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Hour of hell. What's up, and welcome to Movie Meltdown's Attack of the Killers soundtrack. I'm Brian, and this week we will be bringing you coverage from the recent West Fest 2. Yes, last year provided such a great soundtrack episode that I was thrilled when Heather asked us to come back and be part of this year's show. And for me, I wanted to add something extra this year.

So aside from just playing some of the soundtrack-themed songs from the event, I'll also welcome not one, but two special guests to sit in this episode, both of whom were performers at this year's show. So we'll discuss how they decided to approach their performance, as well as their exposure and thoughts on Wes Anderson's movies and soundtracks in general. But first, I thought we would kick off the episode just the way the event did, with our all-around host and house band for the evening. This is Oscar Parsons and the Picket Line with Take These Chains From My Heart, originally featured in Moonrise Kingdom. Down in the boroughs, one of our favorites to play is Penguins.

Well, take these chains from my heart and set me free. Oh, you've grown cold and no longer care for me. All my faith in you is gone But my heart keeps beating, no Take these chains from my heart And set me free Take these tears from my eyes. And let me see. Just the spark of love that there used to be And if you love somebody new Let me love somebody too Take these chains from my heart and set me free.

Give my heart just one word of sympathy. As fair to my heart as you can be Then if you no longer care For the love that's a-meeting there Take these chains from my heart and set me free. Thank you for watching. Well, take these chains. From my heart and.

Let me free. When you grow cold and no longer care for. Me, all my faith. In you is gone, but my heart. Take these chains from my heart and set me free Take these chains.

From my heart and set me free Thank you very much. All right, so now we have a special guest here with us. I guess to introduce yourself and then your band that you're affiliated with. My name is Jonathan A. Mitchell.

I play with a group called Nelly Pearl. And how did you get involved with West Fest? I was contacted by Heather, Miss Hey DJ. and uh she asked if we were interested she actually asked us in like november or december if we were interested and uh our bass player thought he had a gig booked on the same weekend and so we turned it down reluctantly like i really didn't want to do it i remember talking to our drummer and like are we really going to turn this gig down it's. Going to be great a chance to. Play at the mercury and um just a chance to get involved in a cool event we all like wes anderson and uh it's like what else are we gonna do you know he's booked already so we can't we said we couldn't do it and i had gone to oregon for like three weeks three and a half weeks over christmas and came back and we finally got together sometime in like mid-january and we're just like talking about how sad we were that we couldn't play the event and he's like ask us what the date was and i told him and he said well uh why.

Did we turn that down again? Like I'm not booked that weekend. What are you talking about? And he's like, well, I mean, I, uh, I'm, I'm booked like on the 20th. I thought that's what you said.

I was like, it's on the seven, man. So I just called Heather immediately. Like right then I called her and she said that they were actually getting ready to make a decision on, they had one more slot. They couldn't fill it yet. And they were getting ready to make a decision maybe that day or the next day.

And that since we had called the time we could, We could fill that space, so we were very fortunate. I guess. Definitely. Well, I guess, how long has the band been together, and sort of where did it find its origins? Nelly Pearl's been together for over two years now, I guess like around two and a half years.

I was playing in a band called Blunt Honey, which is still playing. We're playing next week with Blunt. Nelly Pearl, actually. Double duty. Yeah.

So it's our first show in like a year and a half. And that band, we had some health issues. And so we decided to take. Some time off. And I was just writing a lot of music at the time and didn't have any place for.

It to go. And so me and my friend Jess Langer started singing these songs together. And I knew the guys that played bass and drums and asked if they wanted to play and just got together and did it again and just kind of kept going from there. Definitely. And then how did, did you initially plan on having sort of dual locals going there?

Uh, yeah. A lot of the stuff I was writing was for a male and a female to sing together and sometimes like back and forth, which I'd never done before. And that was part of Nelly Pearl was getting away. Blunt Honey was really, um, roots. Like, bluegrass you know like a string band set up and so like it wasn't necessarily traditional bluegrass but it was close and um i wanted to write weird stuff you know like i fell in love with music with the beatles and radiohead and fish and these experimental bands and so i've always wanted to experiment and that's started with the songwriting and now has eventually led to the instrumentation and the band is getting more experimental it's a lot.

Of fun well here we are I'd like to bring you the pearls coming up next on stage. right now. Police the thieves in the streets. War on the nation with guns and ammunition. Police the thieves in the streets. Killing the nation with guns and ammunition.

From Genesis to Revelation. The next generation will be heavenly. The genocide. The demolition. The next generation.

And the crowd. Comes in day by day. No one's stopping in any way. All the peacemakers Turned war. Off the side Hear what I say.

Police the face in the. Street Oh yeah Killing the nation with that Gone to nomination Police the face in the street Oh yeah Killing the nation with that Guns and ammunition From Genesis To Revelation The next generation Will be hear me From Genesis To Revelation The next generation And the crowd comes in Day by day No one's stopping in any way. I'm the peacemaker. Turn war upside. Hear what I say.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Police, police, police and thieves. Oh yeah! Police, police, police and thieves. Oh yeah!

Police, police, police, police and thieves. Oh yeah! Police, police, police, police and thieves. Oh yeah! Genocide.

