Dave Eggers

It's just a sailboat.

So I go down and I have all my CDs.

How many people could fit on this boat?

Three outside, one inside.

So it just fits me in the, underneath.

And I have a little boom box, crappy sound, but it's all I could fit there.

And every CD I had from college on is there.

And so that ends up being a lot of older music.

And then I buy dollar CDs, people that I, like, if I see a Mary Wells CD that I, it's a dollar here or I can experiment.

Listening to a lot of Sinead O'Connor lately, where it's like every last album she made was great.

It's just impossible.

And how, as well-known as she was, I don't think there's a better singer that ever was.

She's unbelievable.

I've gone through just endless deep dives, YouTube and everywhere else, seeing every last live performance, and there's never anything...

but perfection and like, it's an otherworldly sound to her.

She's the only person I think I can think of that I did feel like I knew her, but I didn't even, was never within 5,000 miles of her.

And now I get to listen to like a lot of Jim James and My Morning Jacket and stuff because Jim and I worked with Gary Burden on a movie that was no dialogue based on an old graphic novel called God's Man.

And Jim made the music and I was going to write whatever there was to write.

And then Gary passed before it went too far, but he left us as friends.

So that was a gift that we got from the ultimate hippie.