Neutral Milk Hotel

He was actually, and still is, a famous independent rock artist.

He was the producer for a band called Neutral Milk Hotel and lead singer for a band called Apples in Stereo, and he had the most fascinating story.

He loved equipment.

He loved to perform with these old microphones, solid-state old microphones and speakers when they went on tour.

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same thing happened with In an Airplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk.

Yeah,

okay.

Mm-hmm

... and also, which is, like, a, it's not even a Jake Johns- he wrote it, but it was for Neutral Milk Hotel?

That-

Is that a band?

Yeah.

But I don't think-

Yeah, I think Neutral Milk Hotel did it

... are you talking about Ja- Jack Johnson?

They're not considered a great filmmaker unless they have, like, a lot of, a lot of films.

But you can be a musician, like Neutral Milk Hotel, and basically make two albums and one of them is, like, a masterpiece and they're considered a great band.

Do you know what I'm kinda saying here? Like, do you ever think about, like, how much artistic weight one movie has compared to other art forms like a novel or, like, an album? Do you ever, do you ever think about that?

Mm.

Sure.

You know what I'm saying? Like, I think the canon has been obliterated to a certain degree bec- or at least, you know, in the court of popular opinion.

'Cause you can go on our Instagram right now and be like, "I feel like Neutral Milk Hotel made two, two albums and one of them is really great," and you're gonna find somebody to be like, "Says who? I feel like-

Yeah

But now I'm like, what, what the hell was that?

You said that shooting the scenes were Grace, Barbie's character, in some ways, young you in those rooms with those dudes in those neutral milk hotel t-shirts.

You said that was the hardest thing to film?

Yeah, and I really don't know why.

I just felt like a terrified 22-year-old woman.

And then I'm trying to give direction to an actress, and she's like, what's going on? And yeah, I left set and had a full panic attack in the bathroom.

Really? But yeah, I was surprised to be so overtaken by emotion because I guess Neutral Milk Hotel is just really triggering.

I want to play some music and then reintroduce you.

Yeah, he was, he was always on Blue Sky.

Yeah, he kept talking about Neutral Milk Hotel.

He loved that band.

Uh, the update is that, uh, she actually survived the kidnapping and, uh, after being held captive for seven days before she was rescued by the Pennsylvania State Police and the FBI.

they wouldn't call themselves that and I'm friends with the guys so I just didn't but that's what it is I'm sorry But it's these records that were so self-referential and always, like, kind of calling back and forth.

And especially Neutral Milk Hotel was, like, the story of, like, he uses Anne Frank as, like, a storytelling device.

I mean, I'm not speaking, you know, no one has authority on what that record means.

But I like to view it as, because he has that whole brother thing at the end, I like to think he's singing to kind of like a dead brother in a sense.