“I was recently a bit too obsessed with the song American Girl by Tom Petty. Sorta perfect and it reps one of those weird moments where traditions far apart connect and merge into something new, when a southern kid got into new wave and a new genre was created.” [link]

American Girl is a song that lives near perfection; it is also used amazingly in Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs. I’ve always appreciated how Tom Petty looks so skeletal…especially with the mirror shades. Like a singing skull.

“After Callahan — a.k.a. The Artist Formerly Known As Smog — performed at the NPR Music offices, my own slumber was absolutely haunted by at least one line from each piece he played.

From “Jim Cain”: “I used to be darker / Then I got lighter / Then I got dark again.”

From “Rococo Zephyr”: “I used to be sorta blind / But now I can sorta see.”

From “Too Many Birds”: “If you could only stop your heartbeat for one heartbeat…”"

Bill Callahan: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR Music.

Rolling Stones

October 17, 1973

Forest National, Brussels

via Art Decade.

“I’m trying to run a tight ship,” Will Oldham said when he came to the door.”