Divine or not, a seizure's a seizure.

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Came back to check out and see who’s still rummaging around Tumblr.  Here’s an old song performed live, stripped down, like they used to do back when this sort of thing still happened.

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“I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made...”

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Alvvays- Dreams Tonite

Dream pop lives.

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https://open.spotify.com/album/5zaWyQpI1tuWLYZEUZ9qB6

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Farm to table.

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William Patrick Corgan- Archer

Jesus, Billy Corgan is 50.  This is what it sounds like.

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St. Vincent- New York (live on Colbert)

New St. Vincent is brilliant.  This a torch song worthy of Waits.

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Take the highest road possible and you will start to see the multiplicity of life within you (and around you). You can only begin to fully embrace or dispute something once it comes into fullness.

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Take the time--it’s over an hour--and put this on.

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Maybe I don’t have it in me

Maybe it doesn’t have me in it

And if I don’t fly, 

That’s fine,

Just let me find

The place where I fit.

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Friendly reminder. Go find it in real life!

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It’s pretty amazing, when you think of it, the sheer number of things that aren’t online.

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The internet (and world at large) needs to stop selling people lies.  Anybody with any experience with mental illness, their own or a friend’s, can tell you it’s not about “Victory”.  You don’t defeat it and move on.  You treat it, you work on it, you make your life in a new normal.  It’s not a pimple or a broken arm, where it’s acute and then it’s gone like it never happened.  Dangling a false notion of victory and being “normal again” is what crushes and kills many people.

And PS:  As a religious person, I hate when they mix God up in their nonsense.

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We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power-to walk with it in serenity and wisdom, with self-respect and the respect to all mankind; a patriotism that puts country ahead of self; a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. The dedication of a lifetime-these are words that are easy to utter, but this is a mighty assignment. For it is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Adlai Stevenson.  Speech to the American Legion convention, New York City (27 August 1952); as quoted in "Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism" in Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History (2004) by William Safire, p. 79 - 80

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Iron & Wine- Thomas County Law

Hey, it’s new Iron & Wine.  Always a good thing.

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Vintage Photos Reveal the Gritty NYC Subway in the 70s and 80s

Swiss photo reporter Willy Spiller captured the grit of the NYC subway in the 70s and 80s during his work commute. Check out the pics.

I guess you’re getting old if you can fondly reminisce about how shitty something used to be.

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Jason Molina- September 11, 2001 (featuring Will Oldham, Alasdair Roberts)

This is from a session recorded immediately before the attacks, which is probably more ominous-sounding than it is ominous.

This is dark stuff, surely.   I almost didn’t share it.  But I can count the people who might read this on one hand, as most of my (hundreds of) followers are bots.

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The Beastie Boys live on the Joan Rivers Show, 1987:  Here’s proof that Mike D holds his liquor much better than MCA or Ad-rock.  Joan Rivers, to her credit, was just an uncivilized as them, though unlike the boys, she didn’t bring her own strippers.