CAT POWER on Miami (Brandon, South Beach: apartment, mortgage, layoffs)

[WINTERFRONT]

According to Cat Power everyone hates Miami

This interview dates back to 2006

Cat Power: Really? I won 350 bucks the other day on that, black 13.

Fred: Bob Dylan straight up said no. He said, "Why would I do that?"

Here we go. So Chan, where do you live?

Cat Power: I choose to live in Miami.

Fred: You don't live in Miami.

Cat Power: I do. On the South Beach.

Fred: Whom do you hang out with there?

Cat Power: Well my friend from high school had a baby 10 years ago, when I started visiting her there. Three years ago she was selling her apartment, and so I put a mortgage down on it. I got sober, and two months before I got sober I moved to New York, so I hang out with the neighbors.

Fred: I feel like Miami is way, way too hot.

Cat Power: Oh, but I'm Southern.

Fred: So you're used to it. I can't stand--

Cat Power: It's like sunny and 70, but all year long.

Fred: I meant no insult to the people of Miami. It's a good city.

Brandon: Do you get caught up in all the NBA fever? [ The Miami Heat won the 2006 NBA Finals- Ed. ]

Cat Power: I'm sure it's the same in Detroit, but it's such a spectacle. But after the year Miami had, well, everyone hates Miami, so I think that they love that team so much, and they ****ing kick ass.

Ben Wallace is my favorite player. So when NBA playoffs come, that is a really exciting time for me.

Source:

Pitchfork: Interviews: Cat Power


What do you guys think?

I personally don't feel comfortable on the way he referred to Miami at first: "You don't live in Miami" ... sounds a bit like: what the hell are you doing there out of all places?... even if it was only about warm weather that's no way to talk about a place.

[flyers29]

I think he was talking about the Heat, not the city.

[doggiebus]

Winter, I think you need to re read the article.

[Coconut1]

Who is Cat Power?

When I think of cat power I think of hooking a fish on a string, dangling it in front of my cat and having him run on a treadmill to generate electricity for me... oops.

[tallrick]

I think of cat power as bulldozers, generators and the like.

[Reptoid Humidian]

Cats will rule. Dogs must submit.

[Reptoid Humidian]

Seriously though, it sounds like they're referring to the Miami Heat basket ball team when he says "Everyone hates Miami."

[cixcell]

everyone from my work's corporate seems to hate miami. one guy actually stopped mid-sentence, paused and asked me 'is it worth it?'
i didnt know how to answer. i dont really have a choice growing tropical plants. florida is really the only viable option unless you go ex-pat because hawaii is extremely expensive with no jobs and puerto rico has no jobs either which is why every other flight is headed for orlando.

[WINTERFRONT]

LOL ok ok my bad

[Reptoid Humidian]

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Cats will rule. Drivers must submit.

A solution for Miami hit and run drivers -- maybe.


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