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Things the Grandchildren Should Know
Book by Mark Oliver Everett
Things the Grandchildren Should Know is an autobiography by Mark Oliver Everett, the front man of the independent rock bandEels.
Everett spent a year writing the book[1] between the release of the retrospectives Meet The Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1 (1996–2006) and Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996–2006 and the composition of 2009's Hombre Lobo.
Title
The book shares its title with the closing track from the Eels' 2005 album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations. In that song Everett takes on the persona of an elderly grandfather sharing the wisdom he has learned about life shortly before his death.
The parallels between the song and the book are loose, as Everett is much younger than his song persona. He remarks in the final chapter the irony of the title given that he has no children, let alone grandchildren (this changed when his son, Archie McGregor E