Finished The Essay

Finished the essay 👍

I went to write an essay for uni today and had to stop because my brain decided to come up with a song BASED ON THE TOPIC I'M WRITING THE ESSAY ABOUT.

Anyway, it's about the Theory of Correspondences and the bridge lyrics are going to be a stanza from some French poetry written by Baudelaire.

Does anyone know of any interviews where Matt talks about his songwriting process? I feel like interviewers are crazy if no one's ever asked him about it.

Audio/video is preferred, but written is fine, too.

it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

Nice fun update on my guitar playing:

I can play the plug in baby riff with my guitar behind my head.

Did it well a few times then kinda fucked it when I took a video to send my dad but also MY GUITAR IS BEHIND MY HEAD and I tried it for the first time today so.