shop keepers sign in the CZ, originally uploaded by pinkgerl.

am burning through corrections to my thesis and listening to the entire neil young catalog, which by tomorrow should be pretty damn bleak i have to say. i find that when i'm doing work like this i can't reall intake any 'new' material, and that certain phrases, long known, lift themselves out of the background and get me singing and happy enough to continue through the bullshit.
that said, "Borrowed Tune" has captured me tonight - so absolutely miserable and self-soothing that it names its ripped off inspiration - the rolling stones' lady jane - explicitly, because Young is "too wasted" to write his own. it's an artless but heartbreaking admission of breakdown that feels really human to me - there's neil young, so sad he can only write dumb lyrics over someone else's tune to keep himself sane. it reminds me of being younger and loving a sad song so much that i had to write down its lyrics just so i could feel the words in my hands too.

IN OTHER NEWS: i'm going to be TAing a class on country music this spring, and decided to learn one new country song a week on the guitar.