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What book do you have in your hands?
Stories from the world of antsby Edward O. Wilson, about genetically superior but highly belligerent creatures.
What makes you give up reading a book?
The flight of a fly or the unbridled desire of my beloved.
With which character would you like to have a coffee?
With Elvis, the only one with the key to the mutation that the musical species has suffered from the 20th century onwards.
Do you remember the first book you read?
The Iliad. There was the “to be or not to be” of Shakespeare.
How do you like to read, what are your reading habits?
Lying on my chaise longue at any time. Of course on paper, and if it’s good better.
What cultural event made you change the way you see the world?
Rock and roll seen as culture but also as business. Thank you Charlie Gillett.
Do you miss Radio 3’s Mundo Babel?
Would a prisoner miss the four walls of his cell? A place that has been “deactivated” (sic) as a secretary told me? The network has allowed the audience not to be “deactivated” with me. What could I miss?
What vadis, Radio 3? That responds?
R.I.P. R3 (Rest in peacefor lovers of dead languages).
What ingredients have you put into your new podcast?
All the freedom and the necessary incorrectness. An one man show without officials watching and released from a Corporation that does not value the radio of art nor to the audience that has placed Mundo Babel at number one on its EGM.
Where is the radio going?
From the outset the youth does not listen to her. From the outset, the abductees of one or another sign no longer follow a single tune. The phone wise you can pick and choose. The conventional media, disoriented. The real stars will survive in any format.
Do you really think that the podcast has killed the radio star?
The image of the crazy taxi driver changing frequencies every five minutes, fed up with political milongas, radio formulas and blah blah blah…, is quite eloquent.
What kind of music do you usually listen to?
All types, all supports. What is certain is that “indielandia” does not set foot in my garden.
What three songs have changed the direction of your life?
I would need 3,000. ‘It’s Now or Never’, the first time I heard Elvis, ‘Don’t You Love her Madly’, the last Morrison, and ‘La pared de Bambino’, my rogue side.
What movie have you seen more times?
Return to the Pastby Jacques Tourneur (1947).
Does criticism matter to you, is it useful to you?
Only those who love me and come to me like the children of the Gospel. Then yes.
Do you understand, are you moved by, contemporary art?
Art does not have to be understood and even less contemporary. It has to match the furniture in the living room.
What was the last exhibition you visited?
Hyperreal. The Art of the Trompe l’oeil at the Thyssen. “Everything that deceives, seduces”, Plato already said.
What artist would you like to have a work of at home?
None in particular, although Ana Juan (My dear Babel), it’s my weakness.
Do you like Spain? Give us your reasons.
I like Spain without the boring bits of the present. The Golden Age and the generation of 27, the conquest and “tuning” of the New World, but above all those heroic citizens who get up every morning to support a gang of rogues and frauds.
What urgent measure would you take to overcome the crisis in the cultural sector?
None that feed the Beast of the market and all that help the genuine Artist.
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