@arturogarzaj Sort of yeah. Marriage was a pretty big repeating image in the writing of that album. In hindsight I think it’s about the idea of ceremonial events representing inevitability. It’s all@over a bunch of those songs.
@DanBoeckner My dad played Cameron Vale in that movie. After it wrapped he took home the bust of his exploded head from the ending and he used to seat it at the breakfast table to freak me out when I was little.
We are baffled apes dropped into a scene of swirling contingency that hopelessly exceeds not only our control but our comprehension. We blink in confusion for a few years, then blink out.
All of which is to say that the passive voice is sometimes totally appropriate! Go ahead.
Republicans will never be cool because being cool is about the absence of desire. Cool people don’t want power over others. Cool people don’t want anything but to continue being themselves.