Elliott Smith- “Bottle Up and Explode”
From XO

I’ve been on an Elliott Smith kick lately, and it sort of worries me.

My mom is in a book club, and they chose The Catcher in the Rye for this month. (He just died y’all!) She asked me to come up with some discussion questions they could use—when you’re an English teacher, people do things like this—and I gave her stuff like: “Does Holden care about his appearance? He mentions that he doesn’t several times—wearing his hat backwards, for example—but is that a sign of actual indifference or an even bigger form of self-consciousness?” I should have just said, “Play this song.”