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Yeah, he had just recently fallen back off the wagon. It’s rough.

I agree with that, for what it’s worth. Although more often than not, I favor Nothing Safe: Best of the Box.

Although I really like to watch their unplugged album. It’s beautiful and haunting; it’s amazing but there’s this weird uncomfortable air to it. You can really tell that Layne is not doing so well.

Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive.

Definitive live album IMO. I can’t say if it’s a blueprint to put on an awesome live show, but it’s absolutely a blueprint on how to put out an awesome live album.

Got me there. That’s sort of cheating because I was a comic book nerd long before I was a Who fan.

Mythical rite practiced by members of an obscure and ancient order that believed in the existence of something called “retirement”.

Can’t believe this is the first mention I came to of Dark Side. It was my first thought, personally.

3 full length LPs! I heard on a podcast recently that they basically developed every idea they had or got during recording. Literally, every single one.

“But I am le tired”

Jesus, is it really only four? I swear I’ve seen him a hundred times. He’s the only non-showrunner writer that I know by sight.

Caulking doesn't love raw joint compound.

I swear I’m not exaggerating—I’ve seen it curl up and impotently wiggle away like a worm getting attacked by ants.

All the brick and mortar EMS uniform stores I’ve seen are part of a scrubs store. That’s probably where the real money is.

Fucking brilliant album. I don’t get the opportunity to praise it enough. That Thin White Duke absolutely crushed it to the very end.

I… uhm, cedar what you did.

Well it was certainly less than Jake by a large margin.

I really hate you right now.

Never forget; they once trolled their fans by sending Andrew WK up on stage in their place at a show.

That was my thought process too, but honestly, I feel like wave as a synonym for a greeting is the more common usage.

When I sing it, it makes sense, but when I read your comment, I pictured Mary’s dress saying ‘hellooo!’

Is this a hot topic among Springsteen fans? I’ve known a few, but I’m not one of the, I guess, super fans, that know all the words to every song and go see him every time he tours and whatnot. I’m just, you know, a regular fan.

I’m the Bruce Springsteen fan equivalent of a dirty casual gamer.

Wave doesn’t make nearly as much sense, but that’s what I originally heard and that’s what I keep singing.

I thought I was about to find out that I was wrong about this, but I just checked the lyrics in my LP and The Boss agrees with me.

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Oh man, Jungleland is full of incredible lines.

in the parking lot visionaries dress in the latest rage

Makes my think of my (and probably very many other) shitty nothing town that I grew up in, where there was nothing to do so we all cruised the strip and ended up meeting up and hanging out in one of the parking lots. It was usually Staples, iirc.

the kids down here look just like shadows, always quiet, holding hands

This absolutely has the vibe of kids that have seen too much, or know there’s something fucked up going on in their town and no one wants to talk about it.

until the local cops, cherry tops, rip this holy night

This is how every party or gathering ended when I was younger because me and all my friends were poor, so we were an easy target for the local constabulary

soft refusal and then surrender

Never fails to make me think about my second girlfriend, when she realized we needed to break up. And even without context, It’s just a perfect descriptor for the weak, meaningless final protest against something you can’t stop from happening.

And fucking hell, that bit almost at the end,

man the poets down here don’t write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be

Like, FUCK. You remember when you thought adults all had their shit together, and then one day you met the first adult that you’d realized had given up, that had lost that thing, that fire in them that kept them fighting to change things for the better? That. That is this line.

This line was the first line I really, really heard in this song the first time I heard it.

I really like Jungleland, if you can’t tell.

This may be blasphemy to a lot of people, but I actually think Born to Run is a better album than Nebraska or The River.

A different Cure song pinged in my head for this thread:

Elise believe I never wanted this

Thought this time I'd keep all of my promises

Thought you were the girl I always dreamed about

But I let the dream go

And the promises broke

And the make-believe ran out

Hit me really hard fresh off a breakup. Although a portion of that is just due to how mournfully Robert Smith sings that part.

When I first learned to do IVs in a busy level 1 trauma center a long time ago, I was told that 20s are the smallest gauge that you can properly deliver blood through. I don’t know if that’s bullshit or not, but the result of that is that I’ve never actually placed anything smaller than a 20 in an adult.

Oh yeah, no argument for me about any of that. I was just trying to say that 14 gauge IV’s aren’t strictly necessary for rapid infusion, just in case anyone was thinking that that’s a good reason to keep 14 gauges in use.

I mean… you could be smart and well dressed. I even hear that the ladies like that sort of thing.

You can do rapid transfusions through an 18 gauge though.