Speaking of film clips, tell us about the clip to ‘Scarlet’. Obviously there’s been a fair bit of discussion over the past couple of weeks as to what the meaning or the basis behind the clip is -
MM: There’s no meaning, there’s no meaning. It’s ketchup versus mustard.
SS: What do you think the meaning is?
I’ve been thinking that ketchup is a scarlet colour, and maybe there’s something there –
SS: Clearly the mustard bottle is Jesus and the ketchup bottle is Satan.
MM: Way to spell it out for everyone!
SS: Because -
MM: Wait! No, you know what? We talked about this. I’m sorry. Can we just, off the record -
Sure, I can pause…I’m just joking -
MM: We talked about this, alright! Off the record, we did talk about this, and we’re not mentioning anything, because we can’t have people knowing that -
SS: Yes, that they’re religious figures. I’m sorry.
MM: I just said, if people find out about the mustard being Jesus, it’s over man.
(Matt Halpern: It doesn’t matter to me though, because I’m Jewish. So fuck it!)
MM: I’m Jewish too, and we still believe in Jesus, we just think that he’s more of a ketchup bottle, and they think he’s mustard, and that’s the fucking problem man!
I think that the lesson from this story Spencer is that just because a lawyer asks you a question, doesn’t mean you should fucking answer the question.
MM: Yeah, exactly, I told you -
SS: I stand corrected.
And when it’s a lawyer and a music journalist rolled into one, there’s a double whammy man, so, rookie mistake man.
MM: It’s about ketchup versus mustard and nothing more. It’s not about Jesus at all!