File Under: Disappointment
Just popped in to see if any of my posts had been reported as “Adult Content.”
Alas… none.
“I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend”
Farrokh Bulsara/Freddie MercurySeptember 5, 1946 - November 24, 1991
Look, I’ll write something, eventually. I swear I’m working on something to post here beyond the pithy comments on photos of prog rock bands. But here’s my yearly (did I miss last year?) reminder that it’s Kurt Vonnegut’s birthday. I’ve probably used this quote before. Here’s another one: “I still catch myself feeling blue about things that don’t matter anymore.” Alas, it’s true. Maybe you do too. It is in sharp contrast to perhaps my favorite quote of his, from Slaughterhouse Five: “And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.” At least I’m being human.
Love Actually, 2003
Appropriate, considering Emma Thompson received her damehood on Joni Mitchell’s 75th birthday.
Nudie Cohn and Gram Parsons
In case you were wondering what Elton John might look like if he’d been born in Plano, Texas.
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