What has the alternately loving, sad, angry, and surreal songsmith been up to all these years? Mostly the same things we've all been doing: divorcing Yoko Ono, swimming naked, emailing with Paul McCartney, dating Padma Lakshmi, quoting Austin Powers, and voting for Ronald Reagan.
If that hasn't whetted your appetite already, this will:
it was Ono who brokered the introductions that led to his two small triumphs of the last decade: his return to movie acting in Jim Jarmusch’s Fish Tanque (2003), in which he affectingly played against type as the repressed English-expat owner of an aquarium store in Chicago’s Bulgarian-heavy Albany Park neighborhood; and Coarse Salt, the noise-rock collaboration with Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo that Pitchfork deemed the fourth-best album of 2007.Enjoy the full piece here.
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