October 20 would have been Tom Petty’s birthday. He missed it by 18 days. On the other hand, David Bowie died on January 10, two days after his birthday. Who is greater enlightened? The one who dies just before growing older, or the one who dies just after?
The bleak landscape of New Jersey, USA.
Prince Stefan’s glassy eyes stared across vast flatlands filled with strip malls, parking lots, and gray skies. So this was America, the land of the free. He was, at best, underwhelmed. It was most puzzling to see so many mattress stores: Mattress Firm®, The Mattress Factory®, Sunrise Mattress®, Sleepy’s®, Raymour & Flanigan Furniture And Mattress Store®, Wholesale Mattress®, Bruce The Bed King®, and Haz-Mattress®. He logically made the assumption that Americans loved to sleep.
U2 in 1980, not in Champaign, Illinois.
My memory is a very fragile thing, especially when it is based on a mistruth, not to be confused with a bald-faced lie. It was almost midnight on a Thursday night. It was the winter of 1980, I was in Champaign, Illinois trying to find “myself” as a pre-young adult, walking about the campus thinking that the answer would just come up and introduce itself to me. Instead, I stumbled upon a bar called either Panama Red’s or Mabel’s. The front door was wide open. Warm air and the stench of cigarettes and spilt beer spewed out, as well as someone screaming/singing “If you walk away, walk away, I walk away, walk away, I will follow.”
In America, there is no better time to express yourself than now. Thank you, First Amendment. Thank you, internet and social media. Thank you, 24-hour news cycles. And you too, Donald Trump, current president of the United States. NFL. Gold star families. Me too. North Korea. Free. Form. Punctuation. Iran. Isis. The greatest divider of all time: Linus and the Great Pumpkin. Gun violence. Pearl Jam. Uber. Black lives matter. White supremacy. Little, yellow, different. Puerto Rico. This Is Us. Hurricanes. WikiLeaks.
The sound of a switchblade and a motorbike.
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