Transmission

A farewell transmission from Park Royal. I spent the afternoon packing up and watching old Jason Molina videos. I saw him live a couple times on the late 2000’s, one of the true greats and sadly missed. After he died in 2013 there was an outpouring of emotion and respect that perhaps he never realised existed. To quote an article written in the immediate aftermath; "His songs are filled with warnings about disconnection and disaffection that weren’t heeded, and in the end, the messenger drowned in the air around him. Part of me felt that the world should have taken better care of Molina. And yet, what was the alternative? A Jason Molina who was broadly embraced? That wouldn’t have been Molina at all. He occupied the margins because the center was abhorrent. He was able to be genuinely poetic because his broadcasts reached such a small number of people. Believe in the idea that almost no one understood him and that’s the most important thing to understand."