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I fucking loved the film. It was really great. You saw it? I watched it last night, yeah. It was cool, too, because I always feel special when I've got to enter in the password because I know that nobody else has seen it yet. You know, I've got to enter in the email and the password, and I watched it, and I screen-mirrored it on the TV. It was great, man.
And it was so, like, almost like a fever dream. It was wild. Like, the way you set it up, all black and white.
Yeah, you get past the first three minutes. Yeah. Even my own mates are like, oh, don't do that. It's like, wow. And it is like a fever dream, that opening. But that really happened to me.
It was great, man. It's great. And it's also like I love the way you did it. Like you played the beginning of some songs and you talked about the origin of the songs. The thing that I have a hard time believing, though, is that you weren't a good singer when you were young.
Well, you know, punk rock, you're a bit of a shouter. That's really what you do. You just get up there and shout. I'm shouting at God. I'm shouting at everyone. I'm shouting at the band. That scene in When We're Doing I Will Follow, that's really true. So I'm there and we're improvising this song that becomes... I will follow if you walk away, walk away, walk away. And it's like this wow moment.
We're trying to just do something original. And we're really ripping off, the irony is, we're really ripping off Public Image Limited. Johnny Rotten became John Lydon again for this band called Public Image Limited back in the late 70s. And and I'm singing about, you know, it's a suicide note, really. And I'm singing about this and they're saying, like, what's it about?
And I said, I think it's this it's this guy is going to follow somebody into the grave. You know, they're going to. I think it's a child following their mother, missing them so much that he'll follow them into the grave. And then we realized that our rehearsal room, the little yellow house, is beside the cemetery where my mother is buried.
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