I’m sad I’ll never hear Tom Petty sing live again. But I am really sorry that Tom Petty the grandfather didn’t get to hang out with his granddaughter like he wanted to once off the road. That sucks.

“Wildflowers” was the soundtrack of my early 20s. I listened to it today in full and I don’t think I realized then how much of his own shit he was laying bare. Now, as a grown up with a complicated marriage, I get so much more from his later music. God I’m going to miss him.

Bowie was shocking, Prince was devastating, and Petty is abandonment.

Three words: Tom Petty “Playback.” As a 6-disc set that has everything I was familiar with, it’s also great as far as B-sides, good alternate versions and rarities.

I’ve always admired Tom Petty* but hadn’t thought I was overly acquainted with his opus. Boy, have these threads proven me wrong: you are absolutely right — so much of his music has formed a tapestry for having been raised in the seventies and eighties.

Yeah I could see that too. I wonder what Kim could be so salty about though? She made tons of money from the show. Samantha was turning into a bit of a one dimensional character. But they made all of the characters kind of flat for the movies. Maybe she was tired of having to give so much of herself physically for…

Jesus, that is heartbreaking.

Love their stuff.

So awesome use of song in Silence of the Lambs

Someone needs to immediately put Stevie Nicks into a bubble. 2017 will NOT do to me what 2016 did. I’m so upset about this. He wasn’t even old.

Driving along, that song comes on, crank it up, belt it out. Middle age retreats and indestructible youth revives for 3:36 minutes.

And an awful day gets worse.

I loved his music, and I loved his attitude. See the“Runnin Down a Dream” doc if you haven’t already - it’s a wonderful mining of his and his band’s work.

And you can’t forget his work with Stevie....

a true fact is that American Girl is one of the best songs ever written, I’m going to listen to it and cry now

Trump is revenge for Obama.

He’s my favorite writer and will be up early tomorrow to get a copy on my way to work. He was also on MSNBC yesterday to talk about it, good stuff here:

I remember when Coates first started blogging at the Atlantic. I remember thinking, who IS this guy who writes like a poet about current events? And like Michael says, he wrote opinion pieces like research papers, with lots of sources that weren’t the usual thing. I would show his stuff to whoever I thought would…

Didn’t see ‘son of a bitch’ in there, either. Interesting, that.

She should have a cracker baby segment on the show.