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(MAN SPEAKING)

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-(KAREN O LAUGHS)
\h\h-(MAN LAUGHS)

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(KAREN O SPEAKING)

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MAN: (LAUGHS) Yeah.

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(KAREN O SPEAKING)

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MAN: Day upon day,

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and year upon year, O city,

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walking your streets.

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Give me faces and streets!

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\h\h\h\h\h\hGive me comrades
and lovers by the thousands!

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Let me see new ones every day!

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\hLet me hold new ones
by the hand every day!

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Give me such shows!

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Give me the streets
\h\h\hof Manhattan!

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People, endless, streaming,
\h\h\h\hwith strong voices,
\h\h\h\hpassions, pageants.

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\h\h\h\h\hManhattan streets,
with their powerful throbs,

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with the beating drums, as now,

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the endless and noisy chorus.

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\h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan crowds with
their turbulent musical chorus.

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Manhattan faces and eyes
\h\h\h\hforever for me.

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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(CARS HONKING)

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MAN: Welcome to New York City.

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(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

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♪ Sleeping in a van
\h\hBetween A and B

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♪ Sucking dick for ecstasy

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♪ Paid a 70 year old hooker
\h\h\h\hTo make out with me

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♪ Now the get-high shack
\h\h\h\his just a memory

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♪ Downloading porn with Davo

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♪ Downloading porn with Davo

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♪ Put a latch on the door
\h\h\h\hSo Mama don’t know

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♪ That I’m downloading porn
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWith Davo ♪

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-KIMYA DAWSON: Perfect!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Perfect!

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(BOTH LAUGH)

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You guys wanna be
in a documentary?

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We’re making a documentary.

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-Documentary that’s-- All right.
-ADAM GREEN: Cool.

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It’s a documentary
\h\hof the hallway.

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-Yeah.
-Great.

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MAN 2: How you doing?

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Hello. I’m your new neighbor.

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ADAM: You guys be our audience.
\h\h\h\h\hWe’re singing songs.

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All right. Cool.

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-MAN: We’re singing songs.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Cool guys!

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\h\h\hWho left you people
\h\h\h\h\halone tonight?
That’s what I wanna know.

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(MELLOW GUITAR MUSIC)

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hADAM:
\hMy parents thought of us
as a delusional experiment

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\h\h\h\hwhere we didn’t know
how to play our instruments.

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We came to New York
\h\hto try to prove
we were a real band,

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The Moldy Peaches.

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Tonight, we’re going
\hto a birthday party

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\h\h\hfor the Queen
of fucking France.

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KIMYA: We just wanted to find
\h\h\h\ha place to play music.

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Hi!

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Hi.

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-Hi. Hi.
\h\h-Hi.

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ADAM: The Lower East side
\hwas more or less barren,

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delis and boarded up places.

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\h\h\hKIMYA: Most places
\h\hwe found were sort of
a more bougie club scene.

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We’d walk into these rooms
\hand be like, "Oh, oops."

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\h\h\hIt felt like
all of that wild,

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\hweird eclecticness had
drained out of the city.

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\h\hADAM: I remember thinking
maybe New York isn’t the kind
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof city anymore

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that produces iconic bands.

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\h\hEven MTV was filled
with super dry pop-rock.

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\hAnd the winner
for best rock is
\hThe Offspring!

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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\h\h\h-Blink 182.
-(CROWD CHEERING)

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Limp Bizkit, Rollin.

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
Friday, 2:12 p.m.

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Hey, Adam, what’s up?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt’s...

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\h\h\h\hADAM: Somebody told me,
\h\h\h\h\h"You should check out
the open mic at Sidewalk Cafe,

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and that’s where we found
\h\h\hthe anti-folk scene.

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-(MELLOW GUITAR MUSIC)
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah.

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ADAM: This community
\h\h\h\h\hof musicians

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that didn’t have
a place to play.

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MAN: Oh, yeah.

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♪ There’s a car traveling down
a lone Texas highway

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♪ Rams into a giant back

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♪ Spirit of the bat fills your
fragile eggshell mind

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♪ Yeah ♪

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKIMYA:
Maybe we could fit in here.

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(INDISTINCTIVE SINGING)

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♪ When the worlds
\h\h\hgot you down

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♪ Rainy Sundays, sunny town

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♪ Tropicana, canned foods

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♪ Botulism, damaged goods

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♪ See the hipsters in the park

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♪ Hair so styled,
\hclothes so dark

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♪ Prefab molded hamburgers

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\h♪ I don’t want
a bite of yours

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♪ These burgers are crazy

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♪ These burgers are crazy ♪

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\h\h\h-(CROWD APPLAUDS)
\h\h\h\h-Let’s hear it
for The Moldy Peaches!

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\h\h\hKIMYA: We were
immediately embraced.

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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MAN: ...send the tip jar around.

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KIMYA: It became our home.

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ADAM: This shy girl
\h\h\h\hcalled Karen

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lived across the street
from the Sidewalk Cafe.

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\h\h\hShe’d come down
\hto play these quiet
acoustic guitar songs.

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KAREN O: I was grateful
\h\hplaying at any venue
\h\h\hin New York City,

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but it just wasn’t
\h\h\hexciting me.

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\h\h\h\h\h\hI was skulking around
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe music scene
trying to sniff out some blood.

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\h\h\hThe last big wave
\h\h\hof New York bands
was a long time passed.

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\hI wanted something
explosive to happen

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without understanding
\h\h\h\hwhat that was.

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\h\h\hADAM: One day,
\h\hme and Kimya were
at our friend’s party.

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This drunk guy called Julian
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hcomes over...

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and he’s in the bathroom doing
drugs with this young lady,

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he breaks the shower.

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Somebody said he was
\ha singer in a band
called The Strokes.

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\h\h\h\hThis guy’s crazy.
I’ve gotta see this band.

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(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

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(SINGING INDISTINCTLY)

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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(MAN HOWLING)

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RADIO JOCKEY: We’re sitting
\hhere with The Strokes live
\h\h\h\hin WF Music Studios.

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You guys were hot last night.

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-JULIAN: Scorching!
\h\h-(WOMAN LAUGHS)

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(GROUP SHOUTING)

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WOMAN: Yeah.

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\hRADIO JOCKEY: Hey, Jules,
when did you guys start up?

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JULIAN: We started playing
\h\h\h\hNew York a year ago.

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\h\h\h\hThe last few months
we’ve been tearing stuff up.

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WOMAN: You’re looking
\h\h\hpretty serious.

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I am serious, man,
I’m always serious.

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\h\h\h-Am I ever not serious?
-MAN: You’re more serious...

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I don’t know what’s fuck--

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(WOMAN LAUGHING)

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That felt good.

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\h\hNow it’s my turn
to break the camera.

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\h\h\h\hALBERT HAMMOND:
The way I met this band,

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\h\h\h\htoo many things
happened exactly right,

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\hthat it seems so hard
for it to be just luck.

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Four, three, two! Oh, shit.

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-MAN: Hey, Julian.
\h\h\h\h\h-Oh, man.

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ALBERT: I ran into Julian
\h\h\h\h\h\hon the street

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\h\h\h\hseven years
\hafter I’d met him
in boarding school.

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Then I met everyone.

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I just felt it.

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The closeness.

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(INAUDIBLE)

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We were like brothers.

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ADAM: They were so tight
\h\h\h\h\h\hand together,
and are such good friends.

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\hIt just feels like
\h\hthe five of them
make up one person.

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Just one solid person on stage.

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By now, most people
have heard of Y2K,

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the anagram shorthand
\h\hfor the year 2000
\h\hcomputer problem.

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Americans have proven
\h\h\hthey can handle

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even the most devastating
\h\h\h\hnatural disaster.

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But can we survive a man-made
\h\h\htechnological meltdown?

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FEMALE REPORTER: It’s now time
\h\h\h\h\h\hto begin stockpiling
\h\h\hessential survival items.

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MALE REPORTER: Military meals,
\h\h\h\h\h\hgas masks to knives.

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When your kids are standing
\h\h\hthere cold and hungry,
\h\h\h\h\h\hand they come up

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to you and say, "Mommy, Daddy,
\h\hwhy didn’t you get ready?"
\hWhat are you gonna tell them?

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\h\h\h\hFEMALE REPORTER 2:
\h\h\h\h\h\hWith every tick
of the clock toward midnight

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\h\h\h\h\hin Times Square,
\hemergency officials are
watching for Y2K problems.

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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The dawning of a new millennium
now just minutes away.

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We celebrate the future.

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\h\hWhat will the story
of the 21st century be?

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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CROWD: Ten, nine, eight,
\h\h\h\hseven, six, five,

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four, three, two, one...

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\h\h-(CROWD CHEERING)
-(FIREWORKS BLASTING)

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\h\h\h\h\hFEMALE REPORTER:
From the City Command Center
\hat the World Trade Center,

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the Deputy Mayor Joseph Lhota
\h\h\h\hsaid computer systems
\h\h\h\h\h\hhave been checked.

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThe city
is functioning normally.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

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KAREN O: A friend of mine
\h\h\h\h\hhad a big crush
\h\h\h\hon this guy Nick.

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\h\hShe dragged me
\hto the Mars Bar
where he hung out.

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I felt this very visceral
\h\hreaction towards him.

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I needed to be connected
\h\h\h\hto this person.

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NICK ZINNER: She talked
\h\h\hlike a valley girl

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\h\h\hbut said that
she was from Jersey.

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Every other word was "dude".

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\h\hI’d never met
anybody like that.

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When you’re young
\hand in New York

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\h\h\h\hand you find
like-minded people,

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\h\h\hyou just end up doing
things together every night.

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Karen played me songs
that she had written.

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I was just completely
\h\h\h\h\hblown away.

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♪ I may be dead, honey

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♪ But I was left with my eyes

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♪ And underneath, sugar

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♪ Well, I’ve been sunk
\h\hby your lies... ♪

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNICK:
One night, Karen said,

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Trust me.
We should start a rock band."

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We’re the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand, um...

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we’re from New York City,
\h\hBrooklyn, and, um...

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We, uh...

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We’ve, um...

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-Do you wanna continue?
\h\h\h\h-(NICK LAUGHS)

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NICK: In one night,
we wrote six songs.

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We were bragging about
\hhow amazing we were
\h\h\h\hto our friend

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who was The White Stripes
\h\h\h\h\h\hbooking agent.

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHe called our bluff
and offered us the opening slot

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for The White Stripes show
\h\hin the Mercury Lounge.

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Karen was really insistent

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that we get her friend
\hBrian to play drums.

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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KAREN O: I was really nervous,

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand I had
four margaritas lined up.

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\h\h\h(LAUGHING)
Knocking one back
\hafter the other.

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(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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(KAREN O INDISTINCTLY SINGING)

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KAREN O: Something was
\hcompletely unleashed,

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I was shocked.

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(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

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I grew up in New Jersey,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hvery shy,

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half Korean, half white.

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\h\h\h\hAnd when you’re a halfie,
you don’t feel like the whites,

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\hyou don’t fit in
with the Koreans.
\h\h\h(LAUGHING)

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\h\h\h\hI was just used
to being on the outside.

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut on stage,
I was free of that feeling.

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Once I’d had tasted that,
\h\h\h\h\h\hI just wanted
\hto lose myself in that.

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou guys
should get a manager, you know.
\h\hDo you guys have a manager?

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\h\h\h\h\h\hHe’s over there,
you should point the camera--
\h\h\h\h\hIt’s Ryan Gentles.

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMALE REPORTER:
\h\h\h\h\h\hThat’s not a manager,
that’s, like, a cute little kid.

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\h\hRYAN GENTLES:
\h\hThe first time
I saw The Strokes,

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\h\hI was watching a band
that just was born a band.

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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\h\h\hI was the booker
at the Mercury Lounge,

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the best club for local bands
\h\h\h\h\h\hin New York City.

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I booked them immediately.

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WOMAN: We’re live here
\h\h\hwith The Strokes.

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I know you guys
are really hot.

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\hThey’ve been playing
every Wednesday night

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\h\h\h\h\hin December
at the Mercury Lounge.

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\h\h\h\hJULIAN: Hello, yeah,
\h\h\h\h\h\hwe’re The Strokes
and we’re from New York City.

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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MAN: You just felt it.

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The audience was excited
\h\h\h\hthat we existed.

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\h\hADAM: Me and Kimya
opened for The Strokes.

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\h\hThe first week,
we also played with
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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So, it was The Moldy Peaches,
\h\h\h\h\hthe Yeah Yeah Yeahs
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand The Strokes.

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\hKIMYA: More people
crammed in each week.

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ADAM: There was a hysteria
\h\h\h\h\h\hin the audience.

244
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These guys were like sex gods.

245
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\h-MAN: Suddenly, there were
bands everywhere in New York.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-(WOMAN LAUGHS)

246
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(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

247
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\hADAM: The Strokes
launched a fireball.

248
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\h\h♪ New York City
is like a graveyard

249
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ADAM: It all happened so fast.

250
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\h♪ All the corpses like
the way I play my guitar

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ADAM: Totally DIY.

252
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\h\h♪ You gotta be cute
if you wanna get far...

253
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ADAM: Zero interest
\hfrom record labels
\h\h\hor magazines.

254
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\h\h♪ New York City
is like a graveyard

255
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♪ All the tombstones
\h\h\h\hsky scrapin’

256
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♪ All the rock stars
\h\h\hdouble dating

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♪ We got it ♪

258
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♪ Blue eyes last forever

259
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♪ Real light it never fades

260
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♪ Real life is a gamble

261
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Pardon me?

262
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♪ So don’t give your ace ♪

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PAUL BANKS: I desperately
\h\hwanted to participate
\h\h\h\h\hin the scene...

264
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\h\h\hBut I’m working
at Yeshiva University

265
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in the admissions office
\hstuffing envelopes...

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\hKnowing there’s five
\h\h\hdudes out there
that are cool as fuck,

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writing insanely awesome music

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\h\hand they are cooler
and better than you are.

269
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\h\hI was also the singer
in a band called Interpol.

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\h\h\h\h\hWe sent our demos
to every single record label
\h\h\h\h\hI could think of.

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\h\h\h\h\h\hNo record label
showed any interest at all.

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PAUL: It was like all of those
\h\hguidance counselor meetings

273
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\h\hwhere they’re, like,
"What do you wanna do?"

274
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\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd I said,
"I wanna be a rock star,"

275
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\h\h\h\hand they said,
"Don’t be a jackass."

276
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\h\hI was experiencing
very deep depression.

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\h\h\hI felt like
\h\hI was slipping
out of existence.

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♪ Surprise sometime

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♪ Will come around

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♪ I will surprise you sometime

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♪ I’ll come around

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♪ I will surprise you sometime

283
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♪ I’ll come around

284
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♪ When you’re down ♪

285
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(MAN SCATTING)

286
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Get in the fucking van!

287
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MAN: Hello, The Strokes!

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(MEN LAUGHING)

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRYAN:
I sent The Strokes’ demo

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to everyone I could think of
\h\hin the industry saying,

291
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"This is the best
\h\hunsigned band
in New York City."

292
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\h\h\h\hGeoff Travis at Rough Trade
called the day he received it.

293
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He said, "I wanna sign this
and fly the band to England
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor a tour."

294
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It was insane!

295
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MAN: It seems so weird.
We’re going to England
\h\h\h\hto play music.

296
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Let’s go to England!

297
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Oh...

298
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MAN: You don’t wanna
get too carried away.

299
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\h\hI’m, like, I’m trying
to like just hang with it.

300
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(MEN LAUGHING)

301
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(MAN SPEAKING)

302
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Pretty exciting.

303
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American tourist in England.

304
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Fuck.

305
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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hADAM:
Me and Kimya went on tour
\hopening for The Strokes.

