if you follow every dream, you might get lost

these guys changed my entire life, and now looking back, it seems so inevitable that they would. Feeling very grateful that I get to experience the joy of creating in the voice they gave me the confidence to find, understand, refine, and share.

Warning that millions of men aged 35 and older would be left utterly adrift following the traumatic loss, researchers at Columbia University published a study Monday that revealed the majority of middle-aged men in the United States lacked the support network they would need to handle singer-songwriter Neil Young’s death. “It’s deeply concerning that the average 45-year-old male does not have a single friend or relative willing to text their favorite track from Harvest Moon with the caption ‘GOAT’ typed underneath,” said lead researcher Shannon Bailey, noting that in the absence of the Godfather of Grunge, large swathes of American men would simply spiral into depression while listening to “Heart Of Gold” on loop alone in their apartments. 

“I think things that are happy are also intrinsically sad. They contain the seed of sadness. Let’s imagine we’re making a film, and there’s a person on a beach. It’s a very very sunny day, and the waves are lapping in. Now, that can sort of be happy or sad. It tends to depend on what music you play. Even if you play…” He pretended to be a brass band playing I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside. I told him that I could almost see those Victorian ghosts in stripy bathing costumes before me. “That’s what I mean!” He replies. “One day, when we discover the meaning of life, that will somehow be contained within it. That happy is sad and sad is happy.”

Maybe I am just a freak