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Tom Waits calls to tell me the album reminds him of a baked Alaska. I think...
– Mark Oliver Everett (of The Eels) in his autobiography, “Things the Grandchildren Should Know”. Oh, Tom Waits. XD I just finished E’s autobiography and it was the best I’ve ever read. (via strayrhapsody)
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wholelottacar:
“Bob Dylan said that, when he was young, he had a secret sense of his destiny. I wish I had something like that, but I didn’t. At all. All I had was an aching sense of desperation and an acute cluelessness - a nasty combination. I didn’t have any idea what the hell I was doing, and was only doing it out of not knowing what else to do.”
-mark oliver...
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The Sunday Times June 5, 2005.
whatihavetooffer:
“Elizabeth had the family curse, but she didn’t have the family gifts. Without doubt, the thing that has kept me from the dark end of the family street is that I’ve been able to write these songs. The thing that ultimately killed Elizabeth is that she couldn’t do anything like that. By creating a song from her words, I wanted to give her that , the gift of being a poet.”...
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December 2011
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We’re all fucked up, I’m thinking, and that’s the truth. Everyone’s got some...
– Mark Oliver Everett (via tremendous-dynamite)
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Mark Oliver Everett ("E") on Blinking Lights and...
“There are two kinds of Christmas people,” Everett says, “those who like their Christmas lights to stay on solid and those who like them to blink. As a kid, I always had a thing for sitting in the dark and watching the lights blink on and off at random.” Now he says this fascination goes much further. “In the end, what we have are these little, great moments. They come and they go. That’s...
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I think about how angry I was that my dad didn’t take better care of himself....
– Mark Oliver Everett on the death of his father Hugh Everett III, quantum physicist. (via terrormanagement)
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November 2011
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