to the situation in the book than it was in 1950, but much less so than it could have been. However, the potential

for a totalitarian world is large enough that people are worried about it.

Watson: In the book, you presented the great powers of the world as de facto co-conspirators in a plot to “busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels.” Perpetual war not only distracted

the people from troubles at home, but provided an excuse for oppression and constant spying on the citizens. Do you see this happening to-day between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Orwell: There isn’t yet a conspiracy, but as far as the people of the world are con-

cerned, there might as well be one. We all contribute to support an enormous military establishment: and at present, there’s no alternative. As imperfect as things might be in the West, they’re still vastly superior to those in the East. However, our defense institutions have to be constantly watched to make sure they don’t crush the free-doms they are supposed to protect. Your own President Eisenhower never did better than when he warned of the dangers in the growth of the military-industrial complex. The using of the world’s resources for arma-ments is a great totalitarian technique for the subjugation of the people.

Watson: But if both the U.S. and Soviet Union have enough nuclear missiles to destroy each other a hundred times over, why do they both keep pressing for more, more, and still more missiles? If it isn’t just a game, why do we have to keep building more and more weapons?

Orwell: Well, the potential is for it to turn into a game, where the nations exist to sup-port the military rather than the other way around. That’s certainly a scary possibility. I suppose they worry that the other side might develop a new technology through which all their weapons would suddenly be neutralized. And then, with the aid of a cou-ple of hand grenades, the other side would conquer the world. It’s rather like what hap-pened in the city of Florence during the Middle Ages. The warring factions started building towers, and everybody had to have one. Then, everybody had to have one taller than anyone else’s. At a certain point, it be-comes ridiculous.

Watson: It just seems that there’s always a “threat.” Currently, it’s the Soviet Union that’s going to come in and take us over, so our gov-ernment has to have more power to crack down on dissenters and “subversives,” on freedom of the press, and everyone has to take a lie detec-tor test.

Orwell: Well, this is the great paradox, of course. What you don’t want is to be taken over by a totalitarian power. The great dan-ger is that in protecting yourself against a takeover, you might become totalitarian yourself — at which point, as at the end of Animal Farm, the pigs become indistin-guishable from the human beings. I think that Animal Farm was very good in show-ing the role of paranoia in establishing and maintaining power. But it’s also true that even paranoiacs can have enemies.

Watson: In the 1930s, we had an economic depression. Since then, however, we’ve had nothing more serious than “recessions” and

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“downturns.” The last war we were in was World War II: since then, we’ve engaged in innocuous-sounding “police actions” and “res-cue missions.” Do you think that our language is being destroyed by a gradual infiltration of Newspeak?

Orwell: I’m rather embarrassed by this question on language. I now think that the model I gave of Newspeak and thought control could not really work. I would have said at the time, of course, that what I had written was a satire, an exaggeration. But it’s certainly not true, as I suggested in Nineteen Eighty-Four, that you can control the way people think by controlling the way they speak. So I think that Newspeak is a fine demonstration of what you might call “the totalitarian will,” the desire to reshape society by tackling its most basic institution, language. As a model of how thought could be controlled, however, I think it was off the mark.

Watson: For all practical purposes, comput-ers had just been invented when you were writ-ing Nineteen Eighty-Four. Do you think that the development of computer technology has had a positive or a negative impact on the pros-pects for freedom?

Orwell: Computer technology is just that: technology. It’s just as morally neutral as any other technology, such as the ability to make fire, or the ability to print books. But because the computer specifically out-paces and outperforms human beings, it seems very scary. And because certain of its capabilities, such as collating informa-tion and searching files, have police appli-cations, we can appreciate how useful the computer would be in limiting our freedom. In the hands of a tyranny, computer tech-nology will be used for tyrannical purposes.

But where the will is to expand freedom, there is no reason why the computer should not help. The diffusion and availability of computer technology in the United States seems to me to be working that way. There are abuses, like the antics of the “hackers,” but computers in many hands is a happy development. Totalitarian systems want, above all, to restrict access to information. No individual in the Soviet Union can own a duplicating machine or an Apple comput-er. There’s a sort of cheerful anarchy in the United States computer picture. Totalitarian governments are, above all, orderly, at least in intention, and disorganization has a lot to do with freedom.

