Great choice of 2 definitive songs revealing how difficult it is to live in or close by New York City. Excellent presentation of the mayorial situation in the superior depth of top shelf podcasters mode rather than usual local legacy media alway limited so as to never quite completely tell the whole story.
Excellent song, thank you. I first heard it in a Miami Vice episode, "Prodigal Son", during a walk on the streets in NYC. The song was written specifically for that episode by Glenn Frey.
Two of my progeny live in New York City. I lived there myself for a period of seven years. This is a great essay.
Great choice of 2 definitive songs revealing how difficult it is to live in or close by New York City. Excellent presentation of the mayorial situation in the superior depth of top shelf podcasters mode rather than usual local legacy media alway limited so as to never quite completely tell the whole story.
Yes!
before I read this I didn't have
any actual understanding or connection
with New York nor with this election.
Those songs along with the depth of Mark's writing
gave me a fuller awareness of both
“So much has happened, but nothing has changed
Still don't know where you're going
You're still just a face in the crowd…”
When I read your intro, I first began to think of the song by Glenn Frey, ‘You Belong to the City.’
Excellent song, thank you. I first heard it in a Miami Vice episode, "Prodigal Son", during a walk on the streets in NYC. The song was written specifically for that episode by Glenn Frey.
Thank you for that bit of musical history!
Pundits are busy putting forward
facts and considerations
about this election.
Bully for them.
They don't have a clue
about the meaning
of what just transpired.
It takes a poetic writer
to comprehend meaning.
And to give it to us
with such beauty
it reaches our souls.
You are OF New York, Mark
You sing to us from the INside:
"The ache of the city itself.
The sound of a place trying to decide
what it wants to be when it grows up again."
You bring us inside the city
inside the story
we would never have known.
You hold us there with you
as we experience it together.
Now we too hold our breath.
"And the city with all its noise and nerve, is suddenly quiet.
Not in mourning. Not in panic.
In suspense."
And while we are waiting...
we get off our asses
We live for the city
with Stevie
And we dance on Dirty Blvd.
with Lou
Good commentary and perfect songs, for the dual nature of life in The City.