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Say I will carry you through the hurricane waters
And I remember you in the blue sky

...

'Cause when we started, it was innocent

It ain't really your life
It ain't really your life
It really ain't nuthin' but a movie

Man... Ray Charles, too.

Robert Quine, 1942-2004.

Between Blank Generation and The Blue Mask, that guy helped me weather quite a few storms. Peace be with him.

As of this week, I've been a Chicagoan for ten years. As Townes Van Zandt was fond of saying, "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."

Help... I'm being held hostage in the New, Weird America!!

So in the last two weeks...

I had to take my car in twice to fix the broken mirror (one of the times they kept it for five days).

I entertained my mother for four days.

I spent four drunken days at a wedding in NYC. This trip also included being trapped on a grounded airplane for two hours, and a pretty scary pit stop...
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So tired... this week is insane...

Shop closed. Gone to NYC. Be back Monday.

My mom's here for her biannual visit. Took her to a BBQ at my friends T&R's house. Whenever she get the chance to hang with any of my friends, after we leave she always says, "They're all so nice to me," like they're doing her a favor, when it reality then find her to be an interesting and vibrant person. It's frustrating.

We both head...
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