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- jedi_grrlie September 2006
- julyrake7 September 2006
- mexico39taiwan September 2006
- QueenofthePosers September 2006
- women60banana September 2006
Hello, My Treacherous Friends
...to understand these lyrics? Arachnid kids? My children, the spiders? WTF? Is this an ode to Charlotte? Is this Damian's magnum opus? When I heard this the first time, I thought he was saying "Iraqian kids" and I thought THAT was a tad unusual. Arachnid kids? Now that's just a tad MORE unusual.
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Laura Hamlett: Explain “Hello My Treacherous Friend.”
Damian Kulash: That’s probably the oldest song on the record; it was written several years ago. I was living in Portland and it was about two friends of mine who had screwed me in really annoying ways…that, mixed with that weird, sort of surreal excitement that you get when you move to a new city and don’t really know anything about it. The smallest things take on this unrealistic significance. Walking around downtown, some particular restaurant or—in Portland, there’s these really gigantic rose bushes that have roses the size of softballs—just the strange significance of these otherwise meaningless things because I was sort of resituating myself. The whole spiders thing is about how my girlfriend had found a spider in my house and refused to kill it. She later claimed, “I told it to leave and it just didn’t.” Surprisingly, I had a nest of spiders in my room for the rest of the summer, which I always blamed on her. Whenever I’d get mad about them, she told me I wasn’t allowed to be mad because they were our children.
Laura Hamlett: Explain “Hello My Treacherous Friend.”
Damian Kulash: That’s probably the oldest song on the record; it was written several years ago. I was living in Portland and it was about two friends of mine who had screwed me in really annoying ways…The whole spiders thing is about how my girlfriend had found a spider in my house and refused to kill it. She later claimed, “I told it to leave and it just didn’t.” Surprisingly, I had a nest of spiders in my room for the rest of the summer, which I always blamed on her. Whenever I’d get mad about them, she told me I wasn’t allowed to be mad because they were our children.
Thanks, Mixtape - now I can use the money I won't have to spend on weed to purchase goods from the OK Go store. That explanation is just too sweet for words. A spider lovin' woman after my own heart.
This answer, however, prompts another couple questions. I'm aware of Damian's DC>Providence>Chicago>LA residential progression - where/how does Portland fit in? Are we talking Portland OR or ME? A couple more for the Don't Ask Me thread, jedi_grrlie? (And please accept my "DOH" in advance if the answers are already in there)
P.S. Mixtape - I LOVE your sig - is it an original design?
Haha, really?? Yep, I made it the night before my very first OK Go concert after a terrible premonition involving me spewing that at Damian the second I met him...because I do really have like 23 posters next to my bed.
I'm so glad Damian's from DC so I have an awesome hometown buddy.