306
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\h\h\hKIMYA: We would always
\h\h\hjoke around and be like,
"We’re The Strokes fluffers."

307
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(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

308
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(MAN INDISTINCTLY TALKING)

309
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♪ Take your passion

310
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♪ And make it happen

311
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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ You can come alive
you can dance right through... ♪

312
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\hKIMYA: I was quite
a bit older and sober.

313
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I would say to those guys,
\h\h\h\h\h\h"Are you sure
\h\hyou wanna get wasted?

314
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"You don’t wanna remember
\h\h\h\hhow cool this is?"

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We’re ready, right team?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hGo team.

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-Go team. All right.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yay.

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INTERVIEWER: Strokes, hello.

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-Hello.
\h-Hi.

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Hello.
-INTERVIEWER: I think,
\h\h\h\h\h\hfirst off,

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\h\hbecause you’re unknown
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the U.K.,
just introduce yourselves.

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\h\h\h-Julian.
-(GROUP LAUGHS)

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\hKIMYA: Julian was dealing
with a lot of nervousness.

323
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\h\h\hI was, like,
"How is he scared?
\h\hHe’s so good."

324
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\h\h\hBut he wrote
all of the songs.

325
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His nervousness came out
\hof that perfectionism.

326
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(CROWD CHEERING)

327
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\h\h\h♪ Last night she said
Oh, baby, don’t feel so down

328
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♪ Oh, it turns me off
\hwhen I feel left out

329
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♪ So I

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♪ I turn around

331
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\h\h\h\h♪ Oh, baby
gonna be all right

332
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♪ It was a great big lie

333
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♪ ’Cause I left
that night, yeah

334
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(CROWD CHEERING)

335
00:24:35,339 --> 00:24:39,339
\h\h\h\h\h♪ Oh, people
They don’t understand

336
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\h\h\h♪ No, girlfriends
They don’t understand ♪

337
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(CROWD CHEERING)

338
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(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

339
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Not before coming here. No.

340
00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:55,075
Oh, it’s just so weird.

341
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I don’t even know what’s
going on right now, man.

342
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I’m just, you know,
\h\h\h\hit’s all...

343
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\h\hIt’s all crazy and cool
and bizarre and-- you know.

344
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(SIREN WAILING)

345
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(INDISTINCT TALKING)

346
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-MAN: What’s going on?
\h\h\h-MAN 2: You gotta
\hget off here, please.

347
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Keep going. Keep going.

348
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(INDISTINCT TALKING)

349
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(SIREN BLARING)

350
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MAN: Holy shit.

351
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Holy shit.

352
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MAN 2: Please, please.

353
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(CLAMORING)

354
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(EXPLOSION)

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MAN: Holy shit!

356
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-(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
\h-(SIREN BLARING)

357
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\hMAN: Get up! Get up!
Get up! Get up! Get up!

358
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-(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
\h-(SIREN BLARING)

359
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-MAN: Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-WOMAN: What?

360
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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMALE REPORTER:
\h\h\h\h\hMayor Giuliani, I wonder
if you could give us an update?

361
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\h\h\h\h\hMAYOR GIULIANI: Well,
the first thing I’d like to do

362
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\h\his take this opportunity
\h\h\h\h\h\hto tell everyone
to evacuate Lower Manhattan.

363
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PAT KAREN: Mayor Giuliani,
\h\h\hdo you have any sense

364
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of the order of magnitude
\hof injuries and deaths?

365
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\h\h\h\hMAYOR GIULIANI:
I do not, except to say
\hthat it’s horrendous.

366
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(BUILDING CRUMBLING)

367
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(SIREN BLARING)

368
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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPAUL:
When the buildings fell,

369
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my impression was clearly
\h\hthere won’t have been
\hpeople in that building.

370
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We walked in the ashy streets
\h\h\h\h\h\hpicking up papers.

371
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\h\h\hOnce they said on the radio,
"You should go to the hospitals

372
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"and try and give blood,"
it started to dawn on me.

373
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Thousands have lost their life.

374
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MAN: It’s 1-800-GIVE-LIFE.

375
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For blood.

376
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You can call up to give--

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\h\hPAUL: I remember feeling
how fragile life actually is.

378
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♪ There’s anthrax
\hin the envelope

379
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♪ I opened in my dream

380
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♪ Dream the sky is red

381
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♪ And little kids are running
\h\h\hscreaming in the street

382
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♪ I try to run and save them

383
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♪ But I have molasses feet

384
00:28:13,603 --> 00:28:19,438
\h\h♪ I keep having nightmares
and I’m scared to go to sleep

385
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♪ In Montreal I got so mad

386
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,108
♪ Someone broke into the van

387
00:28:26,108 --> 00:28:31,405
♪ Stole my guitar
\hand Aaron’s bag

388
00:28:32,174 --> 00:28:38,306
\h\h\h♪ Then we turned on CNN
watched the towers fall again

389
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♪ Realized that our lives
\h\h\h\h\h\haren’t so bad

390
00:28:44,306 --> 00:28:51,108
\h\h\h♪ The air is filled
with computers and carpets

391
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♪ Skin and bones and telephones
and file cabinets

392
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♪ Coke machines, firemen
Landing here and cement

393
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\h♪ They say that it’s okay
but I say don’t breathe in ♪

394
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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
I was grieving for my city.

395
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I felt deep trauma.

396
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\h\h\hBut when I perform,
I could be somewhere else.

397
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\h\h\h\hAlmost, you know,
like a split personality.

398
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♪ You’re pretty
\hYou’re pretty

399
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\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

400
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\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

401
00:29:41,537 --> 00:29:44,999
\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

402
00:29:44,999 --> 00:29:49,339
\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

403
00:29:49,339 --> 00:29:51,207
♪ Hey, hey

404
00:29:52,306 --> 00:29:56,339
MALE REPORTER: Fear and anxiety
\h\h\h\hhave become a very real
\h\h\h\h\hpart of American life.

405
00:29:56,339 --> 00:30:01,669
This, of course is Halloween,
\h\h\h\h\h\ha day when fright
\h\h\his manufactured for fun.

406
00:30:01,669 --> 00:30:04,900
\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

407
00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:08,669
\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

408
00:30:08,669 --> 00:30:10,471
♪ You look like shit

409
00:30:11,405 --> 00:30:15,504
♪ You take your time
\hYou take your time

410
00:30:15,504 --> 00:30:17,669
♪ You take it

411
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,669
♪ T-T-T-Time

412
00:30:20,999 --> 00:30:23,207
(KAREN O SCATTING)

413
00:30:31,042 --> 00:30:33,966
(KAREN O SCREAMING)

414
00:30:34,669 --> 00:30:38,339
♪ You take your time
\hYou take your time

415
00:30:38,339 --> 00:30:40,075
♪ You take it ♪

416
00:30:40,537 --> 00:30:44,141
(KAREN O TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-(CROWD CHEERING)

417
00:30:44,999 --> 00:30:46,471
\hMALE REPORTER:
At Fort Campbell,
\hKentucky, today,

418
00:30:46,471 --> 00:30:49,405
\h\hPresident Bush rallied
the army’s 101st Airborne

419
00:30:49,405 --> 00:30:51,471
\h\h\hheading off
to support the war
\hin Afghanistan,

420
00:30:51,471 --> 00:30:57,669
and carved up a turkey, right
\h\halong with Osama Bin Laden
\h\h\hand his Al-Qaeda forces.

421
00:30:57,669 --> 00:31:02,075
\h\h\h\hWe will never tire,
and we will hunt them down!

422
00:31:02,075 --> 00:31:02,603
(CROWD CHEERING)

423
00:31:02,603 --> 00:31:06,240
A grim task of trying to find
\h\h\hremains of those killed.

424
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,141
Anxiety and fear--

425
00:31:07,141 --> 00:31:08,438
\h\h\h\h\hMALE REPORTER:
Terrorist training camp--

426
00:31:08,438 --> 00:31:09,570
FEMALE REPORTER 2:
\hCruise missiles--

427
00:31:09,570 --> 00:31:10,966
-MALE REPORTER 3: Holy war--
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Mass murder--

428
00:31:10,966 --> 00:31:12,603
-MALE REPORTER 4: Casualties-
\h-MALE REPORTER 5: Taliban--

429
00:31:12,603 --> 00:31:14,240
\h-MALE REPORTER 6: Airstrike--
-MALE REPORTER 7: Terrorists--

430
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,240
MALE REPORTER 8: Destroyed.

431
00:31:20,471 --> 00:31:24,405
\hMAN: New York felt
really claustrophobic.

432
00:31:24,966 --> 00:31:27,141
So much paranoia.

433
00:31:27,372 --> 00:31:30,570
Everyone’s confused and scared.

434
00:31:38,603 --> 00:31:41,438
MAN: The artists and musicians
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hmoved in droves

435
00:31:41,438 --> 00:31:45,306
\h\h\h\hout of Manhattan
across to Williamsburg.

436
00:31:46,570 --> 00:31:48,240
MAN 2: A lot of people
\h\h\h\hquit their jobs,

437
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,240
\hand just were like,
\h"Fuck it, I’m gonna
play music full-time."

438
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:57,306
MAN: The rent was so cheap
\h\h\hthat you could afford
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto take risks.

439
00:31:57,603 --> 00:32:00,801
\h\h\h\hYou could fail
and it didn’t matter.

440
00:32:01,636 --> 00:32:06,141
\hBRIAN CHASE: There is
a big difference between
Brooklyn and Manhattan.

441
00:32:06,141 --> 00:32:10,306
\h\hBrooklyn was about
potential and freedom.

442
00:32:11,207 --> 00:32:15,537
\h\hAbandoned buildings
\h\h\h\h\hand warehouses
became practice spaces.

443
00:32:15,537 --> 00:32:19,801
Outside of public attention
\h\h\h\h\h\hand expectation.

444
00:32:20,768 --> 00:32:22,438
That’s what nurtured us.

445
00:32:22,438 --> 00:32:26,603
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h(LAUGHS)
\hWe could all be weirdos
in the best way possible.

446
00:32:27,108 --> 00:32:29,438
\h\h\h\hThe main bands were
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Onida,

447
00:32:29,438 --> 00:32:32,603
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand Sightings,
Liars, and TV On The Radio.

448
00:32:32,603 --> 00:32:36,504
\h\hThis is an excuse for us
to hang out with our friends
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand...

449
00:32:36,504 --> 00:32:40,042
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.

450
00:32:40,042 --> 00:32:40,801
Yeah, this guy.

451
00:32:40,801 --> 00:32:43,108
\hCome and bust our balls
during an interview, man.

452
00:32:43,108 --> 00:32:46,042
He said, "Can you play drums?"
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Yeah, maybe."

453
00:32:46,042 --> 00:32:47,141
Whatever drummer--

454
00:32:47,141 --> 00:32:49,141
\hTUNDE ADIBIMPE:
Whatever, drummer.

455
00:32:50,141 --> 00:32:52,141
DAVE SITEK: What brought
\hTV On The Radio together

456
00:32:52,141 --> 00:32:54,537
is the fact that
we’re all nerds.

457
00:32:55,768 --> 00:33:00,339
I’m not a very social person,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI don’t go out.

458
00:33:00,372 --> 00:33:02,768
\h\h\hWhen I became
friends with Tunde,
\h\h\h\hhe was like,

459
00:33:02,768 --> 00:33:05,339
"You have no clothes
\hand no furniture,

460
00:33:05,339 --> 00:33:06,768
\h"but you have pain
and drum machines."

461
00:33:06,768 --> 00:33:09,867
\h\h\hI was, like, "Yeah,
that’s kind of the vibe."

462
00:33:10,372 --> 00:33:13,108
\h\h\hTUNDE: I always
wanted to make music.

463
00:33:13,108 --> 00:33:16,372
\hWhen you’re the offspring
of immigrants, and you say,

464
00:33:16,372 --> 00:33:18,702
"I wanna be an artist,"
\hyou might as well say,

465
00:33:18,702 --> 00:33:23,603
"Thanks for all of this
\h\hbut I’m gonna put on
a pair of clown shoes."

466
00:33:24,702 --> 00:33:29,240
But I’ve gotta get whatever
\h\henergy that’s in me out.

467
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,207
(CROWD CHEERING)

468
00:33:32,867 --> 00:33:36,867
\h\h\hWriting music
felt like a prayer.

469
00:33:47,372 --> 00:33:51,834
♪ Your ooh

470
00:33:52,570 --> 00:33:55,504
♪ Slim frame

471
00:33:57,339 --> 00:34:02,504
♪ Your eager eyes

472
00:34:02,603 --> 00:34:05,801
♪ Your wild mane

473
00:34:07,933 --> 00:34:12,438
♪ So they keep me

474
00:34:12,933 --> 00:34:15,801
♪ Where I belong

475
00:34:21,768 --> 00:34:26,174
♪ I’m strung out in song

476
00:34:28,339 --> 00:34:33,273
♪ Oh, I will be your accident

477
00:34:33,273 --> 00:34:37,801
♪ If you will be my ambulance

478
00:34:37,801 --> 00:34:43,273
\h\h\h\h♪ So I will be
your screech and crash

479
00:34:43,273 --> 00:34:48,471
\h♪ If you will be
my crutch and cast

480
00:34:48,471 --> 00:34:53,438
\h♪ And I will be
your one more time

481
00:34:53,438 --> 00:34:58,834
\h♪ If you will be
my one last chance

482
00:34:58,834 --> 00:35:05,834
♪ Oh, sweet tree fall for me ♪

483
00:35:13,834 --> 00:35:14,834
\h\h\h\h\h\hNARDWUAR:
Julian of The Strokes,

484
00:35:14,834 --> 00:35:17,669
\h\h\h\hthere is an element
\h\h\h\h\hof make believe,
isn’t there, in the band--

485
00:35:17,669 --> 00:35:19,999
\h\h\hThere’s an element of
make believe, isn’t there?

486
00:35:19,999 --> 00:35:23,999
\h\h\h\hSwiss schools,
elite modeling agency?

487
00:35:24,537 --> 00:35:25,339
\h\h\h\h-Yes.
-Lee? What--

488
00:35:25,339 --> 00:35:28,372
NARDWUAR: There’s an element
of make believe in the band.
\h\h\h\h\hThat’s pretty cool.

489
00:35:28,372 --> 00:35:29,801
Meeting at Swiss schools,
\h\h\h\h\h\hthat’s cool.

490
00:35:29,801 --> 00:35:32,471
That’s like realistic,
it’s not make believe,

491
00:35:32,471 --> 00:35:34,834
it’s not pretend,
it’s not fiction.

492
00:35:34,834 --> 00:35:36,504
It’s true to life.

493
00:35:36,504 --> 00:35:38,240
I think that’s really cool
\h\h\h\hthough, like Swiss.

494
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:40,834
I’ve never been to a place
\h\h\h\h\hthey call Swiss,

495
00:35:40,834 --> 00:35:42,504
but you guys have,
and you met there,

496
00:35:42,504 --> 00:35:43,900
and your dad is, like,
\h\h\hJohn Casablancas.

497
00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:47,801
\h\h\hThat’s pretty cool
and I think he’s in some
\h\h\hhot water now, eh?

498
00:35:47,801 --> 00:35:50,669
I don’t know. I think...

499
00:35:50,669 --> 00:35:51,471
I don’t know, it’s weird.

500
00:35:51,471 --> 00:35:55,735
\h\hI live with my mom,
you know, they divorced
\hwhen I was young, so.

501
00:35:55,735 --> 00:35:58,504
I think just-- I think life felt
a little more normal.

502
00:35:58,504 --> 00:36:01,570
That was the weirdest part.
That was the weirdest stage
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof my life.

