I was sitting in my car a few months ago waiting for Will to meet me at our friends house for dinner, an unknown number rang and for some reason I answered it, it was Stewart! I was so caught off guard but happy to hear from him at first, then I got a bit nervous, all the times I’d had experienced with him came flashing back and I remembered a lot of feelings, some good some quite difficult. We talked and caught up a bit, he told me he lived in LA and had for a couple/few years now…I didn’t really know what to say, I was married now and have a life that is very different from when we were spending time together. He apologized again for how things went down when he came to visit me in LA and I told him not to worry, it’s all over and I know the past is the past and it didn’t matter, we’re good now. The thing about Stewart I did remember was, he’s so sweet. He really does want love like everyone else and he’s just such a big love himself. I spent a lot of time with Stew..I was working on my doc “OUR TIME” about the NYC/LA indie music scene, I was always running around shooting in NYC, LA, Austin, SF, Everywhere for years!…I have so much footage of people talking about Stewart and how amazing he was and how much his influence meant to them. I wanted an interview with the infamous singer of Jonathan Fire Eater so desperately for the doc because I knew that his spirit infused all the bands that were so innovative at the time @yeahyeahyeahs @interpol @thewalkmen .. I found him on #myspace and started writing him letters.. this was in 2005 I think .. we wrote back and forth for months, he’s obviously a charmer and such a great writer I became obsessed with our correspondence. #JonathanFireEater are so absolutely raw and real I had listened to them since they came out in the mid 90’s, that first EP #TrembleUnderBoomLights is genius to this day and I still listen to it often. Stew was in a rehab in Colorado at the time we were writing and doing quite well.. apparently ... one day he rang me (our letters eventually led to phone calls) and said he was kicked out of the rehab for meeting a girl.. I said “How about I fly you here!” This would be great! We can do lots of i
