Mark Oliver Everett, Things the Grandchildren Should Know
Tom Waits calls to tell me the album reminds him of a baked Alaska. I think about it and quickly deduce that comparing my album to flaming ice cream can only be the greatest of compliments coming from Tom Waits.
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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) |
“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 everett
We’re all fucked up, I’m thinking, and that’s the truth. Everyone’s got some crazy shit going on in their life and no one is living any of that fairy-tale shit that the TV made you believe life was supposed to be like when you were young.
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| — | Mark Oliver Everett (via tremendous-dynamite) |
Maybe I don’t like people as much as the rest of the world seems to…But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I’ll fall in love with them, so go figure.
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| — | Things the Grandchildren Should Know (via let-it-remain) |
I’m sitting in a salad factory somewhere in Germany and a pretty Russian woman just turned to me and said ‘You are not beautiful’.
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| — | Mark Oliver Everett, ‘Things the Grandchildren Should Know’ (via vogelkop) |
