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Ah, Queen! Thank the lord above for the wonder that was Freddie Mercury. I think I listened to A Kind Of Magic non-stop for about a year when I was younger. And that is what I'm listening to now!

Oh, sweet perfume! Music and memory: that heady scent, that opiate, that longing, that requiem prayer. A restless ghost, that dead friend, a fading memory.

Somedays,...
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cheech:
I think I was more fond of "I Remember You" ... I knew I'd remember more of these when people posted.

Skid Row were the YOUTH GONE WILD. Debut album lyric sheet is a huge fuggin' trip, always made me biggrin

ps - Queen have some good stuff

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Hey y'all!

I have just been to see those fine Oklahoma boys, the goddamn Flaming Lips and they were soooooo good! Wayne Coyne was on good form, and all the bunnies and everything were perfect. I had a big grin from beginning to end, which is quite a feat for me, honestly.

If you don't go see the Flaming Lips, you are a miserable crazy...
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Pfui! Well. I am finally moved. I live opposite a beautiful church by the river, so it's taking some time to get used to everything being so pretty. There are plenty drunks on Friday and Saturday nights, but I walk right through them with my impenetrable shield of residential status. I dunno what it's going to be like living alone, but in many ways it's...
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cheech:
hehe, I'm actually sorta breaking out of hermitness this weekend: finally seeing my friend Jimmy after months, and going to Hershey Park amusement park in PA with my ex and some of her friends. Hell, I might have a conversation or something wild like that!

I don't even know Smith's work, honestly, but the method of suicide strikes me as brutal and unnerving. When I saw the Geraldine Fibbers five years ago, they mentioned watching the Oscars and someone in the crowd yelled "ELLIOTT SMITH!!" and Carla nodded and said, "Yeah, he was nominated." That's my one Elliott anecdote; I'll certainly be checking out his work, as I need to with Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley... I'm extremely lucky, in that Arlington Country Libraries have all the Johnny Cash albums of the '90s and I've been burning 'em lately...
keefa:
Cool. It's strange but I'm only getting in Johnny Cash now that he's gone.

I sent a text message to everyone when I found out about ES. My friend was at the Snow Patrol gig in Bristol and he'd found out when the band did a little tribute halfway through the gig. He was absolutely dumbstruck.

If you're gonna be checking out Nick Drake, I'd go for a compilation called Way To Blue. That's how I found him, and it's still my favourite.

Have fun outside. I'm indoors again, hanging up pictures. John Coltrane in my front room and a poster of the total eclipse at Stuttgart in the hall. Who needs conversation when you've got that, right?