I was looking for glimmers of light, but I only wanted to go looking for them in the hills where the dead spirits hung out.
I made a new friend in the summer of 1999 who wore a rubber band around her wrist with Paul Westerberg’s name written on it. Her favorite song was Unsatisfied and she gave the song back to me, without...
I believe that when you’re making a mix, you’re making history.
He sang about girls in space-why not? That's where all the cool girls were. (They weren't where I could find them, that was for sure.)
For all karaoke freaks around the nation, Total Eclipse of the Heart is one of those sacred anthems. It’s the kind of song that announces, Dearly beloved, we have so totally gathered here today.
Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.
Dog love is blind. For that matter, dog love is stupid.
By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing your friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get married, have babies, go to grad school, get divorced. They start a band or e...
But bringing people together is what music has always done best.
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
What is love? Great minds have been grappling with thisquestion through the ages, and in the modern era, they havecome up with many different answers. According to the Westernphilosopher Pat Benatar,...
We have individual geekdoms that we've turned the other one on to and individual geekdoms we prefer to enjoy alone. There are also the geekdoms that inspire us to try to convert each other.
Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it didn't. Because it would have been all too sad to miss out on right now. That would have t...
They’re never technically tapes, but they’re always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool.
They were the daughters of the great Hollywood film noir director John Farrow, a devout Catholic as well as a boozing, brawling, womanizing piece of work. Robert Mitchum (who starred in Farrow’s nasti...
They made their greatest music in a five-year rush, starting in 1968: Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street. I can’t really argue that the Stones were better when they we...
The party never stopped at Mick's place. He categorized three phases of a good drug binge: ascending, transcending, disintegration.
The other songs they recorded that May were silly ones—All Together Now, Baby You’re a Rich Man, You Know My Name (Look Up the Number). It’s All Too Much might seem silly too, but it rocks, which the...
Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.
Neither of us ever threw anything away. We madea lot of mix tapes while we were together. Tapes for making out, tapes for dancing, tapes for falling asleep. Tapes for doing the dishes, for walkingthe...