HeyJaredLoose Connections
A wildly eclectic weekly newsletter on loose connections between music/culture/life/death/art & other fun stuff from Lo Carmen, singer-songwriter, host of Death Is Not the End & author of 'Lovers Dreamers Fighters’.
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The Cutting Room Floor (opens the original)
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There’s a song I’ve been mentally tinkering with for so long it’s starting to annoy me. It’s feels like when you’ve slid the key into a lock but you just can’t quite turn it enough to open the door. One day it will apparently be a funny but poignant countryesque ballad where each verse ends with the line ‘Most of my best work ends up on the cutting room floor’. If it doesn’t end up abandoned on the cutting room floor that is. Not every flower gets to bloom.<p class="cta
Dream Girls (opens the original)
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In June 1958, a seventeen year old girl in Hamburg made her own dream come true, by walking across a line up of wine bottles en pointe, dressed as a cat, complete with a furry tail. There is scant information about this incredible act except that she dreamt about doing it and then practised eight hours a day until she could do it for real. There are no further mentions of Bianca or her wild dreams on any corner of the internet I can find.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https:/
Rhinestones, Roses, Cheap Thrills (opens the original)
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I am what I am. I love what I love. I’ll give most things a go but the things that I return to over and over, that light me up and make me happy, have not ever really changed since I was a kid.Good music.Pretty flowers.A delicious bowl of spaghetti.Satin pillows.The moon.Sunsets/sunrises.Anything that sparkles.I’m a cheap date. And I like to decorate.Getting a little rhinestoned is always my idea of a good time. I started out with roses and bluebirds.But soon got on the harder stuff. And when I
Who Told You Butter Was Evil? (opens the original)
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I was asking my bandmate Sam how his toddler son was the other day and he told me ‘I think he thinks most people have got a band, which is nice’.My oldest son once told his Year 2 class that his father ‘made adult films, for adults’ and my youngest son, when pressed on what I did, replied ‘She rehearses’.My darling husband seems to have a deep-seated long-held belief in the inherent perils of butter. I only need to think about butter and reach for a knife and he somehow reads my mind and is sudd
The Last Lessons Of The Never Ending Dolly Parton (opens the original)
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I don’t need to add anything to the beautiful explosion of love for Dolly that has been everywhere we turn for the past few days, I know you know.But there’s something more we could all take home a little learning from - let’s call ‘em Dolly’s death lessons.Loose Connections is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="ema
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