Revelation. Next generation. Because that was what I thought was so different and kind of striking about what you guys were doing was the way that the vocals were worked in and the setup. And any of those that's like, especially a guy and a girl, I always get like an X thing. Like that was such a massive, like entertaining thing that they always did.

So anybody who can kind of capture something similar, I always love that. Thanks. But yeah, we, that's always been a, focal point for the band is the male-female. And now Greg, our bass player, he's a great singer. And it just kind of, I don't know, took him a couple years to really feel comfortable and start finding his niche with us.

And he's got a great falsetto. And so he can throw in these strange harmonies now. And so we're singing a lot of three-part. West Fest was really one of the first shows where we've sung a lot of three-part because it's the first time that we've worked on a lot of new material. For three of us singing.

And, um, so we tried to put that in a lot of places. What was a good example that night of that? Um, well we did, uh, let's see. Oh, jumping Jack flash. Yeah.

I was born on a crossfire hurricane. And I yelled at my mom in the driving rain. Well, it's all right now. In fact, it's a yes. Yeah, it's all right.

I'm a jumping jet, flashing some gas, gas, gas. I was praised by. A bearded, toothless head. I was screwed with. A strap right across my back.

Well, it's all right now. In fact, it's a gas. Yeah, it's. All right. I've been jumping, jamming, flashing.

It's a gas, gas, gas. I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead. I looked down at my feet and saw they'd bled. I drowned at the crumbs of the crust of bread. I drowned with a spark right through my heart.

When I saw. It's all right. I'm a jumping jack blast. It's a gas, gas, gas. Jumping Jack Flash, it's a gas, gas, gas.

I think my favorite was Needle in the Hay. The first time we went through the song or through the chorus, Rachel sang the same exact not as me saying in unison with me to give it like that layered Elliot Smith feel. And, um, but then we also like, we didn't want to sing it just like Elliot Smith and put everybody to sleep. And so we wanted to put her on spin on it. And you definitely didn't by the end.

People were awake. Um, It kind of breaks halfway through, and I'm like, oh, this is awesome. It kind of took a Nirvana turn, I guess. A 90s grunge. Which was really easy.

And appropriate, I felt, because Elliot Smith is from the Pacific Northwest. He lived in Portland in the 90s and was making music himself. So it just naturally sounded good. Just like that. It was perfect.

And especially where it gets used in context with the movie. It's like, I guess, in the original form, it's sort of that weird juxtaposition of how calm it is with the horrible things going on. And you kind of flipped it and. Went the other way. Like, okay, this is sort of the real mood of what you're probably dealing with.

And then you offed yourself. For anyone who wasn't there, I guess. I actually just saw the video of it for the first time. And, like, I mean. I guess for anybody that wasn't there, we staged a scene from a movie where a man cut his wrist and attempted suicide to no avail.

And we staged this on stage. And so I came up with the idea as soon as we chose that song. I love that movie. I love Elliot Smith. I love that scene.

And I was dressing up as the same character. And so it was perfect. We have to do this tune. But I knew that we couldn't just do it all soft and sad, and we wanted to really show that we're a rock band. We get put on acoustic bills.

We're on a bluegrass festival bill coming up soon. We're the only band with. Drums, and so we're trying to make it known that we can throw down pretty hard. Branch out. Yeah.

And so when we picked that song, I really wanted to go for it. And I wanted to stage that scene. And Rachel, our singer, didn't necessarily. Like that idea. And I know she had seen the film.

It had been a while. And so we watched the movie. And we kind of bounced some more ideas around off of each other and decided that everybody could get involved. It wouldn't just be me. And we had lots of different ideas.

And we finally settled on a few ideas. And I was just all about it the whole time. It wasn't until afterwards when people were like, man, you took one hell of a chance up there with that kind of stunt, man. That was pretty intense. I was like, really?

They're like, yeah, we actually didn't really know what the hell was going on until she lit that cigarette. I think it was Heather was like, man, we were all kind of like, oh, my God, this is really morbid. And then she lights the cigarette and takes a puff. We're like, oh, my God, that's a freaking piece of art. It was like, oh, but, like, now it makes me kind of nervous to talk about it.

I mean, that was the best part, is, like, the fact that by the end, she's just sort of ignoring the fact that you're killing yourself and smoking your cigarette, and, like, that was kind of awesome. Yeah, because, I mean, like, in the end, like, I felt like Margot didn't really return the love to Richie like he always had to her, and so it was really appropriate that she just kept her cold composure. That was awesome. Yeah, because initially, it was just, like, the idea was I was going to, cut my wrist with the fake blood. And then we came up with the, with the plan for her to do that.

And I'm so glad that we did now because, uh, apparently my girlfriend was in the crowd and she said that a woman behind her didn't realize that it was an act at first. And like, why is nobody helping that man? Like how, how come no one's helping him? Don't interrupt the show. Yeah.

Move the bodies later. I think our bass player, I came over and actually kicked my leg. He'd been waiting to do that for years. Yeah. Probably.

He certainly has. Well, I think it is kind of. You can't do it any other way but the finale. I mean, it'd be hard to then get up and continue on. Yeah.

Like, that's your opening number. We had not planned on doing that last. And so, like, we had planned on doing the Rolling Stones Jumpin' Jack Flash. And doing that last. And.

