Werner Herzog & Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum

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Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week's Bullseye has a lot of heavy stuff. First up: Phil Elverum. Elverum's career dates back over 20 years, first as the Microphones and later Mt. Eerie. He's produced ambitious, beautiful records that mix genres like folk, noise, death metal, shoegaze and more. In 2016, though, his life took a tragic turn: his wife, Genevieve, died of pancreatic cancer, leaving behind a toddler. On his latest record, A Crow Looked At Me, Elverum takes grief and loss head on. Then, Werner Herzog, legendary German film director talks about sitcoms, getting shot, and his newest film: the strange, thrilling Salt & Fire.

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0:37.7	There's a lot of mythology around Werner Herzog,
0:40.0	you know, the German director.
0:41.8	The funny thing is a lot of it is true.
0:44.2	They say one time on a plane he ignored orders to brace for impact
0:48.2	so that he could get a better view of the emergency landing.
0:51.8	That he hauled a giant steamboat over a big hill in the Amazon.
0:56.2	That he wants a to shoe live on stage
0:58.9	and that during a totally routine interview
1:02.2	in the Hells of Los Angeles, somebody shot him.
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