Watson: Do you really think that’s a signifi-cant factor in the totalitarian outlook — almost a sort of neatness fetish?

Orwell: Yes, absolutely. What reason does O’Brien, an agent of the thought police in Nineteen Eighty-Four, have for re-shaping Winston Smith? The powers that be could simply kill him. But the totalitarian mind can-not stand the untidiness of having someone think differently, so it goes to the full length of producing in Winston Smith a genuine love of Big Brother. And that’s what the government wants. They can then afford to bump him off, because he is no longer dis-orderly and untidy. One finds this neatness obsession a little bit in the military mind. There is an American verb, peculiar to the military, “to police” — meaning, to make the whole place look terribly neat. And the fact that “police” and neatness come together in the language is very revealing. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, nothing works except the po-lice.

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And they sell so many products now that no one person really symbolizes the company.

But what does symbolize Hewlett-Packard is a revolutionary attitude toward people, a belief that people should be treated fairly, that the differen-tiation between labor and management should go away. And they built a company and they lived that philosophy for 35 or 40 years and that’s why they’re heroes. Hewlett and Packard started what became the Valley.

What skill do you think you have that allowed you to succeed?

Well, you know, there were probably a lot of guys out there sitting in garages who thought, “Hmmm, let’s make a computer.” Why did we succeed? I think we were very good at what we did and we surrounded ourselves by very fine people. See, one of the things you have to re-member is that we started off with a very ideal-istic perspective—that doing something with the highest quality, doing it right the first time, would really be cheaper than having to go back and do it again. Ideas like that.

Can you be more specific?No, because that’s as specific as you get. Just

general feelings about things, without any experi-ence to back them up.

They’re not based on, say, “Gee, look what happened to Hewlett-Packard”?

No, no, no. We just sort of had these feelings. We started to run the company our way and it turned out things we were doing worked. We nev-er lost sight of how our idealism could translate into tangible results that were also acceptable in a more traditional sense.

You seem to have postured Apple’s image as the last crusade against the IBM-ization of the world.

You know, that’s not quite right. If you froze technology today, it would be like freezing the automobile in 1915: you wouldn’t have automatic transmissions, you wouldn’t have electric start-ers. You don’t want to see IBM freeze the stan-dards.

But the flip side of that is that this industry has matured more rapidly than any other industry in the history of business and there are suddenly things that billion-dollar class companies can do that $100 million or $10 million class companies can’t do. For example, Apple will spend the bet-ter part of $100 million this year on research and development, and will spend the better part of $100 million on advertising. Now, IBM will spend that on personal computers alone. And if IBM and Apple invest that money wisely, it will be very dif-ficult for the $10 million or even the $100 million class companies to keep up.

Is there any company besides Apple and IBM that could keep up?

AT&T obviously could choose to invest $200 million. General Electric could obviously choose to invest $200 million. The question is will they? Will they take the risk? Do they see promise? Do they have the passion to innovate?

Don’t you ever wake up in the morning and say to yourself, “There’s no reason for me to work another day for the rest of my life. I’ve made enough money so that I can just have a good time, do anything I want…”

Well yeah, I suppose some people say that. But the question ignores all the reasons why people

do things here. The money is literally a 25 percent factor, at most. The journey is the reward. It’s not just the accomplishment of something incredible. It’s the actual doing of something incredible, day in and day out, getting the chance to participate in something really incredible. I mean that’s the feeling we’ve had. I think everyone on the Mac team would have paid to come to work every day.

How quickly did you become a millionaire?When I was 23, I had a net worth of over a mil-

lion dollars. At 24, it was over $10 million, and at 25, it was over $100 million.

How did that affect the quality of your dates?My dates? Nothing really changed, because I

don’t think about it that much. The people who think about those things a lot I never meet.

Sometimes it’s got to be overwhelming to you that about 10 years ago you were at some fes-tival on the Ganges river and now you’re run-ning a billion-dollar corporation.

