Jan
11
Friend of Blognut returns with Yo La Tengo’s thoughts on Donuts.
Friend of Blognut recently attended The Freewheelin’ Yo La Tengo, a show in bassist James McNew’s former hometown and home of Spudnuts, Charlottesville, Virginia. The format was seated audience, chatting bandmembers, Q&A encouraged. FOB asked the question that was surely on everyone’s mind:
FOB: Favorite donut?
Ira Kaplan (guitar): [puzzled] Donuts? Hmm, I don’t really eat donuts.
Georgia Hubley (drums): [deadpan] I like whole wheat glazed. Whole wheat glazed.
Ira: [admiringly] That’s a classy choice, a classy donut.
James McNew (bass): [happily] Donuts? They’re donuts, they’re all good. It’s still a donut. How can you have a bad donut??
Ira: [skeptically] But why would you have a donut when you could have a chocolate chip cookie?
A little bit later, someone asked a complicated question about references to/in Kinks songs and Ira tried to answer for a bit and then asked “Don’t you want to know something about donuts?”
