July 21, 2011 |
FROM THE VOLT (WINTER 2010)
NAME: Glenn O’Brien
MAGAZINES/EMPLOYERS: GQ/Vanity Fair Italia, etc, (self).
OCCUPATION: writer, columnist, creative director, etc.
OFFICIAL JOB TITLE: contributing writer, I think. I prefer self-employed.
STAR SIGN: Pisces.
PORN-STAR NAME (FIRST PET’S NAME + MOTHER’S MAIDEN NAME): Blitz de Sheldon.
FIRST JOB: grocery bagger (first real job: assistant editor of Interview).
WORST JOB: blast-furnace steelworker, tearing down burned houses after race riots.
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING (ON THE DAY YOUR PORTRAIT WAS TAKEN)? Black Freemans T-shirt, Supreme jeans.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT? Ancient history.
ARE YOU PART OF THE ZEITGEIST? Naturally.
HAVE YOU EVER USED/WOULD YOU EVER USE SEX TO FURTHER YOUR CAREER? Just my looks.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE? Lunch, literature, bridge, golf, ping pong, girls, children.
WHAT DO YOU HATE? Sloppiness, ignorance, publicity hounds.
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES? WHO DO YOU LOOK UP TO? Socrates, Wyndham Lewis, Robert Graves, Lord Buckley, Miles Davis, Andy Warhol.
IF NOT YOU, WHO/WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE? Zeus.
WHAT’S YOUR POISON? I think you mean wine. But I have a lot of clematis in my yard.
ARE YOU A BITCH? No, but I have a female rat terrier.
WHAT TURNS YOU ON? Brains, a good laugh.
SELL YOURSELF IN 10 WORDS: altruistic, candid, sportive, relentless, capable, recondite, random, droll, heroic, modest.
WHAT’S UP AND COMING? The moon.
by Natalie Dembinska
Photograph by Martien Mulder – www.martienmulder.com
