We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

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.