Ok, so we don't really care, but you know how the indie sites get themselves in a lather when Neutral Milk Hotel recluse Jeff Mangum farts, goes to the grocery store or even thinks about plucking a guitar string.So... the notoriously hermetic singer just got married, to a documentary filmmaker no less (see the amazing tie-in? Where movies and music meet indeed!).
Mangum, wed Astra Taylor, a writer and filmmaker who directed the excellent 2005 documentary, "Zizek!" about the kooky and eccentric Slovenian philosopher/ranter, Slavoj Zizek. Neutral Milk Hotel drummer Jeremy Barnes provided the original music to the doc. Hooray for films and people who make music in them!
Next month will see the tenth anniversary of NMH's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, a strong record that has been so grossly overanalyzed and fetishized it has thus become grossly overrated, bestowed with an unimpeachable sainthood status mostly by those that weren't around to witness it firsthand and caught on years later after the group had long since broken up.
Trailer: "Zizek!"
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4 comments:
I love reading your blog, but sometimes you can be real bastards. Who gives a damn if NMH has become hugely popular in the few years? I get the sense that you are somehow implying that you are better than me because you apparently liked NMH before they broke up. No one cares and no one thinks you are cool because you liked an indie rock band first. You're just coming off as asswipes, not developing any additional street cred on indie ave. Other than the you being bastards thing, keep up the good work, I enjoy your blog. And try to cut down on the spelling and grammatical errors.
He is better than you.
For a minute there I thought I was reading Chunklet. The news-with-a-side-of-sarcasm thing has given way to mean-spirited ranting in recent months. This bums me out because you're better than that. Lighten up on this kind of personal attack, please?
Oh, also, thanks for giving those NMH fans you so obviously disdain further ammo. Jeff hasn't become a recluse or a hermit -- after the success of Aeroplane he decided that this kind of success and visibility was not what he was about, and he retired from life as a frontman. He still surfaces as a sideman or drummer on his friends' albums, and has toured with other bands in that capacity. After the success of Aeroplane he decided that his life was his own. That's hardly hermit-like behavior.
Someone in this article is definetly overated and its definetly not Jeff Mangum or his wife.
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