I was extremely antagonistic towards school. You’d get to the train station, look at the Lonely Planet and hope they had a room. I didn’t know what the fuck I was gonna do. I had a Lonely Planet Europe guide and bought a Eurorail pass. That’s also where I discovered Emir Kusturica. French new wave, film noir, a lot of Italian films from the Fellini-era but lesser known. In hindsight I can tell that I was really struggling. I was a very disillusioned, super-depressed teenager. I grabbed it for him, he gave me a little cash, and the next day he turned up wasted at work and pointed the finger at me! I hated the job, but I loved the exposure. There was a gallery opening and he asked me to bring him some champagne.
There was this kid that was working the concessions stand after I moved up to box office. I spent two years serving popcorn and watching movies. I was working at this art house film theatre. ” I was like, “yes, oh my God, that’s amazing!” I was real proud. I remember my brother telling me once, “when you sing, you kind of sound like Julian. I used to wear these shiny white loafers, suit jackets and turtleneck sweaters. I wanted to move to New York and dress in a leather jacket. It was 2002 and they were maybe my favourite band.
The flip side was that I used to sneak in The Strokes.
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When I was 14 or 15 I remember bringing home a record, I think it was Green Day, and he just about threw it out the window and said, “you’re not going to listen to this crap.” Then he was feeding me a steady diet of records from people like Boards of Canada, plus more abstract electronic music from Europe. My older brother, Ryan, was a huge mentor. I used to leave in the morning, fall asleep in a park, go back home, finish up a song and go to the skate park.
Late nights were making school nearly impossible. My insomnia would have started really bad, too. I was dropping out of school around that time. We had a nice house, about 15 minutes from the skate park downtown where I’d go most days. I was living at home with my parents in Santa Fe.