About midway through (last) year, we started having to think about the big mystery for season two. |
And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are. |
Because we've spent so much time promoting the album, doing radio shows where you play one or two songs, and doing interviews, I'm all about wanting to get on the road and just play. |
Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could. |
From the Ground Up |
I like something with a classic touch. That way, it's easy. |
I say, if you're going to bash us, just be clever. |
I used to do lots of coke. ... You'd be tired and you'd do it just to stay out and go to bars and meet girls and have a good time. ... There's a two-year period at the beginning of this band that I don't even remember. I can't even imagine what the shows were like. |
It sort of started with this idea of doing a teen noir show. The first-person, hard-boiled narrative is inherent in noir. I wanted her to sound like a 17-year-old female Raymond Chandler. |
It's a huge challenge. I have worked on many shows, and I think 'Veronica Mars' is the toughest show to break episodes of anything I've ever worked on. Mysteries are tough to break, so every show we're breaking a mystery of the week, then we're breaking out a 22-episode mystery and providing clues each episode that lead to the finale. It kills us. |
It's not very often we see a product like this come along. And when it does, it's nearly impossible to keep it on the shelf. It's hard to predict how fast a product will sell; sometimes we have to plan 6 months in advance in order to keep up with the demand. |
The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off. |
This has always sounded like a record that was going to be really great live. The show is going to be something of its own animal, and I'm excited about seeing it grow. |
Today I tattoo politicians and doctors. I even tattooed an 84-year-old man with his late wife's name entwined in a rose. I gave him that one for free. |
We're gonna do a song off the new record. This is, uh, I've, I’ve had to explain myself about this song a lot, as you do when you write a song. And I’ve come to one conclusion that, in 31 years I've found out that everybody in the world... everybody in the world is a little bit f****d up. Okay. And its okay, it's okay. When you're young, you think it's just you. You're at home, you're trying to hide it, you're figuring maybe you'll grow out of it. You know, maybe you'll get like all the other people. What you don't know when you're young is that it's everybody, man. Everybody is a little bit f****d up. And as you get older you have two kinds of people. You have the fortunate people who realise it early on, man. They let their freak flag fly. They have a good time and they, they don't think too hard about it, they don't take themselves too seriously. And then there's those poor bastards on the other side that are still trying to play it cool, man. Everyday. "I'm not f*****d up". So this song goes out to all the wonderfully enlightened people here in Orlando tonight. That know that it's okay to be a little bit f****d up every now and then. [sings 'Unwell'] |