Word: helling
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...been rereleased on CD. I found it one day online--someone had converted the entire record into MP3s and kindly uploaded the songs. I downloaded the tune and then helped myself to a rare Duane Allman rendition of Please Be with Me. I had begun my descent into hell, or wherever it is that music pilferers go at the Final Download. I'd have been thrilled to pay for them, I rationalized, but at the time they weren't available...
...more ways than one—since he’s been in a dark shame spiral, jerkin’ his Sam Perkin like it’s the End of Days, the sky’s blood red, and we’re all fucked to hell...
...getting the “Yale: Harvard for Dummies” T-shirt, saying, “You’ll need it when you go to Harvard.” We engage in some Sarah Hughes gossip, seemingly a popular pastime among the incoming class. Figuring what the hell, I claim to have had a Hughes sighting this morning. Mark is impressed, but Anne cynically sniffs, “I don’t care...
...been easy for Germans (much less others) to face another side of the truth of war: Germans suffered too. They didn't just lose tens of thousands of young men in battles far from home. British and American air forces bombed their cities into landscapes from hell, while in the winter of 1944-45--when the Red Army swept through Eastern Europe--millions of refugees were forced to flee west as the doomed Wehrmacht fought with an almost demented bravery to defend them. It is as an act of recovering German suffering that Crabwalk, the new novel by Gunter Grass...
These sad songs are pretty good, but they're not eloquent enough to make you forget the techno disasters or to push American Life up to the level of Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen's "Who the hell did I marry?" album. Instead, they just leave you feeling sad for her, sad for us and curious as to what will come next. --By Josh Tyrangiel