Yeah, well, OK. What do you want me to say? Give me the possible responses, I’ll pick one.

Well, I think there are an infinite number of responses. I’m simply suggesting that it some-how relates to Andy Hertzfeld never cooking a meal in his own kitchen.

I don’t know what it relates to. Andy and I are roughly the same age, right? There’s a whole set of things that neither of us has ever done before, you know: neither of us has ever been married before; neither of us has come home at 5 o’clock and hung out by the pool. I mean, there’s a whole set of things. And we’ve chosen, at least in part, to spend a large number of hours and a large amount of our energy in a different way, making a computer.

Now other people make things too. Other peo-ple put their energy into having a family, which I think is wonderful—I’d love to do it myself—or they put their energy into making a career or mak-

steve jobs ing this or making that. We’ve put our energy into making Macintosh over the last two years, which we thought would make a difference to a group of people that we wouldn’t ever really know, but we’ll walk into classrooms and see 50 Macintosh-es and we’ll feel good.

When Apple was starting up, were people al-ways conscious of stock options?

Oh sure. Well, not as much as they are now. Apple was the first company that gave stock op-tions to almost everybody, every engineer, every middle-level marketing guy and so on.

It strikes me that very few people cash in their chips here.

Some do and some don’t. One of the trends I’ve seen is that once things seem a little stable, once the company has made it over some critical hurdles, some of the people will sell enough of their stock to buy a house or do something which may not mean that much to them, but will mean something, let’s say, to their spouse or to their family, which hasn’t seen enough of them for the last two years. They’ll want to do something to sort of say, “Hey, you know, what I’ve been work-ing on really has been valuable, it really has been worth it and besides my loving it, it has produced something for the family or for both of us.”

A lot of analysts and venture capitalists I’ve

talked to think you’re absolutely crazy to still have as much Apple stock as you have. Is it a matter of pride?

Well, it’s a lot of things. Certainly, a year ago the stuff was worth, you know, more than twice as much as it’s worth now. Last year, it decreased by about $200 million. I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.

How does that make you feel?It’s very character building!

this all stop? You used to be ‘allowed’ to drink alcohol responsibly on ‘Our’ beaches. You used to be ‘Allowed’ to smoke in public.Every year or so some concerned citizens

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and any one who cares about our beaches.The majority of peoples anger grows from

the desecration of the war memorial which takes a beating each year. I understand their concern and share them. The good news, is that funding to move the memorial and place it on a wall in a newly designed park is already past the planning stage and is pro-jected to break ground soon. I am sure that all of the great men and

women that have fallen to preserve our re-public would be proud that they did not die in vain, and that our freedom has been pre-served .We shall remain the land of the free, as long as we remain the land of the brave.

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art /ärt/ noun 1. the expression or ap-plication of human creative skill and imagi-nation, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

Art affects us. We know this to be true. Recall, if you will, a time in your life when some work of art penetrated you to your depths, inspired you, motivated you to act, or changed you forever. I’ll wait.

How is it possible that such a humble, little creation could do such a number on you? Simple. Art reflects essence. Essence is the foundation. Essence is the core. Es-sence is what is. It is truth – nothing more, nothing less. When one of these little artistic creation succeeds, it touches the essence within you, triggering the sudden experi-ence of your own authenticity. And when one is under the influence of authenticity, there is no telling what one might do.

So do not be surprised when you read of some foreign regime that has outlawed music. Don’t be shocked to hear of a place where reading a poem aloud is punishable by death. For it is a sad and simple fact of life that in this world, tyrannies exist. And you cannot blame the tyrant for his fear of the artist. It is a valid fear.

If you think these types of oppressions are of no concern to you, take stock. You may wake up to find that your very own American constitutional freedoms have been rendered void by a local city ordinance. There are, in fact, laws in place today that give the police the right to ticket or arrest you for playing guitar on a street corner, painting with chalk on the sidewalk, or speaking truths in public at too high a volume or without the proper permit. Will you sit complacently, watching as your freedoms erode like a frog in heat-ing pot, too lethargic to bother to escape the impending boil?

