Back to your question: They haven't approached me with anything that deep. It took them a while to explain it to me that no, it's like a separate little bon bon so be flattered by it. I can barely have my picture taken so I'm profoundly uncomfortable for my friend and writing partner for what has happened to his IDs.
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I was like, "You realize this is a step away from wearing the t-shirt of the band you're going to see, except you showed up for English class?"īut there are a number of ones that use Dan's likeness and rip his professional pictures from his marketing agency. MACUGA I also had a kid wear Have a Nice Life merch to class for the first time. They're all like, "Oh, what do you do?" And I'm like "I like music." And they're like, "Oh, I love Steely Dan.
"Earthmover" is happening to a new generation, because of this dumb dog video.īARRETT Tim is surrounded by people who are tied into the zeitgeist in a way the people I'm surrounded with at work aren't. To me, I'm like, "Oh, it's like a cute video of a dog." But no, videos like this are their Michael Jackson. Stuck it there with the homework assignments and stuff. They fucking posted that to my Google classroom. I think it was last year that the "Doge in Space" video - of a dog going to outer space - went viral. That bums them out, because they're listening to music for it to change their lives.
They ask me how I listen to music, and it sounds very academic and intellectual. Like Dan said, I'm closer to teenagers and younger people who are having imprinting musical experiences on their lives. It's much easier to find that stuff now than it was before. As we got older, we just got to a point where Tim's students naturally started to find out. I worked in schools for a long time before I did this, and I didn't want the people at work to know that I do this. You've hit your cap." They're like, "Can we listen to Have a Nice Life?" And I was like "No, you can't listen to that, either." That's about it, but I think both Tim and I, for a very long time, very carefully cultivated creative lives that were very separate from the rest of everything else we did. I was like, "You can't listen to 'Baby Shark' anymore. At home, my kids will sometimes play Have a Nice Life on the Amazon Alexa to bother me. That's the extent to which it's encroached on my life.ĭAN BARRETT My work life intersects with my musical life exactly zero percent of the time. TIM MACUGA This year was sort of a milestone - in that I was asked to sign copies of it by students at my school.
DOES THAT MILESTONE RESONATE FOR YOU AT ALL - AND DOES THE RECORD POP UP IN YOUR DAILY LIVES AT ALL? A LOT HAS HAPPENED FOR YOU BOTH PERSONALLY SINCE THEN. Still, music always has continued to be a mainstay in both of their lives.ĭEATHCONSCIOUSNESS TURNED 13 EARLIER THIS YEAR. Their path out of the darkness also included starting families and getting "big boy" jobs, like Macuga's full-time high school English teacher gig or Barrett's running of a real estate marketing agency. For the two of them, musical catharsis was just one part of their personal maturation.
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13 years since it appeared, the record has become a beacon for a whole community of ageless (and at times empty) souls fumbling around in the dark seeking catharsis.īut 2008 was a long time ago, and both Barrett and Macuga have built full lives outside of Have a Nice Life. It has inspired everyone from the late rapper Lil Peep, who pulled from "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" for his track "Shiver," to 4chan's online meme lords who mine its themes to create macabre moments. Over the years, Deathconsciousness' depressive themes have struck a chord with many outsiders. Video of Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
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