Even like doing the scene, like cutting the wrist and whatnot. And then like, we had talked about even like if we could cut my hair and shave my beard, like if it could like actually be done on stage and the amount of time, I'm just. Like, man, there's no feasible way. Even if I had somebody helping. Me, I'm going to be able to...

I was dozed down to go all out for the part. You're going to start losing people at that point. They're going to be like, let's go get a drink. It's going to take 20 minutes to actually shave. But I was willing.

We've bounced a lot of ideas around for that. We were initially going to do it second to last. Once we played it, and played Rolling Stones and that back-to-back. You can't. There's no other song.

You can't play another song after you've played all that. There's no coming back from that. It's the all-in at that point. It will be interesting to see where that pops up again in our live shows. What venue?

We're going to break that one out. We plan on using all of those songs at some point. We're very excited about them. It's a huge benefit to playing West Fest. Want some music for your ears?

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We're serious about music. Hey there, this is John Doe. You're listening to Movie Meltdown. Glad you are, because otherwise you'd be wasting your time playing some stupid video game. Once again, here's Nellie Pearl putting a different spin on a classic Bowie song.

This is Queen Bitch. Two. I'm up on the 11th floor and I'm watching the cruisers below. He's down on the street and he's trying hard to pool sister flow. My heart's in the basement, my weekend's at an all-time low.

She's hoping to score, but I can't see her letting him go. Walk out of her heart, walk out of her mind. Yeah, she's so pushy and a static. Chat And her frock coat and bibbity-bobbity hat Oh, God, I could do. Better than that.

She's an old-time ambassador of sweet-talking, not-walking games And she's known in the darkest of clubs for pushing ahead of the dames. If she says she can do it, then she can do it. She don't make false claims. Cause she's a queen and such a queen that your laughter is sucked in their brains. Now she's leading them on and she'll.

Lay them right down. Now she's leading them on and. She'll lay them right down. But it could have been me, oh yes it could have been me Why didn't I say, why didn't I say No, no, no She goes with the innocent intent In her black coat and bibbity-bobbity hat Oh, that I could. Do better than that.

So I lay down a while And I look at my hotel wall. Oh, this cot is so cold, it don't feel like no. Bed at all. Yeah, I lay down a while, and I stare at my hotel wall. So I can't feel nothing.

Now I'm calling a cab, and my stomach feels small. There's a taste in my mouth, and it's no taste at all. But it could have been me. Oh, yes, it could have been me. Why didn't I say?

Why didn't I say? No, no, no. She's so pushy, understanding, and chad. In her bright coat and bibbity-bobbity hat. Oh, but I could do better than that.

Hey, Chadwick. With no beard, oh my gosh. Shaved my beard, too. Now I wonder what happened. Well, we have a special guest.

Introduce yourself and your band. Hi, I'm Late. I'm Shadwick. I play in a band called Quiet Hollers. So we were just discussing working covers into your normal kind of song choices.

So I don't know. What were you saying? We really... We like to. Just pull out the weirdest cover we possibly can.

And every time we have a local show or go on a tour or something, we like to try to work in something strange that we've never heard a band play. And we had a lot of luck with that this last year, a few different tunes. And so playing with West Fest gave us an excuse to just learn six new awesome songs that we can take on the road with us and sprinkle in. Very excited about it, definitely. Chadwick, you're in a very different spot than everybody else on the bill as you've been there before.

So I guess what. Was, because you did a great job last year, so I was like, now where do you go? How did you approach it this year as to what you were going to bring to it that was different from the previous time? Well, the producers of the event made it really easy for us, and in that... they suggested slash told us that we were gonna do basically the same songs that we did last year we played first last year um so i guess a lot of people missed yeah um we did we were able to kind of convince them to let us do a ramon song that i really wanted to do yeah and other than that uh we still kind of had at least half of a handle on the cover songs from the year before, having only played one of them regularly.

That was the Hank Williams song, Ramblin' Man. We pulled that one out a few times in the aggregate between those two Westbests. But, yeah, it was a pretty easy thing for us to be able to just pull out the ones from. Come back into it. Yeah.

Well, Shadwick's right. We actually heard quite a few of their songs from that performance last year. So first off, I'd say go back and listen to the original West Fest episode from last year and check out their great performance there. But since we're playing quite a bit of new music from this show, from Nelly Pearl, I thought we'd balance things out a little and play the latest single from Quiet Hollers. This is called Liar Song, and.

It's actually getting quite a bit of airplay on the radio station here. So if they're not playing it in your town, call up and request it at your local radio station. If, in fact, they still have radio stations. I mean, with awesome shows like Attack of the Killer Soundtrack, I don't know why you'd. Need a radio station.

But assuming you're one of those people who still listens to one, call up and request Liar Song. And on that note, you can find both these bands and all the bands from West Fest online. So go find videos on YouTube. You can download their songs on iTunes and Reverb Nation and Bandcamp. I'm sure you'll probably find them on most of those avenues.

So go support all the bands from West Fest. But right now, we're going to play that latest single from Quiet Hollers. This is Liar Song. I was born a liar Thrown into a fire Raised in anger like a gun Beat down into the. Mire When my first steps on crutches I stumble into their clutches And it never crossed my mind to resist They told.

Me I was born for. This Thank you. Just change the channel for a while. I'll be asleep here, so. I do not care to know what's happening outside this room.

