Bill Hader - What's In My Bag?

hi I'm Bill hater I'm at amoeba and I

asked to be on what's in my back

okay so I'm going to like I'll probably

go in like chronological order when I

was a kid I was like super into uh hair

metal like de leopard and stuff like

that and then when I turned 12 my dad

gave me like this big box of like

different music he's the only guy I know

who like hates the Beatles cuz he grew

up he was like a kid like a teenager in

the 60s and he's like all you heard was

the Beatles and the doors so he gave me

this box and in it was like Pink Floyd

and then this album overnight sensation

by Frank

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Zapp and then also apostrophe by Frank

Zappa so both those records were in

there they just came out with these

50-year anniversaries which I said hey

Dad those albums are 50 years old and

made them feel old this is the iteration

of Frank Zappa's band that I really like

Ruth thunderwood and tester Thompson was

on drums all these people but it was an

amazing band and this has Camarillo

burillo on it and it also has a 73

version of Inca roads which is a great

song it also has Dynamo Hum which is not

a great song little

misogynist like a lot of his [ __ ] so

even as a kid listening to Dynamo Hum I

was like this guy's kind of a dick uh so

but I do like the music

ship and then the other person but I

didn't get a record cuz I have them all

but um was David Bowie and I've been

looking for this because it's the only

one has text by David Bowie I never

wanted to be a rock and roll stuff and I

found I enjoyed writing the only thing I

was ever really good at at school was

composition could always write better

stories than anybody else so the

photographs by Mick Rock but the he

actually wrote the stuff in there so

every book on Bo we always get people

writing about him but this one is him

writing so I was I'm very excited to get

into this a lot of my songs were very

illustrative and picturesque so I

thought rather than just sing them which

would probably bore pants of everybody

I'd like to kind of portray the songs

he's one of my you know and all be all

like a lot of people it's nerdy when you

get with people who like David Bowie why

what happens I don't know like when I

met Fred armson we were like super inter

and then he was like the lodger is

amazing and I was like I don't really

you know the lodger and um scary

monsters I I you know those are two that

I'm like I don't know and he's like no

no bill you have to read those bill you

have to listen to them you have to

listen to him bill you

must now those are two my favorite

records of his I listen to him now all

the time

I am a DJ I am what I

play can't turn around can't turn

around this is a big one for me since I

was a kid Dayla Soul 3v high and

Rising for a while

is on the a

orp I love this record so much I was

like 11 when this came out and I I wore

the tape out I was cuz it was genuinely

great songs great lyrics the production

is amazing I still think about it and it

was genuinely hilarious incredibly

funny

now

style the opening game show thing on

this I quote still um let me tell you a

little bit about myself um I like

Twizzlers and um I like the alligator

Bob and my favorite drama movie is blood

sucking freaks just like your mama you

know it's going to be swell and I want

to win all the money it's like a

shorthand I did the movie it two and

Isaiah Mustafa is in that movie and then

one day they were like all right we're

going to give you guys your petty cash

and I said I'm going to get all the

money and he went I'm going to get all

the money we're like

a and now it's like a friend like love

you know so yeah this one huge very

important record we could live in my

plug to home and on Mars where we could

be all alone and we make a song for two

perfect things and I sing of

how also around that time I'm from Tulsa

Oklahoma and my friend took me to

Starship records and tapes was which was

a really cool kind of like indie record

store that was like a head shop as well

was probably the same since like

1967 or something he took out these two

Punk CDs Minutemen in this live Bad

Brains record

he was looking for the first like the

really important like the Big Bad Brains

record the first one and we couldn't

find it and so he was like okay I'll

guess we'll have to get this one but I

remember looking at the back and being

really surprised that HR it wasn't

vocals it was throat and I was like what

the [ __ ] is this

so this was a big one I remember putting

this on the when I got home and just

going they're still one of my favorite

bands Bad Brains and then this is my

other favorite one of my favorite punk

bands minut itman what I feel it's what

I

taste I came here looking for this

documentary which I highly recommend if

you could find it we Jam e which is a

great documentary about the minut we

jaming this idea where you make up your

own entertainment you know this whole

idea of DIY and stuff you don't have to

be part of any machine except maybe your