Perhaps you have the artist’s spirit. You might be saying something like, ‘Who cares what the law says, I’m going to express my-self anyway!’ I tell you this, my friend; May you never lose the vitality of that conviction. Utilize your freedoms while they still exist, lest when they are gone, they will not be missed. Then you find yourself then in a so-ciety where you ask yourself the question: What is the difference between an artist and a criminal? – absolutely nothing.

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The Cure’s Robert Smith: “I’m starting to feel like living again.”

With the album “The Top” The Cure has made a new start after a confusing period of inactivity. The outside has stayed the same but Robert has changed right enough. Sim-ple and light pop-tunes? “Nothing against that!” says Smith.

Forgot the newspaperAfter a strongly variated and powerful

sold-out performance Robert Smith is a bit surprised about the enthusiastic reac-tions from the predominantly very young audience. Obviously, the Cure is on the right track again. The almost-classic ones, mainly from the albums “Three Imaginary Boys” and “Seventeen Seconds” are played strongly and also the new songs from “The Top” make a strong impression. Smith is also less arrogant than the used to be and he obviously enjoys the live-work. “The Caterpillar” and “Wailing Wall” are the high-flyers.

After the concert Smith steps into the dressing room with the big hair, untidy sticked lipstick and a long crucifix around his neck. He makes a friendly impression, in contrast to earlier meetings which were soporofic jobs for every interviewer.

“Want another beer?” is the first thing he says. I already have a question for him: what he thinks about the bygone non-Cure peri-od? Robert Smith: “Two years of searching and doubting. I was sick of the long tours and I found that the quality of my songs be-came worse. A rockgroup becomes like a cave quite easily. I hid myself from the out-side world. I hadn’t read a single newspa-per for about five years. I didn’t care about where or when wars were going on. I didn’t talk to anyone, didn’t even want to discuss. Forget it. But now I start to feel like living again.”

Your lyrics are sometimes very personal, like “The Top”, the title-song of your new album.

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start to relativize that because I indeed don’t dare to suppose it’s like that. I’ve become less afraid of concerning about the world, meeting new people or loving someone, maybe.”

So we talk to someone who has under-stood the message of Simple Minds and U2?

“Don’t push The Cure in the group of U2, Simple Minds and Big Country, because I don’t want to be anything to do with that. I used to love Simple Minds but I think that not much has stayed of their honest and original means. And I think the arrogant Demagogu-ery of U2 is disgusting. The only group the Cure feels a bit related to is Echo and the Bunnymen. They’ve been going their own self-willed way, just like us. They don’t try to reach the top or score a hit-single. But I’m sure they’ll stay in the music scene for

a longer time than U2. Their musical things are more interesting.”

From the well-known Cure line-up Smith-Gallup-Tolhurst only Smith and Tolhurst stayed in the band. Why did drummer (bass-ist) Simon Gallup had to leave?

“Because he became useless. He con-sidered me as the leader of the Cure, the man who made the big decisions, and deliv-ered the material of the songs. A role which isn’t made for me. Besides, Simon became aggressive. He walked around like the ag-gressive hooligan. But of course, Lol stayed. We used to go to school together and he’s like the only real friend I want around all the time. We are the creative core of The Cure, the other boys work on temporary basis. Because I don’t want a group anymore. Call it a bunch of people. Who like each other.”

You toured with The Banshees for a while

and made the album “Blue Sunshine” with Steve Severin. Have you learned anything from that period?

“Absolutely. I always thought Siouxsie was nice and when I didn’t like to be in The Cure anymore I liked to hang around with them. It has also been a good way to hide my insecurity. I wanted to be in a band without any obligations. ‘Blue Sunshine’ is a weird album, indeed. With very strange moods and weird lyrics which match the dialogs in a horror film the most. But without ‘Blue Sunshine’ I couldn’t have made ‘The Top’, so that’s a positive result anyway.”

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It is always a pleasure to hear what lyri-cist/percussionist, Al Howard of The Heavy Guilt, The Midnight Pine, The Black Sands, and Rebecca Jade and the Cold Fact has to say. The other day The OB Chronicle tracked him down and didn’t have to beg for an interview.

