#oh comely

[rastronomicals]

8:04 AM EDT August 4, 2024:

Neutral Milk Hotel - "Oh Comely" From the album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (February 10, 1998)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: lo-fi

[dire-straits-fn8ic]

i’m just so obsessed with Oh Comely

[onihcinimkcin]

There's a popular story that Robert [Schneider] had asked Jeff [Mangum] to start playing ["Oh Comely"] just to set the levels on his recording rig, then Jeff played the song all the way through on the first try, and Robert was so blown away by the take that he couldn't keep from barking "Holy shit!" at the end of it. It's not clear how spontaneous the performance was or how much it surprised Robert, but the outburst wasn't Robert's.

SCOTT SPILLANE: It was because I finally hit the notes on the horn line. […] At least I think it was me. I'm 99.9 percent sure that it was. This is a small detail or whatever, and I can't even say the horn parts are that complicated, but I didn't want to do any punches during the recordings, because the timbre of the horn changes every time I play it. Once you start, that's where it is. If it's real brassy one time and it's not the next time you play it, then you can't really fix it in the mix. So when I got that, I was like, "Yeah! I did the whole thing at once!" I was very excitable at the time.

Adam Clair, Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery

[everything-on-red]

whenever i'm listening to "oh comely" and i get to the part where he sings "will she remember me fifty years later?" i replace it with "eighty years later," because we are now almost eighty years away from anne frank's death.

[quinntheferret]

it’s MY panic attack and I get to pick the coping mechanism

[transgirl-from196]

Oh comely. I will be with you when you lose your breath. Chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left

The opening lines to Oh Comely by Neutral Milk Hotel. I still haven’t fully digested quite what this means but it hits hard for some reason and it’s been going round my head in circles, I’ll say that lol

reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Pssst... something new is coming...

...this weekend!

Free, non-AI animal art references.

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[h0rsegirlpercy]

Percy age 12: And if the mission required someone to push me down a flight of stairs for it to succeed… you’d want someone who won’t hesitate when they do it

Percy age 17:

[atalana]

but seriously i do find it so funny that ford was like OH GOD MY PRECIOUS REPUTATION after bill possessed him around other people for all of one night

and then he gets back to this dimension after thirty years and this is now the photo the press associates with his name

[bisclavaret]

a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

[hungrygh0st5]

[dire-straits-fn8ic]

I'm so obsessed with Oh Comely, Jeff Mangum you are so amazing thank you for everything

[vextech]

i love that i read SO many jayvik fics about the divorce beginning with jayce being horrified at what viktor had done with the hexcore, only for it to turn out that jayce actually did not give a SINGLE fuck, didn't even flinch at the sight of his hand and leg, and was ecstatic when it ended up saving his life. i am absolutely obsessed

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.