Neutral Milk Hotel Recluse Marries Documentary Filmmaker

Ok, so we don’t really care, but you know how the indie sites get themselves in a lather when Neutral Milk Hotel recluse Jeff Mangum farts, goes to the grocery store or even thinks about plucking a guitar string.

So… the notoriously hermetic singer just got married, to a documentary filmmaker no less (see the amazing tie-in? Where movies and music meet indeed!).

Mangum, wed Astra Taylor, a writer and filmmaker who directed the excellent 2005 documentary, “Zizek!” about the kooky and eccentric Slovenian philosopher/ranter, Slavoj Zizek. Neutral Milk Hotel drummer Jeremy Barnes provided the original music to the doc. Hooray for films and people who make music in them!

Next month will see the tenth anniversary of NMH’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, a strong record that has been so grossly overanalyzed and fetishized it has thus become grossly overrated, bestowed with an unimpeachable sainthood status mostly by those that weren’t around to witness it firsthand and caught on years later after the group had long since broken up.

Trailer: “Zizek!”