What Am I Leaving Behind Me?

Car Seat Headrest “1937 State Park” (Joe’s Story Version) Car Seat Headrest have re-recorded “1937 State Park” along with the rest of Teens of Denial (give or take a few songs), so I should follow suit and write a new post about that song, right? Not exactly a tall order given that it’s one of my top favorite songs from the 2010s. I’m a little surprised by my emotional response in my original post from May 2016. I was identifying a lot more with the character in the song, and being a little hard on a past version of myself I don’t remember so clearly today. It also captures the feeling of being a particularly cynical and depressive sort of teenage boy, right on down to the line about avoiding graveyards because they’re a cliché of his “death-obsessed generation,” which is funny to me because I was exactly the sort of teen to extrapolate way too much from random people I knew just to find new ways to be snobby as an excuse to opt out of social situations. “Ah, I hate my generation, so…