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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.
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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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I don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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