I was like, "Dude, wow, you can really whistle!" He was this sort of awesome whistler. It's funny, because I did this show-he has this charity, a tutoring program called 826 Valencia, and I've done a bunch of benefits for them-and I heard him whistling backstage. **Well, technically, there may be some Dave Eggers on there. I read that Dave Eggers does the whistling on the song "Little Tornadoes." Is that right? Depression is death to creativity, because you can't function. And that's death to creativity.ĭo you also feel that way about depression? I never liked doing drugs when I was a kid. Are there any drugs that you think help with songwriting? I thought it was funny to make you the expert witness in the case against marijuana when there's drugs all over your songs. I feel like you've gotten more relaxed and looser on stage in the last ten years. To practice composure while you're getting hit in the face is really quite a skill, and it does translate to the stage, because a lot can go wrong, and you have to keep your cool. It does! One of the things you have to learn in boxing is to keep your composure even though shit's really going down. I know a guy who trained Gerry Cooney.ĭoes the boxing translate into your stage presence? I saw a Gerry Cooney fight when I was a teenager.įan-tastic. My trainer trains Manny Pacquiao, and I've been to a couple of Pacquiao fights. So it's much more complex and interesting than I had thought it was. But once you do it and you know more about it and you can differentiate the punches and styles, it doesn't remain two guys hitting each other. Is it something you do just to work out, or do you like boxing as a sport to watch? As I started to become aware that boxing, for girls, was something that was more accepted, I thought it was time to give it a try. It was something I wanted to try, but that was just forbidden for girls, to do stuff like that. As a kid I was interested in a lot of different things. No, but it was something I always wanted to do. Was boxing part of your growing up? Did you watch it on TV? There aren't that many amateurs who are doing it for fun like me. And at my gym there are girl fighters who are real boxers, who I would never spar with. In boxing, if somebody's five pounds heavier than you, it makes a big difference. The other problem is, I don't really have anybody to spar with. You have to be in really, really good shape to spar. But I am still boxing.ĭo you just hit the bags or do you spar with people? My trainer's out of town, because he has a bunch of fighters he works with. I'm very lazy as a rule, so I'm not doing that much of it. You decided to go with a different sound by not putting much electric guitar on it. VF Daily: I'm just getting to know the new album. What's the matter? Turn that frown upside down," etc., etc. Its title-call it Fuckin' Smilers, if you want, or just Smilers-is Mann's name for those annoyingly cheerful people who say things like, "Come on, baby, smile. The new album, Smilers, comes out on June 3. In this song, Caroline is asleep in the back of the car, and John is at the wheel, entertaining this chilling thought: "There's something wrong with me that I can't see." The song's narrator is trying to do her part in a love relationship but knows that, deep down, she's "just pretending to care." A bleak song with a catchy melody and cool production.įrom the 2005 concept album The Forgotten Arm, which tells the story of John, a drug-addicted boxer, and his moll, Caroline. Title track from the second Mann album to come out on her own label (SuperEgo Records).
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