Mistaken for Strangers Page #4

Am I fired or what?

Technically yes.

Don't put it

through that filter.

Please. Just think of

this as an opportunity.

Now you can...

Why are you filming this?

Are you sure

you want to film this?

If you don't mind,

I would like

to have this on record.

We hoped that this would be

the right fit.

And it isn't working.

This is when it gets

a little more depressing.

What's this one called?

- This one?

- Yeah.

It's just going through

the garden or something.

Looks like a palm tree in there.

No.

- That's my favorite one.

- Which one?

This one.

This one?

Yeah. I like this one.

These are some of my pastels.

Well, I got some questions.

Let me sit down.

Off the top of your head,

how do you think

Matt and I are different?

Growing up. Growing up.

How were Matt and I

different from each other?

Matt was

a lot easier to raise than you.

What was that laugh all about?

Well, I mean,

you were a hard kid to...

you know that!

For instance,

you wouldn't do things.

You wouldn't get in

the pool down at swim lessons.

You cried all the time

in first grade.

If you were going to

football practice,

I had to wait in the car,

I couldn't leave.

I just didn't like

football practice.

I didn't like getting told

what to do.

When I didn't even

want to do that.

But you needed to do

something, complete something.

You always wanted

to quit things.

No, I didn't.

Like what?

What do you mean?

I think you didn't--

Well, did you start baseball?

Did you ever play baseball?

Yeah, but I quit that.

Yeah, that's what I said.

You quit that.

We use to let you quit things

every now and again

if you didn't like it.

But then it got to the point

you were quitting everything.

Well, I thought that's not

a good habit to get into.

Who was a better artist?

Well, we can look at that.

You were both very different.

Look, look!

These are my inspirations.

This was Matt's art which was

very abstract and minimal.

And this is all you work!

Take some shot of that.

I think that's really cool.

Yeah, this is pretty good.

Yeah, this is great.

This is the type of work

you did.

Really wonderful.

What's this guy doing?

Is he sawing a leg?

He's making a leg.

Near an empty creek.

And then he's dreaming

about new legs.

And then same guy

in a school bus,

and he's thinking

about eating a leg.

What's not to love about that?

What other differences

do you see between me and Matt?

I think, Matt really,

just has a great deal

of self confidence.

And I don't think that you have

that kind of confidence

that he has.

Because you obviously

haven't had

the same kind of success.

He's well known

in the Indie rock circles

and the band is doing very well.

In your personality--

Matt could get angry

a little bit easier,

and sometimes,

he seemed to be more moody

when we was younger.

Mom used to worry

about him being moody.

You never seemed to worry

a whole lot about things.

You just took it as it came.

Whatever you were doing,

if that's what you wanted to do,

that was fine.

- I was always happy.

- Oh God, I know.

You were happy.

Until now, I'm the depressed one

and Matt's all happy again.

Because he's successful.

Right?

You're successful.

No, I'm not.

You will be.

I'm telling you I know that.

I'm positive of it.

What have I always told you?

I'm your most creative.

Most talented.

You were my most talented.

And I've said that

from the time

you were a little kid.

And I believe it.

I still believe it.

I mean it!

You don't believe it.

Move that up.

All the way up,

right back to the wall.

You don't think she'll

mind me living in here, do you?

Well, this is her play room.

What kind of job

do you think I'll get?

You think I'll be a movie maker?

No!

Do you think I will be dating

a hot movie star someday?

No!

No way.

My phone.

My phone!

My phone!

Let it go!

Fine.

Can I use a pizza slicer

on your head?

Tom, you can stay with us

as long as you want.

I think it will be fun.

Okay. Thanks. Good.

You can close the door,

and you can do nothing

but focus on

finishing the movie.

After that,

then we can figure out

what you are going to do.

This is the movie

in no particular order.

But it's scene and ideas

that I'm dealing with,

I'm working on.

Let me tell you,

the color coding

has a lot to do

with how it's set up.

We have the pink stuff--

is tour.

On the road.

The road going by.

You know, the asphalt going by.

The blue ones

are sentimental, you know.

Something that will touch

their hearts in some way.

The purple ones are scenes

with just band guys in them.

This is basically

all new stuff I just found,

just recently.

I see yellow dots,

I see pink dots,

I see green dots.

They're all the same.

Well, except for the green dots.

Wait. Tom, these aren't

in any sort of order?

No. Well, somewhat.

They're not in.

No. Not yet.

But it's for me

when I'm at my computer,

and I figure out

what comes next.

What's something

that comes next.

Then I have a reference.

It's more like a reference.

No, that's cool.

All I'm saying is

that it's impossible for me

to give you any feedback

on the movie at all,

by just looking

at these post-it notes.

It looks interesting.

It looks like you have

an interesting movie.

You have skinny dipping Iggy.

Is that Iggy Pop?

Yes.

You got him skinny dipping?

No. I didn't get him

skinny dipping.

He was playing in the background

and there were skinny dippers

at that festival in Germany.

But don't fall in love with it,

because I did not get

the skinny dippers releases.

Tom, this does look exciting.

No, no. Tom, I'm not

trying to be discouraging.

I'm totally encouraging.

So all you wanted is for me

to understand your system?

- Yes.

- Okay. Cool.

Tom, what's this?

That's actually a self portrait

that I messed up on.

And I just put horns on it.

Can we go through it real quick?

When you embark on a

new album like this right here,

how do you deal with that?

Just tell me

about your struggles

with the creative process

a little bit.

I mean, the most stressful

thing for me

is before you have an idea.

Like, I need to write

National songs,

and I can't think of anything.

And that's really stressful.

But the minute you have an idea,

the making of the thing

is really fun.

I would say that 90 percent

of everything you do

is either bad,

rejected, or overlooked,

and that's just to be expected.

Look at us.

We're making records

and it's like 40 to 45 minutes

of sound.

And that takes us,

like, two years!

With five people

and people helping us.

People working and producing,

everyone in the studio

and all that stuff.

And then finally,

at the end of all that,

there's 45 minutes

of sound coming out of speakers.

So how do you think

it's going to go?

Well, I think

it's going to go pretty well.

I think people are

going to be surprised

at what they see.

I mean, it doesn't have

a twist ending,

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