Pete Townshend reportedly said that, and, after a positively shit week or so, his words resonated with me last night.

The Hold Steady, in Boston, reaffirmed my faith in rock's ability to let me push my troubles aside, if only for an hour or so, and remember why I fell so hard for it all those years ago.

Turn up those speakers, go a little mental DBIS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU7Y0DdLN48&feature=related

Peter T.

Constructive Summer

Me and my friends are like the drums on "Lust for Life" we pound it out on four toms our songs are sing-a-long songs

this whole town is like this but now we're all haul-assing (?) work at the mill until you die work at the mill and then you die we're gonna build something this summer we'll put it back together raise up a giant ladder with love & trust and friends and hammers

we're gonna lean this ladder up against the water tower climb up to the top and drink it up

me and my friends are like double whiskey, coke no ice we drink along in double time might drink too much but we feel fine

we're gonna build something this summer summer grant us all the power to drink on top of the water towers with love and trust and shows all summer let this be my annual reminder that we can all be something bigger

i went to your schools i did my detention but the walls are so grey i couldnt pay attention i read the gospel it moved me to tears but I couldn't find the hate and couldn't find the fear i met your saviour I knelt at his feet and he took my ten bucks and went down the street tried to believe all the things that you said but my friends that aren't dying are already dead

raise a toast to st joe strummer think he might've been our only decent teacher getting older only makes it harder to remember we are our only saviours we're gonna build something this summer