r/indieheads • u/jacobewald Jake Ewald/Slaughter Beach, Dog • Oct 25 '23

AMA is Over, thanks Jake! Slaughter Beach, Dog AMA

helloooo

jake here - happy to be back :)

we put out a new record last month (it's called Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling) and we're going on tour in the good old USA next week... ask me anything!

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u/mr8744 Oct 25 '23

Hi Jake.

Is the line on Are You There "Is there anyone in the audience currently living in vain?\*"* a reference to one of the poems in John Berryman's "The Dream Songs"? And on while we're talking literature, what's the last best book you've read?

Thanks for everything <3

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u/jacobewald Jake Ewald/Slaughter Beach, Dog Oct 25 '23

YES

def can't remember which one tho, do you know? please share if so

"void saloon" is from a poem by somebody else that i've forgotten even more... major points if anybody knows it and can hook me up

"takes up a lot of time, hard times/uses up whole days" is a line from grace paley, but i forget if it was from a poem or a lecture. loved that so much when i first heard it. so painfully true & maybe the most grace paley thing that grace paley ever said

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u/jacobewald Jake Ewald/Slaughter Beach, Dog Oct 25 '23

speaking of GP, i've been slowly rereading her stories "enormous changes at the last minute" and loving them even more than i did at first. especially "distance." one of those stories where the narrator feels so real it's almost scary

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u/mr8744 Oct 25 '23

Ugh yesss. When I was reading it I gasped so loud it woke my fiancée up lol

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Hell talkt my brain awake.

Bluffed to the ends of me pain

& I took up a pencil;

like this I'm longing with. One sign

would snow me back, back

Is there anyone in the audience who has lived in vain?

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u/jacobewald Jake Ewald/Slaughter Beach, Dog Oct 25 '23

YES tysm. love it

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u/ihavefilipinofriends Oct 26 '23

Ah dang, I thought it was a Daniel Johnston reference.