Neko Case
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60 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 24 Nov
Neko Case’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, like, if you think you know what a song's about and it makes you feel... connected emotionally to it and it becomes a little chapter heading in your life, you know, you don't want to ruin that for people.
Well, that song was a real event. I was really at a bus stop in Honolulu fleeing Hawaii and I saw it happen and I just felt so helpless. You felt helpless to protect the kid. Yeah, but the kid also was being very resilient and she was, you know, entertaining herself. She was very spunky and cute and
Well, I mean, I told the story. I just... I've never written a book before, and, you know, I didn't set out to write a memoir. I wanted to write fiction. But, you know, it was at the height of the pandemic, and Hachette said, we'll pay you to write a memoir, though. And I was like, okay, a memoir it is. And that's not a complaint, or, you know, they didn't hold my heels to the fire or anything.
I just thought, okay, well, it'll just be a little challenging. Because... talking about yourself or writing about yourself to yourself isn't the most exciting thing ever. You know, you spend a lot of time with yourself. So I don't think of myself as like, oh, people are really going to want to know this.
So, I mean, that's one of the reasons I tried to pick more interesting stories from childhood that were scenes maybe of good things too. Because I didn't want it to just be you know, oh, poor me, especially because it's not unusual. It's most people's experience. I mean, you know, my situation with my mother is pretty bizarre.
But neglect or abuse or things like that, those are most people's experiences. Or growing up really poor, like, that is most people.
I didn't know that until I was in my early 20s and I told somebody I knew that my mom faked her death. And then they were like, that's the weirdest fucking thing I've ever heard. And I was like, oh, yeah, that is actually pretty weird, isn't it? But, you know, kids, like kids just think what's happening to them is what happens.
So, you know, I just didn't it didn't occur to me.
It's in me all the time. And, you know, it's just not my fault.
Only in a super nerdy kind of neurodivergent way. Slash Virgo way where I'm like, oh, I'm taking all the things and I'm organizing them in this box. And so now I can put this box over here like a hard drive. So my brain has more room in it. And it's all color coded and I know where it is.
Like, that's like Virgo organization.
Well... The mythology of people needing to suffer to make beautiful things or just art or creative things in general is not true.
No, if I had had a supportive upbringing, I would be able to read music and play instruments and... would probably be a lot further along. You don't need that.
It's an absolute trunk of shit. The things that I admire about myself are despite those things. You know, like, I still am a trusting person. I still really want to see the good in people, and sometimes I will make mistakes and trust people I shouldn't. And I could beat myself up about that, or I could just go, no, you still want to believe people are good.
And I think that's a more important quality than trust. whether or not you're wily enough to spot a jerk a mile away. You know what I mean?
No, music is the only thing that never let me down. But trauma did not make me a great musician. Like, I am a journeyman at best. And, you know, I'm broke. I don't know. I think great musicians do other things. Well, did you just say you were broke?
I think your fans would be shocked. The confluence of my house burning down, COVID, and streaming. Those three things together. Wow. And I cannot catch up.
I felt absolutely unafraid. And I was seeing an actual moment of grace in life.
I mean, I am of the species. I am a man. Whatever's going on downstairs doesn't matter. I have all my faculties. You can call a female or a male lion a lion, and they're still a lion. I'm a man in that same way. And I am so thrilled and proud and excited by generations younger than mine who are not backing down from who they think they are and the idea that they get to be who they are.
That has been one of the most exciting things I've ever witnessed, and it has given me so much more insight into myself, you know, because I never felt like a girl or totally a guy. I'm more of a gender-fluid person.
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