Dislocation

[xela]

It is truly weird to be sitting at Whole Foods having breakfast & have a chill run up your spine as the musak suddenly launches into the opening bars of Patty Smith's "Because the Night." A song that left me staring at the radio with my jaw around my knees when I first heard it at 19, and still clutches at something deeply inarticulate inside me. how the hell did this become music to shop by?

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[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

Same way the Beatles' "Revolution" became music to sell Nikes to: because someone sold the rights for $$$. That doesn't mean I have to like it, though.

Barbarians! Philistines! That song is incandescent when she does it, and it deserves better.