“I think rivers as International boundaries was a very very bad idea. I think… rivers is where things come together, not where they get put apart.”
There’s an international national park on …
If you have a chance… this episode of Broken Record with Rick Rubin talking about Tom Petty’s Wildflowers is so fucking good.
weird. and awesome.
“Tie your hair back, keep the car running Pack the Hanzo, don’t stop for nothing Go ahead and get what you need Gotta keep it drama free Don’t forget you ain’t owned by nobody”
This one made me tear up. An incredible bit of writing and perspective about growing up with a lifetime of violence in the US.
“And it was then that I remembered everything at once. I remembered all the violence looming around me, and my friends, and my entire generation. I remembered that for anyone born near the year 2000, this is all we’ve ever known.”
This song seemed so prescient in 2002, but pales in comparison to listening to it now.
Rage is the rage In these barbarous days Of bitterness spite and venom Of brilliant designs Of innocent minds …
I’M TRANSFORMING, I’M VIBRATING, LOOK AT ME NOW
Shut your mouth and listen to your heart.
Just discovered this older Hold Steady ditty and… it is obsessively great.
“She said call me 212 Margarita/ Cause I’m green and I’m misleading and I’ve had too much tequila
And I believe in the bodies/ And I believe in the blood/ I believe on salt along the rims of the glasses/ Cause that makes us thirsty/ And when we drink then we all fall in love”
I won’t pretend that Frightened Rabbit was a household name by typical measures. In the the 12 years since his first album “Sing the Greys” it seems he’s built up a pretty …
“Everything that matters has to suffer/ Everything that’s happened has to be/ Everything that matters has to suffer in order to live/ Can I take that suffering, can I take that suffering from me?”