Al, what the hell man, only 6 nominations at the San Diego music awards this year?

Yeah, a couple of the bands did really well this year. The nascent Midnight Pine is up for two and the Heavy Guilt is up for four. I’m proud of both groups. I feel like it’s de-served as well. They’re great bands to be a part of, great musicians to work with and I feel like we both released strong albums last year.

Out of the four that The Heavy Guilt are up for, “Artist of the year, Best alternative al-bum, best alternative band, best live band, and the two for the Midnight Pine, “best new artist, and best local recording which would mean the most to win? why?

Best live band is the most important cat-

egory to me. It’s not easy by any means to make a great record, but it’s certainly easier to mask your flaws on one. Editing has al-ways existed, but it is so much simpler than it was when they were making records in the 60s, great records I might add. Musi-cianship has suffered considerably cause the pressure is off to a large extent, the tape is infinite, the mistakes easily masked. The best bands however are able to pull off a great record and recreate it beneath the dim lights of the stage, against the backdrop of distractions, fueled by an audiences energy. I feel like every band I’ve ever been in has bled for the art, we work hard on stage, shed sweat and dynamic, this is important to me.

What’s in the works with your 3rd band The Black Sands?

I’d like to record a second Sands record in the not too distant future. They’re fun cats to sculpt with. Things have been insanely busy of late and I’m at fault in the lack of time de-partment. I work 6 days a week at the Cow

in OB, I’m trying to write a book, maintain 4 bands and a relationship. I’m learning how to juggle a lot of things I care about and like anything, I see myself getting better at it as time unfolds. I think we’ll get together and write some songs when Breaking Bad is over.

What comes to your mind when I say percus-sion?

The first word that comes to mind is bullshit. For two reasons. I get a lot of bullshit from the swap meet and yard sales and your garbage cans (and you thought it was raccoons this whole time) and I put to-gether what I can. I’m also kind of a bullshit percussionist, I have no chops, but I play with passion. Which works, my aims aren’t flashiness, I’m trying to provide a texture and an atmosphere to coincide with the usually gritty lyrics. I add a grim grime and ugliness to the music when it’s needed.

Talking local SD venues, which one would you say is your favorite to play in. Listen in?

I like to play the Casbah. That’s the spot. I swear anytime I look up some band I’m dig-ging, their photo on Wikipedia has got that stage as the backdrop. They book the best music in town (along with Soda Bar and Tin Can) and there’s just a lot of recent his-tory sweated into that stage. And now that I know where the clean shitter is, I feel at home there. As far as listening, it depends on the kind of show, if it’s some pin drop shit, I want to go to Spreckels, if it’s a rock show, probably Belly Up.

Knowing how deep your musical closet is, “I mean you do work at the Cow”, I’m sure there’s more than a few names you could throw out that you feel influenced and shaped you into the musician you are today?

For lyrics, I’d love to not say Bob Dylan and pretend that I’m an individual or some shit, but I’d be lying. But Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, El-p, Aesop Rock, Nick Cave, Antipop Con-sortium, At the Drive In, Jason Molina. Just for listening sake, right now, Thee Oh Sees, Tame Impala, Emit Rhodes, Flying Burrito Brothers, Mark Lanegan, the Seeds, 13th Floor Elevators, Harry Nilsson, the Ink Spots, the Fleetwoods, early Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era), the Heartless Bastards, Serge Gainsbourg, Stanley Brothers, Run the Jew-els, Mikal Cronin, Foxygen, Deerhunter, Jim James, Spiritualized, Radiohead, Sebadoh, Akron Family, the National, Tv On the Radio, that’s probably too many.

Favorite songwriter of all time? Townes Van Zandt. When I first heard Our

Mother the Mountain, I felt like it was some-thing I would write. Not trying to claim I’m anywhere near that good, but just the way he puts words together, the nature imag-ery, the rhythm, I felt like it was something I could have come up with on at my absolute best. I really related to those songs and no one can fuck with Townes.

Thanks so much Al Gratefully interviewed by Jeff Deck

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