When e uses the line “rags to rags and rust to rust” no one thinks he’s stealing from Neil Young. e is laying claim to a musical tradition, and rightfully so i believe. besides turning a poetic phraase, he’s saying, this is whaer i fit in, this is where i come from, this how i see my work. sure, he’s treding in the fottsteps of others, but he’s bring something new to it, himself. that’s genuine. that’s not stealing or mimicry, it’s creativity.

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    the sixties, seventies, and nineties…three decades when men of western cultures began to realize that all this stuff that took thousands of years to create, build and codify, you know the things that were supposed to be created for the protection, benefit, and glorification of women…um, well, women didn’t want it…well, some of them didn’t…and not all of it was completely bad…just the stuff that didn’t work for women…

    i learned a long time ago that i didn’t belong in journalism…it comes doown to this;

    i’m not interested ing thhe factual truth…i’d much rather explore the emotional truth…since the emotional truth is sucha a subjective thing, sometimes the facts get in the way of the truth…

    today’s word: petulant

    1 : insolent or rude in speech or behavior
    2 : characterized by temporary or capricious ill humor

    Thank you

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