I will love you ‘til after the world curls.
When photos yellow and turn up corners,
as dust from the shoebox blown off, adjourns
and the house is cleaned out with the mourners.
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I love you as the world curls round the day
diverting darkness from my potential.
Hope at the heart of every choice I made
so that yours exceeds the exponential.
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I loved you as the world curled round your hair.
So fricking Cute! And bouncy in your perm.
To see the love of life through ringlets flair,
dancing with the world, steady as it turns.
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Send all the straight and easy lines away.
This path is difficult and cabaret.
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G. Douglas Kerr
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'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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This is so sweet.
What pulled me in is the fact that this first line is an instant classic, like a true solid hyperbole that just feels as if it has always been here waiting to be claimed - gorgeous and visceral and easily visualized. And then your language to follow is so heartfelt and effortless and truly a testament to the love between a father and daughter, like without any conditions or requests. It's wonderful and so well written. When I read the line about her hair being "fricking cute" I was taken out of the flow and, though the style was different for a moment, after a pause I realized it is a sweet new path within this piece that reminds the author that this is from a father, who is adoring his daughter - that it's allowed to be less authorshippy and more affectionate - that it can "curl" in whatever way it needs to for the purpose it was written. So those are all of my deep thoughts about your work, hah, but mainly just want to say this is special and lovely.