THE RACKET : LIST 19 - Fall Neatly
I've been thinking about beginnings and endings lately. I've been thinking about how an ending (good or bad) always reflects the beginning and vice-versa. We've been sort of stripped of these concepts as of a late as everything floats in the grey soup of deconstructed time. It more and more feels like we've barely taken a step away from when all of this started and this makes the potential of it ever stopping seem further and further away. We are a society that exist within two bookends - birth and death - and though those old chestnuts aren't ever so inevitable, it feels as our time in the middle now stretches interminably between the two. It's hard to exist sometimes when the middle is all we have to look forward to.
So, yeah, I've been thinking about bookends. LIST 19 (and the most recent issue of The Racket Journal) are these thoughts working themselves out. Every song on LIST 19 (except the fulcrum - "STREET" by Hiroshi Yoshimi - which everything spins) has a partner, a buddy, on the other side of the aisle and everything in between, I think, neatly falls therein.
Hell, I would love something to fall neatly right now. For the moment, LIST 19 will have to do.
Also, Justin Townes Earle passed away much much too early this week and in a time of surprising tinges of sadness, this caught us remarkably off guard.
