Nikolai is the guy in the back. He can't help but looking alone...
These days, it seems like everyone in the Strokes is diong a solo project. This is a recent facebook conversation my friend Alex and I had about Nikolai Fraiture's solo project, NickelEye (seriously, it's called that) which you should check out at www.myspace.com/officialnickeleye (these posts are taken verbatim, so "Fraiture" was spelled wrong in all of them. However, all other names were spelled correctly the first time). :
Walter:
Did you know Nikolai Frature started a solo project (just like everyone in the Strokes)? It sounds just like you would expect him to: alone, and copying the Strokes. http://www.myspace.com/officialnickeleye
Alex:
His other songs are just him playing the bass lines to Strokes songs on his very own bass that he bought with the money he saved up from his paper route.
Nick Valensi had previously bought him all his other basses.
Walter:
Yeah, but one time Nick Valensi lost his sunglasses and had to wear a pair that Nikolai had bought him for his birthday and he hadn't had time to throw away yet, so they're even.
Alex:
It's like the time Albert Hammond, Jr. borrowed one of Nikolai's shirts because he thought it looked like it was from a thrift store and therefore ironic.
Turns out, it was just one of Nikolai's shirts.
Walter:
Or the time that Julian Cassablancas said "Hey Fab, how's it going?" to Nikolai, because Julian is a confused drunkard. Nikolai wept because he was overcome with emotion. He wept alone and fell asleep alone.
It's the reason he's still trying.
Alex:
That's reminds me of the time that Nikolai tagged along with Fab and Drew Barrymore and then when Fab left to go to the bathroom Nikolai pretended HE was dating Drew Barrymore.
It's the simple pleasures in life you have to appreciate.
Walter:
Did you hear about how Nikolai Frature created a fake Rolling Stone cover using Microsoft paint in his free time, depicting the Strokes, without him, and the tagline "The NEW Fab Four!", and he showed it to the rest of the band and they didn't understand what was supposed to be wrong with it? But just before he went home, Albert Hammond, Jr., said "Thanks for grabbing that coffee, page!" (That's the band's special nickname for for Nikolai).
It feels good to be appreciated for the things you do.
Did you know Nikolai Frature started a solo project (just like everyone in the Strokes)? It sounds just like you would expect him to: alone, and copying the Strokes. http://www.myspace.com/officialnickeleye
Alex:
His other songs are just him playing the bass lines to Strokes songs on his very own bass that he bought with the money he saved up from his paper route.
Nick Valensi had previously bought him all his other basses.
Walter:
Yeah, but one time Nick Valensi lost his sunglasses and had to wear a pair that Nikolai had bought him for his birthday and he hadn't had time to throw away yet, so they're even.
Alex:
It's like the time Albert Hammond, Jr. borrowed one of Nikolai's shirts because he thought it looked like it was from a thrift store and therefore ironic.
Turns out, it was just one of Nikolai's shirts.
Walter:
Or the time that Julian Cassablancas said "Hey Fab, how's it going?" to Nikolai, because Julian is a confused drunkard. Nikolai wept because he was overcome with emotion. He wept alone and fell asleep alone.
It's the reason he's still trying.
Alex:
That's reminds me of the time that Nikolai tagged along with Fab and Drew Barrymore and then when Fab left to go to the bathroom Nikolai pretended HE was dating Drew Barrymore.
It's the simple pleasures in life you have to appreciate.
Walter:
Did you hear about how Nikolai Frature created a fake Rolling Stone cover using Microsoft paint in his free time, depicting the Strokes, without him, and the tagline "The NEW Fab Four!", and he showed it to the rest of the band and they didn't understand what was supposed to be wrong with it? But just before he went home, Albert Hammond, Jr., said "Thanks for grabbing that coffee, page!" (That's the band's special nickname for for Nikolai).
It feels good to be appreciated for the things you do.
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