Adam Yauch: Definitely, yeah, that’s something I’ve been interested in for a long time. Like, I think when you spend a bunch of time making music videos, it’s sort of a natural thing to want to do that. When you go out with a crew and you shoot stuff, you come up with ideas and you shoot ’em, and you edit ’em together, and you see the way these different ideas, the way cutting different things together, plays out. It definitely makes you start looking at movies in a different way and thinking about making movies. So yes, it’s been something that I’ve wanted to do for about 20 years or so. Probably, hopefully, soon, it’s something that I’d like to do.
ThePhoenix.com: Is there a project that you have right now?
Adam Yauch: Yeah, a screenplay that I wrote with a friend of mine that I’m figuring out how to get made.
ThePhoenix.com: Can you say a little about it?
Adam Yauch: Yeah, it’s about graffiti writers. It’s set in New York in 1981, and it’s kinda like when the MTA shut down the graf scene in New York. I think it’s an interesting period of time that hasn’t really been explored, and a real piece of American history that’s pretty amazing that hasn’t really been seriously dealt [with], and it’s a piece of American history that really influenced people the world over, and really influenced modern culture. You know, so anyway, it’s something that I grew up around, so I’m interested in it.
ThePhoenix.com: Well good luck with that. I like that there’s a semicolon in the title [the official title of the concert film is Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That.] I thought I’d mention that, too.
Adam Yauch: Ah, cool, me too. That’s one of my favorite pieces of punctuation.
ThePhoenix.com: Right, and nobody uses it for titles, either.
Adam Yauch: True. People use the colon a bit. But you don’t see the semicolon around too much. Do you feel like it’s a good use for the semicolon?
ThePhoenix.com: Um, it’s unorthodox, but . . .
Adam Yauch: It’s not clear whether it’s two sentences or one sentence. Maybe a continuation of the same sentence, I guess.
ThePhoenix.com: And it’s great that you actually hear the guy say it, so you can sort of think in you own head, is the punctuation warranted here? But it worked for me.
Adam Yauch: It’s a great title for sticklers for detail.
ThePhoenix.com: Yes.
Adam Yauch: Maybe not good for people who don’t like profanity.
ThePhoenix.com: Uh, maybe not. I guess a lot of newspapers won’t print that, of course.
Adam Yauch: Yeah.
ThePhoenix.com: But fuck ’em.
Adam Yauch: Well said.
