In the suburbs
I learned to drive
And you told me we’d never survive
Grab your mother’s keys we’re leavin’…
In my younger days, when the stress tide was rising, I used to pop on my favourite record at the time, crank the volume up to maximum and bathe in an anodyne sonic sea. Cheaper than Valium and a [...]
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And you feel so right, but how come you can’t sleep at night?
I was always told that you have to have the balls to break down, now I’m older I’m not too sure
29 Oct 2009 at 22:20
A Free Man
A Life In Music, Australia, British Artists, Dr. O'C, Music, parenting
This week has been a grueling battle over sleep. On one side, two exhausted parents. On the other, two young boys to whom going to bed is tantamount to defeat. More than once during the hostilities, both Dr. O’C and I have daydreamed about the halcyon days before we had kids. The quiet, the leisurely [...]
Gomez "78 Stone Wobble" [4:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Gomez "Little Pieces" [3:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadI’ll walk right out into a brand new day, insane and rising in my own weird way
I’ve never been much of a devotee of the idea of ‘love at first sight’. Lust at first sight? Absolutely. I’ve ridden that train to its terminus more times than I care to count.Usually with predictable results.
But love at first sight is the stuff of bad fiction and the fantasies of teenage girls. Love takes [...]
Well I think I see another side, maybe just another light that shines
For about six months after my ill-advised and short-lived marriage, I locked myself away in a cave and proceeded to go temporarily insane.
My hermitage was a converted warehouse space in the shadow of the Kingdome – vast, sterile and windowless. I rented it as a base of operations for my fledgling freelance photography business. After a [...]
Mazzy Star "Halah" [3:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions "Blanchard" [4:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHow do you afford your rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle?
“Excess ain’t rebellion.
You’re drinking what they’re selling.
Your self-destruction doesn’t hurt them.
Your chaos won’t convert them.
They’re so happy to rebuild it.
You’ll never really kill it.”
-Cake – “Rock ‘n’ Roll Lifestyle”
I was listening to Cake’s wonderful 1994 album “Motorcade of Generosity” yesterday and that album as well as the imminent college football season (Gooooooo Dawgs! Sic ‘em!) [...]
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash
That’s the way one of my favorite live albums starts, that deep baritone voice, with the soft Southern accent. This is followed by one of the most familiar guitar licks you’ll ever hear and…
“I hear the train a comin’
It’s rollin’ ’round the bend,
And I ain’t seen the sunshine,
Since, I don’t know when,
I’m stuck in Folsom [...]
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