I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.
John DarnielleFor me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
John DarnielleBack in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
John DarnielleI think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.
John Darnielle