503
00:36:01,570 --> 00:36:03,471
And it’s my great pleasure
\h\h\h\hto introduce to you

504
00:36:03,471 --> 00:36:05,867
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe President
of the Elite Modeling Agency,

505
00:36:05,867 --> 00:36:08,900
-Mr. John Casablancas.
\h\h\h-(CROWD APPLAUDS)

506
00:36:11,801 --> 00:36:13,900
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

507
00:36:15,405 --> 00:36:17,570
(JULIAN SPEAKING)

508
00:36:26,075 --> 00:36:29,372
MAN: Julian wasn’t really
\hcomfortable with fame.

509
00:36:29,372 --> 00:36:34,702
He was always talking about
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhow he wanted
\hto make underground music.

510
00:36:34,702 --> 00:36:37,603
\h\h\hBut he also wanted
the music to be popular.

511
00:36:37,603 --> 00:36:39,405
(CROWD CHEERING)

512
00:36:39,405 --> 00:36:42,603
He had this tension
\h\h\hinside of him.

513
00:36:44,570 --> 00:36:47,306
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

514
00:36:50,075 --> 00:36:52,570
(INDISTINCT SINGING)

515
00:37:17,042 --> 00:37:20,141
(CROWD CHEERING)

516
00:37:38,504 --> 00:37:41,372
(INDISTINCT SINGING)

517
00:38:00,669 --> 00:38:02,702
(CROWD CHEERING)

518
00:38:12,900 --> 00:38:17,108
-(P.A. SYSTEM CHIMES)
-(INDISTINCT TALKING)

519
00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:20,933
(BRIAN SPEAKING)

520
00:38:24,438 --> 00:38:26,669
(KAREN O SPEAKING)

521
00:38:30,669 --> 00:38:35,438
KAREN O: So, we’re in the U.K.

522
00:38:36,867 --> 00:38:38,867
I have to say...

523
00:38:39,108 --> 00:38:44,042
It’s a party in the U.K.,
\h\h\h\h\h\hI have to say.

524
00:38:44,042 --> 00:38:45,735
WOMAN: You rock.

525
00:38:46,075 --> 00:38:50,834
What’s more important, Dave,
a good sound or a good time?

526
00:38:53,207 --> 00:38:56,207
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-A good time.
-Yeah, I agree, do you agree?

527
00:38:56,207 --> 00:38:58,537
\h\h\hSounding good
having a good time.

528
00:38:58,537 --> 00:38:59,702
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
Every woman fronting a band

529
00:38:59,702 --> 00:39:06,768
\h\hin, like, the 30 years
\hbefore me were pioneers
and I felt like a pioneer.

530
00:39:06,768 --> 00:39:11,933
\h\h\h\h\h\hFor men in rock,
\h\hthere’s a fucking code,
there’s a way you do things.

531
00:39:11,933 --> 00:39:14,768
I just realized for me,
\h\h\h\hthere’s no code.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h(LAUGHS)

532
00:39:14,768 --> 00:39:17,933
\h\hI could do whatever
I wanted to do up there.

533
00:39:17,933 --> 00:39:20,075
I didn’t give a fuck.

534
00:39:22,570 --> 00:39:24,603
♪ Oh, I’m rich

535
00:39:26,075 --> 00:39:28,570
♪ Like a hot noise

536
00:39:29,141 --> 00:39:32,240
♪ Rich, rich, rich

537
00:39:32,735 --> 00:39:35,636
♪ I’ll take you out, boy

538
00:39:36,141 --> 00:39:38,273
♪ So stuck up

539
00:39:39,768 --> 00:39:42,801
♪ I wish you’d stick it to me

540
00:39:43,273 --> 00:39:46,141
♪ Flesh ripped off

541
00:39:51,768 --> 00:39:53,768
(CROWD CHEERING)

542
00:39:58,075 --> 00:39:59,570
♪ Ha

543
00:40:04,141 --> 00:40:05,900
♪ Ah

544
00:40:13,570 --> 00:40:16,570
♪ Turn it beating no beat

545
00:40:16,570 --> 00:40:18,669
♪ The walls are
always speaking

546
00:40:18,669 --> 00:40:23,966
\h\h\h\h\h♪ No want, no want
No want no speaking at all ♪

547
00:40:23,966 --> 00:40:25,801
(CROWD CHEERING)

548
00:40:26,636 --> 00:40:29,933
\h\h\hBRIAN: On the very
first night in the U.K...

549
00:40:29,933 --> 00:40:32,075
it was pandemonium.

550
00:40:32,075 --> 00:40:35,504
\h\h\h\hEvery club
that we would play
would be sold out.

551
00:40:35,504 --> 00:40:38,735
\h\h\h\h\h\hPeople knew
our songs word-for-word.

552
00:40:38,768 --> 00:40:40,240
It was super crazy.

553
00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,735
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-$5...
-KAREN O: Which shirt
\h\h\h\hdo you want?

554
00:40:42,735 --> 00:40:46,834
\h\hThis one is the last one.
Let me, uh, sign it for you.

555
00:40:46,834 --> 00:40:49,768
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Hope you had
\h\h\ha good time tonight?
-WOMAN: It was fandabidozi.

556
00:40:49,768 --> 00:40:54,273
MAN: All the magazines
\h\h\h\hare saying you
are the best band ever.

557
00:40:54,273 --> 00:40:56,636
(INDISTINCT)

558
00:40:57,768 --> 00:41:01,042
Right. You are fantastic.

559
00:41:01,042 --> 00:41:03,669
\h\h\hThose are, uh,
those are big words.

560
00:41:03,669 --> 00:41:05,801
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMAN:
They’re fucking right though.

561
00:41:05,801 --> 00:41:06,669
(CROWD CHEERING)

562
00:41:06,669 --> 00:41:07,966
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
It was extremely exciting,

563
00:41:07,966 --> 00:41:13,075
\h\hand we were all so drunk
on that ravenous fanaticism.

564
00:41:13,999 --> 00:41:15,075
\h\h\h-MAN: ...funny.
-WOMAN: What’s that?

565
00:41:15,075 --> 00:41:18,735
\h\h\h\h\h-Where’s Brian?
We need Brian to sign it.
\h\h\h\h-MAN: Oh, oh, oh.

566
00:41:18,834 --> 00:41:21,966
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
Brian, you wanna sign this?
\h\h\hIs Brian back there?

567
00:41:21,966 --> 00:41:27,174
Write an essay on my shirt.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI am girl.

568
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:32,240
I know this band’s the future.

569
00:41:37,174 --> 00:41:39,702
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

570
00:41:40,834 --> 00:41:44,966
My name’s Carlos, uh,
\h\h\hCarlos D. Uh...

571
00:41:44,966 --> 00:41:46,735
I play bass in Interpol.

572
00:41:46,735 --> 00:41:49,042
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

573
00:41:53,570 --> 00:41:54,966
(CHUCKLES)

574
00:41:56,834 --> 00:42:03,372
\h\hDANIEL KESSLER: So, we pooled
\h\h\h\hall of our money together
and forced this tour of the U.K.

575
00:42:06,636 --> 00:42:08,636
I’d never been to England.

576
00:42:08,636 --> 00:42:10,372
\h\h\hThis is where
The Smiths are from.

577
00:42:10,372 --> 00:42:13,735
This is where New Order
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\his from.

578
00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:16,141
I was on fire.

579
00:42:16,141 --> 00:42:18,372
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

580
00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:22,075
(INDISTINCT TALKING)

581
00:42:22,075 --> 00:42:24,636
\h\h\h\h\hDANIEL: Somehow,
we got booked to play this,

582
00:42:24,636 --> 00:42:28,405
like, little festival
\h\hcalled Crucifest.

583
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:32,108
(MAN SPEAKING)

584
00:42:39,306 --> 00:42:44,273
\h\h\h\h\h\hDANIEL: Next,
we’re booked in Manchester
\h\h\h\hon fucking Easter.

585
00:42:44,273 --> 00:42:48,240
You don’t play at Uni town
\h\h\h\h\h\hon a holiday.

586
00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:51,405
\hThere was, like,
five people there.

587
00:42:53,933 --> 00:42:57,900
Oh, you know what,
\h\h\hit’s not on.

588
00:42:59,075 --> 00:43:02,141
\h\h\h\hMAN: Every person
\h\h\h\hthat we met said,
"Do you know The Strokes?

589
00:43:02,141 --> 00:43:04,306
\h"Are you friends
with The Strokes?"

590
00:43:06,702 --> 00:43:13,801
♪ She says it helps
with the lights out

591
00:43:14,933 --> 00:43:22,108
\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ Her rabid glow
is like braille to the night

592
00:43:23,801 --> 00:43:31,273
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ She swears
I’m a slave to the details

593
00:43:31,471 --> 00:43:35,867
\h\h\h\h♪ But if your life
is such a big fuckin’ joke

594
00:43:35,867 --> 00:43:38,702
♪ Why should I care? ♪

595
00:43:39,174 --> 00:43:43,174
\h\h\h\h\hCARLOS: No one knew
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwho we were.
We shouldn’t have been there.

596
00:43:43,174 --> 00:43:45,966
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

597
00:43:48,174 --> 00:43:50,306
Where do we go from here?

598
00:44:31,768 --> 00:44:34,339
(AIRPLANE ENGINE ROARING)

599
00:44:36,405 --> 00:44:39,438
(CROWD CHEERING)

600
00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:44,174
MAN: The year after 9/11,

601
00:44:44,174 --> 00:44:48,075
the Parking Lot Show
was a manifestation
\h\hof appreciation

602
00:44:48,075 --> 00:44:51,174
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand love
for the Brooklyn Community.

603
00:44:51,174 --> 00:44:56,108
BRIAN: A real assembly
\h\h\h\h\h\hof the best
\hof the Brooklyn bands.

604
00:44:56,339 --> 00:44:58,867
Liars played just before us.

605
00:44:58,867 --> 00:45:02,306
-(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
\h\h-(CROWD CHEERING)

606
00:45:04,405 --> 00:45:11,075
♪ That child...

607
00:45:14,438 --> 00:45:17,933
♪ Oh

608
00:45:17,933 --> 00:45:21,306
♪ That child...

609
00:45:21,306 --> 00:45:24,108
♪ That child throws...

610
00:45:24,108 --> 00:45:27,108
♪ Just throw it out
\hJust throw it out

611
00:45:27,108 --> 00:45:30,240
♪ Just throw it out ♪

612
00:45:31,405 --> 00:45:34,603
(SCREAMING)

613
00:45:41,438 --> 00:45:42,999
MAN: There he is!

614
00:45:43,504 --> 00:45:45,075
There he is!

615
00:45:45,075 --> 00:45:47,108
\h\h\h-And next!
-(CROWD CHEERING)

616
00:45:50,438 --> 00:45:51,603
\h\h\hKAREN O:
There have been
times in my life

617
00:45:51,603 --> 00:45:54,900
\h\h\hwhere I really wanted
to fit in and I just didn’t.

618
00:45:59,438 --> 00:46:05,207
\h\h\h\h\hBut you could feel
the love from the community.

619
00:46:05,372 --> 00:46:09,669
(INDISTINCT SINGING)

620
00:46:11,372 --> 00:46:14,999
\h\hKAREN O: It was just like
a current flowing through me.

621
00:46:18,537 --> 00:46:23,306
\h♪ It’s our time
Our time, our time

622
00:46:23,306 --> 00:46:27,372
\h\h\h\h♪ It’s our time
Our time, it’s our time

623
00:46:27,372 --> 00:46:30,471
♪ To be hated, all right

624
00:46:30,471 --> 00:46:34,999
♪ Well, it’s the year
to be hated, all right

625
00:46:34,999 --> 00:46:39,504
♪ You know it’s the year
\hto be hated, all right

626
00:46:39,504 --> 00:46:45,306
\h\h\h♪ It’s the year
to be hated, all right

627
00:46:45,339 --> 00:46:48,999
♪ It’s the year to be hated ♪

628
00:46:48,999 --> 00:46:50,966
(CROWD CHEERING)

629
00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:07,075
\hJAMES MURPHY: All the stuff
\h\h\h\hwe were hearing about
what was going on in Brooklyn

630
00:47:07,075 --> 00:47:09,438
and we were in Manhattan.

631
00:47:09,603 --> 00:47:13,306
I was never really
part of any scene.

632
00:47:13,306 --> 00:47:16,306
I’d been recording bands
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor years.

633
00:47:16,306 --> 00:47:20,273
\h\h\h\hI had engineered some
perfectly engineered records,

634
00:47:20,471 --> 00:47:23,537
\h\h\h\h\h\hbut people
didn’t really hire me.

635
00:47:33,042 --> 00:47:34,405
Loads of crap.

636
00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:38,141
Suddenly this big named
\h\h\h\hIrish techno DJ

637
00:47:38,141 --> 00:47:41,735
\h\hshows up in New York
\h\h\hto make a record.
And that’s David Holmes.

638
00:47:41,735 --> 00:47:44,372
(TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING)

639
00:47:46,471 --> 00:47:50,735
DAVID HOLMES: When I was DJ,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI was Iggy Pop.

640
00:47:50,735 --> 00:47:52,735
Just living it.

641
00:47:54,075 --> 00:47:57,471
JAMES: David didn’t seem
\h\h\hto know how to play
\hany musical instruments.

642
00:47:57,471 --> 00:48:00,768
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hDAVID:
James didn’t understand
\h\h\h\h\h\hdance music.

643
00:48:00,768 --> 00:48:03,669
JAMES: And I’m super
\huptight about this.

644
00:48:03,669 --> 00:48:05,537
♪ Oh, yo, yo... ♪

645
00:48:05,537 --> 00:48:12,603
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hTIM GOLDSWORTH:
\h\h\hJames had been in a few
second-tier Indie Rock bands.

646
00:48:13,339 --> 00:48:14,141
He lived in the office.

647
00:48:14,141 --> 00:48:19,042
He had a small stereo system
and an inflatable mattress.

648
00:48:19,042 --> 00:48:22,636
That decade had defeated him.

649
00:48:24,141 --> 00:48:25,339
DAVID: The first thing
\h\h\h\h\hI wanted to do

650
00:48:25,339 --> 00:48:28,042
\h\hwas make a record
that sounded like Can.

651
00:48:28,042 --> 00:48:30,471
(WOMAN SPEAKING
\h\hIN GERMAN)

652
00:48:31,141 --> 00:48:33,471
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

653
00:48:35,636 --> 00:48:36,636
JAMES: Wait a second.

654
00:48:36,636 --> 00:48:40,141
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hCan were people
that worked at the Mozartian.

655
00:48:40,141 --> 00:48:42,768
\h\hThe most prestigious
classical music school.

656
00:48:42,768 --> 00:48:45,108
\h\h\h\h\h\hHerman Smidt won
the young conductors award,

657
00:48:45,108 --> 00:48:49,042
\h\h\h\h\htraveled to New York,
seized The Velvet Underground,

658
00:48:49,042 --> 00:48:49,636
blew his mind,

659
00:48:49,636 --> 00:48:54,174
went back and formed a band
with the best free jazz drummer
in Europe.

660
00:48:54,174 --> 00:48:55,801
\h\h\h\h\h\hThey live
in a weird old castle.

661
00:48:55,801 --> 00:48:58,174
They played together
\height hours a day.

662
00:48:58,174 --> 00:48:59,768
(INDISTINCT SINGING)

663
00:48:59,768 --> 00:49:03,735
\h\h\h\hYou’re gonna sit there
and sample your way into Can?

664
00:49:03,735 --> 00:49:07,108
\h\hAt this point,
I’m going insane.

665
00:49:07,108 --> 00:49:09,504
\hBut the truth is,
without David Holmes

666
00:49:09,504 --> 00:49:14,273
DFA, LCD, none of that
\hhappens, none of it.
\h\h\h\h\hNone of it.

