Now I know, now I know!!!!!111
I FINALLY figured out what Neutral Milk Hotel means!
Okay, so I was writing this one story, and there's a part where this dude tells someone (he's talking to someone throughout the whole thing) and anyway, he's telling him that he never wants to see him at his own house again. Not that he doesn't like him anymore, it's because he doesn't want his friend to ever go to his house again. Then he asks whether or not they could arrange a meeting a neutral place. Like the hardware store. Then he says something like "How about we meet at the neutral hardware store next Tuesday?"
And then I said to myself, "That sounds like Neutral Milk Hotel."
And that's what it is! I think the Milk part references something deep, secure, safe, sort of a primal, secure feeling. So they're meeting at the neutral place (a hotel) and it happens to be a safe place to be. And! I figured out why it's a hotel! You can live at a hotel, can't you? People are always coming and going, but I suppose you could take up a permenant residence in one! (That's what Syd Barrett did until he ran out of money and went to live in his mum's basement.) So the hotel represents a place where you can live and there's a bunch of other people there and you feel safe and it's a neutral place to be!
Why, I could be anyone at a Neutral Milk Hotel! Why, if I were in a Neutral Milk Hotel - oh my gosh, not only could I be anyone there, I could actually be myself! Would that not be awesome? At a Neutral Milk Hotel I could be myself and that'd be okay! No one would get after me for it, I could be who I felt like, I could be what I felt like, and that'd be okay! No one would get after me, they'd be fine! And if someone didn't like it, they can't hang me for it. They just go somewhere else. I used to have a place like that. I called it Brixton, though not out loud, and it was a meeting every third Monday of the month where kids with Aspergers got to meet with each other. And just be themselves. But we ended up leaving just because my mum didn't like it. I call it Brixton now. Kolya calls it Aspie Day, which sounds like an Aspie version of Green Day (that Joe Strummer's in, 'cos he's from Brixton!)
I LOVE the idea of a Neutral Milk Hotel!
Do you understand my thought process?
Well, if you do, there's nothing wrong with you. I'm one of 'em too. Don't worry, there's support groups for that kind of person out there...probably...I should probably be going to one. But if you can't find a support group, then that's okay, because you can always be what you are at the Neutral Milk Hotel.
....
*breathe breathe breathe breathe*
Kolya's coming this evening. I am very happy. It makes me almost high, in a way. It's a high called 12-dimensional-ness. We get each other there. We get each other high.
Sigh.
*SCRAMBLEDEGGS EXPLICABLE CHUTNEY QUEEN OF CARROT FLOWERS DIE DIE I DIE SO I JUMPED AROUND AND SHOT MYSELF WITH THE NEAREST AVAILABLE PIANO HA HA HA HA HA ANDYWARHOLSPARKYSCREEN!!!!!!!*
Ah.
I'm alright now. I'm alright.
Okay, so I was writing this one story, and there's a part where this dude tells someone (he's talking to someone throughout the whole thing) and anyway, he's telling him that he never wants to see him at his own house again. Not that he doesn't like him anymore, it's because he doesn't want his friend to ever go to his house again. Then he asks whether or not they could arrange a meeting a neutral place. Like the hardware store. Then he says something like "How about we meet at the neutral hardware store next Tuesday?"
And then I said to myself, "That sounds like Neutral Milk Hotel."
And that's what it is! I think the Milk part references something deep, secure, safe, sort of a primal, secure feeling. So they're meeting at the neutral place (a hotel) and it happens to be a safe place to be. And! I figured out why it's a hotel! You can live at a hotel, can't you? People are always coming and going, but I suppose you could take up a permenant residence in one! (That's what Syd Barrett did until he ran out of money and went to live in his mum's basement.) So the hotel represents a place where you can live and there's a bunch of other people there and you feel safe and it's a neutral place to be!
Why, I could be anyone at a Neutral Milk Hotel! Why, if I were in a Neutral Milk Hotel - oh my gosh, not only could I be anyone there, I could actually be myself! Would that not be awesome? At a Neutral Milk Hotel I could be myself and that'd be okay! No one would get after me for it, I could be who I felt like, I could be what I felt like, and that'd be okay! No one would get after me, they'd be fine! And if someone didn't like it, they can't hang me for it. They just go somewhere else. I used to have a place like that. I called it Brixton, though not out loud, and it was a meeting every third Monday of the month where kids with Aspergers got to meet with each other. And just be themselves. But we ended up leaving just because my mum didn't like it. I call it Brixton now. Kolya calls it Aspie Day, which sounds like an Aspie version of Green Day (that Joe Strummer's in, 'cos he's from Brixton!)
I LOVE the idea of a Neutral Milk Hotel!
Do you understand my thought process?
Well, if you do, there's nothing wrong with you. I'm one of 'em too. Don't worry, there's support groups for that kind of person out there...probably...I should probably be going to one. But if you can't find a support group, then that's okay, because you can always be what you are at the Neutral Milk Hotel.
....
*breathe breathe breathe breathe*
Kolya's coming this evening. I am very happy. It makes me almost high, in a way. It's a high called 12-dimensional-ness. We get each other there. We get each other high.
Sigh.
*SCRAMBLEDEGGS EXPLICABLE CHUTNEY QUEEN OF CARROT FLOWERS DIE DIE I DIE SO I JUMPED AROUND AND SHOT MYSELF WITH THE NEAREST AVAILABLE PIANO HA HA HA HA HA ANDYWARHOLSPARKYSCREEN!!!!!!!*
Ah.
I'm alright now. I'm alright.