Wanted/Needed/Loved: Nathan Stocker’s Best Birthday Gift
A truly personal letter is really something different than a song. It’s intended only for the person it’s written to. A song is a way to share that emotional experience with others.
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Join NOW!A truly personal letter is really something different than a song. It’s intended only for the person it’s written to. A song is a way to share that emotional experience with others.
...moreA friend of my parents, who was the girlfriend of a roadie for the Grateful Dead, gave me this hologram skull and roses bolo tie when I was around five years old.
...moreI just remember when I first started playing that set how beautiful and perfect it was. Having a real instrument really made a difference. I started really playing!
...moreDrawing inspiration from the punk rock zine culture of their youth and a shared love of radio, The Rumpus’s own Allyson McCabe is teaming up with Kevin Wortis (Girlie Action Media) to bring you Vanishing Ink. It’s a digital fanzine/podcast that connects to music, culture, and memory. From one bartender’s no-holds-barred take on your last Tinder […]
...moreWhen you’re a kid no one expects you to know what you’re doing. No one is judging you. The advantage is you can be all in.
...moreTo this day no one really knows where my kris came from or whether or not it’s a significant part of my family history, if it’s a random object or an heirloom with an untold story.
...moreWhen I’m away touring, my clothes are my connection to home, my way of feeling myself.
...more[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.
...moreI try not to think about fashion. It’s more that I want to settle on something to wear so I don’t have to think about it.
...moreWhat I write in my journals is a personal record of the events in my life, and my reactions to them.
...moreThe thing I want to talk about is something I’m not in possession of anymore, but of all the things I’ve lost it’s the thing I think about the most.
...moreIf you’re doing what makes you happy, it’s easier for you to be happy, and if you’re lucky, to make others happy too.
...moreThis stuff is my favorite drink in the world, but there’s a lot more to it than that.
...moreThere is one story that my mother used to tell me often, which has become in some ways a symbol of my childhood.
...moreI’m constantly making up stories, and writing histories, even when I’m not putting them into songs.
...moreLove is irrational and it’s supernatural. It’s also probably what we want/need most.
...moreWhat I want/need/love most is to be with my family.
...moreIn one way or another we all tell stories to ourselves about who we are.
...moreWhat I want/need/love most are the tools that allow me to document what I see and experience, at home and in my travels, now and in the future.
...moreIt was kind of nice to have something no one else had, something you couldn’t just pick up at any old big box store.
...moreThe stuff I’ve saved over the years aren’t just mementos of the past. They’re also reflections of the memories my friends and I have made together.
...moreIn the first installment of Wanted/Needed/Loved, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof talks about the items he can’t live (or tour) without.
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