And the craziest part, I mean, the part that actually kind of pissed me off was that like, Oddvar started telling me all his ideas for my fourth album. He was just like: Listen, I’ve been thinking a lot about it, and I know you’ve been having trouble figuring out what the next album’s gonna be, so here are all my ideas, and he started listing people he thought I should work with and songs he thought I should sample and potential names for the album, and it was just like: What the fuck is going on with you? I mean, obviously I haven’t told Oddvar that it’s a video game, but still, it’s like, Oddvar never just launches in with his two cents like that. It was really uncharacteristic.

And so I was just like: Listen, Oddvar, this is all a little heavy. I wish you would’ve warned me about all this in an email or something before you made your decision.

And Oddvar was like: Of course. Of course. Take your time. But just know that when you’re ready, I’ll be here. I am your faithful servant for life. You’re my guardian angel.

And so we hung out for a bit more at the house—I didn’t really know what to say to him, so we mostly just like, sat there on the couch, and he would smile at me and then look around and go: Wow. Wow—and then later that night, I took him out on the town.

I mean, honestly, I just wanted to chill while I was in L.A., you know? Like, I really could’ve used that time to decompress and relax and just be alone and think about the book—I have to submit a draft to the publishers soon, so I wasn’t really planning on going out and seeing people at all—but the vibe at home with Oddvar just hanging around on my couch, being a total fucking freak about everything and foaming at the mouth, was kind of freaking me out, and I figured if we at least got out of the house, maybe it’d get a little better. So I said to him, like: Yo, let’s get out of here. Let’s go eat some sushi and check out a club or two. And Oddvar was like: Wow, amazing! A truly authentic L.A. experience! And so I called up a few people to see if they wanted to meet up with us, and we ended up getting together with Z Bunny and a few people from his crew.

And the whole time we were out, Oddvar was being super weird with everybody. It was like everything was the coolest thing he had ever seen. He was laughing WAY too hard at people’s jokes, and like, taking selfies with everybody the whole time, and asking Z about all of his tattoos, and asking all of Z’s crew like: And what do YOU do? And what do YOU do? And he was telling anyone who would listen about how fucking stupid the seed vault was and what an idiot he had been to devote his life to it and how L.A. was the only sane place on Earth, and I even had to tap him on the shoulder a few times and be like: Yo, man, chill. Calm down a little bit.