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[fairweathermyth]

Meet me back in a San Francisco bookstore Down the stairs in the poetry aisle We'll get lost in a city forgotten 'Cause I don't like change and I hate goodbyes

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF ⌁ Ogallala

[fairweathermyth]

FAIRWEATHERMYTH + AOTY 2024 #1 ⌁ Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive

I think that what's really important to me in my songwriting — and it's becoming more important with time — is documenting people that I find to be really important, or places or times in history, or what I'm witnessing around me. // You're almost like a musical journalist. // Yeah, I would say that's a lot of what this record is. And also learning what I have to say goodbye to, learning about what I can carry with me. We can't take everything with us: Some people are going to leave and some experiences are going to end. But at the same time, people stay with us. Their memory stays with us. I think that's where grief also becomes such a huge part of this record, grief being just another way that we love.

[fairweathermyth]

And I want to be like that, running wild and running free This year tried to kill us, baby Well good luck trying, you can't catch me

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF "Buffalo" on CBS Saturday Sessions

[fairweathermyth]

The song "Snake Plant," it's chock full of what seems like memories, and very detailed memories.

Yeah, I actually wrote that when we were still in lock-down, that was one of the first songs I wrote for this collection. And I realized that I had flashes of memory, and I didn't know what to do with them. And I realized, oh I can just kinda create a memory box in a song. You know, I think I'd been thinking a lot about how one day I'd love to write a memoir. And I was getting down about it, being like how am I gonna do that? I'm not gonna be able to tell a linear story of my life. So that was me kind of embracing not experiencing time or memory in this linear way. Like, just creating little shelves of "here's this flash, here's this flash," and embracing it, or allowing myself to experience it in that way. (Alynda Segarra interviewed on the "That's How I Remember It" podcast)

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF fan recording of "Snake Plant"