Claire Parker

There's always going to be a place where somebody is like, I can't believe all those geniuses were hanging around the same scene.

And you're like, yeah, well, if you were in the scene, there was about 500 people and like 400 of them became duds.

30 of them now have normal lives and like two or three went on to greatness.

And then behind them is going to be some new weirder scene.

That's probably going to be, you know...

offshoot Austin, Texas or something.

And they're all going to be like, yeah, what we do is like amputate our own fingers and add more stuff.

Or we're like, oh my God, these are the most people, important people in the world.

And there's actually like two guys that actually did it.

And it's like, you know what I mean?

And then there's like a thousand think pieces.

I don't know.

I feel...

I feel this is just like a tale as old as time.

There's always going to be a group of young things in New York that got an outsized critical reception because the people who write the thought pieces are adjacent to them.

And, you know, I mean, the things that matter don't get as much press, like who gets to speak.

And it is the person who's willing to move to New York City and call themselves important people.

I feel if you could make Catholicism cool...

feel like there's like the the dual things of who he wants to like him and it's both cool kids in new york and like also i feel like i was hard on them but i'm also like 33 and i've never in my life been accepted by cool kids ever and i've just made my peace with it and felt as they've become like weirdly republican and evil i'm like oh thank god they wouldn't take me because i don't want to have to be doing ironic mega stuff um what are you talking about

Yeah, but popular is not cool.