| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song
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| 8: 02 AM, April 25th, 2016, New York
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| Everything went fine at Sarah Lawrence College
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| While I was on stage I asked the kids to educate me on what exactly it is that
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| they study there
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| A person shouted:
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| «We do whatever the hell we want»
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| I replied, «Well, that’s what I’ve been doing all my life.»
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| I asked what their parents payed for them to do whatever the hell they want and
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| a girl in the front row said:
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| «$ 60, 000 a year»
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| I said, «Well, that’s what Walmart pays me to use my music in commercials and
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| that maybe I could go to their school one day too 'cause they all seem like
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| really nice people.»
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| I explained that Kirk Hammett from Metallica went to college after Metallica
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| made it, which was met with a thud
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| A nice girl named Sophie played piano on a few songs with us because my mic
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| couldn’t reach the piano
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| She played the four notes on «Richard Ramirez…"and «Carry Me Ohio"really,
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| really, well
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| That was a lot of fun
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| We also played «When Doves Cry"in honor of Prince, who died the night before
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| Steve Shelley played drums with me that night, by the way
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| What a great drummer
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| Steve’s also a really nice guy
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| Great acoustics in the room and the show went really well
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| And we got out of there by midnight
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| What a cool group of kids and a nice promoter named Max
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| It was the first show he ever promoted and he gave me a check in an envelope,
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| which I actually didn’t open until just now here in my New York hotel three
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| nights after the gig
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| This is what his note said:
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| «Dear Mark, first of all thank you so much for playing Sarah Lawrence College.
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| Even though we have a really small school and don’t get much attention,
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| we have a really lot of passionate kids. |
| I know every single one of them is
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| thrilled to have you come. |
| Your music means so much to so many. |
| I first heard
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| your music when I was searching songs about Los Angeles
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| For a project in high school. |
| I was fifteen or sixteen, and I came across «Cruiser"and it changed everything for me. It was the music I had been searching
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| for for a long time. |
| Some people say your music makes them sad and that you
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| make sad music. |
| I don’t know, I guess I disagree. |
| Your music was and is a
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| comfort to me. |
| I feel a sort of connection to it that is less a melancholic
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| thing but more a reassuring thing
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| I was taking a seven-hour train across the state of New York. |
| I listened to the
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| entirety of Benji and Red House Painters I back-to-back. |
| I thought of a lot of
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| things when I listened to those records. |
| And somehow it brought me ease to know
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| someone that was thinking some of those same things. |
| It was calming and even
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| though I’m writing this letter before you even take the stage, I know the scene
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| you perform tonight will be one of my most enjoyable moments. |
| So thank you
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| again so much for coming, I hope you had a nice time
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| And I hope this letter finds you well. |
| Looking forward to the next record,
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| the Jesu/Sun Kil Moon LP was great. |
| And hopefully I can see you again on
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| November 10th in Brooklyn. |
| Best wishes and thanks again
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| Max»
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College song, this is my
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| Sarah Lawrence College |