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Hi, I'm Jacob Elordi,
and these are some of my favorite things.
In life.
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Oh, okay, yes, favorite things about Australia.
Where I'm from, which is Brisbane.
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
I was born and raised there.
There's something about the houses,
like the style of the house,
it's called a Queenslander.
And it has like an airway underneath it,
and you live upstairs.
There's like an inherent nostalgia, I guess, attached to it.
And it's not like anywhere
I've ever been in the world before.
So sometimes if I need inspiration or something,
sometimes going home to where I grew up
is helpful for that.
You know, it's probably because I was raised there.
Probably has something to do with that.
It's kind of this unspoken thing when you're from there.
It has like a spirit that you can't really articulate
or put into pictures or sounds or words.
It's just a feeling.
And I'm sure everyone has that
with the place that they were born and grew up in.
There's like a lust for childhood or something,
like you're always trying to get those days back.
The next one is music.
I have this like thing
about things that are overrated, underrated.
The Ziggy Stardust album by David Bowie
is overrated, underrated, in my opinion.
And just recently I've been listening to that album
kind of in everything I do,
particularly this song called Five Years.
I love the way it sounds and I love the way it feels.
And then I kind of get more into David Bowie.
Because he's such a trendsetter
and like a world-shaker
and he had so much to say,
he can become this like great, big thing.
And you don't really look at the nuance of him.
But, I mean, that guy's a genius.
The next, which is a constant
through sort of my whole life,
and it started with the song Perth, is Bon Iver.
And you can kind of read that.
There's like discussions around his music
and comment threads,
and it's almost like that the sounds he makes
create this feeling that you can't articulate or express.
But everybody knows that feeling somewhere,
somewhere in their gut or in the fiber of their being.
Everyone on the planet.
I really do think so.
Whether it's like a whale or a screech
or the depth that he takes his voice
or an electronic sound,
it's packed with so much meaning.
And that is always, always inspiring to me.
In the same vein is Fred Again.
It's the same kind of thing with the sounds,
the snippets of voices,
and passages that he chooses.
The words are ultra-simple,
but they mean so much.
How to say as much as you can
in the simplest, most accessible way.
And that's something that's always interesting to me.
And then The National
is also in that same world of feeling and simplicity.
Simplicity of expression.
This like we're all here thing
and we're all having a go at it
and all kind of doing the best and the worst that we can.
And then on top of that,
there's a movie, C'mon, C'mon,
the Mike Mills film,
that they all kind of link up in a way.
And that sounds super obnoxious
with my legs crossed in a turtleneck.
But yeah, music.
Animals.
I mean, some of this stuff is so self-explanatory.
I really love animals.
My dog is my best friend in the whole world.
I love that dog.
My dog will smile at me when she is happy
and frown when I leave.
And that kind of relationship
with something that kind of looks like a Disney character
is pretty, pretty fantastic.
I quite like seals.
Yeah, my dog looks like a seal when she swims.
They do make me laugh.
[Interviewer] Do you have a particular favorite animal
that is native to Australia?
Yeah.
What do they call it?
Oh, the thorny devil.
It's a small lizard and it's covered in thorns, like spikes.
Thorny devil.
I like those.
I got together some poems that I really like.
The first poem is by Philip Larkin.
It's called Home is so Sad.
I think it's probably because of that like simplicity
and feeling in the mundane kind of thing before,
like the music.
I think it's gonna be different
to every person that reads it.
I think it encourages like reflection
and any kind of retrospect on childhood lost
or not lost, but sort of spent, rather.
The Last Hellos is by Les Murray.
That's another poem that I really like.
It's ultra-Australian.
And Les Murray has a way of capturing,
I think like this kind of blue-collar experience,
which is somewhat similar to my own.
And this one is about a father dying.
He's responding to his family members
and children saying to him like,
Don't die yet.
And he's like, No, no, I'm too busy dying to die.
This line.
On the second day you're busting to talk,
but I'm too busy dying.
Grief ended when he died.
The widower,
like soldiers who won't live life their mates missed.
I really like that and I'm not too sure why,
so don't ask.
Oh, this poem is by Arthur Rimbaud
and it's called Dance of the Hanged Men.
And it's just kind of a really fun,
devilish kind of poem.
And I really only like it
because there's a line that says,
The devil's paladins, the skeletons of Saladins.
That kind of reminds me of the introduction to Aladdin.
You know that song that plays
when the merchant is moving through?
The skeletons of Saladin.
It's kind of, you know, there's like a trance to it.
The paladins are dancing, dancing.
The lean, the devil's paladins,
the skeletons of Saladins.
Like that sounds really cool when you say it out loud.
Yeah, so I like those.
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Thank you very much for listening to me
talk about things that I like.
I do appreciate it.
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