#straight six

[solomon-revisited]

"World, meet Jenny, a recurring character in a body of work that will shortly move on from recurring characters. This is her first appearance, or maybe her second; I don't date my notebook pages and I tend to start writing anywhere I see blank space. For the first twenty-plus years of her existence, Jenny is best known by her absence—what else is going on here? [...] When Jenny arrives, there are, as far as we can see, only two people visible in the world, and really only to each other."

-- JD in 'This Year: 365 songs annotated', 2025.

[tmg-lyrics-daily]

And I ride, And I glide down the streets of this city. All night, uptight, Jenny's on the cellular, high as a kite.

[morecarsthatnevermadeit]

The 1968 Opel Commodore Caravan Voyage was a "woody" station wagon concept presented at the 1968 Geneva Motor Show. Based on the Opel Commodore A, it featured American-style wood-grain panelling. It remained a one-off. Opel used the term Caravan as its official designation for estate car models from 1953 until approximately 2009. The term was a portmanteau to signify a Car with the practicality of a Van

[john-gosh-darnielle]

[mountaingoatsfirstlineaday]

i just think nightlight straight six from tg&y are a braid jt's making me. crazy. the motifs the fucking. darkness. car travel. crime. someone who exists only at a distance, through phone calls. being high. being out of place. hopes/dreams/their futility.

augh you're so right about this !!!! the fucking!!! darkness!!!! aughhhhghhghghghhghghhghhghghg. all of these song conjure within me the exact same sort of hopeless grief. the inevitability of the end.

[coolthingsguyslike]

[mountaingoatslastlineaday]

Sometimes it's dark

[commiehook]

My F-I-L spotted this '61 Galaxie station wagon today and thought I would dig it. He was right. (They're asking $3500, by the way.) I don't think that the little 223ci straight 6 runs, though.