Quoted: Warren Ellis

“We’d like to do a song, ladies and gentlemen, about how love kind of disappears after about 3 days… and you sort of like think ‘I kind of like you but maybe it’s not really working’. You decide that you’ll lock yourself away in a room and fill yourself with as many drugs as you can. And you do this, ladies and gentlemen, and you have such a good time that you forget that you don’t actually love them anymore and it doesn’t matter. You’re walking along one day, and because you’re sort of like this indie rocker, you sort of like hear this Weezer song that says ‘Oooh I look like Buddy Holly and she’s Mary Tyler Moore’ and you think you’re Buddy Holly and she’s Mary Tyler Moore and you kind of like start to think ’That’s pretty cool.’ Then you kind of look in the window of the shop that you’re going into to buy some bread and you realize that you are actually … Burt Reynolds … and she’s Sally Fields … and you’ve been cast in Smokey and the Bandit 98. You have a toupee… and she’s not The Flying Nun anymore. So that’s kind of bummed you out and you think ‘We really didn’t find love, but we had a lot of fun on the drugs … but if it’s going to make me look like Burt Reynolds and you look like Sally Fields maybe we have to look at doing something else or maybe take another drug that makes us feel, like, kind of better than that.’ But you know in this time, ladies and gentlemen, you know in this time that … Everything Is Fucked.”

— Warren Ellis (source)

Thank you Mr Ellis. Oh, and gentle reader, if you want to listen to a fantastic soundtrack, go pick up the work that Ellis did with his friend Nick Cave for the film The Assassination of Jesse James . I’m listening to it right now, and it’s stunning.