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Rip It Up, Issue 216, 1 August 1995, Page 2

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"I was in this bar, pissed as a cunt, and there's this beautiful bird. Fuck me if she didn't turn out to be a geezer — put me hand up her dress and there was a block and tackle." Rod Stewart learns why you shouldn't get blind before you go shopping. "I'm way past being a virgin — I'm a prostitute. I've decided you either sell your body for money or forget it. People like Madonna are only pretending to be whores in videos, but I'm going all out. There's no posing with me." Juliana Hatfield throws up a saucy smokescreen for the old ‘has she or hasn't she?' debate. ■ "They're Tricky's songs — dark and truthful. I think they reflect the way a lot of people feel right now, but they're also a bit otherworldly. I guess that's because Tricky's an alien." Martina unmasks her partner in crime. "Men basically like sex from women. That's one of the things women are for." Ice-T tenders his bid for Chauvinist of the Year. ■. ■ ■ - "The minute you kill your bad guy by having him fall on something, you should go to movie jail. You've broken the law of good cinema." Quentin Tarantino lays down the smart cinema no-nos which helped shape the new wave of on-screen ultraviolence. "Brian Eno told me: 'Never tip if the food's a gip.' I wonder how he sets the vibe with that kind of attitude." Pavements Stephen Malkmus ponders one of the great production tips of our time. "I make magic music. Magicaaal! Have you heard about Merlin the master of magic? He's my great-grandfather. And he's my daddy as well. Ha ha ha! Mmm. Terrible magic from Jupiter." Lee 'Scratch'Perry reveals the heritage at the heart of the talent which has other producers envious. "My phone started ringing with corporations offering SIO,OOO and up to talk on the subject of Howto Sell to Generation X. I said no. In late 1991, after both political parties had called to purchase advice on X, I basically withdrew from the whole tinny discourse. Now I'm here to say that X is over." The last word on Generation X. from the man who wrote the first word in Z Generation X, Douglas Coupland.