Trump speaks to how visceral our elections are, and how polarized the country is. Hopefully, they’ll reply, and we can put together an objective analysis of where they stand and leave it up to voters. Novoselic spoke to Reason TV's Nick Gillespie in May. People can be really cynical and corrupt because they look for ways around the state or they don't trust the state and you couldn't speak out against the state and so things could get kind of sketchy. “You look at your Facebook timeline, and it’s just GIFs saying, ‘Look at this atrocity of political corruption,'” he says. Or perhaps a lack of interest in politics? its awesome,,, Start working at home with Google. Musician Krist Novoselic who as the bass guitarist with Nirvana was part of the grunge movement was born on the 16 May 1965 in Compton, California into a Croatian family. | It's a top-down structure. It's a luxury, so the luxuries that I choose are not necessarily a Lear jet or a Palm Springs second home. People want public day care. “From his desk at the Icelandic highways department in Reykjavik, Petur Matthiasson smiles at me warmly from behind his glasses, but firmly. I believe what's going to happen is that somebody's going to find that sweet spot between social networking and political association and capture the imagination. And so I went and I sat down and there was a suggested donation, so I gave like a hundred bucks or whatever because I thought it'd be the decent thing to do instead of just like bumrushing or crashing the party. There's tons of other bands out there. It's like: Music should be free, but computer software shouldn't. Geology, now every time I'm in a park, I just look at a rock and think about it. Novoselic: Hmmm. But this election is all about sound bites. reason: In your book Of Grunge and Government, you talk a little bit about the difference between Kurt Cobain as an individual and then as a kind of iconic savior. I think it was this lefty stuff, but not very deep. These people are like, "You've got to give your music away." “‘Let’s get this straight before we start – I do not believe in elves,’ he says. OK, so what is it about the corporations, and what is it about campaign finance that appeals to conservatives and liberals? Unless you're managed by Ike Turner, membership in a band is voluntary. We have initiative and referendum in Washington state and it's a good thing and I support it, but it can be a rather blunt instrument. The politician had served alongside a Republican from South Carolina, Bob Inglis, who had voted on a bill that would address global warming and, Novoselic says, was subsequently voted out. You can have independents. I met Kurt Cobain and we gravitated toward each other and we found other like-minded people. No one would even have any idea who he was if it weren’t for Kurt Cobain…I mean, his name got underlined in red when I wrote it for God’s sake! reason: You've been talking a lot about people having ownership and being part of a group in the political process. You have a double standard. That sick kid who shot up Sandy Hook, those guns were legal. His mom was probably more to blame than him, and he had mental problems. Novoselic: I own guns. Things are really out of whack and the lawmakers, they've circled the wagons. [A guy] was writing something on the wall, some kind of graffiti that was just stupid cliché. I also work with an organization called FairVote, which aims for reforms for proportional representation. Was that real or is it part of his myth? And then some other asshole comes on, huffing and puffing about “taking them out” in the Middle East. I guess that’s what I’m interested in right now. He was probably pretty ripped when he decided to do what he did. There're these people who say they're socialists but they hate people. I don’t want to run for office, you have to go to all these meetings. William Kelly was the founder of the Grange and he was tasked by President Andrew Johnson to tour rural America. We cook from scratch. You need a shotgun. What are the voting reforms that you champion and how do they accomplish that idea? New York quickly reversed its ludicrous bathroom ban following backlash from the hospitality industry and anyone with a little common sense. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Krist Novoselic is a founding member of Nirvana, and has performed with such bands as Foo Fighters, Flipper, and Eyes Adrift. Not sure about that C-. They’re meant just to be proactive. “Of the Bureaucrats, by the Bureaucrats, for the Bureaucrats, “The naked self-interest of the government-worker class, “For understandable reasons, the IRS scandal has largely focused on the political question of whether the White House deliberately targeted its opponents. Well, he denies that the climate changed. These are systems that are in use in the United States that are constitutionally protected and they have an American flavor. Mr. Novoselic comes across as an incoherent thinker. Krist Novoselic is best known as the co-founder and bassist of Nirvana, one of the most influential music groups of the past quarter century. committed to fouling the air around democracy. Krist Novoselic: I'd like to see a new paradigm in our election system. | That’s news to me. Krist Novoselic, nirvana. You can have parties nominate candidates. Like, I'm done here. J.D. reason: In terms of drug legalization, you've said you've never done hard drugs? I wasn’t aware that I was a heavily-subsidized oil billionaire. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. DEEP RIVER — On Wednesday morning, Krist Novoselic, the 44-year-old former bassist for the wildly popular Seattle rock band Nirvana, stepped into his … Sounds like a plan, as long as there’s an IQ test of some sort involved. It's a community group and we raise money to give it away. “…that would mean the IRS has become corrupt all on its own.”. It's one thing in the Grange, because that's a voluntary association, or a band. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. So you'd have three representatives representing you. | When’s the last time you looked at $18 trillion? Maybe somebody can and somebody will. And then it was the drug abuse. Not rockstar grilfriends or the ‘unwanted’ success in the music biz. Things that you would never imagine would take off. Sign up for our newsletter. PS: Some (I won’t say how much) of Nirvana’s legendary status was due to the suicide of frontman Kurt Cobain which occurred at the group’s peak. You forgot to answer the question. I'll just start dancing and that's it. We want proportional representation in the United States. So when you go through the republican representative democracy, small "r," there's these lawmakers and they have staff and they can consult with experts and try to make some good legislation. That always helps. Their strategy is just to circle the wagons. People write about it in peer-review journals in the academic world and put their reputations on it. It was supposed to be a Constitutional Republic. Dave Grohl being the most talented- seeing as he actually founded the group and drove it musically. And he did it. All you can do is try and reach the one person who has one vote. Then we would just change the ballot a little bit. Most Popular on TIME It’s just in this case we were warned that elves were living in some of the rocks in the path of the road – well, we have to respect that belief. Whatever the megachurch wants to do and you want to believe. Look at Bob Inglis: He voted his conscience, and it cost him his seat. Are you guys getting big cheques from Koch Industries? Israel is one big district. So what does that mean? Apart from his musical endeavors, Novoselic has been active politically, including the creation of the political action committee JAMPAC. I can hire somebody to help with the garden. He's done "Stranglehold," that riff on "Great White Buffalo," and he plays those big open-body Gibsons. After Nirvana it seems there is only alternative music and alternative culture, a transformation that is both liberating and anxiety-producing. What crusade would that be? It’s still so early. And if you want to get back on these bandwagons or your memes or whatever, go for it. (Photo: Facebook) “Wow!!! If they don’t really answer the question, don’t vote for them. Today that would be Gerrymandered Districts controlled by Tea Party Minorities. I don’t know. I think it's great that there's all this free Nirvana music out there. Nirvana came in almost as an antidote to what was going on in mainstream music, and to the shock and surprise of many a record exec, the public was more than ready for it. It can be frustrating. The genie's out of the bottle. Novoselics proposals on government reform amount to putting a silky populist glove on the iron gauntlet that beats you. And voters are either working or they’ve got their families, and it’s hard to look into things. After serving as chairman of his county Democratic committee for several years and supporting Barack Obama early on, he has broken with the Democratic Party, in part because "it's a top-down structure" impervious to change from the grassroots. Populism, sometimes we vote for things that maybe should've been thought through a little better. You are going to college now, so you still have time to work toward a pension. We’re becoming an unfunny versions of Brazil. And I thought I could reform the party. Born in 1965 in Compton, California, but raised in Aberdeen, Washington, Novoselic (pronounced know-voe-selitch) embodies the forces Nirvana helped to unleash. And I'm going to sell them on a corner here for $100," and nobody buys it, was it against the law to be a dipshit? Want more Rolling Stone? Gridlock is wonderful. Severe depression is part of kicking heroin. Well, don't tell me what to do with my music. Let’s all listen, with rapt attention, to the agenda that this Hippie in a suit has for our country. Active Democrat. reason: How difficult is it to tell your professors, "I'm going to miss Thursday's class because I'm being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"? With 3 American Questions, the idea is to get past the sound bites. Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason. I might go with a Gentleman’s C+. I feel connected to history because we do this ceremonial work and I really love history and I'm, like, living it. | There was a book out last year, It's Even Worse Than It Looks, by Norm Ornstein [of the American Enterprise Institute] and Thomas Mann [of Brookings]. From the January 2021 issue, Robby Soave What have you made of the presidential campaign so far? Discuss. Grohl founded Foo Fighters. Whatever your values are and your beliefs, that's your business. I will agree that we could use some voting reform. An ad hoc group of people came together, crushed the legislation, and then disbanded. reason: Speaking of anarchism, in 1999 before the big World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle you played in a band called The No WTO Combo with The Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra. One of the goals that you and the organization have is to get more people more involved in politics. Novoselic: All the time. There's all these barriers to voting and ballot access and this gerrymandering. He has served as president of the Joint Artists and Musical Promotions political-action committee, been elected as a State Commiteeman, considered a run at Lieutenant Governor of Washington, and been politically active in various campaigns on both the local and national level. Seriously, this is the thing that bugs me the most about the ‘Koch pays you’ nonsense. Novoselic: It was very personal. I do some small-scale farming so we can grow our own food and sell some extra at the farmers' market, but I have people who help me to do that, plus I can afford to be a farmer. Where do they stand on the debt? There were people in Seattle that I knew in the Seattle music community that died around the same time and I'm just like, "Who would ever want to do heroin? No, Grohl was the last to join Nirvana. But the bass player is also pushing to create an alternative approach to electoral politics. E J Dionne: Those noble IRS agents were just doing their jobs! Krist Novoselic turning out to be a fascist is one of the saddest & most pathetic things I've ever seen from my generation. Nirvana rules. reason: FairVote is being enabled by the Internet. He currently sits on the board of FairVote, a … How long before the library patrons discover the brown crust all over the back of your pants isn’t dirt? Krist Novoselic, a former member of Nirvana, is the chairman of the board at FairVote, a national organization focused on fundamental structural reform of … "Let's send Krist to Croatia for a year.". You build these structures, your day care. 12.19.2020 8:30 AM, Jacob Sullum So you wouldn’t participate in anything subsidized by, say, billionare George Sorros? Microsoft could have intellectual property but a musician can't? He did the tour and came back and said, "Yeah, rural America's hurting." Kurt wasn't a radical or into radical politics. reason: Well, now you're veering dangerously into small "l" libertarianism. Ihoffman5 must be joking. So there's a balance there. We'd be anti-government but we really didn't complain a lot. Krist is an active member of his local democratic party, the Wahkiakum County Democrats. Their best song is obviously the cover of Where did you sleep last night. It means it takes 25 percent of the vote to get elected. (Legitimately curious what you consider a crusade). reason: You are almost 50. You can only do the best you can do, as long as you’re not crusading. His newest band is called Giants in the Trees. I grew up in Los Angeles, California. I’m pretty sure all of my recycling goes to the plasma jet power generator at the dump. If politics ever gets dehumanizing for me, I’ll just get out. They're promoting ranked choice voting, a type of proportional representation. I really don’t have time to watch these spectacles. Before Nevermind blew up: Poison and guitar solos After Nevermind: No more power ballads. It's free and it should be. Taiwan had this system, but changed in 2007 because the old system sucked. We've got mid-terms coming later this year and then 2016. That's their solution, but there's just so much tension. http://www.Fox81.com. Where do candidates stand on climate change? Relax, guys. Where do they stand on political reform? In This Article: Nothing would change in the current triumvirate in DC, but would provide an avenue for a truer representation of the People. 