You drink your tea and I will sit here stony-eyed. If we can make it through this one, I think we'll be alright. I'm sorry, but it came out all wrong I told you not to worry And then. The liar came along. Party dress on and I'll wear my one good soul and we don't even have to talk to anyone just drink their wine and.

Eat their food I was born a liar my friend is trained in sire couldn't sleep outside romance I never. Even had a chance. I tried to say I'm. Sorry But it came out all wrong I told you not to worry And then the liar came along I tried to say I'm sorry I tried to say I'm sorry I tried to. Say I'm sorry I tried to say I'm sorry I tried to say.

I'm sorry I tried to say I'm sorry. We're going to do another selection from the late and great Mr. Hank Williams. Hank Williams Sr., Regular Hank, not bad Hank. But I like Hank Jr.

Too, so. It's a long, and. It's a gone, and it's a lonesome, lonesome blues. I went down to the river to watch them fish swim by. But I got.

To the river so lonesome I wanted you to die. Oh Lord. And then I jumped in but the goddamn river was dry. . . . She paid me for my money, then she made me blue. I'm Miley and Post.

You can lean on, but Miley and Post is done. Left and gone. I'm gonna find me a river, one as cold as ice, like today. And when I find me a river, Lord, I'm gonna pray the price, oh Lord. I'm going down three times, but I'm only coming up twice.

But she's long gone now. She told me on Sunday, these are checking me out. Long about Monday, she is nowhere about. Here it is Tuesday, ain't got no news. I got them.

Long gone and Lord, forgotten blues. But she's in love, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, now, wow, oh, oh. . . All right. And that was Oscar and the Picket Line with another Hank Williams song as featured in Moonrise Kingdom.

Yeah, Ramblin' Man was awesome in general. Thanks. Yeah. Doing anything with. Get a gypsy punk kind of adaptation.

Yeah. Works for us. I mean, it's one of those that his stuff, it's funny how well it translates, no matter how many years later, the different styles, like Hank, the real Hank, Hank Sr. The only Hank. The only Hank I acknowledge, really.

Acceptable to refer to as Hank. Yeah. As far as I'm concerned. The other two aren't even named Hank, right? They're not.

There were two other ones? For marketing purposes, yes, yes, they are. They're not even named Hank. Hank. Three is Sheldon, I think.

Yeah, I was thinking Eugene, but I think it is Sheldon. No wonder nobody wants to come see. I saw the show at the Mercury last year. I enjoyed it. He played for like four and a half hours or something.

It was ridiculous. I haven't listened to much of Three. I was not big on Junior. I like part of his music. I think he started, even Junior started a little better and then just bought into the whole. redneck yeah thing that got on board.

Are you ready for some football yeah. That's that's where i think i was just like i'm out now i'm. Okay i'm not much of a junior fan. You know i never never want racism thing he's not a fun guy really but yeah i i feel like he his really old stuff is closer to his dad and then like the more He gets the hat and the beard and the leather. There were also some pretty tasteless overdubs and videos of his dad, like archival footage that he would splice into his live show that he was doing in the 70s.

Just cringeworthy. And then he did a duet with Nat King Cole. No, wait, that wasn't him at all. There was a lot of feeding off their parents for a while there in the music industry. All right, well, enough of Junior.

Let's go back to Wes. So was everybody a Wes Anderson fan always as you came into these? Yeah, yeah. What was your introduction. To him, I guess?

I think last year I asked everybody what their first Wes Anderson movie was that they remember. Royal Tenenbaums for me. Yeah, yeah, me too. And then Life Aquatic, I guess. My sister was.

Hip for like a year in high school or something and she watched royal tenenbaums yeah and for like maybe less uh she uh she got onto that and rushmore and so i watched those when i was like seventh grade and had no idea what it was about but like royal tenenbaums especially was like really aesthetically pleasing like the you know every all their costumes are interesting. And uh. The whole set i think that's really when he sort of found himself like. I think because that's the thing i think i saw bottle rocket like the first real you know full-length feature. He did yeah but i didn't again at that point there was no wes anderson so i just sort of watched it as a movie and it was like oh that was pretty good and like you know both of those guys were still kind of new actors and like i just sort of entered in as he did and like it wasn't until like i think i missed rushmore at the time too so it was like I remember seeing Royal Tenenbaums and going, okay, this is sort of its own thing.

And I think from. That point on, like, everything sort of just gelled into this Wes Anderson thing. Like, now they all kind of hit. But I think he's almost getting a little better about turning into it. So I think the Grand Budapest Hotel is sort of like the first time he's broken out of that a little bit.

Like, he still has the aesthetic. He still has the quirkiness. But I think he's sort of honing in on the characters a little better now. So. I think he's still kind of growing as an artist.

But yeah, he found his stride, I think, from Royal Tenenbaums on. I think what he's going to do next is he's going to try and do a movie that is not about moneyed white people and their problems. Or he's going to step out of that rich white people perspective zone. He almost did with Wilderness Animals. That was the most, I guess, which I thought was kind of amazing for the kind of filmmaker he was to like, switch up and do an entirely different medium and do like a totally different style and yet still his own weird quirky thing.

