A deep cut from the Caribou album, I bet few of us remember that Elton John and Bernie Taupin, in 1974, wrote a song about a massshooting. As a kid, ten years old, the song terrified me. Even thoughI may not have been able to singit to you, I remembered the lyricsto “Ticking” up toContinue reading “#535: Melt the Guns (Elton’s Version)”
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#117: Date Night
When my parents were going out, the house stank of perfume and cologne, aftershave and hairspray, a suffocating amalgam of indescribable smells found nowhere in nature, but pleasant somehow to my young nose, a festive, anticipatory smell of dancing and booze and card games and the precursor for me to a fast food dinner, beingContinue reading “#117: Date Night”
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