Mentions (12)
"I'll finish this with a timeless bit from the late David Berman: *It's sunny and 75, it feels so good to be alive* *Come on, baby, don't stay inside* *Everybody's coming out tonight*"
"Wrote some of the most beautiful songs of all time and still couldn't log off. I don't even know of there's a lesson here it's just weird and depressing"
"Talking about a friend who killed themself and comparing the friend to David Berman. It's a very well put sentiment"
"Maybe I'm the Only One for Me would have been such a perfect closer to the Purple Mountains album because it's hilarious, kinda depressing, but also weirdly optimistic and uplifting. Him pretty much saying that "wow life is pretty fucked up right and now this divorce really got to me. I better work "
"It's been about four years and even now the world feels so much smaller and I feel a sense of loss at all the lonely poetry that we'll never get to hear. I don't even like poetry but for many, many many lonely drives it was nice to not feel like the only person trying to jam a square peg into a roun"
"David Berman of Silver Jews was probably the last artist death to actually rattle me. I just finished his book of poetry (Actual Air) and have been re-listening to all his records but wondered if anyone had recs for similar artists-ideally similar lyricists but tonal or instrumental similarities wou"
"As David Berman wondered, what have they done with all the fat ones, the bald and the goateed?"
"i love these poems so incredibly much and i think that everyone should read them. its crazy how berman painted the suburbs, like petra collins' rookie magazine photos for men."
"Maybe I'm the Only One for Me would have been such a perfect closer to the Purple Mountains album because it's hilarious, kinda depressing, but also weirdly optimistic and uplifting."
"It's been about four years and even now the world feels so much smaller and I feel a sense of loss at all the lonely poetry that we'll never get to hear"
"David Berman of Silver Jews was probably the last artist death to actually rattle me. I just finished his book of poetry (Actual Air) and have been re-listening to all his records"
"As David Berman wondered, what have they done with all the fat ones, the bald and the goateed?"