The great lyrical miracles of the world include the metaphor and metaphors of the Neco case. It is as if he has never seen anything that he did not consider anything more interesting.
Wild animals play character in his songs. Tornados becomes emotional. The temptation is a long black train. She imagines that she was the moon. The case once tired himself on its substation newsletter that “I look like a day -old banana peel.” He has a new memoir, “The Harder I Fight the Mor I Love You,” and in it, the music business becomes a “hungry, tedious bore”, which is somewhat clear, as is the metaphor.
It is much better that the life of a touring musician is “a band-aid to live” in which “there is nothing guarantee and unless you have a trust fund, there is no retirement plan or security trap or insurance. ” Childhood summer “flow like thick liquid.” She recalls a long time ago friend, a 10 -year -old Danny, who was very excited to explain the talent of Kiss Kiss that a trailer house in Prashant Northwest temporarily “temporarily” a big with a star ” The top is to make the top of the cannons, riding the fire, riding the swords and rabies to the small boys.
After spending the years of his initial career in Chicago, the lake winds like “a bouquet of cold fist” pound; And when the case tightly bundles, it resembles a “stuffed armchair”.
“There are things for which we do not have a language,” the case told me in a phone conversation on the second day. “There are feelings that we cannot put words. My mind is most busy when trying to describe what it seems impossible to describe. I want not to understand so badly wrong that the metaphor became a big part of joining me. ,
For example, stories about his mother.
Their relationship is so vague that as an adult, to portray his mother as “a deer, always out of access”. “Harder I Fight the More I Love You” – Joe takes his brief title from its 2013 album “The Weeer Things Gate, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You”. When it is not fierce, alone; And open hearts and clear eyes, if only in retrospective. To borrow an upma from Neil Young, you can hear a familiar climbing squall of his singing sound in the prose of a book like a storm.
Even though you know how much you know about the music of Neko case-those who are Sorta All-Kantrishish, Sorta Americanish, Sorta contemporary folklore-or some time with some time with some revelations with new pornographers, memore make hard readings Work. It is a dark, wild, rustic route since childhood in a small coastal Washington city, which is in the concert stages. The case is many times in the story: she imagines herself to be a warewolf, “In my fingers, catch in my walk, my worried impatience.” You can feel like this, if in the second grade, your father raised you in school with very unexpected news. His mother had only died of cancer.
And then, after one and a half years, his father had good news: his mother came back.
The case has been told that her mother had gone to Hawaii, so her daughter will not have to see her fatal deterioration. Being young, the matter does not really question the story, not for many years. Until decades later, when she decides that her mother was probably never ill.
As a writer and a musician, as he meets in conversation, friendly and casual, there are not many mild moments. His life seems to be touched by more loss than normal. When I called her to talk, she apologized for the reception of the phone: she was leaving an ICU only in New York. Two of his friends died. Years ago she moved to New England, and talks about life in Vermont’s northeastern kingdom, which is a non-habitation dialogue with nature. Nevertheless, in 2017, when she was out of an album recording country, her house was burnt; After a local newspaper reported the fire, he refused that the fire was caught. She became apoplactic about her name associated with her address. As he later told the interviewers, he begged the newspaper not to use his name as he had a stocker. He said that he had spent $ 37,000 security and lawyers of his life savings.
This is not a remote focus of the book; Neither she describes sexual harassment, who was raped by a 19 -year -old brother of a close friend at the age of 14.
Now when asked about the fire, the case, at the age of 54, faced childhood poverty and unstable–The best family history, it takes a long view: “I think I understand why the house was burnt. I do not take it personally. If you take it personally, you cannot move forward. It was just nature, and the natural element of that fire, it was fine. The part that was not right was people who wanted to earn money from the situation. When there is depression. ,
The case said that she knew that her work would be acceptable; After participating in Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, he learned that the raw honesty was a part of the field. The decision also had a dose of disregard: “In the 1980s, being a gene-x child, during Reagan’s years, music and art were being cut from schools, you were told that everything was just everything just business Should be about. It was kept loudly with me. ,
After college, she moved to Seattle, “and lived in one of the city’s last live-work art space, which soon became a condo: I was (expensive) at this place, I am out of here.”
