Interesting interview with Daria Wilson, Brian's daughter

[Amy B.]

She talks about what it was like growing up with Brian, including a sweet anecdote about a comic book store, to illustrate what he was like as a father. She talks about her own development as a visual artist, her favorite Brian songs (Don't Talk, Southern California), her childhood fear of beards  (which was not an issue she met her Uncle Carl as a toddler), and more. She seems like a cool lady. I keep thinking the kids Brian and Melinda adopted are kids, but she's 29.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfeM9MPv3iQ

[Rocker]

Thanks!

I really enjoyed this. And her having Elvis' second album hanging on her wall makes her even more likeable

[juggler]

Thanks for posting.   Daria seems like a positive person with a lot of good memories.  F Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed that there were no "second acts" in American lives.  But Brian Wilson did have a 2nd act... not only in his post-Landy musical career but also as a parent.  In many contexts, he's expressed regrets that he wasn't a better dad to Carnie and Wendy in the '70s and '80s... but quite miraculously he got a "do over" with a new batch of kids.  I remember being quite stunned (pleasantly) by one of Jason Fine's Rolling Stone profiles which recounted Brian and company going to one of the kid's basketball games followed by a family dinner at a restaurant.... it was also so NORMAL... a normalcy that had seemed to elude Brian for much of his life from the mid-60s to the mid-90s.