David Wain & Belle and Sebastian

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

First up, a favorite here around the Bullseye office: David Wain! He's a comedy legend, an actor, too. And he just directed the new Netflix film "A Futile and Stupid Gesture." He and Jesse talk about Doug Kenney, the movie's subject, whose work changed the trajectory of American comedy. Then: break out the 8mm cameras and the oversized sunglasses! It's time for Belle & Sebastian. Jesse talks with frontman Stuart Murdoch about their latest series of EPs - a trilogy called "How to Solve our Human Problems." Also: Baseball. Turns out Stuart is Glasgow's biggest Mets fan! Finally, on this week's outshot, Jesse walks us through the career of rapper Scarface whose lyrics, more than most rappers, mulls over the fear, rage, and consequences of gang violence.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.0	I'm Jesse Thorn. Stuart Murdock founded the band Bell and Sebastian. For 20 plus years,
0:20.0	he's been writing beautiful, tuneful, specific songs about track and field stars and record
0:27.0	executives and win some lovers and girls who look like French new wave stars. He loves happy
0:34.0	pop music, I mean to listen to the love and spoonful, the Jackson Five, but somehow when
0:40.0	he sits down to write a song, it never quite comes out as happy as he thought it was going
0:47.0	to. I have a friend who sometimes you want to see him in the street just comes up to me and says,
0:52.0	play your music in the sunshine. That should be the name of your next. All it goes,
0:59.0	this is how it goes. Play your music in the sunshine. Everybody feels fine. That's it.
1:04.0	That's the chorus. Your trouble is, you never write any choruses. It's Bullseye.
1:10.0	Coming up more with Stuart from Bell and Sebastian, he'll talk to me about meditation,
1:23.0	about being possibly Glasgow's only baseball fan. And what it was like taking up songwriting
1:30.0	as an adult. It seems like an obvious thing for some songwriters to do. It wasn't for me.
1:37.0	It took a step by step. I suddenly realized I could communicate in this way. And in the
1:45.0	quietness I realized I had quite a lot to see that I would never have thought of seeing before.
1:51.0	The first stop, David Wayne. He's an actor, a director, a writer, a comedian. He was born in Ohio,
1:58.0	but like a maught to Lady Liberty's flame. He was drawn to the big city lights.
2:03.0	I mean, I knew from as early as I can think that I wanted to live in New York. I knew that
2:08.0	wherever the muppets were and wherever the Saturday Night Live was and wherever Woody Allen was,
2:12.0	is where I want to be. And finally, I'll tell you about Scarface,
2:16.0	a gangster rapper who raps about the consequences of gangsterism. That's all coming up.
2:22.0	On Bullseye, let's go!
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