Hey I'm Daniel from JR JR.
And I'm Josh from JR JR, and this is Potato who's our mascot
and we're here at Amoeba doing the What's in Your Bag.
I picked up 'Revenge of the Nerds.'
'Revenge of the Nerds' is one of my favorite movies of all time.
I don't know why. It's so dumb.
but my favorite part of the movie is when they do the fraternity
decathlon, and Lamar has to throw the javelin
and they're so smart that they've designed one to go with his limp-wristed throwing style.
I just love it.
I love Procol Harum.
'A Salty Dog,' I feel like that's my favorite song by them
and this is the album titled after that.
I recently just started listening to them again and totally forgot that I
had this two or three years when I was first starting to form bands
as a teenager where this is what I wanted to sound like so
I'm definitely not sounding like this but I still love this song.
There's still time.
The next thing I grabbed was Archers of Loaf, 'Versus The Greatest of All Time'
which was actually the first time that I'd ever seen an EP.
I had an older sister, and she had really good taste in music
but I remember as soon as I heard 'Lowest Part Is Free'
it changed the way that I thought about music.
I never got into punk
in the leather and hair dye and spiky mohawk-y way
but I felt like Archers of Loaf
the spirit of it was kind of punk.
It was so sloppy and gross and rough.
I actually don't have this any longer and I'd like to have it again.
Randy Newman. Josh and I both
really enjoy Randy Newman, have a lot of respect for him.
I have a lot of Randy Newman at home but most of it is live
just him on piano, and I kind of love it, he's one of the few people
that I can listen to live. I don't really like live albums
but this has a bunch of songs on one of the live albums
that I haven't heard the studio versions of.
Like 'Living Without You?'
'Living Without You' and 'I Think It's Going to Rain Today'
I hear more the live version than the studio version.
Plus we covered that song on our mixtape.
We changed the chords in this bridge for 'I Think It's Going to Rain Today'
and he told us, man, those are really good, I wish I would've thought of that.
Just kinda blows you away, y'know
so he has a special place in my heart.
I just bought an apartment and I'm trying to decorate
and I think everyone loves coffee table books
and Leonard Cohen is just one of my favorite artists of all time.
He can cut to the heart of something in
fewer words than anyone I've ever heard, and it's inspiring.
When he decided to play his first concert in America in 15 years
he did it at Beacon Theater in New York
And I thought that was going to be the last time that he played
so I flew out to New York for it.
In between two of the songs at the concert he said
"Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
And I just started bawling
then I was just weeping for the rest of the concert
and he played for 3 hours and was skipping around as an 87 year old man.
Then he went on a world tour for three years after
and I could've just seen him in Detroit or LA or wherever.
But I did see him a couple more times after that.
On Instagram, I follow this dude and he posts all the time
and it's just a picture of a real human being standing on the side of the street or
in normal life, and he talks to them and gets a quote from them
and it's always really inspiring and informative and
just a little deeper than what you would normally see on Instagram.
So this is a book of some of the better ones.
Talking Heads is also one of my favorite bands of all time.
David Byrne is... if I could have anyone's career
I would have his because he's still prolific in so many different mediums.
He wrote this book 'How Music Works' and it was incredible.
He has such a deep understanding of the entire world around him
and all of his music is incredible
but 'Fear of Music' was one of the albums that was really experimental for them.
They were trying to be totally rhythm-based in the inspiration for stuff.
I really love Shakespeare and I have not seen this, and Michael Fassbender is awesome.
so I'm taking a gamble. I'm hoping this will be good.
Besides
this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek
hath been so clear in his great office
that his virtues would plead like angels
trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off
To me, there's a lot of similarity between Shakespeare and modern poetry and rap.
There's so many crossovers with a lot of that.
I'm really into the sonnets, because they're kind of musical
they have a rhythm to them, and he finds a way to say stuff
that we all say to each other.
He just always blows my mind.
Still. It's kind of geeky but...
I picked 'Saved by the Bell' seasons 1 and 2 on DVD
because 'Saved by the Bell' is one of my favorite shows of all time.
Jesse, being president is a waste of time.
It's like being a lifeguard for a birdbath.
I always try and think about what character from 'Saved by the Bell' I'm most like
and I think I'm a hybrid of Zack & Screech, which is weird.
You've got some Screech in you, that's for sure.
I do have some Screech, but might have a little bit of Zack, y'know?
Can you say you have Zack? Can you say that yourself, or is that...
I'm not as cool or handsome as Zack but
that's where the Screech comes in.
But I'm also not as hapless as Screech.
Cool, thank you so much guys.
Thank you.
Thanks for having us.