Some beautiful and brilliant souls just can't handle this shitty place.

I hope you are at peace, David Berman. You made the world smarter, better, kinder and more beautiful for so many.

cortez the killer wrote:Cool reflection from jimmyjack - https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/08/08 ... id-berman/

Wow. Thanks for sharing Jimmy Jack and thanks for posting Cortez.

Rocky wrote:

cortez the killer wrote:Cool reflection from jimmyjack - https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/08/08 ... id-berman/

Wow. Thanks for sharing Jimmy Jack and thanks for posting Cortez.

x2

PonyGirl wrote:Some beautiful and brilliant souls just can't handle this shitty place.

Yep

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=655381

Silver Jews
March 20, 2006
Starlight Ballroom
Philadelphia, PA

Taped and converted by blindman

Source: SP CMC-4's > SP-PREAMP > M-Audio Microtracker > 24/48 WAV on CF Card
Conversion: CF Reader > PC > Ardour/JAMin > 16/44.1 WAV > K3B > Grip > flac

1. Inside the Golden Days of Missing You
2. Animal Shapes
3. Smith & Jones Forever
4. Pet Politics
5. I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You
6. Random Rules
7. New Orleans (w/ Bob Nastanovich on drums)
8. Horseleg Swastikas
9. Dallas
10. Trains Across the Sea (w/ Bob Nastanovich on drums)
11. The Poor, The Fair and The Good
12. Black and Brown Blues
13. Slow Education
14. How Can I Love You (If You Won't Lie Down)
15. Punks in the Beerlight
Encores
16. There Is A Place
17. Sometimes a Pony Gets Depressed

This was the 9th show on the first ever Silver Jews tour.

Fuck I’m listening to “Candy Jail” with tears streaming down my face. This song has no right to work as well as it does. No one else could’ve made it work at all. Singular, beautiful, and talented. We lost a real one.

Cooley D is in fifth grade now and they have a thing called "Mixtape Mondays" where each student picks three songs to add to the class playlist. So I pick him up from school and he can't wait to tell me about his choices: first up was DBT's "Little Pony & Great Big Horse" (perfect choice son!), second was "Smith & Jones Forever" (alright alright alright, he's destined to be the cool kid and anything bad will probably fly right over the kids' heads) but his third selection was "Punks in the Beerlight" now I just imagine a class full of fifth graders asking what it means to "smoke the gel off a fentanyl patch"

can't decide whether #parentingfail or #parentingwin. Fuck it, potential parent-teacher conferences notwithstanding I'm counting this as a win

Smitty wrote:Cooley D is in fifth grade now and they have a thing called "Mixtape Mondays" where each student picks three songs to add to the class playlist. So I pick him up from school and he can't wait to tell me about his choices: first up was DBT's "Little Pony & Great Big Horse" (perfect choice son!), second was "Smith & Jones Forever" (alright alright alright, he's destined to be the cool kid and anything bad will probably fly right over the kids' heads) but his third selection was "Punks in the Beerlight" now I just imagine a class full of fifth graders asking what it means to "smoke the gel off a fentanyl patch"

can't decide whether #parentingfail or #parentingwin. Fuck it, potential parent-teacher conferences notwithstanding I'm counting this as a win

WIN

Cooley was destined to be a cool kid but that 5th grade setlist cinches it.

I think I liked the Carpenters in the fucking 5th grade.

cortez the killer wrote:https://www.dragcity.com/news/2019-08-1 ... -albemarle

Thanks for sharing. Well done by Drag City.

This part was helpful to read.

Some of his incredible turns of phrase seem to have been written for this awful moment. But know that they weren't. They were written in lieu of this moment, to replace this moment, showing the world (and himself) that maybe he didn't truly know what was going to happen next.

It's been tough to listen to some of the songs on the PM record in a post-DCB world. In "That's Just The Way That I Feel," I used to focus more intently on "A setback can be a setup/For a comeback if you don't let up." Now, I'm hyper-aware of "But this kind of hurting won't heal."

It's going to be hard to separate some of these songs from what happened last week, but it's good to know that the people who knew him would ask us to try to do just that.

There's a David Berman interview in the newest Perfect Sound Forever. The link is below.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/davidberman.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainme ... cs/595969/

From a few years back, but a good read.