So yeah, I give him credit for being pretty adventurous. It'd be nice to see him do something really hard left turn. Just go do an action movie or something. Which there's a little element of that in Grand Budapest. I mean, he can do that.

Give Bruce Willis on the cast. Well, he's already done that. Yeah. So yeah, he's already friends with Bruce. Yeah, he can do this.

He can do this. I did see Moonrise Kingdom. I've cried several times. Again, it's so well put together. If that makes a fan, then I'm...

It's so well orchestrated. Like all of his stuff. Just visually and musically. Did you notice coming in? Because it's funny, I don't think I paid as much attention to the music until she put this festival together last year.

And I went, Oh, yeah. He's so obviously catering everything to music. So, I don't know. Do you remember noticing that as you watched him before this event happened? Yes, but only in that a lot of his imagery and costumes and sort of light filters are very evocative of the 1970s aesthetic that we mentioned earlier.

And those songs, a lot of them being from that era, just lend themselves to that. That's definitely his. favorite area to pull from. I was kind of surprised by a lot of his song choice. Actually, when I was looking at the list, I expected it to be more in left field and was curious how I didn't notice the Beach Boys song, I Get Around, what movie that popped up in. Once again, this is Nellie Pearl with I Get Around from the Fantastic Mr.

Fox. I Get Around I Get Around I Get Around. I'm getting buzzed driving up and down the same old street. I gotta find a new place where the kids are hidden. My buddies and me are getting real well known.

Yeah, the bad guys know it so they leave us alone. I get around. I get around. I get around. I get around.

I get around. Get around, around, around, I get around. I get. Around We always take my car cause it's never been deep And we never miss yet with the girls we meet None of the guys go steady cause it wouldn't be right to leave the best girl home on a Saturday night. I get a ride.

Round, round, get around. I get around. I get around. I get around. Round, round, get around, I get around.

Round, round, get around, I get around. Get around, round, round, I get around. Round, round, round, round, round. You want to talk some jive? I'll talk some jive.

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This is their version of Making Time, originally done by Creation on the Rushmore soundtrack. One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! Makin' time! She's shooting lines for people to believe in.

The things you say, gone in a day. Everybody leave me. Same old songs Same old. Songs Telling lies Closing your eyes Making more excuses Pulling the wool. Acting the fool People have their uses.

People have their uses. Why do we have to carry on? Always singing the same old song. The same old song. The same old song.

Come on now. Out in the light of the closing. Of dawn Never take your chances Take your pick. It makes me sick. Seeking new advances.

Seeking new advances. Why do we have. To carry on? Always singing the same old song. Same old song.

Same old song. Thank you guys very much! Fuck yeah! He had made a request for his usual escort, the one from his days on the circuit, to meet him at the pier by way of the Green Line bus. As always, she was late.

I've been out walking I don't do too much talking these days These days These days I seem to think a lot Of all the things that I forgot. To do. And all. The times I had The. Chance to.

I've stopped my rambling. I won't do too much gambling. These days These days. These days I seem. To think a lot of all the changes came.

About my way. And I wonder if I'll see another high. I don't think I'll risk another these days These days. And if I seem to be afraid to live the life that I have made it so, it's just that I've been losing. So long.

I've stopped my dreaming. I won't do too much. Dreaming these days. These days. These days I sit on cornerstones and count the times in quarter tones to tell.

Please don't confront. Me with my failures. I have not forgotten. Them. These Days by Nellie Pearl, originally featured in the Royal Tenenbaums.

All right, I do want to say a big thank you to Heather, the creator and organizer of West Fest, for once again asking us to be part of the show this year. It was a great evening, and we were glad to be involved. Again, West Fest is a benefit to support and raise awareness for the Fair Event Vendors Alliance. To find out more about what they do, go to fairvendors.org. This is Zach and Shane from Howmouth, and you're listening to Movie Meltdown.

Movie Meltdown. Shane's got a really good movie announcer voice. Welcome to Movie Meltdown, in a world of total darkness. Hey, you guys, this is a. King song.

Hey, you guys, this is a King song. This time tomorrow, where will we be? On a spaceship somewhere, sailing across an empty sea. This time tomorrow, where will we go? Will we still be here?

Watching an in-flight movie show. I leave the sun behind me. And I watch the clouds as they sadly pass me by. Seven miles below me. I can see the world and it ain't so big out.

I don't know where I'm going, I don't want to. See me I see the world in a lonely, looking on. And the worst about us, they sadly pass me by. And the perpetual motion and the. World below doesn't matter much to me.

There's time tomorrow where. We will be on a spaceship somewhere sailing. Across This town tomorrow What will we be? This town tomorrow What will we see? This town tomorrow This town.

Tomorrow Thank you guys so much! And that was This Time Tomorrow, as mentioned at Kink's song, originally from the Darjeeling Limited soundtrack. I had to go back and look at some of them. I was like, I don't know that I remember that one. And then I'm like, where was Jumpin' Jack Flash?

And a lot of these are. Like, I'm trying to pinpoint. Because then he got really specific as he gets to aquatic. Everything is tailored to a very specific thing. He kind of did that with Moonrise Kingdom again.

He's working in that traditional music. It seems like he likes to do that with the costumes and the sets and everything. I think in my research for the festival, I read something about an article by one of the girls that helped design all the costumes, and he was like, I want you to make everything. He's like, don't go buy anything. Make it all yourself.