own I saw Mike Watt once and was too shy

to say anything to him I was like that's

mik what you know and I just kind of

stared at

him and George Hurley and Deon obviously

I mean they just I will sit and watch

YouTube videos of their concerts just

like wishing wishing I could be there

but wishing I was standing I would stand

in the back cuz I didn't want to get

spit on you

know and the other band that I love from

that time was the Misfits I was a huge

Misfits fan and then also the Ramones

obviously now this is a documentary

about the Ramon end of the century it's

a great documentary and all the amps

couldn't take it but now we got these

amps that they they could they really

they they work I picked this because one

I've been looking for it for a while but

I had a copy of this at SNL and it was

in my dressing room and John meany Fred

armison and I would watch this sometimes

cuz there's a lot of waiting around time

at SNL and we would watch this and we

would quote it constantly and mostly DD

Joey I don't know he was difficult he

used to leave his brother's albums on

the radiator he'd be melted steal

everybody's

hash I think there's a part in it where

I think Dee goes yeah Johnny was really

smart you know like he was smart like he

could make

cheeseburgers and make french fried

potatoes at 21 years old that's like

pretty cool thing to do rather than eat

some dope and potato chips and so we

would always walk around going oh yeah

they're smart they can make

cheeseburgers Lawrence smart he can make

french fried potatoes and so we would

just talk like DD Ramone it was all

based on this people try to make me out

like I was like some rough character I

was just a bass player in the Ron you

know they should take a look at

themselves you

know I'm a big movie fan I love Errol

Morris this is his second movie Vernon

Florida he was trying to make a

documentary about a place in Florida

called nub City ver in Florida where

these people were cutting off their

limbs for insurance money do you hear

that and so he went there and he

couldn't find any proof of this so he

ended up just profiling the people in

this town and it is like a very strange

existentialist very funny profile of

these very strange people you ever seen

a man's brains now this year is a goer

we don't have too much traffic coming

through now why the people uh they don't

know for sure if we have a police

officer on duty here or not I find this

movie like incredibly moving but also

very like Hypno

please if you could find it Vernon

Florida is fantastic I run a business I

close business down for half to to go

turkey just something in I like just in

me gives me the turkey

f as was a kid I watched a lot of old

movies like this the Big Clock directed

by John phoh M pharoh's dad the reason I

like this one is it's got Charles lton

and his friend in it his psychi in the

movie is played by George mccre who's

another old actor that I love and both

their voices are just the best I play it

for drama and suspense I'm tired and run

out I need a vacation I should take an

ocean Voyage what I love it is that

George mcc's name is Steve in the movie

and so it's these kind of Victorian

Charles L being like well Steve I and

he's like it's Steve here Steve could

you come and every time they say Steve I

would just start dying laughing just

idea Steve put yourself in her pleas

Steve Steve how about Steve Steve Steve

Steve Steve Steve Steve Steve Steve

Steve I just killed someone then why did

you kill her I don't know Steve but it's

outside of the Steve stuff it's very

funny you have a maob sense of H another

guy I love is a guy named Val Luton he

made these horror films after RKO did

Citizen Kane and it you know cost a lot

of money they were like we got to make

lowbudget movies and things like that so

they brought in this guy Val Luton who

used to work for David selnik they would

give him a title like Isle of the dead

or bedm the first one was called cat

people he would have to make a movie

based on the title and he was this very

smart guy and he brought in jacqu tenur

and Mark Robson and Robert Wise who did

you know Westside stor Sound and Music

and they all cut their teeth on these

really great horror films and this is my

personal favorite Isle of the Dead with

Boris Carlo you think I'm a cold man

cold and brutal it's my way no one may

leave the island we Face death here evil

things it is absolutely fantastic I'm so

happy you guys have this cuz I had it

and then I lost

itaa born of evila what's that an

elemental wolf spirit can aica and her

human form remember the evil that she

did at night another one of my favorite

horror people is Vincent Price this is

great CU you get a ray Milan and panic

and year zero which is a great movie but

also last man on Earth which is the

first adaptation of I Am Legend the

Richard mat

book you freaks

mutations all of you freaks but I like

this because it's the movie where

Vincent Price is like an ordinary Joe

and it's just really

funny don't be

afraid he's like a guy you know who

