The Street Side of the Game
JIM CARROLL, THE AUTHOR OF THE BASKETBALL DIARIES – a book that JIM CARROLL: Are you like a no-smoking guy, man?
JON STEWART: [shows JC ashtray] Ah, no, [both laugh] I was
JS: Now I know that the movie of The Basketball Diaries
JS: When did your interest in writing – and where that took
JS: Do you find yourself ever going off into that kind of reverie
JS: How did that affect your writing? Because the only thing
JS: That’s what’s so wild about the book. Because where you
JS: Because basketball is adrenaline; It’s a rush. Didn’t you
JS: One of the things that I find so interesting is how all
JS: And then you went on to become a rock ‘n’ roll performer.
JS: Here’s your ball. Get outside.
But I still think of myself basically as just a poet. All those
JS: Did being onstage performing music give you the same feeling
JS: Did you ever see how cinematic The Basketball Diaries
JS: There’s always room for a sequel. You as an older basketball
JS: Did you feel connected to the movie seeing it?
JS: All right, here’s my Barbara Waiters question. If you had
JC: Just for the sake of my own sanity, I’d have to say
JS: I see you as like an amalgam of those three elements –
JC: Yeah, but it would make me feel insane not to say myself, ©1995 Interview Magazine
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