Coffee and Cigarettes

It's partially, like, my love of, like, like, thought experiments, philosophical ideas, and, like, bouncing those around.

'Cause the, the whole thing is, like, in the same vein as those indie films like Coffee and Cigarettes, um, A Dinner With Andre, the Sunset movies, where it is two people talking.

Mm-hmm.

Much like this.

They stand out, and Mystery Train was the first one.

Did you do Coffee and Cigarettes?

At the end of Mystery Train, we shot a Coffee and Cigarettes, um, with Sangki and Joa Lee and, uh-

Oh, that's right.

They're different segments to that movie, right?

Yeah.

They're a bunch of short films all based on the theme of coffee and cigarettes.

They'd already shot the Tom Waits, Iggy Pop one at the end of Down by Law.

... he's just like...

Have you seen Coffee and Cigarettes? Is it Jim Jarmusch?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

It's definitely a kind of a deep cut in Otis Redding's catalog.

Cigarettes & Coffee, not to be confused with the great Jim Jarmusch film, Coffee and Cigarettes.

All right, there's a great scene in here where the Scottish father, uh, who's played by Mike Myers, is playing and, and singing along to the Bay City Rollers, who were this, like, teeny bop band back in the, the '70s.

So not gonna include a Bay City Rollers song on here, but I do want to include a song called "Rollers Show," which is about, I believe, about the sort of, like, mania around the Bay City Rollers, written and performed by Nick Lowe from his 1978 debut solo album, Jesus of Cool, although here in the, um, repressed United States, the record had to be titled Pure Pop for Now People.

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Well, I've only seen one other Jim Jarmusch movie, and it was Broken Flowers, but he's done Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, The Limits of Control, and now The Dead Don't Die.

So-

Well, he did the one with Johnny Depp.

... making it his highest grossing film to date.

So his highest grossing movie only made him 47 million.

Yeah, that's interesting, 'cause I, I guess, uh, Coffee and Cigarettes is the one I'd heard of, so I thought maybe-

Yeah

We're gonna talk about movies, mugs, cafes, and conversations.

The movie Coffee and Cigarettes, 2003, '04, is almost absurdly perfect for today's episode.

11 little vignettes, people sitting around drinking coffee and talking.

That's it, and somehow that's enough.