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Everyday I get up and take my clothes to the bathroom. We are incredibly lucky, despite it being a shelter, the full bath is for our sole use, just me and the Boy. Every single day I am grateful for a toilet and shower that is inside. Five years on the road will do that […]
MoreI am headed off to my evening feeling a bit depleted. Even playing along to Pissing in the River, giving it my very best unabashed Lenny impression couldn’t make me feel less empty. Maybe if I could plug in my guitar and make some electric noise I might feel more alive. That isn’t going to […]
MoreOk, I do KNOW. I do know..I know intellectually it is barely a Radiohead album, I know In Rainbows is superior, I know OK Computer is a meisterwerk of immense proportions. I know some of you might even accept it if I said I dug the Bends, but Pablo Honey as the best Radiohead album […]
MoreThe royal road, stripped of it’s original name “El Camino Real”, and designated 101, route 1, the Coastal Highway, made virtually obsolete except for the towns and communities that still dot its’ route, mostly catering for tourists and hippies, it’s job taken over by the staid, dull, ugly, boring 5. I don’t care if I […]
MoreI persuaded my dear friend Ruth to listen to Johnny Thunders. I am not going to try and sell her on Royal Trux, it might be a step too far. Royal Trux are an on again off again band that ran from the late ’80s until very recently consisting of Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty […]
MoreGoodnight from me..Lover you shoulda come over playing in the background and the end to a day that coulda gone better really. You can trust Jeff to make things feel even more nostalgic and tender than they even are, that waver in his voice and that sad whine of the guitar, and the heartfelt sadness….It […]
MoreI never really thought it through when I climbed into Beastie, back in LA, back in 2015. I didn’t really think about any of it. I didn’t think about boots, or sensible clothes, or water canteens, or propane. I didn’t think about levelling blocks, or food stocks, or bears or cougar or falling branches in […]
MoreI started at Carolyn Cassady’s introduction and read: He is known to have hit women, but I’m sure they asked for it, and that it was a sexual turn-on, as some have confessed to me. Here I am, bubbling over with barely contained fury. Hitting someone is never a sexual turn on, come on guys […]
MoreMy favorite old wreck is alive. Discharged from hospital, living purely on spite and whiskey, and the ability to torture me with a telephone. I lost my temper. One thing he can’t do is bullshit me like he manages to bullshit people who haven’t been there. It is always tomorrow that they will sober up, […]
MoreIf you don’t look down in San Francisco It can be unfortunate for you If you don’t look where you Are putting your foot From time to time Stepping into another’s misfortune Or discarded fragments Of sin sharp and dangerous Discarded emissions Disregarded admissions Of guilt or weakness Fragility or shame If you don’t look […]
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