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interrupting my train of thought

“close to the intersection between criticism, autobiography, and rambling…”

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nixon/godfather

show no traces

“somewhere along the way, nixon and the godfather started to become one, turning up in my thoughts and in the flow of daily events…”

record collecting

the last phase of yours and yours and mine

“to a large degree, the inventory became the story of my life as a record collector…”

Influences

whole new kinds of weather

“my influences, which have been either admirably or sadly fixed in place for three-plus decades now…”

radio on

some place back there

“wall-to-wall song comments drawn from ten stapled fanzines sitting in a box in my basement…”

rain gray town

“when i finished university and moved out in 1984, i figured that, beyond the usual family get-togethers, i was clearing out for good. not so…”

August 16, 2014 in georgetown/high school.

long journeys wear me out

“it came down to one simple question for me: would you rather witness history, or would you rather read about it in a book?…”

August 16, 2014 in race/obama.

fragments falling everywhere

“you might not think it possible to confuse matchbox twenty with the dave matthews band, but it is…”

August 16, 2014 in music.

if anything should happen

“it was something like an awareness that i would be a film student for the rest of my life…”

August 16, 2014 in movies.

always window shopping

“no mention of 1990 — i took a break that year, for teachers college and to try to figure out what roxette was all about….”

August 16, 2014 in year-end ballots.

constantly aware of all the changes that occur

“these stories concern friends, co-workers, libraries, baseball, donut stores, giggling fits, teaching, and various other matters…”

August 16, 2014 in autobiography.

people always live and die in 4/4 time

“i’m unduly disappointed when pop music is misused, and i start to cut slack for any film that gets me to take notice of even a single song…”

August 16, 2014 in pop music and movies.

in and around the lake

“here then is my own personal pantheon, along with accompanying lists of the songs that put them there…”

August 16, 2014 in pantheon.

a friend i’ve never seen

“neil closed out the record inventory, he closed the facebook countdown, he closed my high school years in georgetown, and he’s closing this book…”

August 16, 2014 in neil young.
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