"'Taking a geographical' is a term from recovery where you think, if I go somewhere else, maybe that will fix my problem. Which, of course — if you are an alcoholic in Claremont, you will also be an alcoholic in Portland. The phrase in recovery is you can't run away from yourself. And I thought, "Well, I should get them to Florida." They were trying to run as far away from California, where they were from, as they could — and the idea was, they get to Florida and run out of land, so they set up in Tallahassee."
That was John Darnielle explaining how he set up Tallahassee, an album about the ultimate toxic couple. The opening/title song sets up the rest of the album perfectly. I could have placed this song on a long of awkward rides in the early 2000's.
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