Sublime

Maria Popova, who writes the popular site The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), spends her days reading old books and essays. She’s passionate about finding ideas, beauty, and wisdom in these texts and then connecting them in her own unique conversation with the world.

Mike was living out what some therapists call a love-lust split. Home was stable, good, responsible, and dead. Outside, the street was adventurous, bad, selfish, and alive.

as ever there was. But now I see that Dylan’s lyrics were brilliant and that Steve was looking for ways to live inside them as if

Marshall Crenshaw performing at Princeton University. Marshall Crenshaw is a bespectacled singer-songwriter whose music has a slight 1950s/ pre-Beatles bent; his most famous song is probably “Someday, Someway” from his debut album. He played Buddy Holly in the movie La Bamba.