667
00:49:18,702 --> 00:49:20,669
\h\h\hREPORTER: New York,
how’s the scene happening.

668
00:49:20,669 --> 00:49:23,504
\h\hAre you conscious of being
a part of something right now?

669
00:49:23,504 --> 00:49:26,702
\h\h\hWell, everyone says
that there’s the scenes,
\hso that’s kind of cool,

670
00:49:26,702 --> 00:49:33,405
you know, and I feel very proud
to be put into the same sentence
or whatever with those bands.

671
00:49:33,570 --> 00:49:37,504
\h\hPAUL: Out of the blue,
we got given a record deal.

672
00:49:37,834 --> 00:49:39,405
I just couldn’t believe it.

673
00:49:39,405 --> 00:49:41,768
This was actually happening.

674
00:49:42,207 --> 00:49:44,405
Finally making a record.

675
00:49:46,372 --> 00:49:50,174
MAN: The only studio
\h\h\hwe could afford
\h\h\hwas in the attic

676
00:49:50,174 --> 00:49:53,372
of someone’s house
\hin Connecticut.

677
00:49:54,405 --> 00:49:58,867
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt really was great
\h\h\h\h\h\hto get out of the city
and get away from distractions.

678
00:49:58,867 --> 00:50:03,504
Be it alcohol or cocaine
\hor girls, or whatever

679
00:50:03,504 --> 00:50:06,405
and just focus on the music.

680
00:50:08,537 --> 00:50:12,108
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut social life
was very important to Carlos.

681
00:50:12,108 --> 00:50:14,240
He didn’t wanna miss out.

682
00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:16,504
\h\h\h\h\hWhich is why
I’m very, very obsessed

683
00:50:16,504 --> 00:50:19,273
\hwith the movie
Leaving Las Vegas.

684
00:50:19,273 --> 00:50:23,405
\h\h\h\h\h\hBecause to me,
Nicholas Cage in that movie

685
00:50:23,405 --> 00:50:25,273
almost embodies me.

686
00:50:25,273 --> 00:50:26,570
\h\h\h\hCARLOS:
\hI wanted to be
in New York City

687
00:50:26,570 --> 00:50:28,537
where, like, everything
\h\h\h\h\hwas happening.

688
00:50:28,537 --> 00:50:30,339
Everybody’s name is on it?

689
00:50:30,339 --> 00:50:32,867
\h\h\h\h\hWOMAN:
Don’t you have...

690
00:50:34,339 --> 00:50:36,570
\h\hPAUL: There was a lot
of tension in the studio.

691
00:50:36,570 --> 00:50:39,405
CARLOS: We couldn’t have
\h\h\h\h\h\ha conversation
\hfor more than 10 minutes

692
00:50:39,405 --> 00:50:42,240
without telling each other
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto fuck off.

693
00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:45,339
\h\h\hPAUL: The fact that
this was a collaboration,
\h\hI really didn’t care.

694
00:50:45,339 --> 00:50:51,108
\h\hThe most important thing
was the song writing dynamic
\h\h\hbetween me and Daniel.

695
00:50:51,372 --> 00:50:55,768
DANIEL: The best moment
\h\h\h\hreally were when
\h\hwe just didn’t talk.

696
00:51:01,174 --> 00:51:07,438
\h\hPAUL: And when Carlos played,
it just negated anything else.

697
00:51:23,801 --> 00:51:27,273
\h\h\hCARLOS: I remember being
in the studio the last morning

698
00:51:27,273 --> 00:51:29,438
listening to what we had done.

699
00:51:29,834 --> 00:51:30,339
Wow.

700
00:51:30,339 --> 00:51:32,768
I just couldn’t believe
\h\h\h\hhow good it was.

701
00:51:35,438 --> 00:51:38,636
\hPAUL: Driving home from
Connecticut to Manhattan,

702
00:51:38,636 --> 00:51:41,306
\heverything felt
totally different.

703
00:51:43,735 --> 00:51:48,834
♪ When I was 17

704
00:51:49,768 --> 00:51:54,306
♪ It was a very good year

705
00:51:55,603 --> 00:51:59,174
♪ It was a very good year

706
00:51:59,174 --> 00:52:02,801
♪ For small town girls

707
00:52:02,801 --> 00:52:06,801
♪ And soft summer nights

708
00:52:08,537 --> 00:52:13,999
♪ We’d hide from the lights

709
00:52:14,999 --> 00:52:19,900
♪ On the village green

710
00:52:22,405 --> 00:52:25,999
♪ When I was 17

711
00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:42,471
\hMALE REPORTER: New York
is bracing itself tonight
for one massive blizzard.

712
00:52:42,471 --> 00:52:46,372
♪ When I was 21

713
00:52:48,372 --> 00:52:52,537
♪ It was a very good year...

714
00:52:52,537 --> 00:52:54,537
(FIREWORKS BLASTING)

715
00:52:54,537 --> 00:53:01,405
♪ It was a very good year
\h\h\h\h\h\hfor city girls

716
00:53:01,405 --> 00:53:06,405
♪ Who lived up the stair

717
00:53:07,372 --> 00:53:13,438
♪ With all that perfumed hair

718
00:53:14,075 --> 00:53:20,966
♪ And it came undone

719
00:53:21,405 --> 00:53:26,405
♪ When I was 21 ♪

720
00:53:36,735 --> 00:53:39,438
(CROWD CHEERING)

721
00:54:01,471 --> 00:54:03,504
-Whoo!
-Yeah!

722
00:54:04,636 --> 00:54:07,504
-Hallelujah!
\h-All right!

723
00:54:09,438 --> 00:54:11,504
Halle-fucking-lujah, man!

724
00:54:11,504 --> 00:54:13,801
(KAREN O SPEAKING)

725
00:54:21,372 --> 00:54:23,141
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

726
00:54:24,801 --> 00:54:26,867
(CLAMORING)

727
00:54:32,669 --> 00:54:34,768
(KAREN O SPEAKING)

728
00:55:03,537 --> 00:55:04,933
\h\h\hJULIAN: The way
we’ve been portrayed.

729
00:55:04,933 --> 00:55:07,207
\h\hNew York City
good looking dude.

730
00:55:07,207 --> 00:55:11,933
-MAN: A bunch of rich kids...
\h\h\h\h\h-JULIAN: Who think
\h\h\h\h\hthey’re really cool.

731
00:55:12,438 --> 00:55:16,702
If I heard of a band like that,
I’d think they were assholes.

732
00:55:18,669 --> 00:55:22,438
-(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
\h-Excuse me. Excuse me.

733
00:55:26,867 --> 00:55:30,537
\h\hDAVID: In New York,
I was like a wild animal
\h\h\h\hout of its cage.

734
00:55:30,537 --> 00:55:36,042
\h\h\h\hMy gang was just getting up
to no good five nights a week.

735
00:55:36,042 --> 00:55:38,702
(TIM SPEAKING)

736
00:55:43,207 --> 00:55:45,504
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

737
00:55:45,504 --> 00:55:47,834
(TIM SPEAKING)

738
00:55:54,702 --> 00:55:57,537
JAMES: I don’t dance,
\h\h\hI barely drink.

739
00:55:57,537 --> 00:56:00,273
\h\hI don’t wanna
embarrass myself.

740
00:56:01,669 --> 00:56:03,636
(TIM SPEAKING)

741
00:56:09,933 --> 00:56:11,801
\hDAVID: I remember
talking him into it.

742
00:56:11,801 --> 00:56:15,966
\h"You gotta try it.
This is gonna change
\h\h\h\heverything."

743
00:56:15,966 --> 00:56:17,801
(TIM SPEAKING)

744
00:56:32,735 --> 00:56:35,570
(TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING)

745
00:56:48,273 --> 00:56:52,999
JAMES: People were touching me,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hchanting my name.

746
00:56:54,603 --> 00:56:58,900
I’m experiencing this music
\h\hin this totally new way.

747
00:57:01,867 --> 00:57:06,141
I really enjoyed dancing.

748
00:57:08,636 --> 00:57:10,999
It is not the drug.

749
00:57:11,174 --> 00:57:13,141
This is actually me...

750
00:57:13,966 --> 00:57:16,669
\h\h\h...and my life
is forever changed.

751
00:57:24,174 --> 00:57:28,900
JAMES: Tim was the producer
\h\h\h\h\h\hand programmer.
\h\h\h\h\hfor David Holmes.

752
00:57:28,900 --> 00:57:30,702
He and I would be the ones
\h\h\h\hstuck in the room

753
00:57:30,702 --> 00:57:34,042
having to sort through the shit
after everyone’s left.

754
00:57:34,042 --> 00:57:38,174
\h\hHe taught me how to use
the computer to experiment.

755
00:57:38,735 --> 00:57:40,207
(TIM SPEAKING)

756
00:57:53,339 --> 00:57:56,636
JAMES: Working with him
\h\h\h\h\h\hwas perfect.

757
00:57:56,636 --> 00:57:58,207
(TIM SPEAKING)

758
00:58:00,405 --> 00:58:04,867
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
After watching what Holmes
\h\h\hcould wind up doing,

759
00:58:04,867 --> 00:58:06,108
it just seemed obvious to us.

760
00:58:06,108 --> 00:58:08,933
What if we did something
\h\h\h\h\h\hof our own?

761
00:58:08,933 --> 00:58:09,966
Something that
\hmakes people

762
00:58:09,966 --> 00:58:13,273
who didn’t normally
\h\h\hdance, dance?

763
00:58:14,966 --> 00:58:16,636
(TIM SPEAKING)

764
00:58:19,042 --> 00:58:23,273
\h\h\hJAMES: But if we were going
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto be a label,
we really needed to find a band.

765
00:58:23,273 --> 00:58:25,735
A band that we believed in.

766
00:58:26,735 --> 00:58:28,900
\h\h\h\h\hWOMAN: So,
the name of our band
\h\h\his The Rapture.

767
00:58:28,900 --> 00:58:30,900
The name of our band
\h\h\his The Rapture.

768
00:58:30,900 --> 00:58:33,141
-WOMAN: What’s your name?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Matt.

769
00:58:33,141 --> 00:58:35,768
-WOMAN: And your name?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Gabriel.

770
00:58:37,735 --> 00:58:39,966
\hVITO ROCCOFORTE: The band
started on the west coast.

771
00:58:39,966 --> 00:58:42,075
We lived in this suburb
\h\h\h\h\hof San Diego,

772
00:58:42,075 --> 00:58:45,042
where there’s nothing
\h\hgoing on. (LAUGHS)

773
00:58:46,141 --> 00:58:48,867
\h\hWe just decided
to pack up the band,

774
00:58:48,867 --> 00:58:51,933
\h\h\h\h\h\hbook a tour
to get out to New York.

775
00:58:51,933 --> 00:58:53,933
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)

776
00:58:54,900 --> 00:58:58,900
\h\hMATTIE SAFER: I mean,
I was legitimately, like,
\h\h\h\h\h\h19 years old.

777
00:58:58,900 --> 00:59:00,966
Very green.

778
00:59:01,471 --> 00:59:05,273
\h\h\h\h\hWe were broke.
We had no money at all.

779
00:59:07,966 --> 00:59:12,801
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE JENNER:
\h\h\h\h\hI came to New York
as a complete leap of faith.

780
00:59:13,834 --> 00:59:16,471
New York, it’s almost like
this white chalk outline,

781
00:59:16,471 --> 00:59:17,801
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hit’s like,
"Do whatever you want in here,

782
00:59:17,801 --> 00:59:21,801
\h\h"be as, like, as free
and as angry as you want."

783
00:59:24,966 --> 00:59:25,471
(CAR HONKS)

784
00:59:25,471 --> 00:59:28,207
I would go on Avenue A
to this magazine store

785
00:59:28,207 --> 00:59:29,966
and buy copies of "NME"
\h\h\h\hand I’d be like,

786
00:59:29,966 --> 00:59:31,702
"Dude, like, this is all
\h\hhappening around me

787
00:59:31,702 --> 00:59:33,438
\h\h\h\h"and eventually
they’re gonna find me."

788
00:59:33,438 --> 00:59:35,174
♪ One, two, three, four

789
00:59:35,174 --> 00:59:36,471
♪ Five, six, seven

790
00:59:36,471 --> 00:59:39,801
(INDISTINCT SINGING)

791
00:59:39,801 --> 00:59:41,801
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

792
00:59:54,372 --> 00:59:57,141
♪ Come dance with me...

793
00:59:57,141 --> 01:00:02,372
\h\hJAMES: The first time
\h\h\h\hI saw The Rapture,
I was completely smitten.

794
01:00:04,768 --> 01:00:09,801
\h\hLuke looked insane
and had this amazing,
\h\h\h\h\hweird voice.

795
01:00:09,801 --> 01:00:11,966
He was super charismatic.

796
01:00:13,141 --> 01:00:15,306
(CROWD CHEERING)

797
01:00:15,306 --> 01:00:17,768
(TIM SPEAKING)

798
01:00:23,471 --> 01:00:27,108
MAN: James Murphy and Tim
\hwere just fuckin’ nuts.

799
01:00:27,702 --> 01:00:29,801
And I loved that.

800
01:00:31,801 --> 01:00:36,966
\h\h\h\h\h\hMAN 2: We were
a punk band that was trying
\h\h\h\hto make dance music.

801
01:00:36,966 --> 01:00:38,933
We had similar goals,

802
01:00:38,933 --> 01:00:41,999
\h\hjust coming at it
from different angles.

803
01:00:41,999 --> 01:00:44,933
\hMAN 3: James and Tim felt
like the only other people

804
01:00:44,933 --> 01:00:49,273
\h\h\h\h\hon the planet
who had the same ideas.

805
01:00:49,966 --> 01:00:52,768
And DFA was like
\h\ha clubhouse.

806
01:00:52,768 --> 01:00:54,702
Euphoric party nights.

807
01:00:54,702 --> 01:00:59,801
\h\hWe’d listen to records,
wrote songs, drank too much.

808
01:01:01,273 --> 01:01:05,042
LUKE: We felt like we were
\hgonna take over the world.

809
01:01:14,108 --> 01:01:17,372
MAN: MTV wanted The Strokes
\h\h\h\h\hto play a concert.

810
01:01:17,372 --> 01:01:20,999
\hA 30-minute live
broadcast special.

811
01:01:21,207 --> 01:01:22,768
It was a big deal.

812
01:01:22,768 --> 01:01:24,768
It was exposure.

813
01:01:24,768 --> 01:01:25,900
But a lot of those things
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hcome with,

814
01:01:25,900 --> 01:01:30,999
"Well, if you don’t do this,
\h\h\hyou’re never gonna get
\h\h\hplayed on here again."

815
01:01:32,867 --> 01:01:34,504
(MAN SPEAKING)

816
01:01:44,537 --> 01:01:46,207
It’s not working.

817
01:01:47,537 --> 01:01:48,174
Just...

818
01:01:48,174 --> 01:01:50,438
I would just remember
there will be people
\h\h\h\h\hbehind you,

819
01:01:50,438 --> 01:01:54,438
\h\hso just don’t forget
to address the back, too.

820
01:01:56,174 --> 01:01:59,867
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWOMAN:
Ten, nine, eight, seven,

821
01:01:59,867 --> 01:02:03,603
six, five, four, rolling.

822
01:02:03,603 --> 01:02:07,141
Ladies and gentlemen,
\h\h\hhere they are.

823
01:02:07,570 --> 01:02:08,141
The Strokes.

