#no devolucion

[finn9134]

I made a thursday zine at a zine workshop today!!!

[vriska-serketboard]

I FINALLY COVERED TURNPIKE DIVIDES!!!!! there weren't tabs available online, so i learned it by ear, and honestly i think i'm getting a lot better at doing that. i'm seeing them tomorrow and i am SO excited. i'm going to lose my shit and sob hysterically when they play this song (they better play this song!) because i love it so much and even though i'm not from nj and have never been there, i feel like it resonates with me a lot

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[l0uder-now]

First step’s got me lying on the floor. By the Second step, I hear a knocking at the door. Three I put my life in your hands. By the fourth step, how much light is left? Five, six, seven I can see the DARK and the and HARM I’ve done I’ve left my mark. EIGHT. NINE. TEN. ILL TAKE IT BACK AGAIN. ELEVEN, TWELVE IM PUTTING FIRES OUT IN HELLLLLLLLL

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

the two different ways of losing a wedding ring. I like that. Somebody who heard the song asked me, “Did all those things actually happen to you?” And I wanted to be like, “Well, obviously not.” You either lose your wedding ring or you sell it. I wanted the listener to be off-guard. Is this real? Or is this just a song about what it feels like to go through this? I didn’t want people to know whether or not they could take it literally. Like you said, it’s subversion. I wanted to subvert the form of the narrative. You can’t trust the narrator. Those things excite me as a writer. I love it when you’re listening, and you’re right in the palm of someone’s hand, and then all of a sudden you’re given a reason not to trust them anymore.

Geoff Rickly

[trekinist]

God might be real actually

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

there are a lot of pretty obvious allusions on the record to a marriage on the rocks. That was a pretty huge source of inspiration. While this was all going on, I really didn’t want to write, like, part two of Cursive’s Domestica. I didn’t want this to be this heart-wrenching record about breaking up. I mean, I love Cursive, but I knew I didn’t want to do that. It’s just such a thing, you know? The breakup record. I hardly ever hear a breakup song and think, “Yeah, I know what you mean.” Most of the time I just think, “You sound like a self-absorbed douchebag.” Domestica is one of the few records that gets it. But this isn’t Domestica. This record is about devotion. It’s like being in a desert and writing about water. Even if it’s make-believe water, I’d rather have some of that around than just write about sand. A lot of the songs are about how incredible devotion is, how incredible all the things we care about are. It just became this huge theme for the record. It’s a huge love letter. It became so much easier to write once I realized that.

Geoff Rickly

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

Devotion really is such a weighted word that way, though. But I also think real love—the kind that’s far beyond infatuation—is religious in every way. Whether or not I’d say I was a humanist, I’ve always agreed that every person is about as sacred as it gets. I’ve always loved Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain and that whole viewpoint of humanity being a church unto itself. That’s something that probably comes across most on this record, at least as far as a religious aspect.

Geoff Rickly