STEPHEN TO ANNE MARIE:

SB: What is your favorite song?

AM:  Jolie by Rook Monroe. Unrelated: I might name my kid Rook Monroe.

SB: Have you heard any of these tracks before?

AM: None of these specifically, I’d heard some Vera Blue jams before.

SB: People have walk out songs, but what about things? What are two things in your place that you think deserve their own theme songs and what would those songs be?   

AM: This is a ridiculous question. I feel like you haven’t seen the inside of my apartment in a while but I’ve gone pretty minimal. My knickknack collection is at an all-time low. Which really only leaves room for functional things like my computer and lighting and a chair and the books I’m reading. I dig it, the lack of clutter, it keeps my mind clear and calm. Now, what I *did* do last holiday was re-paint my white walls this studio green color by Farrow & Ball. This is not an ad. This is just true love. It’s a deep green and I did the entire room, walls and ceiling (that’s a story for another day). Despite months of my friends saying, “Don’t do it…” “Start with just one accent wall…” “You might hate it, be careful…” I did it anyway and I have never been more in love with a decision I’ve made. It’s different, it’s striking, there’s a whole vibe going on now, I really could go on for hours. And thus, my “thing” that deserves a walkout song is these moody, foresty walls of mine. Partially because they make a statement on their own and partially as a screw you to all the naysayers who told me not to do it. the cliché would be to go old school and say Duke Ellington or Charlie Byrd but really I think it would have to be something unexpected. If I Ever Feel Better by Phoenix. Is It Too Much by Ra Ra Riot. Anything by Tame Impala. Passion Pit. The point of the music would be to say: “you think you know me, but you don’t.”

ANNE MARIE TO STEPHEN:

AM: What is your favorite song?

SB: Man, I thought it was going to be DOLORES but then I heard Good Company and it was lights out.

AM: Have you heard any of these tracks before?

SB: Can't believe I haven't burned Francis Aud before this, well done. Also James Mantis, but that's it.

AM: What's the best music to shoot pool to?

SB: Great question but I'm going to have to answer your question with another question. What is the setting? If I'm in a dive bar in Tulsa at 2am after a night of drinking, running the tables against the local townies (true story), then I'm definitely going with something either so cliché like Bad Company or so out of place like Deniece Williams' "Let's Hear It for the Boy" to make the ass kicking that much more humiliating. That said, if it's a swanky, smoky cocktail lounge with class acts, then I'm going to go with something more classic like old jazz and pretend that the greats are cutting it up with me while I play, just to be able to hang out with the cool kids a little longer.