Thinking about those beans… @joab_jackson
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Of the so many things to love about The Belmonts’ (sans Dion) 1972 album “Cigars, Acappella, Candy” is how it totally outs George Harrison for ripping off “He’s so Fine” by interpolating it with “My Sweet Lord” so you can’t unhear it. Four years before the lawsuit too.
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Alternate universe: John quits the Beatles who hire Jeff Lynne as a replacement. They go back out on the road by 1972 piped.video/uAMRSaSkJfI?si=CfGN…
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I bet when Paul McCartney first heard TLC’s “Waterfalls” he probably thought “oh, they made it better, then…”
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I’m starting to suspect there are no bad Lana Del Rey songs, just LDR songs I haven’t gotten the hang of yet. piped.video/sxaq2Hn3U_k?si=-vRT…
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“Because these were frontier, pioneer times, when personal liberty and freedom were almost a physical condition like fire and flood.”— William Faulkner, “TheCourthouse (A Name for the City)”
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“…even a selected display of one’s early work will be a naked history of one’s struggle to receive an education in economics and love.”—#JohnCheever “The Stories of John Cheever,” #Preface @strandbookstore $10 #OutOfPrint #NewEnglandFiction #LiteraryFiction #ShortStories #Quotes
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(16) “The Children”
“In business, he was known as a harsh and unprincipled trader. He broke wind when he felt like it and relished the ruin of a competitor.”
#JohnCheever
#quote
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(17) “The Sorrows of Gin”
“Amy went out onto the terrace and looked at the sky, but it was not very cloudy, it wouldn’t rain, and his advice, like all advice he gave her, was superfluous.”
#JohnCheever #Quote
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Waylon never trusted Merle, after a 1970 poker game in which Merle and his manager Fuzzy cleaned him out of everything he had at the time, a few thousand dollars. "Probably he was in as bad a shape as I was, but we've never been close since that night." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylon…
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"Each one of you bastards has a face."
"Yeah, but they're worth two hombres."
"No... Tres hombres."
RIP Frank Beard #ZZTop
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There’s nothing quite as cool as a beer from the basement refrigerator. Twice cooled…. piped.video/53uqkWlz9sQ?si=T0wQ…
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American artist Ed Garmin, "No. 265," 1942, Oil on pressed wood board. North Carolina Museum of Art joabj.com/Photos/2024/2410-F…
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Willie’s response to death: Why are you in such a hurry to get to hell 🤣🤣 piped.video/Fk55FA6_xkM?si=g_FE…
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