Constantly thinking about this thing John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats said about the song “Love, Love, Love”.
The point of the song is, you know, that we are fairly well damaged by the legacy of the Romantic poets–that we think of love as this, you know, thing that is accompanied by strings and it’s a force for good, and if something bad happens then that’s not love. And the therapeutic tradition that I come from–I used to work in therapy–you know, also says that it’s not love if it feels bad. I don’t know so much about that. I don’t know that the Greeks weren’t right. I think they were–that love can eat a path through everything–that it will destroy a lot of things on the way to its own objective, which is just its expression of itself, you know. I mean, my stepfather loved his family, right? Now he mistreated us terribly quite often, but he loved us. And, you know, well, that to me is something worth commenting on in the hopes of undoing a lot of what I perceive as terrible damage in the way people talk about this–love is this benign, comfortable force. It’s not that. It’s wild, you know?
🎶“I wanna go to vacation bible school! I wanna go to vacat(glance out window)ion bible school. I’m 56 years old and i’m enrolling in vacation bible school! I WANNA GO TO VACA—.”🎶
god the gays you put on this earth to be in a shitty band that practices twice a week in someone's garage together are mutuals on tumblr living undrivable distances away from each other instead