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Some of My Best Friends Are Rich (1998)
- noname123 11y agoThis article made me really nostalgic for a interview on Q that really stood out to me. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-thursday-august-6-2015-1.3181153/journalist-vs-juiceboxxx-can-the-world-be-divided-into-geniuses-and-critics-1.3181161 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-thursday-august-6-201... This may seem really random but I honestly feel the NYT Magazine profile is really too aspirational for most people, the author is a Guggenheim Fellow who has the material support of his psychiatrist fiance; and frankly, it sounded all of his friends went to fancy prep schools and colleges that enabled them to embark on professional careers. Sure hard choices had to made between moderately rich and creative and extremely rich and respectable. It leaves one wondering if the author wrote this piece trying to rationalize his life-choices to himself in comparison not with average people, but with the stratosphere social circle of insurance executives, dentists with private practices and lawyers he still chooses to upkeep with. This interview between Juiceboxxx and his author friend at Slate really humanized the comfortable yuppie with a starter-house in his 30's, towing the line though in the media industrial complex and still conscientious about art, and Juiceboxx who most people would view as a loser who should've quite after late 20's in his music career. I find this piece much more relatable as both features two arguably "losers" in society and how they move forward with their life and reality into their 30's. I think it answered the motivation and confirmed the life choices both people have made much better than the posted NYT magazine article.