[mangajunky]

One of my favorite TV shows is No Reservations with Tony Bourdain.
He wrote the tell-all book Kitchen Confirdential and didn't hold anything back.

Here are a few questions from his recent AV Club interview talking about punk rock, feeding Johnny Thunders and liking bands like the Contortions.

AVC: Speaking of your non-fiction work, you dedicated The Nasty Bits to the Ramones. Why is that?
AB: I think they were the most important rock 'n' roll band to come out of my lifetime. They made my life good for a while.
AVC: Isn't there something very "un-punk" about fine dining?
AB: It depends on if you're in the dining room or the kitchen. [Laughs.] Yeah, sure, no question. But I've had dinner with Marky Ramone, and he enjoys fine dining very much. And he was a punk for much longer than 10 minutes. Although, you know, the whole movement, such as it was, lasted only 10 minutes. Yeah, I would say that they seem opposed. Certainly, Ramones-style punk was ostensibly about pizza and cold cereal. [Laughs.] But it's grown up a little.
AVC: It seems like your favorite bands—The Stooges, The Dead Boys—would have gotten thrown out of your restaurants.
AB: Actually, I fed a lot of those guys back in the day. I used to feed Johnny Thunders. We fed him because we wanted free tickets and stuff. They were very uncomfortable in the restaurant, that's for sure. They were always very intimidated. They didn't know which fork to use, whether to mix the red and the white, they didn't know what to do. But I mean, that's being 18 and strung-out. I didn't know any of those things when I was 18, either.
AVC: I think the biggest revelation from this interview will be that Johnny Thunders actually ate something.
AB: Oh yeah, oh my God. He came in and we laid it all out for him. He came in all dressed up, wearing a formal, rock 'n' roll tux outfit, and was quiet like a church mouse. He was really intimidated and didn't know what to do with the various glasses and drinks. It was kind of sweet.
AVC: So were you a fan of the British punk bands, or the post-punk bands that followed?
AB: I liked The Clash a great deal, some of the no-wave stuff. I liked The Contortions. You know, it's funny: I was always really resentful of Soft Cell and Tears For Fears and Depeche Mode when that music was current. I've since taken to enjoying a lot of that music. I listen to a lot of Depeche Mode now, and New Order. Back then, I didn't like them. I liked the rawer, angrier stuff. I mean, I hated Lynyrd Skynyrd back then, too, and now I find myself listening to a little Lynyrd Skynyrd. [Laughs.] Things change.

the rest of the interview is here:

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/anthony_bourdain

[Rob Instigator]

cool, thanks

[davenotdead]

it is a good show... i liked when he went to korea and it showed them making kimchi out in the country... and when Josh Homme sang his 'Tony Im hungry' song on the christmas special

[Everyneurotic]

anthony bourdain is so awesome.

his show is great. he has quoted iggy a ton and marky ramone was on one episode.

[Rob Instigator]

when he went to namibia last year and ate the colon of that warthog. HOLY FUCK I havenever seren anything that gross

[davenotdead]

how bout when he went to vietnam...and they had all those bottles of whiskey... one had a snake in it, another had some kind of bugs, and he had the one with the field mouse liver .

[Everyneurotic]

and when he ate cobra heart?

for some reason, i've missed all those super grossed out episodes.

[Cantankerous]

i love tony bourdain so much
i wish he was my dad

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

and when he ate cobra heart?

for some reason, i've missed all those super grossed out episodes.

yeah when it was still beating
oh jesus
and when he ate that bloody seal with the eskimo family

[davenotdead]

...maybe more of an uncle.

[terminal pharmacy]

all of no reservations and a cooks tour are at stage6.com , i love bourdain he is great

[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by davenotdead

...maybe more of an uncle.

yeah, he would be like the really cool uncle everyone always seems to have

[mangajunky]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

when he went to namibia last year and ate the colon of that warthog. HOLY FUCK I havenever seren anything that gross

I have to say that that was an unusual show. What I like about Bourdain is that he's really into the culture of whomever he is visiting. He treats everyone with the utmost respect and really tries to have fun like a local.

His show is inspirational. He travels the way I try to. He goes and meets up with friends and acquaintances and has them bring him to their favorite haunts.

There's this prick on the Travel Channel whose show is often paired with Bourdain's. His name is Andrew Zimmern and his show is called Bizzare Foods. Just from the name you can tell that his show is all about the weird factor. If anyone sees this fat fuck coming into their restaurant they should rub their ass before serving his food. This guy deserves a case of E Coli for the way he tries to make people around the world look like a sideshow.

[Savage Clone]

Andrew Zimmern lives here. I see him around town sometimes.
The Rock Star Chef is a phenomenon that I don't think I'm ever gonna get.

[Cantankerous]

ewwwww is that the bizarre food guy?

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

...

yeah when it was still beating
oh jesus
and when he ate that bloody seal with the eskimo family

i typed that originally but thought the cobra one was way more...not gross but...yeah, gross and unsettling at the same time, i guess.

this morning (the travel and living channel, which broadcasts no reservations here, pretty much rerun different episodes every odd hour), they showed when he was in portugal, and he went to a pig slaughterhouse, man!! when they kill the pig. then, they show the pig carcass hung by the hook and this accordion player is there playing right besides it and anthony goes in the voice over "maybe that's something i could bring to my kitchen: a tamborine, maybe a few ukeleles..."

[davenotdead]

i hate that guy.
he's gay, right?
he just annoys the hell out of my television

[davenotdead]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

ewwwww is that the bizarre food guy?

i hate that guy.
he's gay, right?
he just annoys the hell out of my television

[Cantankerous]

i don't know if he's gay, which really wouldn't matter anyway, but he's annoyinhg as shit

[Savage Clone]

Zimmern is not gay, actually. He just seems like it.

[davenotdead]

which is...worse? [yes]