WHAT DO WARRACKNABEAL AND GAP HAVE IN COMMON?
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WHAT DO WARRACKNABEAL AND GAP HAVE IN COMMON?
THE TEXT WHAT DO WARRACKNABEAL AND GAP HAVE IN COMMON? Nick Cave has long been hidden in the dark underworld of rock'n'roll but at 43 his mood has shifted. We talk to him about fame, fatherhood and fashion. Warracknabeal is a small town 180 miles north-west of Melbourne. It would probably be overlooked in the great scheme of things, apart from one significant fact: it is the birthplace of Nick Cave, singer, songwriter, author, who has achieved enormous acclaim in the UK and heroic status in Australia. In fact, in a recent issue of the magazine Australian Style, he was awarded - along with (even more implausibly) Kylie Minogue - the title 'Australian of the Century'. Cave has plans for Warracknabeal. He has commissioned a statue of himself on a horse, and hopes to put it up in the town square. And not just any old statue; this will be a life-size bronze made by sculptor Corrin Johnson. The statue will be made in Britain, shipped to Australia and then driven across country to Warracknabeal. The Australian director John Hillcoat is making a documentary about it: the statue's trip, the attempt to get the mayor to agree to it, the unveiling, the disgruntled locals. There will be a plaque, of course, which will read, 'Birthplace of Nick Cave'. Is he serious? Well, that is the question. Nick Cave likes to ride a very fine line with his humour, which is dark and heavy with irony. He likes to provoke and to challenge the obvious. It is a principle which can be equally applied to his new look. Today he is wearing - and let's not underestimate this a toffee-coloured checked jacket; a brown woollen tie purchased at Selfridges; a striped white cotton shirt, a pair of soft suede loafers. He is also wearing a pair of jeans, and they are from Gap. Which is ironic, considering that a few years ago Gap asked Cave to appear in one of its advertising campaigns, and he replied with a letter: 'Dear Gap. I might put on a pair of your jeans if you were to pay me a L1 billion, but even then I would have serious reservations. Signed Nick Cave.' And now he has to buy his own. In the beginning, in Cave's wardrobe, there was a pair of leather trousers and a T-shirt saying 'Jesus'; there was a bag full of seethrough shirts more often than not made out of his girlfriends' dresses; there was a green suit with trousers so tight that when he was strip-searched at an airport once he couldn't get them off; there were cowboy boots so pointed that the toes curled up completely, like elves' shoes. Cave has been described as 'the tapeworm that ate Elvis'. Gap just didn't fit into this equation. VOCABULARY shift -- posunout (se) in the great scheme of things -- ve velkém řádu věcí (vesmíru) apart from -- kromě, až na acclaim -- uznání (kritické) award -- ocenit implausible -- nepravděpodobný, nečekaný commission -- objednat k výrobě not just any old -- ne jenom tak nějaký unveil -- odhalit the disgruntled locals -- nabručení místní (lidé) Mayor -- starosta plaque -- pamětní deska ride a fine line -- pohybovat se na hraně challenge the obvious -- zpochybňovat co je zřejmé apply a principle to st -použít/upotřebit/aplikovat na něco nějaký princip underestimate -- podceňovat toffee-colored, checked, woollen, striped, suede -- karamelové, kostkované, vlněné, proužkované, semišové loafers -- mokasíny considering that... -- vzhledem k tomu, že Gap -- výrobce oblečení more often than not -- povětšinou strip-search -- důkladně prohledat (spojeno se svlečením) curl -- kroutit elves -- trpaslíci tapeworm -- tasemnice fit into an equation -- zapadat do rovnice CNBW READING ROOM / SMALL BLACK BEETLES / TOO LONG TO FAIL LET THERE BE LIGHT - 1 - WHAT DO WARRACKNABEAL AND GAP HAVE IN COMMON?