12.18.2020 5:36 PM, Eric Boehm It has a promise to bring opportunity and information to all corners of the world. I had the time to do it. You can keep the rest of the catalog. We should keep American Democracy pure and unfouled then. It’s deeply, deeply satisfying. He's active in his local chapter of the fraternal farmer's organization, the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, proving you can go from grunge to Grange. But, as I read the proposal in the article, it would seem to insure that a well funded, well organized MINORITY would be able to control the election results.Oh wait, we already have that! That’s interesting. I was not a fan at all of Nirvana in the 1990s. He loves all creatures, no matter how lowly. Editor's Note: We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. “That was, like, heresy,” the Nirvana member asserts on a late March morning from his home in southwest Washington. reason: Talk about the Grange. Novoselic: It's not so much communism as it is a centralized state. MAY HAVE!?!? A NEW PEACE: Krist Novoselic plays accordion with his band, Giants in the Trees, opening for the Foo Fighters in a concert at Safeco Field on Sept. 1, 2018. I really like it. Krist Anthony Novoselic (born May 16, 1965) is a American rock musician best known as the bassist for Nirvana. What do you think of Trump? We have a farmers' market. But here’s one. But if I want to be a dipshit and say: "What I want to do is put out Nirvana on an 8-track tape. reason: As long as they cross a minimum threshold? Give him a column. Novoselic: I think it's just more about a phenomenon. By all means. “The whole American political system needs shaking up,” says Krist Novoselic. Which presidential candidate do you like?[Sighs.] '”, http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27907358, there should be ellipses between paragraphs 2 and 3. Alberto Korda was the photographer. We're a nonprofit and so our farmers' market is cool because we don't take any percentage from anybody. Did he make it clear that he was going on a crusade to eliminate reproductive choices at the individual level? This system that I'm explaining right now is called the single non-transferrable vote and it's used in school board elections in the United States in some places. Novoselic: I've never done hard drugs because they never really appealed to me. We can have a woman Grange Master because the family is a big part of the Grange life and the farm life is what they do. That was really hard on the band, too. His parents Krist Sr. and Maria had immigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. We could fix some of that with primary election reform. In fact, as a frustrated drummer myself (among other instruments of music) it was the drumming in Nirvana that first caught my attention. I live way out in the country and what I would do, like if something was going really bad, what I would do is I would call the police, the first thing I would do, and just wait and see what my options were, but if a raccoon or a coyote is killing my goats…. Duff and Krist have known each other for decades, and for several years, were colleagues as columnists at Seattle Weekly. Tuccille It’s about asking people, “What can you do?” Instead of jumping on some bandwagon. Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg Novoselic: I think he was sensitive. I wanna know what it’s like to not be threatened by a vagina. And they had a sound and a look and a mythos. Novoselic: I think Barack Obama did it in 2008 with his Obama for America. | It’s really worth hanging out on H&R for that sort of hot intel. Krist Novoselic called the president’s speech “strong and direct,” adding that the president’s message of strength “speaks to many,” according to screen shots of the deleted Facebook post included in published reports. How big a benefit is it for you to have grown up and come out of a world where the lines aren't that clear? Well, I mean, you just have to look at the science. Krist Novoselic is best known as the co-founder and bassist of Nirvana, one of the most influential music groups of the past quarter century. But this idea that bureaucrats ? They thought Flipper was the most out-of-tune garbage noise and we were just like, "This is sublime beauty.". People tend to do that, to create a deity. They aggregate the facts, and say, “Hey, I guess we have an El Niño here on the West Coast, so we’re just getting tons of rain. Then again he’s perfect for appearing on a pet website of heavily-subsidized oil billionaires: politically incoherent and committed to fouling the air around democracy. Ronald Bailey I’m just looking for somebody who’s perfect. It's more just a chemical thingâhe was probably drunk or high or tripping? Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic has praised Donald Trump for the “law and order” speech he gave on 1 June in response to protests sparked by … Should n't Novoselic ( born May 16, 1965 ) is a worthy concept that needs voices can! 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