824
01:02:08,141 --> 01:02:10,603
\h\h-(CROWD CHEERING)
-(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

825
01:02:18,471 --> 01:02:25,471
♪ No choice now
\hIt’s too late

826
01:02:27,933 --> 01:02:33,603
♪ Lisa said take time for me

827
01:02:34,603 --> 01:02:40,471
\h\h♪ Dropping him
down to his knees

828
01:02:44,999 --> 01:02:48,174
♪ He knows it’s justified
\h\h\h\hto kill to survive

829
01:02:48,174 --> 01:02:52,174
\h\h\h♪ He then in dollars
makes more dead than alive

830
01:02:52,174 --> 01:02:53,240
♪ Let’s suck more blood

831
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,141
♪ Let’s run three hours a day

832
01:02:55,141 --> 01:02:59,603
\h\h♪ The world is over
but I don’t care ’cause

833
01:03:01,504 --> 01:03:02,669
Take two.

834
01:03:02,669 --> 01:03:03,999
MAN: Rally forward!

835
01:03:03,999 --> 01:03:06,339
Guys, take three.
\hRally forward.

836
01:03:06,339 --> 01:03:07,999
Rally forward.

837
01:03:10,339 --> 01:03:12,075
-Take five.
-Four. Two.

838
01:03:12,075 --> 01:03:15,966
\h\h♪ The first time
it happened too fast

839
01:03:15,966 --> 01:03:19,372
\h\h\h♪ The second time
I thought it would last

840
01:03:19,372 --> 01:03:24,075
\h\h♪ We all like it
a little different ♪

841
01:03:31,306 --> 01:03:34,504
(CROWD CHEERING)

842
01:03:40,900 --> 01:03:42,669
\h\hKAREN O: The first
"NME" cover that we did,

843
01:03:42,669 --> 01:03:45,339
\h\hthe caption was
"Cool! Sexy! Drunk!"

844
01:03:45,339 --> 01:03:50,141
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThree words
that don’t just make much
\hsense together. (LAUGHS)

845
01:03:50,372 --> 01:03:52,405
\hAnd one of the things
that started to surface

846
01:03:52,405 --> 01:03:56,999
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith the press
was a sort of predatory gaze.

847
01:03:56,999 --> 01:04:00,735
Photographers were boys
\hbeing in the front row
\h\h\h\h\hat our shows.

848
01:04:00,735 --> 01:04:04,372
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hArm outstretched,
weird expression on their face,

849
01:04:04,372 --> 01:04:08,108
trying to get like
\h\h\hcrotch shots
\hunder my skirt.

850
01:04:08,438 --> 01:04:13,141
BRIAN: I just remember feeling
\h\hvery protective about Karen.

851
01:04:13,141 --> 01:04:15,471
(CAMERAS CLICKING)

852
01:04:16,438 --> 01:04:20,075
KAREN O: Being a woman
\hfronting a rock band,

853
01:04:20,075 --> 01:04:22,240
I was sensationalized.

854
01:04:22,603 --> 01:04:27,735
But I was also struggling
\h\hto be taken seriously
\h\h\h\h\h\has an artist.

855
01:04:28,372 --> 01:04:29,636
INTERVIEWER: That costume
\hthat you were wearing,

856
01:04:29,636 --> 01:04:31,240
\h\h\hthe yellow,
\hit’s almost like
an Elvis jumpsuit.

857
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:33,735
-KAREN O: That was sort of--
-INTERVIEWER 2: Have you ever
had the same sex experience--

858
01:04:33,735 --> 01:04:36,735
\h-INTERVIEWER 3: Do you have
\h\hany thoughts on chastity?
-KAREN O: (LAUGHS) Chastity?

859
01:04:36,735 --> 01:04:38,636
\hINTERVIEWER 4:
Karen, have you ever experienced
Madonna syndrome?

860
01:04:38,636 --> 01:04:40,141
\h\hINTERVIEWER 5: Do you
remember your first kiss?

861
01:04:40,141 --> 01:04:43,075
INTERVIEWER 6: Is it a tough
\hkind of thing to be so cool?

862
01:04:43,075 --> 01:04:44,537
\h\hINTERVIEWER 7: Have you
received any death threats?

863
01:04:44,537 --> 01:04:47,471
\h\h\h\h\h\h-INTERVIEWER 8:
\hWhat’s your favorite meal?
-KAREN O: My favorite meal?

864
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:53,273
So, let me, uh, let me hear all
\hthe ladies out there tonight.

865
01:04:53,273 --> 01:04:55,240
(LADIES CHEERING)

866
01:04:57,537 --> 01:05:01,438
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAll right.
Let me hear all the boys
\h\h\hout there tonight.

867
01:05:01,438 --> 01:05:04,042
(BOYS CHEERING)

868
01:05:05,108 --> 01:05:07,306
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hOkay, let me hear
all the men out there tonight.

869
01:05:07,306 --> 01:05:09,141
\h-(CROWD LAUGHS)
-(CROWD CHEERING)

870
01:05:09,141 --> 01:05:12,372
\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
I’m here to represent
\h\h\hfor the ladies.

871
01:05:13,141 --> 01:05:14,636
It’s all or nothing.

872
01:05:18,108 --> 01:05:19,702
(CROWD CHEERING)

873
01:05:19,702 --> 01:05:23,306
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

874
01:05:27,471 --> 01:05:30,669
♪ I wanna date with the night ♪

875
01:05:31,372 --> 01:05:33,702
(INDISTINCTIVE SINGING)

876
01:06:11,273 --> 01:06:13,108
(MICROPHONE FEEDBACK)

877
01:06:41,207 --> 01:06:43,339
(ROCK MUSIC CONTINUES)

878
01:07:03,570 --> 01:07:05,669
\h\hLUKE: When we made
House Of Jealous Lovers

879
01:07:05,669 --> 01:07:10,339
\hit wasn’t necessarily
like fun in the studio.

880
01:07:13,603 --> 01:07:16,933
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

881
01:07:21,834 --> 01:07:26,405
♪ House of jealous lovers ♪

882
01:07:27,636 --> 01:07:29,933
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: First,
we recorded everything live.

883
01:07:29,933 --> 01:07:33,669
\h\h\h\hAnd then Tim and I
started ripping it apart.

884
01:07:33,669 --> 01:07:36,669
-(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
-(KEYBOARD CLICKING)

885
01:07:39,306 --> 01:07:44,273
\hI can get really anxious
\h\h\h\h\h\hif I feel like
I’m compromising my music.

886
01:07:44,405 --> 01:07:47,570
I feel compulsion
to make the music

887
01:07:47,570 --> 01:07:50,306
\h\h\hexactly the way
I think it should be.

888
01:07:50,306 --> 01:07:53,801
\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE: James was
\h\h\hthe first person I met
who was more alpha than me.

889
01:07:53,801 --> 01:07:58,570
\hI had all these ideas
\h\h\h\h\hin the studio,
he had all these ideas.

890
01:07:58,570 --> 01:08:00,669
I couldn’t bulldoze him.

891
01:08:03,636 --> 01:08:06,504
\h\h\h\hJAMES: I was
never good at friends.

892
01:08:06,966 --> 01:08:11,537
\h\h\hI was so lonely
and so self-conscious.

893
01:08:11,669 --> 01:08:14,669
I wanted connection
\h\h\h\hand friends,

894
01:08:14,669 --> 01:08:17,471
\h\hbut I’d always
end up in fights.

895
01:08:18,702 --> 01:08:21,537
\h\h\h\h\hThere was just
something wrong with me

896
01:08:21,537 --> 01:08:24,537
that wasn’t wrong
with other people.

897
01:08:25,339 --> 01:08:27,867
So, I made music
\hfucking alone.

898
01:08:28,867 --> 01:08:30,537
(KAREN O SCREAMING)

899
01:08:32,339 --> 01:08:36,900
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE:
He was really pushing me.
\hI was in a lot of pain.

900
01:08:36,900 --> 01:08:42,537
JAMES: Get rid of the drum,
\h\h\h\h\h\hface the bass...

901
01:08:42,537 --> 01:08:45,405
\h\h\h\h\h\hGet rid of
the guitar completely.

902
01:08:45,669 --> 01:08:46,834
\h\hLUKE: Me and Tim
just kept telling him

903
01:08:46,834 --> 01:08:47,999
and everyone around him
\h\h\h\h\hwas just like,

904
01:08:47,999 --> 01:08:52,669
\h\h\h"You’re domineering,
\h\h\hand you need to make
your own fucking record!"

905
01:08:54,372 --> 01:08:59,504
MAN: There was a part of James
\hthat wanted to be in the band.

906
01:08:59,504 --> 01:09:01,801
Wanted it to be his band.

907
01:09:02,042 --> 01:09:04,735
He didn’t have his own outlet.

908
01:09:04,735 --> 01:09:06,933
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
They really freaked out
\habout the production.

909
01:09:06,933 --> 01:09:09,636
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThey thought
\heveryone was gonna hate
that it was a house song.

910
01:09:09,636 --> 01:09:15,075
LUKE: He was really just like,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"No. It’s perfect,
\h\h\h\h\hwe’re not fixing it."

911
01:09:21,933 --> 01:09:25,405
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

912
01:09:25,933 --> 01:09:29,075
♪ House of jealous lovers

913
01:09:29,075 --> 01:09:30,735
♪ House of jealous lovers

914
01:09:30,735 --> 01:09:33,735
\hJAMES: People went
fucking crazy for it.

915
01:09:34,867 --> 01:09:37,570
LUKE: People just called us
\h\h\h\h\hthe disco Strokes.

916
01:09:37,570 --> 01:09:42,900
♪ House of jealous
lovers shakedown ♪

917
01:09:44,636 --> 01:09:46,570
MALE REPORTER: Goldsworthy
\hand engineer James Murphy

918
01:09:46,570 --> 01:09:49,900
are the production team whose
\hfusion of minimal electronic

919
01:09:49,900 --> 01:09:52,570
and post-punk rock
continue to thrill

920
01:09:52,570 --> 01:09:54,900
critics and listeners
\h\h\h\h\h\hworldwide.

921
01:09:54,900 --> 01:09:58,867
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou know,
\h\h\hhalf the people, you know,
someone told them it was cool.

922
01:09:58,867 --> 01:10:04,570
You know what I mean?
"Cause theoretically,
\h\h\hwe’re... cool.

923
01:10:05,042 --> 01:10:07,735
(MAN SPEAKING)

924
01:10:11,405 --> 01:10:13,867
\h\hJAMES: Nobody else
was playing the records
\h\h\h\h\hI was playing.

925
01:10:13,867 --> 01:10:15,372
That was like my thing.

926
01:10:15,372 --> 01:10:18,735
♪ One hand ties the other

927
01:10:18,735 --> 01:10:20,603
♪ House of jealous lovers... ♪

928
01:10:20,603 --> 01:10:24,471
MAN: Pure idolism,
\h\hridiculous mess.

929
01:10:25,405 --> 01:10:32,306
MAN 2: I had my first E,
\h\hand lost my virginity
\h\hat the same DFA party.

930
01:10:38,900 --> 01:10:42,438
MAN 3: We weren’t downtown
\h\h\h\hNew York cool kids,

931
01:10:42,438 --> 01:10:46,372
and we weren’t Brooklyn
Art School kids either,

932
01:10:46,372 --> 01:10:49,306
\h\hbut somehow,
we had a scene.

933
01:10:51,900 --> 01:10:54,405
INTERVIEWER: How do you guy
\hsit down and write a song?

934
01:10:54,405 --> 01:10:56,801
because I know you write
\hthe lyrics, but do you-

935
01:10:56,801 --> 01:10:58,306
No, Julian does the lyrics.

936
01:10:58,306 --> 01:10:59,702
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah.
-He writes the song.

937
01:10:59,702 --> 01:11:00,801
-Oh, and the songs?
\h\h\h\h-Oh, yeah.

938
01:11:00,801 --> 01:11:03,966
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Okay--
-And the guitar solos,
\h\h\heverything, dude.

939
01:11:04,141 --> 01:11:07,141
\h\h-Really?
-Sure. Yeah.

940
01:11:07,372 --> 01:11:08,801
That’s-- Yeah.

941
01:11:08,867 --> 01:11:12,141
\h\hALBERT: I always
wanted to write songs.

942
01:11:14,372 --> 01:11:15,768
The most frustrated
\h\h\h\hI ever got,

943
01:11:15,768 --> 01:11:20,801
\h\h\h\h\h\hI had a song
\h\hand thought it could
really work in the band.

944
01:11:20,801 --> 01:11:23,603
I was super-excited about it.

945
01:11:23,966 --> 01:11:27,603
\h\h\h\hBut Julian had
a very precise vision.

946
01:11:29,966 --> 01:11:31,438
(INDISTINCT TALKING)

947
01:11:31,438 --> 01:11:35,702
JULIAN: The only thing
\h\h\hI have control on
\his having good songs.

948
01:11:35,702 --> 01:11:40,801
Even if everyone loves it,
I always go home thinking,
\h\h\h"Is it good enough?"

949
01:11:41,603 --> 01:11:43,372
It’s a struggle.

950
01:11:43,966 --> 01:11:45,471
ALBERT: It was a lot
of pressure on Julian

951
01:11:45,471 --> 01:11:48,999
\h\h\h\h\h\hto get another album
out there as soon as possible.

952
01:11:48,999 --> 01:11:52,999
We had been praised
as "Rock’s Saviors",

953
01:11:52,999 --> 01:11:56,966
but all we had ever recorded
\h\hwas a half hour record.

954
01:11:59,438 --> 01:12:00,108
Ready?

955
01:12:00,108 --> 01:12:04,933
\h\h\hALBERT: We got back
from touring and spent a month
in our rehearsal space...

956
01:12:05,438 --> 01:12:07,075
and just worked.

957
01:12:07,867 --> 01:12:09,867
Why were we rushing?

958
01:12:09,900 --> 01:12:11,207
(DRUM STICK TAPPING)

959
01:12:11,207 --> 01:12:13,999
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

960
01:12:27,207 --> 01:12:29,669
(INDISTINCT SINGING)

961
01:12:53,933 --> 01:12:56,504
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

962
01:13:01,933 --> 01:13:03,999
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

963
01:13:07,933 --> 01:13:09,933
\h\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER:
What is the ideal place

964
01:13:09,933 --> 01:13:14,174
for somebody to listen
\h\hto your new record
\hfor the first time?

965
01:13:14,174 --> 01:13:15,768
I hadn’t thought of that.

966
01:13:15,768 --> 01:13:17,273
Read their last rights.

967
01:13:17,273 --> 01:13:19,108
No, I don’t know.

968
01:13:20,933 --> 01:13:23,240
Nikolai, man, help me out.

969
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,603
\h\h\h\hI don’t know, man,
we just finished it today,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know.

970
01:13:25,603 --> 01:13:27,933
INTERVIEWER: How do you guys
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfeel about it?

971
01:13:29,174 --> 01:13:31,801
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-I--
-Tense but confident.

972
01:13:31,801 --> 01:13:34,273
\h\h\hINTERVIEWER: You sound
incredibly down on yourself.

973
01:13:34,273 --> 01:13:38,273
\h\h\h\h\hIt’s odd to hear
you guys feel intimidated.

974
01:13:38,273 --> 01:13:41,966
\h\hFeel like you guys aren’t
gonna end up sizing up and...

975
01:13:41,966 --> 01:13:45,669
think that you guys
\h\hare ultimately
gonna be forgotten.

976
01:13:45,834 --> 01:13:48,240
\h\hI don’t wanna
let people down.

977
01:13:52,075 --> 01:13:53,141
\h-Karen rules--
-She’s very good.

978
01:13:53,141 --> 01:13:55,570
-She’s the coolest person
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hon earth-
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-And Nick.

979
01:13:55,570 --> 01:13:56,966
-And she’s a God.
\h-Nicks amazing.

