Somewhere not too far from here (Eclectic Playlist Series, Vol. 9)

We begin with an idiosyncratic ode to meditation from the outset of the so-called "Me Decade" and we finish with a beautifully bombastic, regret-saturated song that inadvertently celebrates the over-the-top violence that laces 21st-century entertainment without much second thought. Are we civilized or are we falling down or are we just plain crazy? And why *does* love got to be so sad? Full of hope and wretchedness we are, we humans, with our electric friends and persistent enemies, with pistols in our suitcases and our eyes forever on the TV. And yet as long as some of us can write these achingly gorgeous melodies--Jenny Lewis can sing "Late Bloomer" to me all day long and I will just about burst with pleasure--we are somehow okay. We sit. The sky falls. Life goes on.

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