#josh tillman
father john misty is now following honeymoon, lana del rey’s instagram account!
father john misty is now following myketaminehome!
05/23/22 via instagram
fatherjohnmisty for me?just think it’s important to not just put stuff out for the sake of putting it out, as a self progressed perfectionist/control freak etc etc if i’m going to do ANYTHJNG (song etc)it’s got to be PERFECT which is why songs really comes more from just Putting My Antenna up and I just receive them,, and if it’s not absolutely supposed to exist than the universe won’t ok just an unsolicited vie into my process haha
new instagram bio!
5/20/22 via instagram
fatherjohnmisty what (or who??) will makeq *you *feel strong today? what weakness can you afford to cultivate?
side note: so many great podcasts out there, ma g of which have been wonderful companions on my mang journeys (so far!) very cool, and I encourage you to check them out,, doesn’t take more than an hour or two, you’ll thank me!!!
AND the spotify playlist was updated to include jean the machine by scott walker!
now he’s following adam green of the moldy peaches
05/19/22 via instagram
fatherjohnmisty very proud to finally announce chicken.. can honestly say some of my favorite food made w my favori tree people..
the last time I made this lieterally no one ate it and now this. insane. . so many stories, maybe someday..
the following list updated yet again, and so did his profile picture
the fatherjohnmisty instagram account just followed six other accounts
05/03/22 via instagram
emmaelizabethtillman To many more times around the sun ♾
Shake, rattle, and despair young ladies! Here comes… Father John Misty! Happy ten years to Father John Misty’s debut album, Fear Fun.
“When discussing ‘Father John Misty’, Tillman paraphrases Philip Roth: ’It’s all of me and none of me, if you can’t see that, you won’t get it’. What I call it is totally arbitrary, but I like the name. You’ve got to have a name. I never got to choose mine.”
He goes on, “‘People who make records are afforded this assumption by the culture that their music is coming from an exclusively personal place, but more often than not what you hear are actually the affectations of an ’alter-ego’ or a cartoon of an emotionally heightened persona,” says Josh Tillman, who has been recording/releasing solo albums since 2003 and who recently left Seattle’s Fleet Foxes after playing drums from 2008-2011. “That kind of emotional quotient isn’t sustainable if your concern is portraying a human-being made up of more than just chest-beating pathos. I see a lot of rampant, sexless, male-fantasy everywhere in the music around me. I didn’t want any alter-egos, any vagaries, fantasy, escapism, any over-wrought sentimentality. I like humor and sex and mischief. So when you think about it, it’s kind of mischievous to write about yourself in a plain-spoken, kind of explicitly obvious way and call it something like ‘Misty’. I mean, I may as well have called it ‘Steve’”.
[Fear Fun] began gestating during what Tillman describes as an “immobilizing period of depression”, in his former Seattle home. “Songwriting for me had always only been interesting and necessary because I saw it as this vehicle for truth, but I had this realization that all I had really done with it was lick my wounds for years and years, and become more and more isolated from people and experiences. I don’t even like wound-licking music, I want to listen to someone rip their arm off and beat themselves with it. I don’t believe that until now I’ve ever put anything at risk in my music. I was hell-bent on putting my preciousness at stake in order to find something worth singing about.” When asked about Laurel Canyon, where he eventually ended up living in the aforementioned tree-house with a family of spiders, Tillman says, “My attitude about it all is pretty explicit in the record. Given my fairly adversarial personal attitude about the music and aesthetic that comes from that place, it’s kind of a huge joke that I live in a former hippie-fantasy land. I have a really morbid sense of humor.”
04/29/22 via facebook
Sub Pop Records: TV ALERT Father John Misty will be performing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, May 3rd!
04/13/22 via instagram
fatherjohnmisty Kiss Me (I Loved You) tomorrow at 6AM PT / 9AM ET / 2PM GMT on YouTube