Yeah, especially this last movie, like, Because he just creates his own world. Like, the fact that it exists in its own, like, their own countries and their own, like, war going on. And, like, it's, I think you would have to just start from scratch to be that, you know. Yeah. Coming up with everything out of nothing there.

What was the last movie that he made? The Grand Budapest Hotel. That was the last one? Yeah. Because I remember, I think that that came out the weekend of the first West Fest.

Yeah. Yeah, I think it just came out, but nobody even showed up in costume because they hadn't seen it yet. Nobody was prepared for it. Where it was funny, that was just between these two years. I think that's a big difference now is watching how many versions of the girlfriend, like the one with the birthmark.

There were so many of them. In one year's time, last year it was nothing but Gwyneth Paltrow. You saw a lot of Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson. Yeah, you saw a lot of Luke Wilson last time. A friend of mine's mom showed up in a costume that I later found out was like a hippie kind of new agey mom.

Nice. Which I totally did not pick up on at first because she is in fact a kind of hippie new agey mom. So she just came as herself. Which I guess works for Wes Anderson. A lot of stuff went over my head.

But yeah, it's funny that I guess that's an aspect to it now, that as his movies continue to grow, there will be all these new weird costumes and. Song choices and all that stuff that comes along. But that one kind of took over this year, the girlfriend with the birthmark. There were like 12 or 13 of those wandering around that night for such a new movie entry. That was kind of cool to see people latch onto that one.

As far as other songs, aside from your bands, did you get a chance to see anybody else? And were there other songs, specific performances you liked. Throughout the night? I showed up late again to that. I have a problem with tardiness that I'm okay with talking about.

I do have a great excuse, though. My wife is about nine months pregnant right now. That's a pretty good excuse. You have to bring the baby as proof, though. I do anything.

I do. You have to come in holding the baby as you're like hall pass. I will say, though, that Nellie Pearl's performance was the most talked about easily of the evening. They did kind of raise the bar a little bit. I really appreciated Oscar and the picket lines on stage banter that sort of blurred the line between stage performance and perhaps while you were there.

Yeah, it was. It was sort of, banter is a good thing, because I was like, I'm not sure if he was like, he wasn't really doing jokes as much. He was just sort of buffering the setup from one band to the next. With a kind of monotone. Yeah, well, Wes Anderson-y.

But yeah, it kind of was fun to mix in, in between the songs. All right. Christo. Christo only wears underwear made of mature... inorganic, free-range platypus hide. Well, I'll tell you what.

In my underwear, I've gotten a lot of platypus in my time, so I'm not impressed. They ask us for information to do that, for him to make jokes. We all came up with a bunch of really weird shit. He took the most, I don't know if it was him or Heather or who did it exactly, who made the note cards, but like, I. Think he did.

I saw him working on it on that stage. All he said for me was that I was born in a taxi cab in San Antonio. And I was like, that was like, the first of all, that's not even true. Five that got progressively weirder and weirder. Is that true?

Were you born in a taxi cab? No, not at all. That's why it wasn't funny. Because it was like, that was like, is he born in a taxi cab? And then the next sentence was some real weird shit.

They're like, this is all this made up. And no, he didn't read the. Rest of it. So people were like, were you actually born in a taxi cab in San Antonio? Yeah.

Like I just asked you. It's fact now. I got that from Tom Waits anyway. Tom Waits said that on Letterman in the 80s. I was born in a taxicab in.

Terre Haute, Indiana. I was born in a taxicab in Indiana. Always some obscure Midwestern. Yeah, Terre Haute, Indiana. I was like, no, he was not.

They pulled our description from our Twitter account. That's trouble already. We are Quiet Hollers, our occult gang band. These are separated by slashes, and Oscar and I had a brief discussion before he was to read these note cards where he was clarifying what I meant by that. And I was trying to explain that you say it like it's one word, like a cult gang band.

And of course, so he looks at me real weird and he goes, cult gang band? I said cult gang band. Of course we get on stage and Oscar says, quiet hollers are a cult. Bang! Bang!

He showed up with bandanas. No, you couldn't have put a larger pause in between those words. And just to clarify, we are not any kind of religious cult or violent street gang. I assumed you were like Bloods or Crips or something. I thought you were.

I prefer not to take sides in that particular conflict. I figured half the band would have one bandana, half the other. And then by the end of the set, you'd have to fight it out. Yeah. Did not happen that night.

We are a Germantown-based band. And the mustache street wars of 2006 still rage on to this day. It's a scary neighborhood. You don't want to mess around in Germantown. To answer that original question, I think I saw all the acts.

I liked Apple Latin. They were good. I heard that they didn't even really practice. Those guys don't have to. I'd seen them before.

They were pretty impressive. They're pretty talented dudes. I had actually seen Jose. That was the first time I'd seen Appalachian. I saw Jose, their bass player, with a four-piece instrumental jazz, like a hardcore, cool jazz.

Group out of the Faulkner Gallery. And that kid was throwing down hard on that upright bass. I'd never seen anybody play like that around here. And so when I found out he was an Appalachian, I thought that was quite a treat. And it makes sense that they didn't have to practice.

