John Lurie: When my brother Evan was a kid, he would be a character. When he was like three, four, five, he would be Rin-Tin-Tin for a week. He would demand to have his food served to him... on the floor in a bowl... and my parents...
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John Lurie: ... went along with it, and would, "Rin-Tin-Tin, it's time for dinner," and he would come and eat on the floor. And... there was about a week where he was Mighty Mouse, and he would just be flying around the house with his cape on, just woosh, there goes Evan. And my father was waiting on this important phone call, and it... there was something terrible about it. He had that thing where he was beholden to this guy who was supposed to call him. It was about a job or something. I was six, five, you know, so I don't really know. I just remember being... not liking this thing. It was like my father was waiting for this guy to call him and he's not calling him, and it's like this guy has power over my dad. So whatever it was, it's just like, I didn't like it. And, um... You know, it's 1958, '59, something like that, and so we've got the, you know, we've got the phone on the wall, and it never rings because nobody else has a phone, and if your phone rings it's a big deal. And my father's waiting on this phone call, and, uh... the phone rings... and Evan comes flying through the kitchen in his cape and answers the phone. "Hello!" And then there's a pause, and the he goes, "No, this is Mighty Mouse!" And then he hangs up the phone. And I'm like, "Oh, Evan, what did you do? You can't do that." But the amazing thing was my parents did not scold him. They weren't mad at him... because Evan being Mighty Mouse was more important than the phone call, and that's huge to me. Thank you for stopping by.