Blood Sugar Sex Fatherhood Anthony Kiedis Versus Middle Age Published March 2nd, 2012. By Andrew Goldman for The New York Times. http://ppt.cc/Iy-Q The most memorable image of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has to be of you guys onstage wearing nothing but tube socks over your penises. Can you still get away with that at 49? 多数人对呛辣红椒的印象是，你们脱个精光，只在下体套上一条长筒袜。 你想49岁的你还有办法这麽打扮吗？ The mood hasn’t struck me in some time — maybe since the ’90s — but if we were at the right place at the right time and Flea looked over at me and said, “Let’s go play this encore with socks,” I’m not above it. 或许打从自90年代以来，这就鲜少困扰我，但是如果时间地点都对， 然後Flea看着我说：「我们就套袜子安可吧！」我绝对敢做的。 You had to postpone your upcoming tour because of an injury. What happened? 你们接下来的巡回因为你的伤势而延期了，发生了什麽事？ There’s this weird bone that’s kind of in the ball of your foot, which I had broken in two on our “Stadium Arcadium” tour from jumping off of Chad’ s drums night after night. It never healed. It finally reached a breaking point on tour in 2011 while I was sprinting after Flea in a heated game of toilet tag, and something snapped in my foot. 我在Stadium Arcadium巡回时，因为不断地从Chad的鼓上往下跳， 而摔断了我脚上的骨头。一直没有真正痊癒。 然後在2011年的巡回，我因为在马桶抓鬼游戏里，追着Flea跑，就把我的脚骨弄断了。 Hold on. Toilet tag? 等等，马桶抓鬼？ It’s like tag, but if you get caught, you have to put your arm up, and someone can free you by flushing your arm. 其实就是一般的抓鬼游戏，但是一旦你被抓了，你就必须把手臂举起来， 然後别人可以把你的手臂往下压来救你。 After this incident, the doctor didn’t say: “Anthony, you’re middle-aged now. Perhaps you’d be better off not playing toilet tag anymore.” 经过这次意外，医生没有告诫你说： 「Anthony，你已经中年了，是不是应该别再玩什麽马桶抓鬼游戏了。」 No, no. The doctor requested that next time I play, he be invited. I think my late-40s self could actually kick my late-20s self’s butt in toilet tag. 没有没有，那个医生还报名说他下次也要玩，我们会邀他来的。 我想40多岁的我，可以在马桶抓鬼这件事上，打败20多岁的我。 Your father blew pot smoke in your face when you were 4, encouraged a girl he was dating to take your virginity when you were 11 and was present when you first did coke at 13. He once said, “Obviously most people are going to think I’m a sicko nutcase.” The thought did cross my mind. 你的父亲在4岁的你面前抽大麻，在你11岁时，让你和女孩上床， 然後在13岁时第一次尝试毒品。他曾经说：「很显然，多数人认为我是个疯子。」 我突然想到这件事。 It was a different era. My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him. When the ’ 60s came, my dad swung that pendulum so far, but it was not tempered with any kind of sense that maybe a child has to be a child. Still, we were probably closer than any of my friends and their fathers, who would come home, get drunk on martinis, read the newspaper and never engage their children. As a father now, I wouldn’t do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn’t do the things he did out of selfishness or malice. 那确实是很不一样的时期。因为我祖父家暴的关系，导致我父亲有很激烈的叛逆性格。 六零年代是很动荡不安的，他觉得非要小孩子当个小孩子是没道理的。 然而，我们之间的比我其他朋友与其父亲的关系还要更紧密， 他们的父亲回到家往往喝个烂醉，或是顾着看报纸，从未花心力在孩子身上。 我现在身为父亲，我不会做我爸做过的事， 因为那依旧让当时身为孩子的我，在情绪上不太稳定。 但我父亲做这些事并非出於自私或是恶意就是了。 He also said: “All I can say is look how he turned out. I had a game plan, and I think it worked.” Does your dad deserve credit for your success? 他还说过： 「我只能说，看他现在蜕变的样子。我自有一套规则，我想这规则成功了。」 你认为你的父亲有资格分享你的成功吗？ For all of the things that seem difficult to accept, he also would sit me down at age 12 and say, “Here’s 10 great words that I think you should know, ” or “Here’s Ernest Hemingway,” or “Here’s pop art.” His idea was: If it’s good for me, it’s good for my son. 所有的事情看起来似乎很难以接受，但在我12岁时，他也会坐在我的身边说： 「有十句话很棒，我想你应该要知道。」或是「这个是普普艺术。」 他的观念是：「如果这些东西对我有益，那也会对我儿子有益。」 You had major heroin and cocaine problems through the ’90s. Does he get credit for those too? 你在90年代有很严重的药瘾问题。你想你的父亲也该为此负责吗？ Maybe my upbringing accelerated my addiction, but I don’t hold him responsible. People always want to blame somebody else when it comes to addiction. It’s like when Whitney Houston died, everyone was like, “If she had never met Bobby Brown, she wouldn’t have that problem.” I disagree. I think people either have that in them or they don’t. 或许我的教养方式加速了我的毒品成瘾，但我不认为我的父亲必须负责。 每当出事的时候，人们总是想要找人来怪罪。 就好像惠妮休士顿的死，人们总是说：「如果她没遇到巴比布朗就好了。」 我不同意。我想每个人都能做出自己的选择。 What’s your deal with women? You’ve said you’re fearful of ending up a serial womanizer like your father. But when you left the mother of your son, she said, “I really hope he finds what he’s looking for.” 你和女伴间又是怎麽回事？你曾经说，你很害怕最後会像你的父亲一样， 变成一个花花公子。 但当你跟你孩子的母亲分开时，她曾说： 「我真的希望他能追寻到他所渴望的人。」 Ten years ago, I would have said I’d be in a relationship for a long period of time, but as I sit here today, I wonder if maybe I will go the way of my father. Four years into the life of my son, I realize I’m so in love with him and he’s so in love with me that if I don’t find that lifelong partner out there, it’s O.K. I think I’m still figuring out how to be a little less selfish. I’m probably not long-term-relationship material for now. 十年前，我或许会说，我渴望一段长久的情感， 但是今天，我想我可能会步上我父亲的後尘。 有了孩子的这四年多来，我了解到我真的很爱我的儿子，而他也很爱我， 因此，我要是找不到终身伴侣也无所谓了。 我想我仍然设法改变我的自私性格。 至少现在，我不是一个可以谈稳定长久恋爱的人。 What should we make of a fireplace you once built that had a grate shaped like a vulva and nipples made of violet-colored glass? 我想我们应该盖一个你之前盖过的壁炉，一个用紫色玻璃装饰， 有着女性阴户与乳头形状的壁炉。 The very first time you get paid, it’s like: “I can make anything I want! I can have a fireplace in the shape of a nude woman!” The fireplace was meant to be a sculpture, not a symbol of my relationship with women. But 20 years later, when you put it on those terms, I guess I have to own it. I have to laugh at myself. 当你第一次拿到薪资时，你会觉得： 「我可以干任何我想干的事！我要弄一个裸女形状的壁炉！」 那个壁炉本来应该是个雕塑，并不是我的私生活的象徵。 不过20年过去了，你又提起这件事，我想我会想要一个。然後嘲笑一下自己。 --

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