Here's a truck stop instead of St. Peter's

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Today's Saturday Playlist: REM's Pandora and what it spat out.

One of the best songs ever: "Strange Currencies"…the intensity, the poetry. Reminds me of so many brown haired boys I can’t even tell you where my memory begins.

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“Yellow Ledbetter” live by Pearl Jam. Wish their VB Ampitheater show was good. Really do. But it wasn’t.

"Because the Night" by 10,000 Maniacs. I'm going through a discovery phase w/ Patti Smith right now (read this blog, you'll see). Love this song more than ever. And the 90's throwback is kinda cool though I usually don't like Natalie Merchant.

Mazzy Star: "Fade Into You." How many times have you heard this song and wondered how someone unknown knew it all. Dreampop at its best.

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Waaay to much U2 on this station, FYI.

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“Everybody Hurts”: yep. This is a big hit for them, but it’s gorgeous and written very very well. Hard to believe what Stipe was probably going through when writing it. Early 90s, closeted, AIDS-a-phobia.

Isn't this a fantastic f'ing picture ?!?

 

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Beatles: "Hide Your Love Away" and later, John Lennon "Watching the Weeds"  and "Imagine" both live from the record Acoustic.

Smiths: "How Soon is Now" from Meat is Murder...yeah man :) Lyrically, I see the REM connection from "Everybody Hurts." "I am human and I need to be loved just like everyone else does?" How did I never see mental parallels between Morissey and Michael Stipe before? Thanks Pandora!

Pence for Spence

Meet Spencer Sweeney. He's an artist whose website I've been saving for a while and can't remember why. Perhaps a FB friend? Or a blog I saw? Eh.

I like how unbalanced his work is. The above reminds me of Rocky Horror (not the movie, the character). Invoking ironic horror/b-movie color, this is the one I want to buy most.

It's not all about color, though. This one's more b&w but still has that cheesy-on-purpose vibe. There's a skull and a 666, weeeeewwwwww, scaaarrry. Not. But good.

I like this one because it's called "Shitbow." And there's a Warhol quality to it.

Reminds me of Peepshow. The brights pop. Especially the little yellow and green one in the top left. It's my fave.

Love love love the pop of green at the top.

I see a Picasso mouth. This is called "Bad Credit Okay."

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