Artifact Page #7

Hey! Brenna, call Jeff Kempler.

I'm gonna have trouble being nice,

seriously...

Hey guys,

I'm in the bathroom at the airport,

so it's a little loud.

It's probably a little cold, too.

Any place where it's cold for you

makes me happy

It's Irving.

You sound like a corporate f***ing dick,

let's just talk about the deal.

The reality of fact is that: it's,

you know,

it's really hard to advise these guys

to do anything

with that piece of sh*t of a company

that you work for, and say yes, say no,

go away man,

just go away, if you don't want to do this.

And before they f***ing sell the company out

from under you guys, put out the record.

Okay.

But fly safe anyway. Bye.

Right. By the way just side issue. (Yes.)

How is the record company?

What?

I just want to feel good.

This all negotiations,

it doesn't feel good.

It's not supposed to feel good.

No.

This whole thing.

You've got the unstable time.

You've got the unstable EMI.

You've got the unstable maverick way.

The thing... It's all unstable.

So, there's no feeling

that's gonna be attached,

to like:
"Oh! Yeah..."

Then you've got the album we're doing

and you've got everything, dude.

It's a little unstable, you know.

Managers who are standing up

and say they are very very worried

about the instability at EMI.

Major acts like Radiohead and

Paul McCartney parted ways

with the company.

And I just said to my producers,

I said I want to feel excited

by releasing this record.

It's just a mess.

They're trying to manipulate us

with a little bit of fear.

They're pulling deals out

from under our feet,

they're f***ing with us, they're toying,

they're sending eMails, letters

just outright hostile.

The shakeup at EMI reportedly has Coldplay

rethinking a future deal with the label.

Robbie Williams's manager has been quoted as saying:

"The star is in no rush to put out a new album

due to a lack of faith in the new management."

Today marks the deadline for Hands

to meet a payment to Citigroup,

one of its creditors, or

he'll lose control of the firm.

These people that they say one thing

and that they do another thing.

It's disgusting that they do business like this.

They wonder why they have a bad f***ing name.

It's because they treat people like f***ing sh*t.

They deserve the f***ing disaster

that they are in the middle of.

Walking out before I break sh*t.

You know you've got to guide me here,

I'm heel over my head,

I don't know what to do.

Huh, I don't know either.

It's amazing how this f***ed-up-lawsuit

is taking over our lives.

I feel like f*** we should just take

the god damn deal, whatever it is

just f***ing take it,

what if everything got worse?

This part of the record is always really

really really important for me.

It's like the backing tracks are there,

they've got a lot of strong personality.

It doesn't matter whether it's good or bad.

It could be fast, it could be slow,

but they've all got some sort

of essence to them

that makes the songs stand out.

And now, it's like filling in,

it's coloring the picture.

And I think that's the part

that has been missing from you.

I have to say:
holy f***!

That's how I feel today.

You don't have like undeniable.

No, we don't right now as we speak, No!

I'll sit here for another year,

I'll Chinese democracy this motherf***er

if I have to. It doesn't matter.

I know exactly what you're talking about

and this is quite usual at this stage

of making a record.

You're now in the place where

you're doubting everything.

Everything is sort of plateauing

and fundamentally,

there is nothing that's getting

your juices going.

And what I suggest is

that we need to look at the whole thing,

because...

We're definitely missing a song

I can tell you that right now.

No, I agree with you.

So, it might be that

that has to be a period of just like:

okay, we are missing this,

we do need to do another song

but maybe it hasn't been written.

But without at least getting

some of these other songs into point

you're not going to know

what you're missing.

I hope that this is mid... You know,

the midlife crisis of the record,

but I don't know, I mean,

we have to question everything.

It's the morning, early early morning,

it's still dark out and

we have decided to get out of Los Angeles.

And go to Florida.

I just couldn't face not doing something

for f***ing New Year's Eve.

We've been going at it all f***ing year.

I want to dance this week.

You're gonna see a dancing fool.

Ditto.

I need breakfast before I face this sh*t.

Everybody took a break.

Shannon went to Hawaii,

Tomo went to Michigan.

I feel like, there's a lot up in the air

and it was serendipitous

that the holiday break came at the time

when there was this make-or-break

kind of place

we happen to be in,

for the record,

for the creative parts of the album,

for the lawsuit.

Ready? She thinks you are Jared Leto.

She told me to come here

and ask you if you're Jared Leto?

Mmmm. Yep.

You are? Serious?

Yep.

Are you just f***ing with us?

No... How you doing?

I knew it.

What's up?

You don't think:
oh, it's Miami,

there's gonna be all these people

taking pictures on the beach.

Michael Jackson!

So, we escaped

and went to some alligator farm

or something...

There's nothing like starting

your new year in a swamp.

600 000 jobs lost in January.

The DOW is already down 2000 points.

This is the Frank Lloyd Wright house.

I thought that would be a great place for us

to record and would be really inspiring.

You know what's exciting,

we're gonna have the spirit

of this house inside the record.

This is a living, breathing piece of art.

Art, it's something we all

aspire our work to be.

Some people can do

whatever they think of.

And what they think of

is special

and moves other people.

Those people are artists.

It's their bare honest truth

about something that they love.

I think it's one of the avenues

to get to oneself

to find out who we are.

Timeless art is

the most difficult form of art.

I see it in the Chrysler building,

I see it in the Concorde.

I hear it in the Beatles...

The business is, I hate all those people,

those people are leeches.

All they ever do is care about

not losing their job.

They never once care about

enhancing the value of art.

One of the problems

we have in business at large right now

is corporations own these businesses.

So, it's very difficult to change it ever

because it has to be this machine

that keeps going.

The other part of the problem is that

the business itself has

homogenized the process.

The record company tells a band

what to write,

how to write it, who to write with.

You know. What is gonna be a single,

what's not gonna be a single.

And I think has far too much control

on a creative level.

So, that everything starts sounding

very much the same.

That's a pendulum.

I think.

What inevitably happens is

that companies

that are wrestling with that

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