Brand New - Science Fiction (August 17, 2017) [ARCHIVED] Album • Page 1460

Yeah I would’ve been pissed if my mom made me go to one of those, instead of real trick-or-treating

 

Where is everyoneeeeee

 

Trick or treat, motherfuckers!

 

Hay kid!

 

‘Sup Queen? How’s the Halloween game? Did you dress up? Get any trick/treaters?

 

We don't really get treat or treaters. What did your family do?

 

Please partake

Food Dominance: Most Hated Chain Restaurant

 

Not to mention their brac****

 

Oh hell no!!!

 

The kids are too young for candy and trick or treating, plus it’s too damn cold.

We were supposed to have our first toddler gymnastics class tonight, but the heat was out at the local park building so that got bumped.

We just stayed home, read Halloween books, and the kids played with a giant Amazon box.

Watching the World Series now. How about you?

 

We started "This is us" and it's killing me!

 

My wife watches that without me. I was hoping to get in another episode of Stranger Things, but we watched John Oliver instead and she fell asleep before it was over.

Now everyone else is in sleeping and it’s just me, baseball, and fruit snacks.

 

Sounds relaxing! Yeah I guess it's kind of more of a "girly" show anyway. Although we both were crying at the first episode. Haven't tried stranger things. He watches that one

 

I'm going to attempt to listen to mount eerie w headphones while a little drunk how bad will this be for me

 

Very bad. If you were crying at This Is Us, you will definitely be crying by the end of the first song.

Did you read any of the articles about the album?

 

No all I know is about his wives death. What else should I know?

 

This was a real good read:

Death Is Real: Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Copes With Unspeakable Tragedy | Pitchfork

 

And this write up from the bandcamp page:

WRITTEN AND RECORDED
August 31st to Dec. 6th, 2016 in the same room where Geneviève died, using mostly her instruments, her guitar, her bass, her pick, her amp, her old family accordion, writing the words on her paper, looking out the same window.
Why share this much? Why open up like this? Why tell you, stranger, about these personal moments, the devastation and the hanging love? Our little family bubble was so sacred for so long. We carefully held it behind a curtain of privacy when we’d go out and do our art and music selves, too special to share, especially in our hyper-shared imbalanced times. Then we had a baby and this barrier felt even more important. (I still don’t want to tell you our daughter’s name.) Then in May 2015 they told us Geneviève had a surprise bad cancer, advanced pancreatic, and the ground opened up. What matters now? we thought. Then on July 9th 2016 she died at home and I belonged to nobody anymore. My internal moments felt like public property. The idea that I could have a self or personal preferences or songs eroded down into an absurd old idea leftover from a more self-indulgent time before I was a hospital-driver, a caregiver, a child-raiser, a griever. I am open now, and these songs poured out quickly in the fall, watching the days grey over and watching the neighbors across the alley tear down and rebuild their house. I make these songs and put them out into the world just to multiply my voice saying that I love her. I want it known.
"Death Is Real" could be the name of this album. These cold mechanics of sickness and loss are real and inescapable, and can bring an alienating, detached sharpness. But it is not the thing I want to remember. A crow did look at me. There is an echo of Geneviève that still rings, a reminder of the love and infinity beneath all of this obliteration. That’s why.

- Phil Elverum
Dec. 11th, 2016
Anacortes

 

I did those every year at my church, but I still did regular trick or treating too. They were great as a social gathering and to build a sense of community, but nothing can replace going door to door.

 

They were fun when there were chilli cook offs and corn bread!

But yeah, still not as fun.

 

Every day is "pee pee pants city" day when you're a parent, but tonight a little more so.

 

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I can't believe I'm the only one who voted for Hooters.

 

I wish I was emotionally stable enough to get through that Mount Errie record