February 2012
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Smith was the president of a fan club that had just one member but a hundred...
– The Mother Courage of Rock by Luc Sante | The New York Review of Books
January 2012
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aestiva:
“We are living in a fake world; we are watching fake evening news. We are fighting a fake war. Our government is fake. But we find reality in this fake world. So our stories are the same; we are walking through fake scenes, but ourselves, as we walk through these scenes, are real. The situation is real, in the sense that it’s a commitment, it’s a true relationship. That’s what I want to...
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He was a buzzsaw. He stole my crowd and everybody else’s crowd.
– Johnny Shines on Robert Johnson, interviewed by Nick Spitzer in 1991 for American Routes.
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An accurate appellation
The boy calls briefcases ‘griefcases’.
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slightlyshy asked: I just watched the illusionist today and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need therapy after that. I cried for like half an hour.
December 2011
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