Lambchop - "Grumpus"




Kurt Wagner talked to Comes With a Smile in the Spring of 2001:

So have any of your songs ever been directly inspired by a movie?

Not really, although going to the movies and films do sort of inspire me in general... They make me feel like doing things. I don’t know why that is, but they provoke some kind of thought process that makes me sort of, y’know, want to go and write things. It’s not anything direct, so like, I don’t want to suddenly write something about The Third Man or something like that. It’s just like I find even reading …this is odd, but I was thinking about this yesterday …I was reading the ‘New York Times’ book review, and I was thinking ‘Well isn’t this great; here are all these synopses about all these different ideas that people have’, and in sort of a general way, it’s like flipping through 30 people’s minds about ideas they’ve had, and I think it’s like really a neat way to get a general idea about approaches and ways of looking at the world.