In a Q-and-A published at
Gothamist today, singer-songwriter (and Brooklyn resident)
Mike Doughty was asked: If you could change one thing about New York what would it be?
His answer (bravo!):
The forward march of the gentrification cold-front. But I keep in mind that gentrification hasn't been around forever, and is a trend, not a universal unstoppable force. How many rich jerks that want to be in Sex and the City can there possibly be in America? OK, a lot, but there's not a limitless supply. If the upcoming Sex and the City movie tanks, it will be for the societal good. A little off point: I miss his "
Dirty Sanchez" column that he wrote back in the day at
NYPress. (And how I miss the sister of Sanchez!)
From an
interview from 2005 with Doughty in the
Black & White weekly in Birmingham, Ala., by his former
NYPress colleague J.R. Taylor:
Sadly, Doughty’s less likely to return to rock criticism. I’m proud to be on record as part of a mutual admiration society, since Doughty’s post-fame stint as the pseudonymous scribe “Dirty Sanchez” was easily some of the best rock writing in the genre’s sad history. “Rock critics are just failed writers” was a typically great line—although Doughty doesn’t look back at his glory days with much compassion.
“I wrote all that angry shit just about when I first got clean,” Doughty says. “What a dumb thing to do. I was really mad about rock critics being mean to people, so I set out to be really mean to them. It was pretty much the ultimate in pointless, hypocritical behavior.”
