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Album by Cory Branan: "Adios"

Song by Lucero: "Can't You Hear Them Howl"

I don't post here a lot but I guess I need to vent. Tonight I got into a heated discussion about suicide with someone. My best friend committed suicide in 1998. She was only 19. She was amazing and wonderful but I knew it would happen one day. She always told me she wouldn't live to see 20. She didn't. I never thought she was selfish or blamed her for it. All the positive words in the world weren't going to change it. This was a time without cell phones or Internet. I couldn't just check up on her like we can now. She was moved far away from me. I could only do or say so much from 3 hours away. Her life was shit. She saw more pain than she should've in her young life. She was smart and beautiful. She didn't see that. She wasn't told that by the people she really needed to hear it from. Tonight the subject came up and I was told I didn't care because I didn't blame her actions. I miss her everyday, I wish I could change it all. I don't blame her or think she was selfish for choosing that. I couldn't stop someone who already determined long before that she was going to go out that way. She didn't cry for help when she decided to end her life. She hurt so much. Suicide isn't about you or me. The people who commit it aren't out to hurt you. I love Kristi and I just know I did the best i could besides her.

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Role Models: Ben Nichols on Tom Waits

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Ben Nichols is the frontman for Memphis alt-country bandLucero, who just released their first-ever live album, Live From Atlanta. Nichols has also recorded a solo EP titled The Last Pale Light in the West, which drew influence from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.

I can’t tell you the first time I heard Tom Waits. It seems like he was a presence that had simply always existed. Kind of the way I always thought of him as older than he actually was. To me, he is just one of those fundamental elements that has always been and always will be. I’m sure he was part of the music I discovered between the ages of 12 and 15. Those years when I was too young to drive myself to the record store but old enough to know that music existed outside of what they played on the radio. Those years I was dependent upon mix tapes and late night cable TV. Whenever it was that I came across him, it was a life-changing event for me, whether I recognized it at the time or not.

I am in no way a Tom Waits expert; I’ve just been a fan for a while now. When Brian Venable and I were starting our band Lucero, back in 1998, we had a few artists that we shared an appreciation for and whom we wanted to look to as inspiration for our own songs, and Tom Waits was one of those. We didn’t know much about the genre of music we were attempting to participate in, but we knew that if we tried to combine Tom Waits with The Pogues, Johnny Cash, and The Replacements we’d at least have a good time.

After playing in bands for a number of years that seemed to only get louder and faster, Brian and I were both looking for something else, a type of music that we could grow old a little more gracefully with. I remember driving from Memphis to Little Rock listening to “Blind Love” from the albumRain Dogs and saying to myself, “That right there is the type of song I’d like to write in this Lucero band.”

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#tom waits #ben nichols

whiskeywrites

If I only could.

#lucero #slow dancing #luceromusic #ben nichols #lyrics

unskinny

Just because you’re fat or were fat at one point doesn’t mean you get to tell other fat people how to live their lives and doesn’t mean you get to make assumptions about their lifestyle and their health.

In other words, BEING FAT DOESN’T GIVE YOU A FREE PASS TO BE AN ASSHOLE TO OTHER FAT PEOPLE, YOU BAG OF DICKS.

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The life of a pet owner: “What are you eating? OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU EATING???”

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"Come back here with whatever you’re eating!"

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"Don’t think you can fool me by stopping chewing. I know you’re still eating it!"

fayethesuccubus-deactivated2017

"Open your mouth. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH."

absolutebisaster

The best part is that all of these can be seen as the owner’s perspective or the pet’s and it’s all still accurate.

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@micahschnabel has another new song up on band camp! Stream it for free or pay $1 and support him https://micahschnabel.bandcamp.com/track/bang-bang-bang #micahschnabel

#micahschnabel

mollyandthezombies

apparently it costs $241,000 to raise a kid

lol do you know how many concert tickets that is

cruelhonesty

Seriously!

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French Bulldog Puppy Tries to Reclaim Bed From Cat. video

cruelhonesty

The cat is always going to win...poor, cute pup never stood a chance!

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My friend @sammykaynj has a new EP out and will be touring with #gaslightanthem soon. Sadly, he also just found out a dear friend of his has cancer and is donating the sales of his new EP to him and his family. http://sammykaynj.bandcamp.com/ get some good tunes, help someone out! #sammykay #sammykaynj #listentothis #secondchances #effcancer #fuckcancer #TGA #thegaslightanthem #bandcamp

#gaslightanthem #listentothis #thegaslightanthem #fuckcancer #effcancer #bandcamp #tga #secondchances #sammykay #sammykaynj

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Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!: ‘I Didn’t Know If the Band Was Going to Stay Together’ http://ti.me/1FmqAut @TIME

cruelhonesty

Gosh, I love her!

#laura jane grace

I registered for a single class today. Digital photography. It has nothing to do with what I think I intend to possibly major in but it makes me happy. I want to have passion for something again and I haven't in a long time. I always loved photography. I felt so overwhelmed and ridden with anxiety looking at the classes I did need. Luckily, they were all full. I mean, luckily for my anxiety. Not so much for my plan to start adulting.