980
01:13:56,966 --> 01:13:57,933
\hShe just does
what she wants,

981
01:13:57,933 --> 01:14:00,669
-and she doesn’t care
\habout anyone else.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah.

982
01:14:00,669 --> 01:14:01,174
She’s sexy!

983
01:14:01,174 --> 01:14:04,174
-Her hair, her face, everything.
-Her voice.

984
01:14:04,174 --> 01:14:05,240
I’d do her.
\h(LAUGHS)

985
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:05,999
\h(LAUGHS)
I’d do her.

986
01:14:05,999 --> 01:14:11,735
She seems shy, like, offstage,
\h\h\h\h\hbut she puts on this
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hcrazy character.

987
01:14:11,735 --> 01:14:16,636
\h\hMAN: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
are going on in five minutes.
\h\h\hCan you please return?

988
01:14:18,801 --> 01:14:21,141
\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
I had set myself up
\has being a pretty

989
01:14:21,141 --> 01:14:25,042
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hspectacular
self-destructive persona.

990
01:14:26,042 --> 01:14:27,636
\h\h\hI was needing
to live up to that,

991
01:14:27,636 --> 01:14:32,042
and I was beating myself up
out there night after night.

992
01:14:35,834 --> 01:14:40,966
\h\h\h\hNICK: I was seeing
the fanaticism around Karen.

993
01:14:41,339 --> 01:14:44,207
The press, freaky fans.

994
01:14:44,207 --> 01:14:48,735
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd just seeing
how fragile she was off-stage...

995
01:14:49,075 --> 01:14:50,834
I was worried.

996
01:14:50,834 --> 01:14:53,900
Ah, this fuckin’ hurts.

997
01:14:54,570 --> 01:14:56,207
Do you know what I’m saying?

998
01:14:56,339 --> 01:14:57,999
It’s like fucking shit!

999
01:14:57,999 --> 01:15:00,405
\h\h\h\h\hWho the fuck cares?
Do you know what I’m saying.

1000
01:15:00,405 --> 01:15:02,372
Do not fucking tread on me!

1001
01:15:02,372 --> 01:15:04,108
KAREN O: I really did want
\h\h\h\hto speak to someone

1002
01:15:04,108 --> 01:15:05,867
\h\h\hwho could relate
to how I was feeling.

1003
01:15:05,867 --> 01:15:10,075
\h\h\hBut my experience
\h\h\h\hwas so different
from the men around me.

1004
01:15:10,141 --> 01:15:12,207
It was incredibly lonely.

1005
01:15:12,207 --> 01:15:14,405
(CROWD CHEERING)

1006
01:15:16,966 --> 01:15:19,933
It’s just wearing me down,
\h\h\h\h\h\hthe lifestyle,

1007
01:15:19,933 --> 01:15:23,867
the physical aspect of it,
\h\h\hthe repetition of it.

1008
01:15:25,735 --> 01:15:28,867
\h\hThe business of it
and the bullshit of it

1009
01:15:28,867 --> 01:15:31,900
\h\h\hand the press
and the attention.

1010
01:15:36,867 --> 01:15:40,141
MAN: Can we have sound, speed?
\h\h\h\h\hRoll cameras, please.

1011
01:15:41,900 --> 01:15:44,240
MAN 2: Roll joints.
\h\h\h\h\hDo speed.

1012
01:15:45,075 --> 01:15:46,075
Ready.

1013
01:15:46,075 --> 01:15:50,108
MAN 3: We’re still waiting
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor the...

1014
01:15:50,768 --> 01:15:53,900
\h\h\h\h\hIt’s a rehearsal
so let’s just do it, right?

1015
01:15:53,900 --> 01:15:55,240
Do you need to play?

1016
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:58,075
It’s just a rehearsal.
\h\hCan we just start?

1017
01:16:00,801 --> 01:16:02,801
DIRECTOR: Okay, we are rolling.

1018
01:16:03,042 --> 01:16:08,702
\hNICK: Julian had dreams
that he just maybe assumed
\h\hwe’d all just follow.

1019
01:16:11,933 --> 01:16:14,141
\h\hFABRIZIO: Room on Fire
sold, like, 650,000 records

1020
01:16:14,141 --> 01:16:17,372
\h\h\hand everybody wants
\h\h\h\h\h\hto write about
what a big failure it was.

1021
01:16:17,372 --> 01:16:22,306
By what it was built up to be,
\hit was supposed
to sell millions.

1022
01:16:28,306 --> 01:16:33,273
\h\hNICK: That’s when
friends, girlfriends,

1023
01:16:33,273 --> 01:16:36,141
strangers started coming in.

1024
01:16:36,141 --> 01:16:38,471
"Julian’s slowing
\h\heveryone down.

1025
01:16:38,471 --> 01:16:40,768
\h"You should be
a bigger band."

1026
01:16:43,966 --> 01:16:48,174
ALBERT: I felt that distance
\h\h\h\hbetween me and Julian.

1027
01:16:51,933 --> 01:16:54,306
-Well, its Ryan Adams.
\h\h\h\h\hLook at you.
\h\h\h\h\h\h-Hey, man.

1028
01:16:54,306 --> 01:16:58,141
-The most difficult man
\h\h\hin rock and roll.
\h\h\h\h\h\h-Oh, geez.

1029
01:16:58,141 --> 01:17:03,075
MAN: Ryan Adams was really,
\hreally into The Strokes.

1030
01:17:03,075 --> 01:17:03,867
Enamored by them.

1031
01:17:03,867 --> 01:17:08,042
We’re gonna play a song
\h\h\h\hby The Strokes
\h\hcalled Last Night.

1032
01:17:08,042 --> 01:17:10,867
(CROWD CHEERING)

1033
01:17:11,108 --> 01:17:12,867
Yeah, it’s our best song.

1034
01:17:12,867 --> 01:17:14,834
(CROWD LAUGHS)

1035
01:17:16,108 --> 01:17:18,867
(RYAN ADAMS SPEAKING)

1036
01:17:39,438 --> 01:17:42,867
\h\hALBERT: He’d always come
\h\hand like wake me up at two
in the morning to have drugs.

1037
01:17:42,867 --> 01:17:47,108
\h\h\h\h\h\hSo, I would just
kind of, like, do the drugs
\h\h\hand kind of numb out.

1038
01:17:47,108 --> 01:17:52,042
\h\h\h\hI remember Julian
threatening to beat him up
\hif he hung out with me.

1039
01:17:53,174 --> 01:17:58,075
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRYAN:
I knew I would shoot up drugs
\h\h\h\hfrom a very young age.

1040
01:17:58,075 --> 01:18:00,603
When it came, it wasn’t, like,
"What am I doing here?

1041
01:18:00,603 --> 01:18:02,900
It was kind of like,
\h\h\h\h"I made it."

1042
01:18:03,900 --> 01:18:05,273
I was home.

1043
01:18:09,471 --> 01:18:11,306
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

1044
01:18:11,306 --> 01:18:11,966
MAN: Number one.

1045
01:18:11,966 --> 01:18:16,504
\h\h\h\h\h\hThe win immunity,
we’re number one, watch this.

1046
01:18:19,141 --> 01:18:20,405
(INDISTINCT TALKING)

1047
01:18:20,405 --> 01:18:23,966
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE:
After House Of Jealous Lovers
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hblew up,

1048
01:18:23,966 --> 01:18:25,273
we had all this attention.

1049
01:18:25,273 --> 01:18:28,438
\hBut we were touring
the world on a single.

1050
01:18:28,438 --> 01:18:30,966
(CROWD CHEERING)

1051
01:18:30,966 --> 01:18:32,966
JAMES: It was so fun.

1052
01:18:32,966 --> 01:18:36,603
\h\h\h\h\h\hThe Rapture,
me and Tim were a gang.

1053
01:18:36,603 --> 01:18:38,999
We felt invincible.

1054
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:46,603
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE:
\h\h\hWe had just finished Echoes,
this album that we really loved.

1055
01:18:46,603 --> 01:18:52,108
\h\h\hAnd then compound that
\h\hwith the music industry
feeding frenzy in New York,

1056
01:18:52,108 --> 01:18:53,999
\h\hand it was just
this perfect timing.

1057
01:18:53,999 --> 01:18:57,339
\h\hBut in the beginning,
DFA was more about concept

1058
01:18:57,339 --> 01:19:00,174
\h\hthan an actual
functioning label.

1059
01:19:00,174 --> 01:19:04,669
\h\h\hMAN: DFA spent a year
trying to find a distributor

1060
01:19:04,669 --> 01:19:07,174
and failed to do so.

1061
01:19:07,174 --> 01:19:09,405
LUKE: The clock was ticking.

1062
01:19:09,471 --> 01:19:13,174
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
I wish we had just put
\hfucking Echoes out.

1063
01:19:13,174 --> 01:19:15,207
That was a fucking mistake.

1064
01:19:15,339 --> 01:19:16,405
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThe songs
that are on the record,

1065
01:19:16,405 --> 01:19:19,999
we’ve been playing them
\h\hout for like a year
\h\hand a half, like...

1066
01:19:19,999 --> 01:19:21,504
So, it’s just like...

1067
01:19:21,504 --> 01:19:24,999
\h\h\h\h\h\hIt’s just time
for it to come out, like...

1068
01:19:26,669 --> 01:19:31,999
MAN: I was more scared
\h\h\hthan I’d ever been
\h\h\hin my entire life.

1069
01:19:32,306 --> 01:19:35,966
It’s gonna fucking disappear,
\h\h\h\h\hit’s gonna be over.

1070
01:19:35,999 --> 01:19:41,141
JAMES: I know they had to,
\h\h\h\hbut when they left,
\h\h\h\h\h\hthe crushed me.

1071
01:19:41,999 --> 01:19:43,306
I cried.

1072
01:19:43,900 --> 01:19:45,372
I just cried.

1073
01:19:45,669 --> 01:19:47,999
We were Rapture Records.

1074
01:19:48,207 --> 01:19:49,900
That’s what DFA was.

1075
01:19:50,141 --> 01:19:51,504
But they left.

1076
01:19:52,504 --> 01:19:55,966
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE:
We didn’t want to leave DFA.

1077
01:19:56,174 --> 01:19:59,999
\hThose were, like,
our closest friends.

1078
01:20:00,174 --> 01:20:03,075
\h\h\h\hBut we needed
to get our record out.

1079
01:20:06,339 --> 01:20:08,999
(CROWD CHEERING)

1080
01:20:12,537 --> 01:20:15,966
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPAUL:
We hit 40,000 records sold.

1081
01:20:15,999 --> 01:20:19,240
Our record company
was, like, "Whoa!"

1082
01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:23,504
DANIEL: We had this incredible
\h\h\h\h\h\h\henergy between us,
\h\h\h\h\h\hthis kinetic energy.

1083
01:20:23,504 --> 01:20:27,075
\hPAUL: We nailed
the second record
\h\hstraightaway.

1084
01:20:27,075 --> 01:20:30,636
DANIEL: This is the record
that we’ve been waiting for.

1085
01:20:32,999 --> 01:20:34,999
(PHONE DIALING)

1086
01:20:38,504 --> 01:20:41,636
\h\hThree months before
\h\h\h\h\hrelease date,
we were out at some bar.

1087
01:20:41,636 --> 01:20:48,174
\h\h\hA complete stranger
comes along singing lyrics
\hfrom the second record.

1088
01:20:49,471 --> 01:20:51,207
What the hell’s going on?

1089
01:20:51,207 --> 01:20:53,900
(PHONE STATIC)

1090
01:20:55,966 --> 01:20:57,504
PAUL: The record had leaked.

1091
01:20:57,504 --> 01:21:01,306
\h\hI couldn’t believe that
this was actually happening.

1092
01:21:14,273 --> 01:21:16,372
\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: I went
to this club, Brownies,

1093
01:21:16,372 --> 01:21:19,108
which I used to play at
\h\h\h\h\hall the time.

1094
01:21:19,108 --> 01:21:21,471
There was a kid DJ-ing,
\h\h\h\h\h\hplaying ESG,

1095
01:21:21,471 --> 01:21:24,438
\h\h\h\h\hand he plays
a Liquid Liquid song.

1096
01:21:24,966 --> 01:21:25,603
What the fuck?

1097
01:21:25,603 --> 01:21:28,075
\h\h\h\hThese records
took me years to find,

1098
01:21:28,075 --> 01:21:31,306
\h\h\hand now some kid
can just download it?

1099
01:21:32,702 --> 01:21:33,372
Wait a second.

1100
01:21:33,372 --> 01:21:35,537
MAN: You didn’t write them,
\h\h\h\hyou just play them,
\h\h\h\h\hyou just own them,

1101
01:21:35,537 --> 01:21:37,735
\h\h\hyou can’t be
proud of yourself
\h\hfor owning it.

1102
01:21:37,735 --> 01:21:39,405
MAN 2: But I know that kid
\hwas at one of my parties.

1103
01:21:39,405 --> 01:21:42,570
\hMAN: Even if this person
went to one of our parties,
\h\h\hI have no rights here.

1104
01:21:42,570 --> 01:21:45,273
MAN 3: It’s the fucking
\hclosest I’ve ever been
\h\h\hto cool in my life

1105
01:21:45,273 --> 01:21:46,372
and this fucking kid
\h\h\h\hcan take it?

1106
01:21:46,372 --> 01:21:47,570
MAN 4: I was playing
\hthat six months ago.

1107
01:21:47,570 --> 01:21:49,471
MAN 5: First of all,
it’s not your record,
\hyou didn’t make it.

1108
01:21:49,471 --> 01:21:52,075
MAN 6: What’s worse
\h\h\hthan that guy?

1109
01:21:52,273 --> 01:21:53,405
MAN 7: I’m disappointed
\h\h\h\h\h\hwith myself.

1110
01:21:53,405 --> 01:21:55,273
\h\h\h\h-MAN 8: Its stupid
\h\h\h\h\hand embarrassing.
-MAN 9: I’m a total hipster

1111
01:21:55,273 --> 01:21:58,372
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hjackass,
I have been my entire life.

1112
01:22:01,471 --> 01:22:05,372
JAMES: I’d really wasted
\h\h\h30 years of my life.

1113
01:22:09,471 --> 01:22:11,768
\h\h\hAnd I would
lock the studio...

1114
01:22:13,042 --> 01:22:15,339
\h\h\h\h\hsing a song
about losing my edge.

1115
01:22:15,339 --> 01:22:16,603
♪ I’m losing my edge...

1116
01:22:16,603 --> 01:22:17,669
How humiliating it is to be me.

1117
01:22:17,669 --> 01:22:23,207
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ To the kids
From France and from London

1118
01:22:23,207 --> 01:22:25,471
♪ I’m losing my edge

1119
01:22:25,471 --> 01:22:26,603
It was the first time
\h\h\h\h\hI made music

1120
01:22:26,603 --> 01:22:30,372
where I wasn’t trying
\hto be another thing

1121
01:22:30,372 --> 01:22:32,801
\h\h\hthat I thought
I’m supposed to be.

1122
01:22:34,141 --> 01:22:37,042
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

1123
01:22:41,306 --> 01:22:44,141
♪ Yeah, I’m losing my edge

1124
01:22:45,504 --> 01:22:48,471
♪ I’m losing my edge

1125
01:22:50,174 --> 01:22:51,603
♪ To kids

1126
01:22:53,141 --> 01:22:56,174
♪ I’m coming up from behind

1127
01:22:59,603 --> 01:23:01,570
♪ But I was there

1128
01:23:03,372 --> 01:23:06,240
♪ I was there in 1968

1129
01:23:07,174 --> 01:23:12,339
♪ I was there at the first
\h\h\hCan show in Cologne

1130
01:23:16,438 --> 01:23:18,273
♪ But I was there

1131
01:23:21,207 --> 01:23:26,174
♪ I was the first guy playing
\h\hDaft Punk to the rock kids

1132
01:23:26,174 --> 01:23:28,108
♪ I played it at CBGB’s

1133
01:23:28,108 --> 01:23:30,537
♪ Everybody thought
\h\h\h\hit was crazy

1134
01:23:30,768 --> 01:23:32,174
♪ We all know

1135
01:23:32,174 --> 01:23:34,735
♪ I hear everybody
\h\hthat you know

1136
01:23:34,735 --> 01:23:40,405
\h\h\h\h\h♪ Is more relevant
than everybody that I know ♪

1137
01:23:41,537 --> 01:23:44,537
\h\h\hI came upstairs
and played it for Tim.

