What songs work perfectly in movies?
I love that Peter Gabriel song [“In Your Eyes”] in Say Anything. Paul Westerberg had that song “Dyslexic Heart” in Singles. I read somewhere that the producers needed him to give them a song and he said, “Cool. Gimme a guitar and a hotel room,” and he wrote it in twenty minutes. Maybe we should get him more guitars and more hotel rooms. In what bar have you written the most songs? Easily it’d be split between Boardners, on Hollywood and Cherokee in L.A., and Niagara here in New York, on A and 7th. I wrote “Oh My Sweet Carolina” in the back of Niagara, because at that time, before I made Heartbreaker, I had thirty cents to my name. Jesse [Malin, local punk hero and Niagara co-owner] let me come in and get a couple pops, and I’d scribble away. I didn’t go in there, get fucked up and expect to walk out with anything. It’d be like my coffee shop, except I’d nurse a beer, look around, catch wind of different conversations or just isolate myself. I tend to need a little white noise when I wr