Thus she ended in the late 90s during the newborn years of her career in Chicago. “I wanted to live somewhere where the place was not being sold by the yard.”
She stayed for three years.
“A lot of people work with which I still met during the time,” he said. John Rowhouse, his guitarist, she found through her friends in the Chicago label bloodshot records. Label pracharaks, Kelly Hogan, their backup singers and long stage foil became. (Hogan now performs as part of Mavis Staples band.) The case recorded its first albums while living in Chicago. “I wanted to go where there was a real art community and Chicago it became a very welcome shelter.” On the side, she was barted at the hideout. “Although I was always on a tour, I could not make many changes. Which meant that I was the one who ended working like a Christmas shift. Everyone went home for their family and I had no family in Chicago, so I will regularly finish eating and brownie regularly. ,
The Chicago memoir is one of the several stops, which is in an important way unlike the music of the case: the book is as direct as its song writing is cryptic. She writes about her father who smokes weeds daily. He is “raised by two dogs and a space heater.” She writes about performing when a yeast infection occurs. When Publication House Hatchet approached her during the epidemic, she told them that she was thinking about writing the story. “He said that we will pay for a memoir. So this is the memoir! I am not complaining, if I had not found a job, I would have been in a deep place. But writing about myself is not my first choice – this is not something I want to do naturally. ,
His next album, his first in seven years, the arrival of this decline, is about the decline of biological-sounding music. He said that this is not a concept record, “although I started (album) I have lost more people than being lost throughout my life and they were all composer and it has been lukewarm and I have been lukewarm and I have been lukewarm. I think in the form, which is fun ((music industry) is trying to replace all musicians with AI and streaming. They do not want to pay musicians. It has become a constant hammer of doom. Still At the same time, there is a sensible, a yearning inside the body can not be extinguished. .
After that record (although she can’t say at all), the 1991 Ridley Scott Classic, “Thalama and Lewis”, expect a platform music based on a collaboration between Case and Callie Khauri, who wrote the Oscar-Independent Screenteer . The pair, who have been friends for years, have been working and are working about a decade on adaptation.
What you should not expect from the case, anytime, the typical rock star is confessional.
Although she calls herself a “an oversheair back from the way” when she began writing a memoir, she saw a pair of model autobiographies with sadness and loss: Ricky Lee Jones’s “Last Chance Texaco” and Patty Smith’s classic , The National, The National, The National, The National Book Awards “Just Kids.” The case provides a little red meat: She recalls the story how she came down to her bra during an outdoor festival in Grand Ole Opri. (A story that is with his hearing that the cornist of Shobiz reprimanded: “You will never work again in this city!”)
But most of the books, she says, was written using lessons learned from taking classes with Cartoonist (and former Chicago) Linda Barry. “Linda is actually the only writing teacher I have ever done, and I think I attracted him how to decide what to remember.”
Meaning, it is not the type of pop-music memoir that fixes the feeling of that first hit record, or even the first $ 200,000 car is wrapped around a tree. Instead, the case spends quality time on the pick-over issues of the magazine. Copy of her father’s Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks”. A free-flotting spirit of fear in the 1980s about The Green River Killer in the state of Washington. A high paper plate was high with potato salad in a family meeting.
“People who cannot see minor things important are entrances to emotionally charged things,” he said. “They are probably the most important things.”
Talking to the case, and reading his book, you get a taste for metaphor and acceptance. You wonder what you will save from the fire of a house. Like listening to her music, you see everything in your surroundings as some vaguely defined key for your past. You see everything as something else. Before I could stop myself, I said that I once had “Star Wars” action figures that I had installed on a bedroom dresser …
“Keep talking, keep talking,” he said. “I also did it. I also did it. ,
But they always fell, so every day, you set them again.
“Yes! I remember, I remember …”
Everything will collapse, every day, no matter how much you tried.
“Absolutely, of course,” he said. “Because their small legs, they did not stand a chance. Since, of course, you would glue them in place. But then, it’s not just you, is it?”
Neko case will talk about his memoir “The Harder I Fight the More I Love You” exiled in Bookville at a book launch event and The Fine Arts Building at 7 pm on February 4, Stadbekar Theater, 410 S. In Michigan Avenue. , Ticket $ 50 (including a pre-stable copy of the book) at Fineartsbuilding.com