{"id":974011,"date":"2019-12-12T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=921467"},"modified":"2019-12-12T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:26:36","slug":"so-how-was-your-decade-tim-heidecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/so-how-was-your-decade-tim-heidecker\/","title":{"rendered":"So, How Was Your Decade, Tim Heidecker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tim.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So, How Was Your Decade&nbsp;<i>is a series in which the decade\u2019s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the people, places and things that shaped their decade. We\u2019ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">This decade witnessed Tim Heidecker, one-half of acclaimed, offbeat comedy duo Tim &amp; Eric, make the jump from the small screen to the silver screen with roles in <em>Bridesmaids<\/em>, <em>The Comedy<\/em>, <em>Ant-Man &amp; The Wasp<\/em>, <em>Us<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/tim-heidecker-mister-america-trailer-watch-880267\/\">2019\u2019s <em>Mister America<\/em><\/a>. In 2012, Heidecker co-directed his first film <em>Tim and Eric\u2019s Billion Dollar Movie <\/em>alongside comedy partner Eric Wareheim and co-founded the comedy network JASH alongside Wareheim, Michael Cera, Sarah Silverman and Reggie Watts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Heidecker also helmed a popular podcast-turned-web series (<i>On Cinema<\/i>) and took his talents \u2014 and his disdain for the current president \u2014 to the recording studio, with the comedian releasing nearly 10 albums this decade, including two collections of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-tim-heidecker-imagine-trumps-downfall-on-sentencing-day-124146\/\">Trump-era parody songs<\/a>, <em>Too Dumb for Suicide<\/em> and <em>Another Year in Hell<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The comedian breaks down his favorite albums of the 2010s, as well as his surprising pick for his favorite song of the decade, the craziest thing that happened to him and his big hope for the 2020s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite album of the 2010s was:<\/strong> Way too many to pick one. Here are a few: Weyes Blood\u2019s <em>Titanic Rising<\/em>, Foxygen\u2019s <em>Hang, <\/em>Kurt Vile\u2019s <em>Bottle It In, <\/em>Bob Dylan\u2019s <em>Bootleg Series: Another Self Portrait<\/em>, Vampire Weekend\u2019s <em>Father of the Bride, <\/em>War On Drugs\u2019 <em>Lost in The Dream<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite song of the 2010s was:<\/strong> Shakira\u2019s \u201cTry Everything\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c6rP-YP4c5I?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The craziest thing that happened to me in the 2010s was:<\/strong> I co-produced two human beings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My least favorite trend in music this decade was:<\/strong> Whistling and ukeleles in TV commercials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The TV show I couldn\u2019t stop streaming in the 2010s was:<\/strong> I watched <em>The Sopranos<\/em> for the fourth and fifth time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best new slang term of the decade was:<\/strong> I say \u201cvibe\u201d for basically everything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best live show I saw in the 2010s was:<\/strong> Roger Waters\u2019 <em>The Wall<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The best book I read this decade was:<\/strong> I read books and almost instantly forget them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Something cool I did this decade that nobody noticed was:<\/strong> I briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2012\/12\/tim-heidecker-rolling-stone-editor\/320837\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">became the editor-in-chief of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QeG9qsOmGMA?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The best outfit I wore this decade was:<\/strong> My pink jacket at the SXSW <em>Us<\/em> Premiere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most \u201c2010s\u201d moment of the 2010s was:<\/strong> The election of Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My biggest hope for the 2020s is:<\/strong> The election of someone else.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tim-heidecker-decade-recap-921467\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, How Was Your Decade&nbsp;is a series in which the decade\u2019s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the people, places and things that shaped their decade. We\u2019ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.&nbsp; This decade witnessed Tim Heidecker, one-half of acclaimed, offbeat comedy duo Tim &amp; Eric, make the jump from the small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 18:08:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}