“When something’s broke I wanna put a little bit ‘a fixin’ on it.” Hmm. The jury is out. Is that a mandolin?
Song: The Fixer Artist: Pearl Jam Album: Backspacer Release: 9/20/09 By: Matt Cameron [audio:the_fixer.mp3]
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We’ll hire a dog to burn down a hospital
Locked in the throes of a nasty bout of writer’s block while trying to write another epic trip report for my beloved site, I of course was looking for any distraction to divert my already-wandering attention. My wish was granted when a certain song that came up in my Winamp playlist, one that hearkened back to our high school days and got me thinking. Thinking about a “high school playlist:” the songs the DJ played (did we have a DJ?) at the dances, the songs we blared on our car stereo tape players, the soundtrack of our lives, as it were.