don’t b3lieve the hype; there is no spoon*; soylent green is people;
Posted on August 23, 2007 by Tito
Will Sheff gets sorta meta pomo at the AV Club:
AVC: The characters that populate The Stage Names use the vocabulary of pop songs and movies to talk about their lives. Is that something you do as well?
WS: Absolutely. It’s a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you’ve had, but things you’ve seen in movies, or feelings you’ve felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you’ve received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us. If I was being flippant, I would say that a big theme of the record is trying to show that for the bullshit that it is.
plus…
- Okkervil River on Conan August 28th
- Okkervil River in San Francisco September 5th
* but there is.
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