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silentbob Or maybe it's so right that i blew your mind 020320
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guitar_freak broke
coke fiend
killers
play with me
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spoons a really good movie 020326
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the repeater jamsession

birdmad

all of us then
sixteen years old
saxophone in hand
three drummers
a trumpet and a clarinet
starting from the formulaic stuff we knew and taking the chance on something new as we played waiting for the bus to take us to the game
each new riff like kindling
each measure and beat another degree
cold october afternoon classroom
children who were born too late to witness birdland living for a moment on a borrowed piece of that stage letting the rhythm serve as our holy relic and letting the growing audience of our peers and our teachers serve as our congregation

exhausted and unaware we laid our pieces down and were supprised to hear applause
we laughed and enjoyed
but sadly never really got to recapture any of the fire that seized us in that moment

and i have never known any drug or any lover who ever brought me quite that close to heaven no matter how high they may have gotten me 010125
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silentbob poor poor ted demme 020327
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raze he brought the movie over for us to watch one night, not knowing my smile was held together with tape and paperclips. i invented a scene out of nothing. an airplane landing. a reverb-choked snare hit. a clean electric guitar. and in that moment, the seed of a song was born. 230727
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