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The shape of a greyhound's body is simply perfectly aligned with the vanishing point
That man is 73 and most of his band is around that age, and watching them play you'd think they could do this for another decade. That was a three hour show with barely a moment of rest between songs, with maybe...two acoustic numbers the entire night. You can definitely feel the weight of his age in some ways; there are more than a few songs either about outliving old friends or songs that are recontextualized by the fact that a 73 year-old man is singing them (opening with No Surrender and going straight into a song called Ghosts with a chorus of "I'm alive!" is definitely a statement), but then halfway through he goes on a run that kicks off with Thunder Road and doesn't let up until the end and...shit, I'm really glad I went.
If I feel like I've missed out on anything seeing him for the first time in 2023, it's less that he's older, because he and his band are such pros that they know exactly what they can and can't do and have decades of experience putting on great shows. It's more that...this is an older crowd, and tickets weren't cheap, which is...well, I wasn't the youngest person there, but I was in the conversation, and I thought I was about to witness a fight because someone in front of me stood up and danced too early in the show and the people behind her were furious that they couldn't see (or that they couldn't get clear video of the stage?)
Anyways, they left and the girl who was dancing was like, attempting to twerk to Bruce Springsteen's big 9/11 song
Very glad I went. Shout out to the Climate Pledge Arena for giving me free public transit for buying a ticket to the show, saved me a whole, like, five dollars on top of the three hundred dollar ticket
Did he get the veins in his neck popping like he's trying to avoid having a stroke while shitting out a bowling ball?
I saw him in 2008 and it was seemingly all I could focus on during the show.
Saw kinda the same thing couple years later seeing Kansas and Steve Walsh started looking like he was going to pop like in scanners during parts of Point of No Return.
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Seeing Local H at a local bar for $10 was probably more my ideal venue, but that's not something most bands can do.
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Yeah. The big songs he didn't play were The River, Jungleland, Hungry Heart and Born in the USA
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oh boy don't get me started on the supremely fucked up rental/landlord culture in Japan
it almost makes what we deal with in the US look quaint
Is that even vaguely accurate?
House value does go down the longer you own it in japan rather than up, for.... reasons?
I've also heard of programs like that where they were trying to get people to move into these rural villages so they wouldn't turn into ghost towns.
Also, check this out to see some cheap houses for sale in japan - https://www.instagram.com/cheaphousesjapan/
Yeah it's not super common/popular but the programs are out there (not sure about "free" versus "basically free" but yeah)
The problem (other than the houses themselves usually being in need of massive revamping/maintenance) is, they're also in places where the population is dwindling, there are no jobs and social services/infrastructure are inevitably only going to get worse the longer you live there
Yes, but with a laundry list of caveats, first of all being age and nationality. They dont want single foreigners moving in, they want young japanese families. Also, you have to fix the thing before you move in, wich is really expensive for WWII era run-down shacks in the middle of nowhere in a ghost town. Like, there is a reason why they are not occupied.
The River was the song that made me go back and listen to him now after he wasn't my thing as a kid. We played it in my (I know) ukulele group and I immediately feel in love with it. I really should give some of his newer albums a listen.
One day I went to play my recently acquired (from a local used record store) copy of Nebraska, and after taking the record out of the jacket, I pulled out what I thought were the liner notes, but were actually about 10 pages carefully ripped out from porn magazines. Neatly folded in half and stuffed inside the jacket as if it were the prior owner’s secret stash.
Probably would have come with a bonus spliff tho.
Admittedly I only know her from British panel shows, but I love her any time she's on one.
She was great on Taskmaster.
I've only seen one of her stand-up sets but she was basically exactly the same as her panel show appearances - very good, in other words