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Track:Times Square - (live)
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Purple Collection 10 (Times Square)
Purple Collection 9 (Remember/Comment Te Dire Adieu)
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We only managed to get back to OKC for Christmas 2006 by talking my work into granting a temporary transfer to the Target on May Ave in OKC. So I worked 8 hour days there, bumping into all sorts of old friends who were shocked that I wasn't in Florida. A few people thought Erika and I had broken up.I was an odd fit at the May Ave Target. I've been on the east coast long enough to forget that pe...
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Purple Collection 9 (Remember/Comment Te Dire Adieu)
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We only managed to get back to OKC for Christmas 2006 by talking my work into granting a temporary transfer to the Target on May Ave in OKC. So I worked 8 hour days there, bumping into all sorts of old friends who were shocked that I wasn't in Florida. A few people thought Erika and I had broken up.I was an odd fit at the May Ave Target. I've been on the east coast long enough to forget that pe...
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Purple Collection 8 (Neptune City)
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Erika and I were driving cross country when this song hit her just right and she had to hear it over and over. We were approaching Birmingham and it always brings back those rolling Alabama hills.This was 28 June 2006, the very day that Janis went to MD Anderson because she had started to feel tired more often and her ankles started to swell pretty bad (fluid retention as her immune system started
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Purple Collection 7 (It's Up To You)
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Artist:The Shop Assistants
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Album:NME C86
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Track:It's Up To You
Are you ready to be heartbroken? Here’s a profoundly simple and lovely song that makes me happy every time I hear it. A recap of the Three Givens:1) Context is the primary driver2) Miserable context = more cherished song3) If you could explain it, it wouldn’t be trueI could add to that a Fourth Given: The perfect song will find you when you need it most. That is the case with It’s Up To You
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Purple Collection 6 (Streets of Your Town)
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This song came into my life via Claudia’s sister Meg. She sent a Big Sister Care Package to the Okmulgee dorms -I’m guessing winter 1993- and in it was a cassette with The Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane on side one and Nick Drake Pink Moon on side two. I borrowed it that day and have yet to return it. It was just one of those tapes that really becomes part of you. I call them Albums Without Whichâ
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Purple Collection 5 (Mercury Rev - Silver Street)
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Another dream context song, this one from very early on. My memory is that I had this dream about 3-4 years old, but something tells me that I might have had it at about 17, dreaming that I had it at 3 years old. As usual, I have no idea what the connection between the song and the dream is, it just is.I'm not even going to write the dream down, it's just a dream. It involves another large, spo...
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Purple Collection 5 (Jacobites - Silver Street)
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Another dream context song, this one from very early. My memory is that I had this dream about 3-4 years old, but something tells me that I might have had it at about 17, dreaming that I had it at 3 years old. As usual, I have no idea what the connection between the song and the dream is, it just is.I'm not even going to write the dream down, it's just a dream. It involves another large, spooky...
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Purple Collection 4 (Brakhage)
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The series of noise bursts that signal the beginning of this song trigger an involuntary rush of memories. This is a specific time in my life: the period between when I started drinking, at 22 years, and meeing Erika, at 24. Just those 2 years. In a typical paradox, this was both the most miserable and the most fun period of my life. But it was the time of my life just before I figured out wha...
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