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Tag: sad songs

Radiohead, James Bond, And Growing Up A Little Sad

A couple days ago I was rifling through Youtube when I searched ‘Radiohead “Nobody Does It Better”‘. I vaguely recalled hearing Thom and company cover the Carly Simon Bond theme years ago on some live bootleg, or possibly in some fever dream while sick with a gifted virus. Turns out it wasn’t my fever-y brain […]

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Sad Songs, Car Rides, and Man-Made Lakes

When I was little I went to my grandma’s house quite often with my mom. Mostly I remember the trips before I was in school and the ones we’d take during the summer breaks. I loved going over to my grandma Ruthie’s house. She lived on Manitou Lake in Rochester, Indiana. It was usually a […]

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