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“There is no reason to overthink any of this…”

Sometimes its just all so much, & the only thing that makes you feel better is reading a flowery screed railing against the no-good-terrible-evil-thing that we all see, yet is still making our lives collectively worse. David Roth has some choice words re: our (clearly sliding into elderly dementia) ‘President’: Trump is so relentlessly dishonest […]

We are Black Swans.

Thom Yorke, Bill Graham Auditorium. 12/15/2018

Standing Quiet in the Rain

Oddly, tonight I was having flashbacks to 1989 — pacing around my room, blowing off homework so I could listen to ‘Pictures of You’ on repeat. Play, rewind, play… & the foam headphones getting hot against my ears… feeling it all so deep. 29 years of Disintegration…. #IfOnlyIdThoughtOfTheRightWords

In the Deepest Jungle

Built an opera house for you in the deepest jungle & I walked across its stage singing with my eyes closed I’ve got a love for you I just can’t escape All of my love for you cuts me like barbed wire I was meant to love you & always keep you in my life […]

/ But when you said that I wasn’t worth talking to / I had to take your word on that /

I was massively into “Exile in Guyville” back in 1993 (sigh), & in fact I’m sure that I still have a battered & grimy CD — plastic case splintered & cracked from living in various cars & being moved around the country for 25 years — still buried in a box in my closet. There’s […]