I wrote this song once, back when I was like I dunno, 23 maybe? I know I have copies of it, but that bin in the basement is completely out of control what with my pulling random items out of it at will. My friend Blair hated when I would write about myself in the third person ("Believe it or not George isn't at...
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It has been a hell of a week man. I feel like I say that at the end of nearly every week anymore. My grandmother's birthday was on Monday and the phone call with her went...eh...not well. Oh, and I never even told the story about the high school mother fuckers who showed up banging on my front door at 11 pm Friday night looking...
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stcyr:
nice photos, I love the first one as well.
Hope your weekend balances out & atones for the chaotic week.
Hope your weekend balances out & atones for the chaotic week.
Working from home today while intermittently playing Kinect Adventures with the boy child and Dance Central with the girl child. I am not ashamed to admit that I beat my 14-year-old-hipper-than-me (just ask her) daughter at this:
She neglects to grasp that I took dance all the way through high school and into college even. So crank dat in your pipe and...never mind.
We took...
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She neglects to grasp that I took dance all the way through high school and into college even. So crank dat in your pipe and...never mind.
We took...
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stcyr:
what's a record player?
hedon:
Lol @ the winning. 
My mother, who has been a writer for the entirety of my life, a cover-er of the arts in particular, just had the opportunity to interview Ani Di Franco on Saturday. My mom really just reeks of cool. The super coolest. And stay tuned because I had to school her on Gogol Bordello and she is quoting me in her coverage of said stint. Go...
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stcyr:
yeah, that's pretty damn cool.
jonnytrrrash7:
super cool, indeed
A few months ago, my husband sat me down (as he enjoys doing) and said "I just want you to hear this, it has been haunting me for days...it is about you." It just came on Last.FM and reminded me how cool it is that throughout this decade together we still share so much of ourselves through music. It's rad.
This light at the end...
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This light at the end...
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stcyr:
rad indeed.
And sweet.
The two o' you seem well matched.
And sweet.
The two o' you seem well matched.
hedon:
just celebrated a decade myself. Time flies.
nice lyrics.
nice lyrics.
So...this one night...now you go...
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stcyr:
but that's not what really caught my attention. What really stood out about this guy was . . .
junecleavage:
the protruding violin bow inserted just beneath his left thigh skin
This post will not earn me any "Mother of the Year" titles - but I gave up that contest so very long ago (i.e when I told my 4-year-old girl to scream "Fuck them!" at the top of her lungs in the safety of our apartment about these shitty little twats in my shitty little money saturated snotty hometown where she was attending elementary school...
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jonnytrrrash7:
you guys love Paris? i knew there was a good reason we're friends!
stcyr:
really?
Ever the artful dodger
Yeah that's some tough luck
Spiraling down the interlude
Guess too much is not enough
I feel, I fall, I fester in
My own mind's twisted canals
Coz' you know"they" tell you where and when
Sure as hell
Don't tell
You how
I have traveled down the same highways
For years, and miles and memories
Somewhere forgot
In this whole lot...
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Yeah that's some tough luck
Spiraling down the interlude
Guess too much is not enough
I feel, I fall, I fester in
My own mind's twisted canals
Coz' you know"they" tell you where and when
Sure as hell
Don't tell
You how
I have traveled down the same highways
For years, and miles and memories
Somewhere forgot
In this whole lot...
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i___zombie:
I like this .... a lot!
You know...if you can't laugh you're crying ( "One minute she's so happy then she's crying on someone's knee saying laughing and crying you know it's the same release" ~ Queen Joni) ...so I dug out an oldy but goody...I hate that expression really, by the way...but this video so pegs the life I left flawlessly.
Some days I create sort of a mess in my own mind. Seems to be what I do best.
Just for the record, I have learned recently, that my much adored and very hep cat grand mother is spiraling down into Alzheimer's Alley. Ain't no place for a Lauren Bacall stand-in to be. And I,sit here with her image hovering above me like the smoke...
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Just for the record, I have learned recently, that my much adored and very hep cat grand mother is spiraling down into Alzheimer's Alley. Ain't no place for a Lauren Bacall stand-in to be. And I,sit here with her image hovering above me like the smoke...
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viejo:
Oh, girl, you have my complete sympathy. My own oh-so-cool grandparents were so much a part of my life, and left a very large space when they traveled on.
Thrive on those joyous memories, let the dark moments fade like unwanted dreams.
My constant blessings and wishes for a peaceful transition.
Thrive on those joyous memories, let the dark moments fade like unwanted dreams.
My constant blessings and wishes for a peaceful transition.
lilli:
My heart goes out to you, dear one. Like those above, I have experience in this realm, too. Watching the decline of my vibrant mother-in-law's mind has been a very painful experience. And losing my own beloved grandmother was one of the hardest things I have ever been through. Truth be told, I'm not over it yet. And it's been nearly five years. It occurred to me this weekend as I welled up driving near where she used to live, that the reason I don't go back to visit family more often is because I cannot bear the empty space she left behind. But I know she needed to go. The alternative, which was beginning to manifest, was a journey down dementia road... and she was far too proud to endure that. So she let other illnesses win. I can't say I blame her. Anyhoo, sorry to be all about me. I really just wanted to sympathize. And I will leave you with this song, because it is my song for my grandma. I personally prefer the Dixie Chicks version, but Neil does a beautiful job... and they had a much better video. Blessings to you. ♥
and it could apply to many people, not just women ...
have you a melody for it?