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Will Oldham
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 Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: Where is everyone?! |
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Damm the board is the quietest its been in months!!!!!!! - Has no one got anything to talk about? Im bored!!!
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jack fe
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Moi aussi!
I've been checking, every hour or so.
How sad are we!
Or, how committed to jeff are we, when everyone else just slacks off!
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DrNick
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Well, I played 'Will Oldham Williamsburg Horror' to a friend of mine today. I think it confused it him.
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Will Oldham
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| jack fe wrote: | Moi aussi!
I've been checking, every hour or so.
How sad are we!
Or, how committed to jeff are we, when everyone else just slacks off! |
i KNOW iVE BEEN DOING THE SAME!
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Will Oldham
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| DrNick wrote: | | Well, I played 'Will Oldham Williamsburg Horror' to a friend of mine today. I think it confused it him. |
 WHAT DID HE FIND CONFUSING?
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fabalbert
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Will Oldham wrote: | | jack fe wrote: | Moi aussi!
I've been checking, every hour or so.
How sad are we!
Or, how committed to jeff are we, when everyone else just slacks off! |
i KNOW iVE BEEN DOING THE SAME! |
Me too. 
At least I started a topic. |
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Will Oldham
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fabalbert
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That's when you know you're in trouble.
BRING BACK THE BOTS!
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DrNick
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| Will Oldham wrote: | | DrNick wrote: | | Well, I played 'Will Oldham Williamsburg Horror' to a friend of mine today. I think it confused it him. |
WHAT DID HE FIND CONFUSING? |
Think back to when you first heard the song - did you really expect it to end with a gay rape fantasy and a sexist analogy involving dicks and pussies? I certainly didn't. I think that's what so great about it - it starts off as a fairly self-indulgent, self-pitying song but then breaks out into completely unexpected territory.
By the way, has anyone ever considered the similarity between the end of the song and the end of 'Team America'? And is 'Unicef Box' Jack's equivalent song, in that it questions the value of being artist versus doing something more socially useful?
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i havent been posting much lately... but with my brand new laptop i promise ill be posting lots of nonsense
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ema
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ahahhaah you addicted looooonies!!!
sorry, i been away from the computer cuz i was working, sadly, i'm not on holidays and during the last 2 weekends, we were back hometown for christmas and nye...but i'm back baby, i'm baaaaaack!!!
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| DrNick wrote: | | Will Oldham wrote: | | DrNick wrote: | | Well, I played 'Will Oldham Williamsburg Horror' to a friend of mine today. I think it confused it him. |
WHAT DID HE FIND CONFUSING? |
Think back to when you first heard the song - |
i won't tell you how i reacted the first time i listenned to this song...let's say that i can be credulous sometimes......... i guess i overestimated jeff's faculty to tell intimate, embarrassing stuff...cuz for a second ( or a minute) i thought it was true or at least one of his biggest fear/fantasy and that he needed to express it in a way...hummm...and now that i know the meaning of the end of the song, cuz jeff explained it in a topic somewhere...well, i feel like a jerk....ohhh i'm used to it tho!
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I think that's the point though ema, that the song is a comment on the confessional / autobiographical nature of Jeff's music. There are two types of song - the comic book type ones (zombies, time machines) which we know to be fantasy, and the realistic ones, which we naturally assume to be true. But 'Will Oldham' merges the two styles, messing with out expectations - we expect it to be real, but it develops into a fantasy / nightmare.
When I met Jeff I wanted to ask what was real, did he really meet a girl outside the Chelsea and talk about Leonard Cohen, and so on. But I didn't, partly 'cause I thought it would seem a bit odd, but also because it doesn't really matter what is true and what isn't.
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| DrNick wrote: |
When I met Jeff I wanted to ask what was real, did he really meet a girl outside the Chelsea and talk about Leonard Cohen, and so on. But I didn't, partly 'cause I thought it would seem a bit odd, but also because it doesn't really matter what is true and what isn't. |
We talked a little about stuff like that. We were playing Don't Be upset and I asked him if it was real, becuse if it was I was going to cry. He said Everything that sounds true is true".
If I had that moment again I would have made some hilarious joke like "so, shoot the head kill the ghoul?" |
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