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The Death of Tom Petty
I need to break out of this Cornell 77 hole. I'm always going back to Cornell 77. You can listen to one dead album the rest of your life from here to eternity. There's so much that I have emotionally atomized in that song. Then by extension in Tom Petty, and then by extension again, Tom Petty's death right around this time when there was a lot of death in my life. At 30,000 feet, I was a frickin puddle there sitting in my seat. It's so sad, but also beautiful. Portrait of a man on a mission to make his greatest creative statement ever. He went about and did it, and it's just
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