00:00Okay, ready?
00:01One, two, three.
00:02Hey, we're Muna.
00:04And this is our starter pack of cultural essentials.
00:09The show that we have selected has been there for us for many, many years.
00:14For many years.
00:15Some could say every tour.
00:16The show is Arrested Development.
00:18You're the one who charged his own brother for a Bluth frozen banana.
00:22I mean, it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost?
00:25Ten dollars?
00:27You've never actually set foot in a supermarket, have you?
00:29I don't have time for this.
00:31You have no idea what's going on if you see it out of order.
00:34But it doesn't even matter for us anymore.
00:36Yeah, I think it was more of like a-
00:37Now that we've all watched it.
00:38Calms the nervous system.
00:39There's certain things that you have to have on hand just to make it through a tour.
00:46There are times where you just need to numb out together.
00:48You could have seen the show like we have probably four to five times and still catch new jokes.
00:54Yeah, it's definitely your type of humor.
00:56Definitely.
00:56It's so funny.
00:59We do know how to read.
01:00Yeah, we do.
01:01This is The New Yorker, so we are trying to present-
01:03A book.
01:04Something serious.
01:06A book.
01:06Books will get passed down from band member to band member in different orders.
01:11The book we have selected, it's a book called Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
01:16He was a psychotherapist who also survived a concentration camp.
01:21The book is about how a purpose leads to resilience.
01:26It's like his psychotherapeutic, psychoanalytical findings from having survived that experience.
01:33I think we all really bond over-
01:35Needing purpose?
01:36Yeah, we're like fools, but we also, when we're being serious with each other, we're like, this band is the
01:42reason that I'm alive.
01:44You know, I think that we really bond over our need to make meaning out of being alive.
01:54When we're working on a project together, when we're making a new album, we will try to watch things together
02:02that can go on the mood board.
02:04I read a lot of like music bios and I watch music bio like movies.
02:10I think maybe it's just like the Capricorn in me.
02:12It's like, I love watching-
02:14I love consuming content that's going to kind of give me a boost to accomplish things on my to-do
02:20list.
02:20Yeah, and then we found this movie, it's called 24 Hour Party People.
02:23Behind me are stiff kittens, later to become Joy Division.
02:29Finally to become New Order.
02:34That's John the Postman, he's a postman.
02:37It's a mockumentary.
02:39I love a mockumentary more than like anything.
02:42Kind of about the origins of the band Joy Division as it becomes-
02:49And the record labels.
02:50New Order.
02:51Yeah.
02:51But it's, it's a comedic take on it.
02:55And it's such an interesting like period of time that it's covering from like the death of like the punk
03:01band,
03:01punk scene through like the New Romantic era and into like rave culture.
03:06And I kind of feel like those genres are all like a part of Muna's like sonic landscape.
03:12Yeah, especially this record.
03:15Obviously this question is so hard for us because we're musicians so we can really go on and on about
03:20the music that we like.
03:21But we kind of continue to go back to this album and it's one that we haven't really talked about
03:30that much.
03:31The album is Rock A Little by Stevie Nicks.
03:36It's a solo album.
03:37Solo album.
03:37The music is unbelievable.
03:40It is.
03:41The production is amazing.
03:42The guitar parts are great.
03:43Her writing is always so cool.
03:45The songs on that album are such like classic amazing Stevie Nicks writing.
03:51They're about relationships and longing and pain and the past.
03:57Yeah.
03:58I think she kind of is like a convergence.
04:00But it's funky.
04:00Like you guys love the funk.
04:02That's so good.
04:02And I'm so amazed at like the lyrical craft and storytelling.
04:06We try to recreate Stand Back every record.
04:11Do we do it?
04:12No.
04:12Yeah.
04:13Stand Back.
04:14Stand Back.
04:16Stand Back.
04:16In the middle of my room I did not hear from you.
04:21We have a line from this that we.
04:23I don't really need this in my life.
04:26Robert.
04:26This part, this is from a song called Some Becomes Strangers.
04:29Yeah.
04:29We've been saying that for.
04:32I don't know why.
04:32For a decade.
04:33I don't really need this in my life.
04:37Why don't we forget about it.
04:41I feel like that's, yeah, that's going on our mood board.
04:46That's it.
04:47That's it.
04:48Thank you guys so much.
04:49That was awesome.
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