Whats the new Lemony Snicket book about?
It’s called The Composer Is Dead. And it’s a piece for a narrator and orchestra, like “Peter and the Wolf,” which I did with composer Nathaniel Stookey. We’ve performed with a few orchestras, and now there’s going to be a book with a CD in the back. Colin mentioned that you came to a couple Decemberists shows, before you met. That’s true. I guess I should say that my wife and I are big fans of the Decemberists. Their first album samples a Guy Maddin movie, and we love Guy Maddin movies. What adverbs would you use to describe Colin? Colin’s a noun. Adverbs can modify adjectives, verbs, or other adverbs, but they can’t modify nouns. But I’ll say when I hear the Decemberists, they play “winningly.” The Decemberists run counter to the common notion that if you’re a band you should be as nonchalant as possible, like mutter and not care about what you’re wearing and not talk to the audience between songs. The Decemberists definitely feel they’re there to entertain, so they play “willingly,”
