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September 15 - November 15, 2022
Two reasons, which I’m pretty sure are the only reasons to get obsessed with anything on God’s green earth: 1. Music 2. Girls What else in life is there to obsess about? There be music, and there be girls. Everything else is paste.
There’s no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that’s an option? You clearly aren’t listening to enough Morrissey songs.
“a no you regret is better than a yes you regret.”
The kara in the word karaoke is the same as the one in karate, which means “empty hand.” They’re both “empty” arts because you have no weapons and no musical instruments to hide behind—only your courage, your heart, and your will to inflict pain.
Anything can be a love song as long as two people care about it.
“Once you love somebody, you can’t get them out of your system. You think you know somebody, but they always have a secret other side, but it’s too late, they’re already mixed up in your blood. You can never know them.”
(Misery might love company, but it’s rarely mutual.)
Your Beatles will change all through your life. Your personality changes; your world grows and shrinks and grows again. Your beliefs change. So do your friends. People you love fade away. Some of them fade back in.
schtraight-boyden-freude, which is when you see other men’s girlfriends and you feel a certain guilt-riddled joy in not being that woman’s boyfriend.
If you want hotness in your life, you learn to build a fire and keep it going. You don’t run around with a pack of matches in your pocket, chasing clouds and hoping you get struck by lightning.
IF ALL MUSIC DID WAS bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can’t rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.
It’s never too late to let a song ruin your life.