1138
01:23:45,867 --> 01:23:47,867
(TIM SPEAKING)

1139
01:23:54,702 --> 01:23:59,108
\h\hJAMES: He said,
"You don’t wanna put
\h\h\hthis out, man.

1140
01:23:59,207 --> 01:24:02,570
"You really don’t want people
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto hear this."

1141
01:24:03,273 --> 01:24:06,405
But I’ve lived in fear
\h\h\hmy whole life...

1142
01:24:06,570 --> 01:24:08,834
and I had nothing to lose.

1143
01:24:14,669 --> 01:24:16,933
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)

1144
01:24:19,174 --> 01:24:22,438
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hALBERT:
\h\hJulian always wanted
the whole band together.

1145
01:24:23,339 --> 01:24:25,735
I’d show up late
\hin the studio.

1146
01:24:25,735 --> 01:24:27,306
And smoke too much crack
\h\h\h\hbefore coming in

1147
01:24:27,306 --> 01:24:31,636
\hand had to take
\ha bunch of pills
just to calm down.

1148
01:24:31,636 --> 01:24:34,174
I wasn’t playing that well.

1149
01:24:34,174 --> 01:24:36,801
I’ve tried everything
\h\h\h\hto get fired.

1150
01:24:37,438 --> 01:24:39,306
\h\h\hCOURTNEY LOVE:
\hRemember that girl
that was downstairs,

1151
01:24:39,306 --> 01:24:41,603
\h\h\h\hthat said she didn’t care
about The Hives and The Strokes,

1152
01:24:41,603 --> 01:24:44,801
\hand she just wanted
like a big rock riff?

1153
01:24:44,801 --> 01:24:45,306
(LAUGHS)

1154
01:24:45,306 --> 01:24:47,438
I think that ought to do it.
\h\h\hWe are, um, we’re back.

1155
01:24:47,438 --> 01:24:52,471
\h\h\h\hWe had a little nap,
and we are really staying up
\h\h\h\h\hfor 24 hours and...

1156
01:24:52,735 --> 01:24:54,900
\h\h\h\hnot many people
in this room do drugs.

1157
01:24:54,900 --> 01:24:56,504
We’re in a corporate
\h\h\h\henvironment.

1158
01:24:56,504 --> 01:24:57,273
Come here, come here.

1159
01:24:57,273 --> 01:25:00,339
ALBERT: Courtney Love
was doing a take over
\hof MTV for 24 hours.

1160
01:25:00,339 --> 01:25:02,339
-COURTNEY: Show us your (BLEEP).
-Come on!

1161
01:25:02,339 --> 01:25:03,801
\h\h\h\h\hCOURTNEY: Yes!
I’ll do it if you do it!

1162
01:25:03,801 --> 01:25:08,669
RYAN: She texted me,
"Do any of The Strokes
\h\h\h\hwanna pop up?"

1163
01:25:08,669 --> 01:25:09,867
I called Albert.

1164
01:25:09,867 --> 01:25:11,867
ALBERT: You’re fucked up
\h\hand the idea’s funny.

1165
01:25:11,867 --> 01:25:16,504
\h\hOh, yeah, I’ll go up there
and, like, see Courtney Love.

1166
01:25:16,669 --> 01:25:18,966
(MAN SPEAKING)

1167
01:25:18,966 --> 01:25:22,471
Wait, what are we doing?
\h\h\h\h\h\hWhy are we?

1168
01:25:22,669 --> 01:25:24,735
ALBERT: I was so fucked.

1169
01:25:25,570 --> 01:25:29,702
\h\hFABRIZIO: Her and Ryan
were just doing their thing
\h\h\hwhat Ryan always does.

1170
01:25:29,702 --> 01:25:31,999
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

1171
01:25:33,537 --> 01:25:35,801
(MAN SPEAKING)

1172
01:25:43,471 --> 01:25:47,900
\h\hFABRIZIO: When things go bad,
you just want it to get worse.

1173
01:25:48,801 --> 01:25:51,504
When the band catch you
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hout of it.

1174
01:25:51,999 --> 01:25:57,306
I can be sitting here
\h\hwith my eyes open
\h\hand just... gone.

1175
01:25:57,306 --> 01:26:01,438
\h\h\hALBERT: There’s so many times
where I was just so close to...

1176
01:26:01,603 --> 01:26:02,537
to dying.

1177
01:26:02,537 --> 01:26:04,900
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

1178
01:26:08,735 --> 01:26:11,735
(KAREN O SPEAKING)

1179
01:26:18,405 --> 01:26:20,900
(CROWD CHEERING)

1180
01:26:24,570 --> 01:26:26,636
(KAREN O SPEAKING)

1181
01:26:36,405 --> 01:26:39,735
\h\h-(CROWD GASPS)
-(CROWD SCREAMING)

1182
01:26:40,603 --> 01:26:42,075
KAREN O: It could be over.

1183
01:26:42,075 --> 01:26:44,405
We could be over, you know.

1184
01:26:59,735 --> 01:27:01,768
(ALARM CLOCK BEEPING)

1185
01:27:01,768 --> 01:27:04,603
JAMES: Out of nowhere
\h\h\h\hI got an offer
\h\hfrom Arthur Baker.

1186
01:27:04,603 --> 01:27:09,141
\hHe’d heard our record
and he wanted us to come
\hplay a show in London.

1187
01:27:09,636 --> 01:27:11,966
There’s no way I can do this.

1188
01:27:12,141 --> 01:27:13,471
I can’t do it.

1189
01:27:13,471 --> 01:27:17,801
I don’t have a band.
\h\h\h\hIt’s just me
and a toy boom box.

1190
01:27:19,537 --> 01:27:23,636
\h\h\h\hI did the only thing
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI could do,
call the people that I knew.

1191
01:27:23,636 --> 01:27:26,636
Tyler, the base player
\h\h\h\h\hin Out Hud,

1192
01:27:26,636 --> 01:27:28,504
\hPat, the drummer
in Les Savvy Fav,

1193
01:27:28,504 --> 01:27:32,042
Phil Mossman, guitar player,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwho had done
\hthe David Holmes’ record,

1194
01:27:32,042 --> 01:27:38,537
\h\h\h\h\hand Nancy,
\hmy drinking buddy,
took piano as a kid.

1195
01:27:39,372 --> 01:27:41,999
\h\h\h\h\hNANCY WHANG:
Deciding to start a band

1196
01:27:41,999 --> 01:27:46,141
\hin your 30’s
seemed absurd.

1197
01:27:47,933 --> 01:27:51,438
\h\h\h\hWe only had
10 days to rehearse.

1198
01:27:51,801 --> 01:27:57,801
\h\hThis was his first time
\h\h\h\h\h\h\has a front man
singing in front of people.

1199
01:27:57,801 --> 01:28:00,603
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

1200
01:28:05,867 --> 01:28:08,174
(INDISTINCT TALKING)

1201
01:28:08,174 --> 01:28:13,075
\h\h\hNothing terrified me like
watching footage of John Lydon.

1202
01:28:13,075 --> 01:28:15,867
\hIt made me feel
so uncomfortable.

1203
01:28:15,867 --> 01:28:18,999
\hI realized
this would be
\hmy problem.

1204
01:28:20,867 --> 01:28:23,438
The people that are dancing...

1205
01:28:23,438 --> 01:28:25,702
\h\h\h\h\h\hand he just
doesn’t exude himself.

1206
01:28:25,702 --> 01:28:27,900
(INDISTINCT TALKING)

1207
01:28:29,933 --> 01:28:31,537
Oh, my God.

1208
01:28:39,537 --> 01:28:42,042
\h\h\h\h\hI don’t know
what to do with myself.

1209
01:28:46,042 --> 01:28:51,603
\h\h\hNANCY: James wanted
to set up very, very close
\h\h\h\htogether on stage.

1210
01:28:52,207 --> 01:28:55,042
\h\h\h\h\hSo, he was
totally surrounded.

1211
01:28:55,900 --> 01:28:56,933
Protected.

1212
01:28:56,933 --> 01:28:59,438
(CROWD CHEERING)

1213
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:01,999
Go ahead--

1214
01:29:01,999 --> 01:29:05,504
(ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING)

1215
01:29:20,768 --> 01:29:25,240
♪ Well, Daft Punk is playing
\h\h\hat my house, my house

1216
01:29:26,603 --> 01:29:31,933
♪ I’ll show you the ropes kid,
show you the ropes

1217
01:29:32,768 --> 01:29:38,108
♪ I got a bus and a trailer
\h\h\hat my house, my house

1218
01:29:39,174 --> 01:29:44,768
♪ I’ll show you the ropes kid,
show you the ropes

1219
01:29:44,999 --> 01:29:49,801
♪ ’Cause Daft Punk is playing
\h\h\h\hat my house, my house

1220
01:29:50,900 --> 01:29:56,273
♪ You’ve got to set them up,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hset them up

1221
01:29:57,735 --> 01:29:59,801
♪ My house

1222
01:30:00,900 --> 01:30:02,966
♪ My house

1223
01:30:03,273 --> 01:30:08,570
♪ You’ve got to set them up,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hset them up

1224
01:30:09,933 --> 01:30:12,669
(SCREAMING)

1225
01:30:23,075 --> 01:30:25,834
(CROWD CHEERING)

1226
01:30:32,108 --> 01:30:33,273
\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER:
The song "This is it,"

1227
01:30:33,273 --> 01:30:36,141
\h\h\h\h\h\h\his that
a sarcastic reference
\h\h\hto The Strokes?

1228
01:30:36,141 --> 01:30:37,141
RYAN: No, no, no, no, no!

1229
01:30:37,141 --> 01:30:38,768
\hI’ve heard that
from many people
\hand it’s like,

1230
01:30:38,768 --> 01:30:40,834
"Damn, if I were gonna write
\h\ha song about The Strokes,

1231
01:30:40,834 --> 01:30:43,834
"I would probably go
\ha little further."

1232
01:30:43,834 --> 01:30:45,933
That’s just the name
\h\h\h\hof the song.

1233
01:30:45,933 --> 01:30:47,141
\h\h\h\h\hBut I can see
why people think that.

1234
01:30:47,141 --> 01:30:51,273
\hIt goes to show you
\h\h\hhow influential
The Strokes guys are.

1235
01:30:51,273 --> 01:30:55,075
That these guys
are just great.

1236
01:30:57,141 --> 01:30:58,603
Hello.

1237
01:30:59,504 --> 01:31:01,702
(MAN SPEAKING)

1238
01:31:56,339 --> 01:32:00,735
\h\h\h\hI wanted to ask you
about this before we left.

1239
01:32:00,735 --> 01:32:01,801
I think it’s awesome.

1240
01:32:01,801 --> 01:32:03,867
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-What?
-Yes... The holster.

1241
01:32:03,867 --> 01:32:04,735
Well, thanks, thanks a lot.

1242
01:32:04,735 --> 01:32:06,801
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER:
And I don’t know if anyone’s
\h\h\hever done that before.

1243
01:32:06,801 --> 01:32:08,768
Um, to my knowledge,
\h\h\h\hthey haven’t.

1244
01:32:08,768 --> 01:32:11,768
\h\hBut it wasn’t, you know,
me trying to be an innovator.

1245
01:32:11,768 --> 01:32:12,768
(ALL LAUGHING)

1246
01:32:12,768 --> 01:32:16,735
\h\hIt wasn’t me trying
to be an innovator to--
\hto wear the holster.

1247
01:32:16,735 --> 01:32:17,603
If I get followers, so be it.

1248
01:32:17,603 --> 01:32:21,207
\h\h\hYeah, so be it, exactly.
I’m not gonna, like, stop them.

1249
01:32:21,933 --> 01:32:23,933
(INDISTINCT)

1250
01:32:24,702 --> 01:32:27,108
\h\h\h\h\hWe’re Interpol,
and you’re watching MTV2.

1251
01:32:27,108 --> 01:32:28,735
\hYou’ve had stuff’s
thrown at you, like,

1252
01:32:28,735 --> 01:32:30,372
\hthere’s been panties
thrown at you, Carlos?

1253
01:32:30,372 --> 01:32:34,042
Uh, there was an occasion
\h\h\h\h\h\hwhere panties
\hwere thrown at me, yes.

1254
01:32:34,042 --> 01:32:36,075
\h\h\hINTERVIEWER: It seems like
you’ve been touring constantly.

1255
01:32:36,075 --> 01:32:37,735
it seems like you’ve hardly
\h\h\h\hreally had a break.

1256
01:32:37,735 --> 01:32:39,867
\h\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER 2:
What’s fans reactions been
\h\h\h\hto this new album?

1257
01:32:39,867 --> 01:32:42,108
CARLOS: Wherever we’ve gone,
it’s been just kind of, like,

1258
01:32:42,108 --> 01:32:44,933
\h\h\h\ha similar sort of
excitement and enthusiasm.

1259
01:32:45,801 --> 01:32:51,042
PAUL: Before Napster,
\h\hwe would have made
a shit load of money.

1260
01:32:52,702 --> 01:32:54,273
But actually...

1261
01:32:54,273 --> 01:32:55,867
I didn’t really care.

1262
01:32:55,867 --> 01:32:56,405
(CROWD CHEERING)

1263
01:32:56,405 --> 01:33:02,174
\h\h\h\h\h\hBecause people
from all around the world
found out about our music.

1264
01:33:04,273 --> 01:33:09,867
\h\h\h\h\h\hI remember thinking
\h\h\h\h\h\hback to all of those
guidance counselor meetings...

1265
01:33:10,966 --> 01:33:13,801
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwhen I said,
"I wanna be a rock star."

1266
01:33:13,867 --> 01:33:16,306
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

1267
01:33:26,207 --> 01:33:30,207
♪ Yeah, but nobody searches

1268
01:33:30,207 --> 01:33:32,999
♪ And nobody cares somehow

1269
01:33:32,999 --> 01:33:36,306
♪ When the loving
that you’ve wasted

1270
01:33:36,306 --> 01:33:39,867
♪ Comes raining from
\h\ha hapless cloud

1271
01:33:39,867 --> 01:33:43,207
\h\h\h♪ And I might stop
and look upon your face

1272
01:33:43,207 --> 01:33:46,339
\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ Disappear
in the sweet, sweet gaze

1273
01:33:46,339 --> 01:33:49,966
\h♪ See the living
that surrounds me

1274
01:33:49,966 --> 01:33:54,042
♪ Dissipate in a violet place

1275
01:33:55,207 --> 01:34:02,207
\h\h♪ Can’t you see
\h\hwhat you’ve done
to my heart and soul

1276
01:34:02,537 --> 01:34:06,339
♪ This is a wasteland now

1277
01:34:07,108 --> 01:34:10,174
♪ We spies, we slow hands

1278
01:34:10,174 --> 01:34:13,537
♪ Put the weights
\haround yourself

1279
01:34:13,537 --> 01:34:17,537
♪ We spies, oh, yeah
\h\h\hWe slow hands

1280
01:34:17,537 --> 01:34:20,372
♪ We retire like nobody else

1281
01:34:20,372 --> 01:34:23,240
\h\h\h\h\h♪ We spies
intimate slow hands

1282
01:34:23,240 --> 01:34:27,537
\h\h\h♪ Killer for hire
you know not yourself ♪

1283
01:34:27,537 --> 01:34:30,504
(CROWD CHEERING)

1284
01:34:32,504 --> 01:34:35,999
\h\h\h\h\h\hAfter falling
from the stage in a show
in Australia last month,

1285
01:34:35,999 --> 01:34:38,867
Karen O, the tough front woman
\h\h\h\hof the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

1286
01:34:38,867 --> 01:34:43,174
\h\h\hstill managed to
compose herself enough
\h\h\hto perform Maps.