drinks a beer and but it's Vincent Price

you know Dana gold is a friend of mine

and we we were talking about this what I

love the most about Vincent Price is at

one point in his life he was single and

I just can't imagine him in a big

Hollywood party I think the one in the

blue dress really digs me there's a

moment where he's trying to make

something he's he's experimenting with

something to cure this kind of vampirism

that's happening it doesn't work and

Dana gold say he should go oh

fatle he's just not a dude but it's him

trying to play a dude

and then this I've never seen so this is

the only thing here I've never seen I

had a very sweet hairdresser on a from

Australia and I we talked about

Australian movies and I go I just saw

this documentary called not quite

Hollywood about o exploitation movies

and she went oh you got to see uh bad

boy Bubby two of those wonderfully

fattening chocolate pleas s yes two of

those Wonder fattening chocolate cles

please son and I went okay and then the

whole movie she kept coming out to me

going have you seen bad boy Bubby yet

and then like teasing my hair getting

ready like so have you seen bab boy

Bubby yet and she would she said that so

many times have you seen b boy

Bubby so the minute I saw this over here

I just heard her voice so Claire I'm

going to finally see bad boy bubby

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my friend Greg Kirsten who's a record

producer he's written songs for Adele

and and all these people he's amazing

guy but he introduced me to jazz music

cuz forever I was like uh Jazz whatever

and he's like no no no and this was the

first thing he gave me art Blakey Jazz

Messengers with Colonius

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Monk I'm forever grateful for Greg he's

like one of the the great guys you know

I love Greg so now we have like kind of

a whole thread of like oh I listened to

Lee Morgan or this and he's constantly

sending me stuff so it's very sweet but

this is where it all started and I don't

own it so that was

nice last couple things I love this

record new Beek Dave Wingo the uh the

composer of Barry turn me on to these

guys and they're awesome everybody go

get

beak I'll come back to

long this is my my friends the OC's I

love these guys and I love their new

record but I I don't have the CDs so I

wanted to own

it the

John DWI on Barry I asked him to we did

a whole section to the song The Wizard

by Black Sabbath it was too long like

the song was was too short so I asked

him I go could you elongate it just this

one part like do a cover of the song and

elongate it and he was like that

sacrilege dude [ __ ]

you he's like you don't [ __ ] with

Sabbath and he was right

I love Dan Claus I'm a huge Dan CLA fan

I really like comic books I just

recently started getting back into them

and I sold a lot of them and then I got

this new bookcase in my house and I'm

like I'm going to go on eBay and stuff

and find all my old comic books but I

used to own this but I'm a huge huge fan

of Dan CLA my characters think too much

most good protagon ists tend to be

people who sort of ACT first and and

don't ask any questions and my

characters tend to sort of analyze

everything and think about it and try to

like avoid conflict and stuff and that's

my way of thinking usually I have three

daughters uh who are between the ages of

15 and 10 so a Taylor Swift shirt I got

them Olivia

Rodrigo and then for the youngest

Misfits I got to start him early this is

going to make her cry it's going to

scare the [ __ ] out of her I don't care

I'm going to be like my dad this is my

version I mean nothing against Olivia

tayor at Swift I actually grown to

really enjoy their music chap rone as

well and Gracie Abrams all that stuff it

plays in my house constantly and I do

enjoy it but

hey

bet bet you never

knew I'm going to put this out and

she'll be like

there's one

tier all right that's all my

Stu you're the perfect guest for this

okay cool and also you found so much

good stuff yeah thank you I did notice

it was a lot of CDs you're not a vinyl

guy I guess no so I'm not a vinyl guy um

my kid my my oldest actually got a

record player so she's playing vinyl my

the reason I don't have vinyl is because

I I have so many books and uh so many

DVDs that if I I just it's like vinyl

it'll be like this is a weird comparison

it's why I never did cocaine cuz I would

love

it everybody would be like here's how I

feel on cocaine I'm like I want to feel

like that all so I just I can't do it

cuz it'll ruin my life that's how I kind

of feel about vinyl I was like if I just

dip my toe in a vinyl it'll just I'll go

bankrupt so I've been that way since I

was in my early 20s because all my

friends had vinyl and they all had like

you like you watch those Punk

documentaries and they're always

interviewed in front of all their vinyl

and there's always like weird toys and

[ __ ] I was like I can't do it but my

daughter's getting into it hopefully it

won't be like cocaine for her if it is

that's her

problem thank you Bill thank you so much