I like what they were doing too though because especially going into this it's like you kind of end up pulling from the same group of songs so it's like especially if you do two three if you keep doing different years you're like how are we going to do it that isn't like what they did last year but like their style is so different and so original that like listening to them do me and Julio down by the schoolyard was like awesome like it adds this whole new spin on it that like it gives it a very different beat a very different style that I I really like that one and There's a couple other ones they did that were really good. The Latin music to 1970s kind of classic rock songs. For me, the first time that I'd kind of seen or heard that particular pairing of different styles was the Gypsy Kings cover of Hotel California that was used in the Coen Brothers movie, The Big Lebowski.

Other filmmakers. There were some echoes of that for me. But of course there are, you know. not indistinguishable similarities between those two filmmaking styles. Yeah. So I was thinking there another one that has such a attachment to music and finding a way to work it in originally.

And it's, yeah, it's pretty cool. I don't know. Was there anything else from that night? You guys wanted to. Uh, great job.

Thanks. That's killed it. I've never seen y'all perform before. That was the first time. We do it all the time.

More than you're comfortable with? No. All the time. No, I'd seen you guys perform before. I saw you at the hoot.

At a spring hoot, I think. A hoot nanny. Or maybe a fall harvest hoot or something like that. That's... It might have been like.

You're saying the word hootenanny. It's ringing a bell in my head. It's the mighty kindness thing they do down on the waterfront. Oh, yeah. I think that was the first time I met you.

I think we met there. That was a spring one. I want to say 2000... Spring 2014? It might have been.

Yeah. It was about a year ago. I think Blunt and Honey played that. I think that's why I was there. That's right.

I remember. Well, we covered a little of your background, Chadwick. Do you want to give people a little like how the band came to be? Oh, well, do I? It sounds like trouble.

Do I? I am so prepared. No, I put out, I started, well, I played in punk bands from the time that I was 16 or 17 and dropped out of high school to do that. And then I did that for like a while. I think I remember seeing you back in the day.

And straight-laced. True. I got a straight-laced shout-out from the guy on stage. I know I've been to a couple of those. I kind of covered my face.

I think you know Phillip. Yeah, of course. I've roped him into the show a few times. He's a semi-regular, but I've been friends with Phillip forever. I used to go see his bands.

I remember you from different stuff, but now it took a very different turn as I came to know the Quiet Hollow. I said I got really into that punk. touring punk band touring drinking mischief kind of life and that you know very quickly took its toll like it does that will burn it so i got i got real real depressed and decided i was going to make this like dark kind of alt country solo record and so i did that with like very little preparation and forethought and it ended up being a thing that that warranted people wanting to see it at least enough for me to have a band. Yeah. And so I started kind of picking up guys from, from that scene and be like, Hey, well, do you want to play in this weird, like depressing Americana band with me?

And they're like, yeah, I guess so. So we, you know, gradually started picking up. Now we're a five piece band now, you know, it's, it's crowded in the van. But, yeah, it just sort of, you know, it was just Shadwick Wilde, and then it was Shadwick Wilde and the Quiet Hollers, which was this massively too long kind of panoply of names. Depends on how much of the poster you want to cover.

And so now it's just Quiet Hollers. And I just want to go on the record and officially say there is no the. I was just going to ask. I was like, did you have to pin that down? Because it becomes a thing with that.

It's in our bio now that there's no the. that was i had to take a stance my favorite one was actually with the i love the rachels but like the fact that they would just go back and forth some albums they would put out with the sometimes they wouldn't i was like that's kind of amazing. That they're like we don't care like we'll use it we won't what do we. Care buck uh buck ellens did that with the buckaroos too i spelled it b-u-c-k-e and b-u-c-k-a on different records too. R-e-w-r-double-o i don't know. Well, I guess to round it out more or less, what was, of your own sets, what was like your favorite to play?

If we haven't already mentioned it. We did get to play a couple of our own songs. Yeah. But I will say the most fun was that Ramone song that I mentioned earlier, Judy is a Punk. Because we don't ever get to play like that fast power chord kind of silly stuff.

Yeah. And that was, for me, immensely enjoyable on a visceral level. Y'all heard about Judy? Check in for. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, . . . Oh, yeah. Dirty in the mud, dirty in the wood, we've got to get out of here, we've got to get out of here. And oh, I don't know why, oh, I don't know why, but it's still alive.

Oh yeah, it's still alive, oh yeah, it's still alive, oh yeah, it's. Still alive, oh yeah. I would have to say needle in the hay was my personal favorite. We enjoyed all of them. We really did.

Um, but that was, that was the most fun. We, uh, our drummer plays in the local villains and like, they're pretty hard rock band. And I'm always like, why don't you, uh, you know, like use these different sticks or like, you don't have to use those brushes. Like, why don't you do this? And he's like, I don't play the drums that hard in this band.

It was like, I'll get you to play the drums that hard in this band. I have the exact opposite problem. Yeah? Like, I want to get Nick to use brushes, and he always wants. To beat the crap out of me.

Maybe we should trade. Oh, I'm good. I'm good with my drummer. That should be like a theme night, where everybody just sort of swaps out different people and, like, see how it goes. Yeah.

It'd have to be interesting, if nothing else. It certainly would. I think so. Oh, drummers are interchangeable, anyway. You don't need a new one, you just order a pizza.