1287
01:34:43,174 --> 01:34:45,405
(INDISTINCT TALKING)

1288
01:34:48,075 --> 01:34:51,339
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

1289
01:34:51,372 --> 01:34:53,867
(KAREN O SPEAKING)

1290
01:34:56,999 --> 01:34:59,372
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

1291
01:35:04,174 --> 01:35:05,438
(KAREN O SPEAKING)

1292
01:35:05,438 --> 01:35:07,933
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

1293
01:35:07,933 --> 01:35:09,966
(KAREN O SPEAKING)

1294
01:35:14,999 --> 01:35:17,438
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

1295
01:35:37,504 --> 01:35:39,405
♪ Pack up

1296
01:35:39,504 --> 01:35:41,603
♪ I’m straight

1297
01:35:41,834 --> 01:35:43,438
♪ Enough

1298
01:35:43,438 --> 01:35:45,438
♪ Oh, say, say, say

1299
01:35:45,438 --> 01:35:47,471
♪ Oh, say, say, say

1300
01:35:47,471 --> 01:35:49,504
♪ Oh, say, say, say

1301
01:35:49,504 --> 01:35:51,504
♪ Oh, say, say, say

1302
01:35:51,504 --> 01:35:53,339
♪ Oh, say, say, say

1303
01:35:53,339 --> 01:35:57,339
♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

1304
01:35:57,339 --> 01:36:01,999
♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

1305
01:36:01,999 --> 01:36:06,240
♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

1306
01:36:06,240 --> 01:36:07,174
♪ Just wait

1307
01:36:07,174 --> 01:36:10,669
♪ They don’t love you
\h\h\hlike I love you

1308
01:36:41,240 --> 01:36:45,372
♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

1309
01:36:45,372 --> 01:36:49,900
♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

1310
01:36:49,900 --> 01:36:54,075
♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

1311
01:36:54,075 --> 01:36:54,669
♪ Just wait

1312
01:36:54,669 --> 01:36:57,405
♪ For they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

1313
01:36:57,405 --> 01:37:02,042
♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

1314
01:37:02,042 --> 01:37:06,108
♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

1315
01:37:06,108 --> 01:37:07,108
♪ Just wait

1316
01:37:07,108 --> 01:37:10,471
♪ They don’t love you
\h\hlike I love you ♪

1317
01:37:55,471 --> 01:37:58,306
\h\h-I’m so annoyed
\h\hwith this dude.
-NANCY: What dude?

1318
01:37:58,306 --> 01:38:00,306
So, here it’s just things like,

1319
01:38:00,306 --> 01:38:03,141
\h\h\h\h\h\h"I’m sad because
I had a show booked with LCD.

1320
01:38:03,141 --> 01:38:06,141
"The date, like, all U.S. dates
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hgot canceled."

1321
01:38:06,141 --> 01:38:07,801
There was no fucking U.S. tour.

1322
01:38:07,801 --> 01:38:09,306
We never had a U.S. tour.

1323
01:38:09,306 --> 01:38:10,471
Are you responding to it?

1324
01:38:10,471 --> 01:38:12,141
\h\h\h\h\h\h-JAMES: Yeah.
-What are you gonna say?

1325
01:38:12,141 --> 01:38:16,702
\h\h\hJAMES: I have to say
this shit sounds a lot like
\h\h\ha fucking guilt trip.

1326
01:38:16,702 --> 01:38:18,372
What are you, my mother?

1327
01:38:18,372 --> 01:38:19,636
Eat it.

1328
01:38:20,306 --> 01:38:21,141
Fucking baby.

1329
01:38:21,141 --> 01:38:22,207
\h\h\hWhy are you
getting so angry?
\h\h\h\h(LAUGHS)

1330
01:38:22,207 --> 01:38:26,801
JAMES: I-- Just the concept
\h\h\hof emailing somebody
\h\h\h\his so alien to me.

1331
01:38:26,801 --> 01:38:29,471
(KEYBOARD CLICKING)

1332
01:38:35,636 --> 01:38:38,603
(SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)

1333
01:38:45,141 --> 01:38:46,141
\h\h\hINTERVIEWER:
So, you’re tied up?

1334
01:38:46,141 --> 01:38:48,702
Oh, I don’t wanna do this.
\h\h\hI hate this so much.

1335
01:38:48,702 --> 01:38:52,768
INTERVIEWER: James, I’m serious,
lip sync to a different song.
\h\h\hSing a different song.

1336
01:38:52,768 --> 01:38:56,339
\hI’m doing that now.
It’s called talking.

1337
01:38:56,339 --> 01:38:58,306
I can talk all day.

1338
01:39:00,372 --> 01:39:02,207
(MOUTHING)

1339
01:39:05,867 --> 01:39:10,735
\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: Those years
were the big bang of my life.

1340
01:39:18,669 --> 01:39:21,669
I finally found my friends.

1341
01:39:24,240 --> 01:39:26,405
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
Can we do claps again?

1342
01:39:26,768 --> 01:39:28,372
(JAMES LAUGHING)

1343
01:39:28,372 --> 01:39:30,339
(CROWD CHEERING)

1344
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:32,273
Yes!

1345
01:39:32,273 --> 01:39:33,603
(JAMES LAUGHING)

1346
01:39:33,603 --> 01:39:35,273
(CROWD CHEERING)

1347
01:39:35,273 --> 01:39:37,240
JAMES: I felt safe.

1348
01:39:45,108 --> 01:39:48,438
The Brooklyn Waterfront
will likely be getting
\h\h\h\h\h\ha makeover.

1349
01:39:48,438 --> 01:39:51,405
\h\h\h\hMayor Bloomberg wants
to rezone part of the area...

1350
01:39:51,405 --> 01:39:52,372
The neighborhood
has had a rebirth

1351
01:39:52,372 --> 01:39:55,240
and now it’s a choice location
\hfor commerce and for living.

1352
01:39:55,240 --> 01:39:57,339
\h\hMALE REPORTER:
\h\hIt is no longer
a well-kept secret.

1353
01:39:57,339 --> 01:40:00,702
What began with a trickle
\h\h\h\h\hhas turned into
\ha flood of Manhattanites

1354
01:40:00,702 --> 01:40:03,867
\hcrossing the East River
\h\h\h\h\hinto Brooklyn’s
Williamsburg neighborhood.

1355
01:40:03,867 --> 01:40:09,108
\h-Many of them drawn...
\h\h-DAVE: Our rent had
tripled in three years.

1356
01:40:09,207 --> 01:40:12,867
The landlords cleared out
\hwhole fucking buildings.

1357
01:40:13,702 --> 01:40:15,867
Pushing families out.

1358
01:40:20,438 --> 01:40:25,273
\h\h\hKAREN O: I was grieving
the dissipation of the scene.

1359
01:40:25,273 --> 01:40:29,669
I don’t want to stick around
\hand just watch it go away.

1360
01:40:30,669 --> 01:40:32,702
I left New York City.

1361
01:40:33,867 --> 01:40:37,603
I felt too nostalgic for it
\hwhen everything happened.

1362
01:40:37,603 --> 01:40:38,240
(CROWD CHEERING)

1363
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:40,240
NICK: See now, everybody
\hwas just playing music,
you know what I’m saying.

1364
01:40:40,240 --> 01:40:44,669
\h\h\h\h-KAREN O: It’s nuts,
yeah, good music. Everywhere.
\h\h\h\h\h-NICK: Yeah, yeah.

1365
01:40:44,669 --> 01:40:46,537
\h-NICK: Yeah.
-KAREN O: Yeah.

1366
01:40:46,537 --> 01:40:48,438
KAREN O: It was like a flash.

1367
01:40:50,339 --> 01:40:52,867
(SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)

1368
01:40:58,669 --> 01:41:01,273
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

1369
01:41:04,570 --> 01:41:06,735
(MAN SPEAKING)

1370
01:41:06,735 --> 01:41:08,306
(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

1371
01:41:08,306 --> 01:41:10,273
(MAN SPEAKING)

1372
01:41:33,504 --> 01:41:37,570
ALBERT: When we first met,
that’s what we bonded over,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt was...

1373
01:41:37,570 --> 01:41:42,339
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe belief
that we could accomplish
\hanything we wanted to.

1374
01:41:45,603 --> 01:41:47,339
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
Everything was so innocent,

1375
01:41:47,339 --> 01:41:50,306
\h\h\h\h\h\hand somehow
you lose it through time

1376
01:41:50,306 --> 01:41:53,900
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand then
\h\hyou spend a lot of time
chasing that same innocence,

1377
01:41:53,900 --> 01:41:57,603
\hthat feeling of
just being young.

1378
01:42:18,537 --> 01:42:19,900
(CROWD CHEERING)

1379
01:42:25,867 --> 01:42:28,504
NARRATOR: Day upon day,

1380
01:42:28,504 --> 01:42:31,504
and year upon year, O city,

1381
01:42:31,570 --> 01:42:33,669
walking your streets,

1382
01:42:38,669 --> 01:42:41,867
Keep your splendid silent sun.

1383
01:42:42,636 --> 01:42:44,636
Keep your woods, O Nature,

1384
01:42:44,636 --> 01:42:47,801
and your corn-fields
\h\h\hand orchards.

1385
01:42:52,471 --> 01:42:55,504
Give me faces and streets!

1386
01:42:56,669 --> 01:42:59,504
\h\h\h\h\h\hGive me comrades
and lovers by the thousand!

1387
01:42:59,504 --> 01:43:01,636
\h\h\h\h\hLet me see
new ones every day!

1388
01:43:01,636 --> 01:43:03,801
\hLet me hold new ones
by the hand every day!

1389
01:43:03,801 --> 01:43:08,900
Give me such shows!
Give me the streets
\h\h\hof Manhattan!

1390
01:43:10,735 --> 01:43:15,867
People, endless, streaming,
\h\h\h\hwith strong voices,
\h\h\h\hpassions, pageants.

1391
01:43:15,867 --> 01:43:22,801
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan streets,
\h\h\hwith their powerful throbs,
with the beating drums, as now.

1392
01:43:22,900 --> 01:43:25,933
The endless and noisy chorus.

1393
01:43:25,933 --> 01:43:28,042
(CROWD CHEERING)

1394
01:43:29,405 --> 01:43:35,372
\h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan crowds with
their turbulent musical chorus.

1395
01:43:35,471 --> 01:43:41,735
\h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan faces
and the eyes forever for me.

1396
01:43:53,801 --> 01:43:56,735
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

1397
01:44:03,834 --> 01:44:07,372
♪ Many years since I was here

1398
01:44:08,603 --> 01:44:13,702
\h\h\h\h\h♪ On the street
I was passing my time away

1399
01:44:13,867 --> 01:44:16,669
\h♪ To the left
and to the right

1400
01:44:16,669 --> 01:44:19,438
♪ Towers tumble to the sky

1401
01:44:19,438 --> 01:44:21,471
♪ It’s out of sight

1402
01:44:21,471 --> 01:44:23,999
♪ In the dead of night

1403
01:44:25,042 --> 01:44:28,438
♪ Here I am again in the city

1404
01:44:29,768 --> 01:44:31,504
♪ With a fistful of dollars

1405
01:44:31,504 --> 01:44:35,867
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ And, baby,
you better believe I’m back

1406
01:44:35,867 --> 01:44:38,768
♪ Back in the New York groove

1407
01:44:39,702 --> 01:44:40,933
♪ I’m back

1408
01:44:40,933 --> 01:44:43,702
♪ Back in the New York groove

1409
01:44:44,669 --> 01:44:45,867
♪ I’m back

1410
01:44:45,867 --> 01:44:48,669
♪ Back in the New York groove

1411
01:44:49,801 --> 01:44:51,108
♪ I’m back

1412
01:44:51,108 --> 01:44:53,504
♪ In the New York groove

1413
01:44:53,504 --> 01:44:55,768
♪ In the New York groove

1414
01:44:59,834 --> 01:45:03,735
♪ In the back of my Cadillac

1415
01:45:04,867 --> 01:45:07,537
\h♪ A wicked lady
sittin’ by my side

1416
01:45:07,537 --> 01:45:09,735
♪ Sayin’, "Where are we?"

1417
01:45:09,900 --> 01:45:12,834
♪ Stopped at Third
\hand Forty-three

1418
01:45:12,834 --> 01:45:14,438
♪ Exit to the night

1419
01:45:14,438 --> 01:45:16,834
♪ It’s gonna be ecstasy

1420
01:45:16,834 --> 01:45:19,867
♪ This place was meant for me

1421
01:45:21,504 --> 01:45:25,933
♪ I feel so good tonight

1422
01:45:25,933 --> 01:45:29,207
♪ Who cares about tomorrow

1423
01:45:30,537 --> 01:45:31,735
♪ I’m back

1424
01:45:31,735 --> 01:45:34,669
♪ Back in the New York groove

1425
01:45:35,603 --> 01:45:36,768
♪ I’m back

1426
01:45:36,768 --> 01:45:38,669
♪ Back in the New York groove

1427
01:45:38,669 --> 01:45:40,570
♪ New York groove

1428
01:45:40,570 --> 01:45:41,702
♪ I’m back

1429
01:45:41,702 --> 01:45:43,669
♪ Back in the New York groove

1430
01:45:43,669 --> 01:45:45,603
♪ New York groove

1431
01:45:45,603 --> 01:45:46,669
♪ I’m back

1432
01:45:46,669 --> 01:45:48,207
♪ In the New York groove

1433
01:45:48,207 --> 01:45:50,669
♪ New York groove

1434
01:45:50,669 --> 01:45:51,867
♪ I’m back

1435
01:45:51,867 --> 01:45:53,537
♪ Back in the New York groove

1436
01:45:53,537 --> 01:45:55,735
♪ New York groove

1437
01:45:55,735 --> 01:45:56,900
♪ I’m back

1438
01:45:56,900 --> 01:45:58,504
♪ Back in the New York groove

1439
01:45:58,504 --> 01:46:00,834
♪ New York groove

1440
01:46:00,834 --> 01:46:01,933
♪ I’m back

1441
01:46:01,933 --> 01:46:03,504
♪ Back in the New York groove

1442
01:46:03,504 --> 01:46:05,801
♪ New York groove

1443
01:46:05,801 --> 01:46:06,768
♪ I’m back

1444
01:46:06,768 --> 01:46:08,570
♪ New York groove

1445
01:46:08,570 --> 01:46:10,141
♪ New York groove

1446
01:46:10,141 --> 01:46:13,504
\h\h\h-♪ I’m back
-♪ New York groove

1447
01:46:13,504 --> 01:46:15,108
♪ New York groove

1448
01:46:15,108 --> 01:46:18,504
\h\h\h-♪ I’m back
-♪ New York groove

1449
01:46:18,570 --> 01:46:20,075
♪ New York groove

1450
01:46:20,075 --> 01:46:23,603
\h\h\h-♪ I’m back
-♪ New York groove

1451
01:46:23,603 --> 01:46:24,966
♪ New York groove

1452
01:46:24,966 --> 01:46:26,926
\h\h\h-♪ I’m back ♪
-♪ New York groove ♪



