My friend JW has a featured mixtape up for download on Why Gary, Why. The songs, like the introduction he gives, make you feel just like Nick Adams.
"Dad, what is it like?"
Chet Baker was not an especially nice thing to look at, nor a particularly skilled musician in terms of how fine those qualities can be. But must we always be pretty and talented to be beautiful? (I know, I know, how could someone as pretty and talented as I say such a thing, debase myself [...]
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Next to Doga, talk radio is the single greatest pleasure in my life.
Here is a snip from a show hosted by the best story teller that has ever lived, Jean Shepherd. I recorded just 4 u:
dear abby…
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The wikipedia entry for Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" sorta made my day today.
Choice quote:
The line, "My love for you will still be strong, after the boys of summer have gone" can be construed as a realization that relationships are often destroyed by one's own restless youth, even though there is a conflicting internal desire [...]