So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

Also in 2006 Stipe appeared on the song "Broken Promise" on the Placebo release Meds. He was also credited as a producer of the 2004 film Saved!. M.

Outside of the music industry he runs his own film production companies: C-00 and Single Cell Pictures. He was in charge of R. E.