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Tonight,  I listened to Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones 1995 on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhVLiHPUOIM) while following the lyrics. 

So I was surprised to see Mick changing two words.  The lyrics read:

Let's do some living after we die

but Mick sang:

Let's do some living after love dies

As a teenage and in college along with so many others I tried to apply lyrics to my life or seek guidance in words cobbled together to rhyme.  It was something which seemed so vital when I was so much younger.  And now it's just something to note.

It made me think of a story about Carl Perkins and one of the Beatles, (George Harrison?).  The Carl Perkins version of "Blue Suede Shoes" differs from Elvis Presley's by a single beat.  In practice for the "Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session" with a slew of British rock luminaries the Beatle was upset that Carl Perkins who wrote the song was playing it with Elvis's extra beat.  

The spin was that the Beatle was playing with one of his heroes and his hero wasn't playing the song correctly.

Nicolette Larson: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go

 Years ago I bought a cheap cassette with a depressing image with no idea of who the singer was.

I had bought the tape afor 88¢ at The Wiz.  The cover showed a sad looking girl in a shower clutching a towel to her body, her hair still wet.  I had no idea what the album was about, but from the image I suspected it would be a a litany of sad songs from a woman who'd been wronged by men.

Boy was I wrong.  I just loved the songs!  Most were upbeat and they gave me the energy I needed to keep at it when the code decided to show me what an idiot I was.  The tape is surely buried in a box from one of my many office moves. 

For several years I'd play her cassette when I coded late into the night.  It seemed to give me a second wind.  

Recently I tried to remember the name of the singer on the tape.  Eventually a web search on some of guesses as to song titles turned up Nicollete Larson and the unhappy news that cancer had killed her.  

I'm posting this here, instead of on YouTube because comments are turned off.   (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n_QkdulFqmEhPEWALNuzqjnh9o8rv2Nws)

Remote Workers Do Not Mate

 The Sunday May 02, 2021 Dilbert strip noted that many people meet their spouses at work.  With many office workers working from home ... well, have a goodbye party for your genes. 

In a few months we'll be able to see the statistics about weddings.  There is also the divorce phenomenon from the oil embargo: couples forced to be together demonstrated the truth of the old adage: familiarity breeds contempt.  Maybe the divorce statistics will increase.