Dear Sarah,
I heard that you’ve turned into a goth, and I think that’s great, if that’s what makes you happy. I have an old pair of black boots with silver buckles that I don’t wear anymore, and you can have them if you want them. Also, I wanted to ask: What, if anything, is fluttering in your heart? I wanted to ask if it has to be a black crow or a vampire bat… or if maybe instead it could be a kite that has broken loose from the string that you were holding—or the string that we were holding—sometime when we were teenagers, or maybe in our early twenties? Could it be a kite which is now rolling over and over on itself in the sky like an unborn baby, and slowly shrinking into a dot, and then a spec of black, and then something we’re not even sure we’re watching, but then, for sure, absolutely nothing at all? Get back to me about this when you have a chance. I hope you’re doing well.
xo
c
"All I need now is what I needed then: a desk lamp, the typer, the bottle, the radio, classical music and this room on fire."
— Charles Bukowski exhibit at The Huntington, 2011
"I’d rather be a forest than a street"
— Paul Simon
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So instead of doing work I compiled a 60s mix. I was going to start creating a mix for each decade but I realized the 70s would get too complicated. Probably do it by genre instead. Overall this mix is pretty easy on the ears. Have fun. Oh yea, the album title is from a song by The Sonics.
1. lulu - to sir with love
2. mamas and papas - monday monday
3. gene pitney - liberty valance
4. jan and dean - linda
5. the beach boys - barbara ann
6. the miracles - going to a go go
7. the zombies - tell her no
8. the hollies - bus stop
9. donovan - sunshine superman
10. the sonics - maintaining my cool
11. los bravos - black is black
12. the tornadoes - telstar
13. jay and the americans - this magic moment
14. pat boone - moody river
15. bobby vinton - blue velvet
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
— Dalai Lama
Earth, and life as we know it vs. the vastness of space. Cool. Carl Sagan requested NASA take this photo as the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its way out the solar system. Do you ever imagine going into space? Cosmos: A personal voyage DVD set, Sagan’s TV series from the 80s is on my list of material wants. Sagan died in 1996, the year after Tim Leary died (both prominent, pot-friendly scientists). Leary’s ashes were sent into outer space via a rocket which orbited around space for 6 years before burning up in the atmosphere. What a colossal death. Sagan’s ashes should have been there too.
