Todd is God

The Onion's AVC Club spoke to John AVC: You’ve got a great story in  Anger Is An Energy  about how, while you were making  Psycho’s Path , you spent an evening sitting, drinking, and listening to music with Todd Rundgren. JL:  Yes! What a great fella he can be. And in a madhouse way, you would never expect a chap like him or me to get on with each other. Well, we did! I introduced him to things that he hadn’t heard. His music is very soulful, really. White soul, which is not to say invalid at all. It’s a very seriously interesting thing. But I played a Tim Buckley track to him that he hadn’t heard of called “ Sweet Surrender ,” and we hit it off musically. We’re sort of on the same page, but very different from each other. And he’s a  great  drinker. [Laughs.] You know, you’ve got to come fully prepared for the man! But more so than that, he’s a great  thinker . And I’m always—always!—happy in the company of thinkers. AVC: Could you imagine wo...