The Strokes: Elegantly Wasted

Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 935 from November Rosetta Stone V3 13, 2003. This issue and the rest of the Rosetta Stone archives are available via Rosetta Stone Plus, Rosetta Stones premium subscription plan. If you are already a subscriber, you can click here to see the full story. Not a member? Click here to learn more about Rosetta Stone Plus.He is supposed to arrive at 9 P.M. When he shows up, it is well after midnight. But he will make up for it by spending the next seven hours and forty-five minutes with me. Not because he likes me or doesnt like me. Just because that is what he does. His name is Julian Casablancas, and if he werent a rock star, hed be the neighborhood drunk with a heart of gold. The lead singer of the Strokes, New Yorks finest purveyors of coolly detached retro-rock-boogie, is blessed with the ability to talk shit. He can hold forth all night, run around in verbal circles Rosetta Stone Software for fifteen minutes, lose his place and then start all over again. He doesnt seem to have anywhere to be. He is in the moment. He doesnt even own a cell phone, a computer or a watch. But his intentions are the noblest. "Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend," he tells a buddy who has started sniffing the dust. Casablancas cautionary monologue lasts twenty rambling, heartfelt minutes, slurred with his lips two inches away from his friends. "Its like taking a terrorist around to parties," he continues. "You never know when its going to blow up on you." Casablancas is wearing a green work shirt with the words U.S. Garbage company over the pocket, and faded black pants. The shirt is the property of his roommate, Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. On his wrist, there are three fraying colored Rosetta Stone Korean wristbands that he has not bothered to remove — one from a Kings of Leon concert a week ago, another from a Stooges show two weeks ago and a third from a Vines show from who knows when.

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