i can't stop listening to the magnetic fields this week:
"you were just like me, you were one big bruise
in the game of life you were playing to lose
you were jesse james, i was william tell
you were daniel webster, i was the devil himself
two characters in search of a country song
just make-believe but so in love
two characters been listening all night long
for voices from nashville above.
- magnetic fields, "two characters in search of a country song"
southside. 1996. 3 boys and two girls in a two-story house next to chubby's grub house. drinking and pinball every night at bar 11. riding on the back of bern's motorcycle through the fort pitt tunnels at 3 am. hijacked goldfish and wild drunken nights. watching "the deer hunter" and rolling half-naked in sean's bed, bern and kathy and nevin in the middle of the night while jack tried to study for a test. music can be so evocative. sometimes i long to go back and do things over again, better this time. i would be so sure this time. i would not hesitate.
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