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One of the greatest ballads of not just John’s catalogue but of all time. John happily recounts in his memoirs the epic tantrum he threw while originally recording this song — “Send it to Engelbert Humperdinck!,” he shouted — in part because the high Rocky Mountain altitude of their studio made it so hard to track the vocals. But producer Gus
... See moreIn your close relationships, urgency is your enemy, and breath is your friend.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
also to self-worth.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
There were four in Joy Division – Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris – but Ian was their eyes and ears: it was he who propelled them into uncharted territory – songs like ‘Dead Souls’ which, cold as the grave, has the infinity of a Gustave Doré hell.
Deborah Curtis • Touching From a Distance: The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division.
Identity
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- Be specific. Not car, but Cadillac. Not fruit, but apple. Not bird, but wren. Not a codependent, neurotic man, but Harry, who runs to open the refrigerator for his wife, thinking she wants an apple, when she is headed for the gas stove to light her cigarette. Be careful of those pop-psychology labels. Get below the label and be specific to the
Natalie Goldberg • Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
As a leader of the people, he lets his anger, frustration, and exhaustion take the wheel.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
When Elvis Presley, in the song “Jailhouse Rock,” sang the lyrics “If you can’t find a partner, grab a wooden chair,” he freed a generation of young people to love furniture and, by extension, to love any inanimate object in a way that heretofore would have been strictly verboten.
Mark Leyner • My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
“Kevin, if you’ve lost faith, borrow mine.”