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So I hear there's possibly a Jim Jarmusch documentary coming out about the Stooges?
Yeah, I don't know. I saw that the band got to a certain maturity, and it was time -- as part of wrapping up my responsibility to what I thought I needed to provide as leadership -- to get someone really good to document as much as material as was reasonable. And then bury it in a box, or hopefully recombine it in some way and ... see what he makes of it and put it out there. Basically I've had my Iggy Pop Behind the Music, and the art channels in Europe, and the group's had the Sony Story of Raw Power DVD, but this is a different level. And Jim's a fine artist and a completely independent and unpredictable character. And he's also musically knowledgeable, and he knows and loves the group, so that was the idea. I asked him, "Listen, please, I need you to do some coverage of the group," so he's done some coverage. I'll probably talk to him this fall to see what he wants to do with it, whether it might be like a box of DVDs, or whether it might be -- I'd love to give him some music for it. It's sort of in the sense that when you work with somebody really good, you expect that you're not necessarily gonna like or really agree either with whatever it is they make. That's important.
That just comes with the territory?
Yeah, which is a good thing. It's sort of like, I wanted a top doctor to have a look at this. Before we expire.
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