SNEAK PREVIEW INSIDE BLAG VOL. 2 Nø 7: The Raconteurs
Patrick: Coffee’s not awesome. It’s amazing.
Jack White: Generally speaking, the ability to describe things is...
Patrick: It’s come down to those two words.
Brendan: Like is the other word I want to get rid of. No one uses it like it actually should...
Jack White: You’re right. No one does. Someone from Romania told me years ago, ‘Everything in American is like. Why can’t it just be it? Why can’t it just be it?
Brendan: It’s like non-committal. Nothing is actually it.
Jack: Also, I might go so far as to say man.
Brendan: Ooh, I like man.
Patrick: I like dude.
In BLAG Vol. 2 Nø 7, The Raconteurs’, Brendan Benson, Patrick Keeler, Jack White and Jack Lawrence get challenged to the BLAG card game and asked which three words or expressions should be banned? The consequences were hilarious.
Jack White: Awesome, amazing and dude. I think, do you agree? I thought we were all in agreement on that. That was a band rule for a minute, to try and eliminate those words from the band’s conversations, and it’s been proved quite difficult. The funny thing I hate now about the word amazing, especially in a lot of hipster circles, or maybe like fashion, or acting circles, like if you hang out with those kind of people at a party...
Sally: It’s stretched in the middle.
Jack White: Yeah, it’s like, ‘Have you had this water?’ It’s amaaaazing’. But if they went and saw an art show that they really liked, ‘There’s this amaaaazing, amaaaazing, amaaazing artist.’ Like, you just have to say more amazings. It’s like ‘Nighteen Eighty-Four’, it’s like doublespeak, you know?
Patrick: That’s hilarious.
Jack White: Awesome, I think should not be banned. It should be used correctly. Like, ‘The Grand Canyon is awesome.’
