Green Sardine

"Think about the title. I first saw it—Bottle Rocket—and I thought, what kind of fuckin’ title is this? And then I got it. It made sense. It was beautiful, man, just beautiful, like poetry. What’s a bottle rocket? It’s a firecracker that only goes so far. A bottle rocket ain’t a stick of dynamite that’s gonna blow everything to kingdom come and get a lot of attention, see what I’m saying? A bottle rocket is just a little fuckin’ thing, right? You light it, and whoosh—it goes up maybe to the second or third floor, then it burns out and falls. It doesn’t go up to the 17th floor or the 29th floor. But that’s OK. See what I’m saying? Because that’s what a bottle rocket is built to do. These guys, see, Anthony and Dignan and Bob, they’re bottle rockets. They go a certain distance, then they stop. And that’s OK, because they’re happy."