The Latest Show on Earth - 03/04/08 - part 2

[@iridescentgreen]

this is fascinating. I love Stephin Merritt!

[@fanniterrette]

This interview could have been so much better. The questions were unfocused and apparently not thought out in advance. A largely wasted opportunity. But the ukulele piece at the end was a treat.

[@Teofane]

I don't know why people insist interviewing Stephin Merritt when its so obvious that he doesn't enjoy it. Why not interview Claudia Gonson?

[@melodel2]

@1991stacy lol if you watch any of the other interviews with Stephin Merritt on them, you come to find this is a steady trend my friend.

[@thiswonthurtbaby]

internet = everyones allowed to have an oppppppppppppppiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnniiiiiiiiiiiioooooooooooonnnnnnnnn

[@alybees]

good interview besides the formidable awkwardness.

[@TheMurgha]

"Youre never gonna be a arenarocker...- No." I would cry myself to sleep if i made an interview like that. Its definitely ocd-behaviour. How hurtful to watch this year after year. "Solitary listener?"...

[@SirHatchporch]

"Hmm."

[@Neurozumim]

The "Hmm....Hmm...." I think is only Merritt disagreeing with the idea that one should play bad music to make their friends leave. On the contrary to what the interviewer thinks, he is NOT direct. He's hesitating before responding, probably hoping that it will not hurt the interviewer too much. But he's right: do not play bad music at the end of your parties. Just tell your friends you are tired. I'm suspicious that he hates party music yet dances in gay bars. I sense self-dishonesty.

[@1991stacy]

Wow, most awkward interview I have ever seen. It kind of looked like stephin merritt just maybe did not want to be there, possibly? I could be wrong.

[@thiswonthurtbaby]

or this is too subtle hate for me to understand... otherwise the interviewer is being told to kiss a sac