The great Fountains Of Wayne just issued their fifth album in a career that dates back 15 years. Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc) was recorded by the band—vocalist/guitarist Chris Collingwood, multi-instrumentalist Adam Schlesinger, guitarist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young—in New York City at the studio Schlesinger co-owns, and it may be the quartet’s best effort to date. Fountains Of Wayne is currently on tour, but Collingwood and Schlesinger will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with the dynamic duo.
Collingwood: If you have some time to kill and you want to realize how little you know about stuff, go to YouTube and type in “Hitchens debate.” There are hours and hours of footage of the guy beating up on hapless opponents, sometimes politely, more often not, but always with a mot juste and a baffling mastery of the subject at hand. He strikes me as one of the last public intellectuals, an anachronism in the era of evolution denial and three-hour CGI shitfests. Sadly, Hitchens became seriously ill around the time of the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22. You can still read him in Vanity Fair and on Slate.com.
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2 replies on “Fountains Of Wayne’s Chris Collingwood Knows You Well: Christopher Hitchens”
Well said, Chris. You don’t have to agree with Hitchens (although I do), to marvel at his strength of both the subject matter, and all the peripheral knowledge he draws on when he makes his point. With the “talk media” circle overstuffed with opinionated and ill-informed loudmouths, any intellectual stands out in this crowd of mental midgets.
“He strikes me as one of the last public intellectuals, an anachronism” Agreed, but there is also the wonderful Clive James – http://www.clivejames.com/