So this was in a book and not a private conversation? Either way, I like how the drummer gave him the advice on getting your mojo back. Because you know what, we all loose it from time to time and sometimes we have too look at things at a different angle to get it back.
Yep, it was in Neil's latest book, Roadshow: Landscape with Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcyle. In my hardcover book, this bit is on pages 188-189, or just about in the middle of the chapter called "Magic Shows and Golden Roads."
I think what impressed me about Nic's concern was the fact that he was concerned at all. Despite his talent and success, he is definitely not one to rest on his laurels, huh?
Nope, he sure is not!! A mind in motion, stays in motion! -
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So this was in a book and not a private conversation? Either way, I like how the drummer gave him the advice on getting your mojo back. Because you know what, we all loose it from time to time and sometimes we have too look at things at a different angle to get it back.
Yep, it was in Neil's latest book, Roadshow: Landscape with Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcyle. In my hardcover book, this bit is on pages 188-189, or just about in the middle of the chapter called "Magic Shows and Golden Roads."
I think what impressed me about Nic's concern was the fact that he was concerned at all. Despite his talent and success, he is definitely not one to rest on his laurels, huh?
You sent an interesting blurb in. Very cool in some ways. Kinda distressing in others if I do say so myself.
I've also heard firsthand from a friend in LA how Nic has been known to don funky disguises when he doesn't want to be recognized. It has to be a pain in the butt to find it necessary to do that just to head to a concert or wherever. It would drive me nutty. I don't know how people can live that way.....but ya do what ya gotta do, right???
It does bother me to hear that Nic might feel as tho he's flubbing his lines and doesn't know what to do about it because I've only ever heard phenomenal raves about what a professional Nic is, that he always come thoroughly prepared for work with lots of new ideas to try. If this 'quote' is true, then maybe three movies in a row is just plain TOO exhausting and Nic would benefit from some serious R&R between roles.
I, for one, am hoping he's getting just that..... because I'd love to see Nic kick some ass with his God given glorious talent on the big screen once again!
HERE'S TO NIC! CLINK!
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So this was in a book and not a private conversation? Either way, I like how the drummer gave him the advice on getting your mojo back. Because you know what, we all loose it from time to time and sometimes we have too look at things at a different angle to get it back.
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"Do not hate others for what you can not have, for maybe its that hateful way you have..maybe that is the reason you can not have what others have."
Neil Peart is the drummer for the band Rush. In his recent book, Roadshow, he mentioned meeting with Nic after a Hollywood Bowl concert. It's not much, but I thought y'all would like to read it:
"I noticed Nicolas Cage sitting at the bar wearing a nifty lettle fedora, and went over to say hello and meet his new girlfriend, Alice. On the Vapor Trails tour, Nicolas came to see us at the Office Supplies Chain Center Arena in Los Angeles, wearing an outlandish disguise of long wig, beard, and cowboy hat. (He looked bizarre--but at least he didn't look like a movie star and was left alone. How terrible to be that famous.) He had been accompanied by his then-wife, Lisa Marie Presley, and asked me to sign his copy of Ghost Rider [Note: this is another book Neil wrote; it doesn't have anything to do with the new movie.], which of course, I was honored to do (apart from his other great movies, Raising Arizona had been a band-bus favorite).
It was only later, with a twinge of embarrassment and regret, that I realized I had spelled his name wrong ("Nicholas"). This time, the first thing I did was apologize for that oversight. He dismissed my concern about it and said he had been honored just to get my autograph. Imagine.
The surreality heightened as our conversation continued, Alice slipping away occassionally to go outside for a cigarette. Nicolas and I started talking about motorcycles and cars, and knowing he had a fabulous collection of exotics in a Santa Monica hangar, I said, "When can I come and drive your cars?"
"Anytime," he said.
Then the conversation took a serious turn, as he began to confess taht he was having trouble with his acting, "I've made three movies this year, and I've been forgetting lines and blowing them. I've been making movies for thirty years and I never do that. I don't know what to do."
I suggested that maybe he just needed to break away in a different direction, do some stage acting, learn a play in a foreign language, or find a teacher to kick his ass a little bit. I told him how I had reached a similar crisis after thirty years of drumming, found a teacher--Freddie--and baskically started all over. "Maybe you need to find someone like that."
He looked thoughtful. "Yeah, I think I know someone who might help me that way."
As I went off to circulate a little, I wrote down my phone number in my little Mont Blanc notepad and gave it to him, and he wrote down his (under "Nic"). I'm still waiting for that invitation to drive his Aston Martin Vangquish and Porsche Carrera GT."
