farewell 2020
the year where someone scratched
the tone arm hard across the favorite record
with a rrrrrrrrrrrppppp sound
and everything changed
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farewell 2020
the year where the Republican adage
government is best that governs least
proved to be a deadly lie
leave it to the states made everything worse
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may 2021
be the year where we don’t read these words:
we don’t have 60 votes
full vaccinated immunity not until 2022
no federal charges filed against Donald Trump
What I liked a lot so far this year:
DA 5 BLOODS
RED, WHITE AND BLUE
KINGDOM OF SILENCE
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
SHIRLEY
MISS JUNETEENTH
BABYTEETH
TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
FARGO SEASON 4
MRS. AMERICA
MEMORIES OF MURDER (Reissue)
Honorable Mention:
SOUND OF METAL
THE INVISIBLE MAN
THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND
POSSESSOR
BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
LET HIM GO
SOUL
EDUCATION
THE SECRET GARDEN (2020)
THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY
BABY GOD
A TEACHER
Overhyped:
AMMONITE
THE VAST OF NIGHT
TOMMASO
BACURAU
THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW
THE NEST
In no specific order:
Paul McCartney—McCARTNEY III/FLAMING PIE reissue
Yusuf/Cat Stevens: TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN (2020 Re-recording)
Elton John: JEWEL BOX
David Bowie: CHANGESNOWBOWIE /METROBOLIST (2020 Mix)
The Killers: IMPLODING THE MIRAGE
Elvis Costello: HEY CLOCKFACE/ARMED FORCES Boxset
THIS IS TONY ALLEN Spotify Playlist
Richard Thompson: BLOODY NOSES EP
Martha Davis: I HAVE MY STANDARDS
Mickey Guyton: “O Holy Night” (Amazon)
Johnny Cash: THE COMPLETE MERCURY ALBUMS 1986-1991 Boxset
Sparks: A STEADY DRIP, DRIP, DRIP
Bob Dylan: “Murder Most Foul”/“I Contain Multitudes
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: LETTER TO YOU
Various Artists: ANGEL-HEADED HIPSTER: THE SONGS OF MARC BOLAN & T-REX
cannot cancel weddings
will not close restaurants
must reopen strip clubs
fear makes people dance to death
wearing economic panic like an Elizabethan Collar
as Steven and Mitch slice a pittance of personal stimulus in half
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watch glossy old fashioned Christmas on Hallmark
stay home, wait for your vaccination turn
think of loved ones for the rest of the year
instead of joining the covidiots determined to
stay on the ocean liner, denying it is sinking
Inspired by Neil Young’s 1974 farewell to Richard Nixon:
Goodbye Bill Barr
You tried to be Trump’s Roy Cohn
And now you’re gone gone gone
Outside near the White House lawn
Telling Texas Governor Greg Abbott
I’m all through debasing our nation
Wear your mask and ask for an early vaccination
What I liked a lot so far this year:
DA 5 BLOODS
RED, WHITE AND BLUE
KINGDOM OF SILENCE
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
SHIRLEY
MISS JUNETEENTH
BABYTEETH
TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
FARGO SEASON 4
MRS. AMERICA
MEMORIES OF MURDER (Reissue)
Honorable Mention:
THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND
POSSESSOR
BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
LET HIM GO
MANK
THE SECRET GARDEN (2020)
THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY
BABY GOD
Overhyped:
AMMONITE
THE VAST OF NIGHT
TOMMASO
BACURAU
THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW
THE NEST
get on board
get on board
there’s nothing you have to answer for
such a shame it ended in Year Four
get on board
get on board
you did what you had to do
use it to raise money for term two
get on board
get on board
count on short public memory
rewrite your legacy as autobiography
get on board
get on board