Yeah. Bass players you don't even give them a name right they just like show up and if they bring their bass you're like all right stand over. There what do you call a guy that hangs out with musicians bass player it's either a bass player or a drummer whichever person you're trying to insult at the time. I feel like the drummers at least have so much. Equipment you have to acknowledge them but like ben is a bass player like we would always constantly be like yeah the bass players like they always get the the rough end.

You know what you call a bass player that just broke up with his girlfriend what homeless. How long can we go with these? Do we have a whole set? Do you know how you can tell if a drum riser is level? The drool comes out of both sides of the drummer's mouth.

Nice. Okay, I'm finished. I love my drummer and my bass player. Please don't quit the band, guys. I think once you enter into those roles, you know your role in the band.

You have to hold down the fort. You're the rhythm section, dammit. You know how it goes. It is unfair that there aren't as many of those jokes about guitar players. Yeah.

I'll tell you what, though. Guitarists really have it the roughest of anybody. They kind of do. When it comes to being the butt of jokes. There's no holding your head high when.

You play guitar. The thing is that you don't have to be a guitarist, so that's your own fault. Some people have to. Contractually. Born with a keytar in your hand.

There's no fighting it, man. People either contractually or spiritually... absolutely have to be keytarists. I don't know any keytarists. Not so much in this decade. I do know one keytarist.

There was a band called Lotus Blake that played in town. That had a keytarist. I know that name. That guy plays in another band now. He's like a tall, really tall blonde guy.

I don't think he plays keytar. I think I saw him with another band though. I want to. Say, is that Chase? Chase?

He played bass for the band with the name that I can't remember. I don't know what his name is. I remember the first time he introduced himself, he spoke with an Australian accent to me and my friends. That is weird. And I totally tried to, like, play it off, and then, like, partway through, forgot or something, and then tried to jump back on it.

We're like, no, you're not Australian. He's like, what the hell? I've been living here a long time. Yeah. Sadly, I've heard that story before from another member of the cast.

We have a weird town. With multiple people pretending that they're from another country when they aren't. I've done it before. Another planet. My family is Dutch, and I actually did live there for a couple years.

I was going to say, where were you born? No. You can at least claim this country. But I'm eligible for dual citizenship. You should cash in on that, though.

They probably have good health care there. They have, like, really enough people over there. They, like, pay you to go to college? Yeah. I saw a hospital.

In Louisville that has a bank in it. We got that going for us. St. Matthew's Baptist Health or something like that has Republic Bank on the sign, too. I was like, a hospital has a bank inside.

I think that hospital also has a McDonald's in it. The Children's Hospital in Indianapolis has a McDonald's. The Co-Serve in here did, yeah. Unless they came to their senses and took it out. That is just some straight fucked up shit.

That's what that is. Business there. You're already dying, kid. Here, have some french fries. That's weird.

Have a little diabetes. to go with your brain cancer. Can we put a milkshake in your drip? I think that's what you're missing here. Well, if nothing else. If nothing else, where can people find both of these bands?

What's the best place to look for you? I'm assuming on the internets. We have a new video that you should go check out. It's on YouTube. It's called Liar Song.

So search Quiet Hollies Liar Song on YouTube. Any website? What else besides that? Catch us on our website, nellypearlmusic.com. Facebook, all that wonderful social media.

Zoosk, eHarmony. You guys aren't Zoosk? Yeah, we should have a Zoosk profile. I'm sticking with MySpace. It's coming back, guys.

Only one of our members is single, but I do catch him on Tinder in every town that we go to. He's like, I'm trying to get people to come to the show, man. Just swipe past him. It's okay. That's funny.

He used to do that. He used to just call any girl he knew. What are you doing, brother? I've given up at this point. Get girls to see your band and get dudes to come see your band.

That's what my dad always told me. Band strategy. I like this. This is passing along wisdom to the rest of the bands out there. All right.

Thank you for both of you for being here. My pleasure. Thank you for having me. All right. Well, you heard Jonathan mention it once again there.

We've been hearing about Needle in the Hay all night, so I figured that's the way we'll go out. We'll go out with Needle in the Hay. Again, I would like to thank both Jonathan and Shadwick for sitting in with us on this episode. And this seems like as good a time as any to remind you. Get a Life will provide the soundtrack.

Get a Life. His hand on your arm, the haystack charmed around your neck. Strong and thin, calling some friends, trying to cash some check. He's acting dumb, it's what you've. Come to expect.

Needle in. The hay Needle in the hay Needle in the hay Needle in the hay. He's wearing your clothes Head down to toes A reaction to you You say you know what he did You idiot kid You don't have a clue Sometimes they just Get caught in the eye You're pulling them through. Middle in the head. Middle in the head.

Middle in the head. Middle in the head. Now on the. Bus, merely touching this dirty latrine. Falling out, six and pal, a dead sweat in my team.

Gonna walk, walk, walk, four more blocks, plus the one at my brain. Down, downstairs. To the man who's gonna make it all okay I can't be myself, I can't be myself And. I don't wanna talk, I'm taking the cure So I can be quiet whenever I want So. Leave me alone, you ought.

To be proud I'm getting control. Come on! Why is nobody helping that man? Like, how come no one's helping him? This episode is a production of Movie Meltdown, produced and edited by The Oddity Studios.

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