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July 6 - July 9, 2023
They say moving is one of the most stressful things that happens in life. Well, I moved twelve times before I was eighteen.
movie based on her novel Wise Blood is the best adaptation from a book into a film that I’ve ever seen.
You don’t have to like all of them.” Then he paused for a moment and said, “Plus, Faulkner was an asshole.”
“Folk Music from Spiritual to Protest with Clark Jones and Cindy Williams.”
“I feel free. I’ve been hanging out with Lucinda and she makes me feel freer.”
my early days in L.A. by looking through old issues of the LA Weekly where you can find my name on the same weekly bill with bands like Jane’s Addiction and X and the Long Ryders and the Blasters at clubs like Raji’s and the Troubadour and McCabe’s and Club Lingerie and the Palomino. That never would have happened in Texas. In
“Changed the Locks” remains one of my most popular songs, and its structure is the same as it was then. In 1996, it was covered beautifully by Tom Petty, one of my favorite songwriters and artists. Now, that’s something to be proud of.
I stayed friendly with Robin Hurley, and when we produced the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of that album, I asked him to write an essay for the liner notes and he wrote something beautiful.
Read. You should read Bukowski and Ferlinghetti, read Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, and listen to Coltrane, Nina Simone, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Son House, Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Miles Davis, Lou Reed, Nick Drake,
Bobbie Gentry, George Jones, Jimmy Reed, Odetta, Funkadelic, and Woody Guthrie.
Drive across America. Ride trains. Fly to countries beyond your comfort zone.
Talk with the guy who’s working in construction on your block, who’s working on the highway you’re traveling on.
Don’t litter the earth, it’s the only one you have, learn to love her. Care for her.
Learn another language. Trust your friends with kindness.
Do not fear death. There are worse things than death. Do n...
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Lie in the sunshine but from time to time let the neo...
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Slow down for skateboarders. They might have the answers.
Pray to the moon and the stars. God is out there somewhere. Don’t worry. You’ll find out where soon enough.
Dance. Even if you don’t know how to dance. Read The Four Agreements.
Join nothing. It won’t help. No games, no church, no religion, no yellow-brick road, no way to Oz.
Finally, and ultimately, I can’t say enough about my husband, Tom, who has been with me, and me with him, for eighteen years. His love is what I was trying to find. The existence of this book, and much more, owes so much to him.
