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Let’s see, what rhymes with ‘small town’…
Wait, I got it! ‘Small town’!
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March 22, 1985 11:04 AM
(also 11:08 AM, 11:15 AM, 12:02 PM, 12:17 PM, 1:45 PM and 1:47 PM)
(Source: yourmonkeycalled)
Fey and witty everywhere
Went to Petsmart yesterday and the Jens Lekman was playing. Went across the street and Magnetic Fields were playing at REI. What the hell is happening?
I ruined another song: It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday by Boyz II Men.
(If you’re new to this, check out Fields of Gold, Tears in Heaven and Kiss From A Rose.)
A brief description of true love
- Me (after a big meal at our local burger joint: Man that was good. What do you want to do now?
- Her: I don't know.
- Me: We could go back to the house...
- Her: I'm OK with that.
- Me: We could watch a movie or something.
- Her: Well, I do want to finish reading the hunger games.
- Me: Sure! and I can go home and play Bioshock!
- Her: Sounds like a date.
Woman I was talking to yesterday was “very concerned about the muslims.” She says they are “coming to America with their way of life. They want to implant their lifestyle into America. And that’s scary.”
I suppose it is scary. If it were true. It always makes me sad to find out an otherwise reasonable young person is spouting nonsense.
Man, someone knows about my dream vacation of seeing the sites of massive warfare followed by a quick tour of Nazi atrocities!
RIP Levon Helm. The 71-year-old lost a battle with cancer when he died Thursday afternoon in New York City.
All Things Considered contributor Will Hermes remembers seeing the legendary drummer and singer at a roadhouse in Minneapolis: “It was like seeing the Rockies or the Grand Canyon.”
Photo: Jan Persson/Referns
Even knowing this was coming with the announcement that he wasn’t doing well, this is a hard one to take. I listened to the Band heavily during a time when I had just moved to a new city and didn’t know many people. Sometimes on a Friday night I would just drive around town listening to Big Pink or the brown album. The band became my friends. I feel like no one epitomizes American music quite like Levon did. Even today if I see or hear an interview with him, I’m surprised at how likeable and human he is. Even in the Last Waltz, an entire project which he has made clear he didn’t agree with, he pours all of himself into the music. He is a mountain-shifting force on stage.
So if you would excuse me, I’m going to go listen to the Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down and shed a tear or two.
