![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, it’s not exactly helping it either…” He grabs his phone. That’s why I’m never like, ‘Oh man, this is really hurting my career.’ Like, it’s not. ![]() “I love the predictability of it: a celebrity says something dumb at me, then this happens, then this plays out like that, then it’s all forgotten the next day – then the next dumb thing happens. “All this Twitter beef s**t, it’s just funny – to me, anyway,” he shrugs, lighting the first cigarette in a two-hour chain. Situated an hour outside of Toronto in bleakly beautiful woodland, his $5m mansion is filled with exactly the kind of kooky artefacts you’d expect of a rave kid made good: a pickled human brain, a full-sized Alien Xenomorph, a gigantic Puma Clyde shoe, a stuffed two-headed calf (real, apparently), a stuffed three-headed duckling (also real), a stuffed moose (named ‘deadmoo5’, obvs)… The Aphex Twin tracks bleeding in from the next room add to the air of surreality. “I guess I rub people the wrong way,” he sighs, blessedly unclenching a little as he leads me into his cavernous living room. Fan of beef? Nobody cooks it better than Zimmerman. But Zimmerman’s infamous ire isn’t reserved solely for the media: his 15 million social media followers are regularly entertained by his bruising online clashes with the likes of Madonna, Kanye West, Skrillex, David Guetta, Arcade Fire and Justin Bieber. deadmau5’s fearsome way with journalists is the stuff of legend – the few interviews he does give usually crash and burn inside 60 seconds.
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