What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I am your host, Corey Wong. Today's show is a special one because we have one of the most incredible, prolific, and artistic film composers of our time. But he also happens to be somebody who is a rock star in the band Oingo Boingo.

Today's guest is Danny Elfman.

You read it on the link you clicked or whatever thing you pressed play on you saw his name.

So you know who my guest is.

Now, if you don't know a lot about him, like I said, he was a rock star in the band Oingo Boingo,

playing guitar, singing, writing songs, insanely huge and amazing band. And, I mean, basically, we could

have ended it there, and that could be it. But many people nowadays know him as the guy who wrote

The Simpsons theme.

He has a fun story about how he wrote that song in an afternoon.

He wrote the scores for Peewey's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie

in the Chocolate Factory, Nightmare Before Christmas, and he even sang a lot of the songs.

He's known as kind of just being the cat to do the scores for Tim Burton movies, and he even sang a lot of the songs. He's known as kind of just being the cat to do the scores for Tim Burton movies.

And he talks about that relationship and sometimes complexities of a relationship like that in the interview.

I was super excited about this.

I am so enamored with the kinds of artists that can split their brains and do

those sort of things, movies, the band and rock star career, and then also find a way to blend

those together. I feel like he was one of the leading people in his generation to really kind of set that sort of blueprint for a career

for many artists.

Like, you know, nowadays you see Trent Rezner, John Batiste, a lot of people doing this sort

of thing where they have their band for their own solo career, but then they also, I guess,

Moonlight, it's probably not the right word for it, but then they also, I guess, Moonlight.

It's probably not the right board for it, but they also have this other gig being film composers.

...