It really gave me a strength, a drive, an ability to take a risk. Would I have had the same drive if things had been cushy
According to a recent report from New Yorks Independent Budget Office, smoking rates in New York have steadily increased since 2010, in tandem with declines in spending on tobacco control programs. This suits me fine, as New York has always hovered in my minds eye as a perpetually steaming metropolis, haunted by smokestacks imprisoned in human bodies
While it doesnt exactly detail his life then, there are some gestures behind the curtain, like the last line of the chorus: I need that money like that ring I never won, I won. By now the sun is gone, and me and Post have moved to a weird dining/conference room overlooking the spot where hed just shot a video
Punk was just around the corner and its easy to see why, but mid-seventies post-psychedelic angst seldom sounded so chilled