What is "Tonight" "The Night" for? And other Neil mysteries.

if you hope that it matters, and you're having your doubts, why are you still climbing the ladder? what's wrong with you? maybe you're too wasted to be climbing that ladder, pal.

don't make fun of neil!!!!

this is the very first time i've ever made fun of neil
seriously
now i feel bad because he was going through a rough time

i forgive u and so does neil

lololol

feeling old enough to repaint but young enough to sell right now tbh

Why can't you be twenty on sugar mountain? Do you just skip from 19 to 21? That doesn't make any sense to me. No wonder so many people are leaving there too soon.

Why is the cowgirl in the sand? Does that mean there's a sandgirl in the cow? It doesn't make any sense people!

If everybody knows this place is nowhere, why are they wondering what's going on there? Obviously, nothing is going on there, its nowhere people!

lalala lalala la

Is love really the only thing that can break your heart? What about cholesterol and trans fats? They can do some damage too, amiright? He should change the lyrics to Only Love and possibly bacon can break your heart.

Why does red mean run? Next you'll tell me green means stop.

I like that NY song that says something like " I know my problems are meaningless, that doesnt make them go away". I cant for the life of me remember what song it is, i think its off Tonights the Night or on the beach.

it's on the beach (the song)

thanks, i knew i was close.

Why do your senses tingle when you dance? That sounds to me like some type of circulation problem or something serious like that. Why take a chance?

and WHAT is the DEAL with needing a maid?? men, am i right???

"Milk-blood
to keep from running out."

milkblood?

Why do they give you this when you pay for that? Better hang onto those receipts, people!

music biz, maan.
xp: shooting heroin thing iicrc

a man needs a main to keep his house clean, cook his meals and go away.
this isn't rocket science, people

"they killed his brother, y'know...yeah, it's true...they left him lying in a driveway. why a driveway?? why not put him in the garage? can we have just a little respect for the driveway?? meanwhile, the driveway's thinking 'oh here we go. again with the dead coke dealers??

take my advice...PLEASE!"

How did burning his credit card provide Neil Young with fuel? Or was it just that he burned his gas card (a "credit card for fuel")?

i assumed he used the credit card as kindling to start his campfire

One thing I've always wanted to know...how can the Danger Bird fly, if his wings have turned to stone? Have you ever tried flying with wings of stone? It's darn near impossible people. No wonder he flies alone.

xpost he cooked some fried eggs and country ham iirc

i just went on google maps, and yes santa fe is less than 90 miles away from albuquerque

thread of the day

So was he a heavy doper or was he just a loser?

Now I won't be back
till later on
If I do come back at all

^^could you be a little more specific, i need to know when to start dinner!

"well it wasn't supposed to go down THAT way, kramer!"
(applause)
[aaaand SCENE!]

if you can be happy for the rest of your life with a cinnamon girl, that's cool, but i'd rather spend time with a real live woman ifyouknowwhatimean

Why'd you ruin my life? Also, where you takin' my kid? Call me!

and what's the deal with that white boat coming up the river??

How did Pocahontas feel in the morning?

Why do you keep fucking up?

Didn't NY kind of renounce My My Hey Hey after Cobain cited the lyrics in his suicide note...? I think I read it really fucked him up.

I've heard of expecting to fly, but THIS IS RIDICULOUS!

What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground? Or even if you didn't know her?

you're all just pissing in the wind

which is funny, because Lennon got shot in his prime years & NY's still chugging along

― lukevalentine, Friday, February 12, 2010 5:57 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

"prime"

Welfare mothers are always a good lay.

watch out for the ones standing near garbage cans, though
their kids are totally uncool and uneducated

It's all well and good to say Don't Be Denied. But it's okay to be denied some things, right? Like syphilis. You can deny me that any time people. Or being stuck in an elevator with Stephen Stills. Please, deny me. Amiright?

It's not okay to be denied Times Fades Away on cd. Yet Neil denies it to us. Hypocrite.

Tonight is the night fr drunken mourning, I thought.

Why in the world would a burning castle bring me down? I don't live anywhere near one. Besides, don't they have moats?

Istill can't hear that line from Tell Me Why without thinking about mortgages

When I dance you can really love? That's a little abstract. If I were to samba around the deli, would you start making googly eyes at the pastrami?

What the hell does the old laughing lady find so funny? She can't hear, keep time or count the score. That would make me pretty damn cranky. They should call it The Old Grouchy Lady.

What the hell is Neil doing looking at the sky? It's about to rain, for crying out loud. Get inside before you catch pneumonia.

Don't let her through your cellar door, she's a junkie!

which is funny, because Lennon got shot in his prime years & NY's still chugging along

― lukevalentine, Friday, February 12, 2010 5:57 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

"prime"

― 69

He was between prime years at 40. If he had lived another year he would have been in his prime.

Snake eyes, french fries, and I got lots of gas. Full moon and a jumping tune and you don't have to ask.

You're really such a beautiful fish, floppin' on the summer sand...

one of the biggest NY head scratchers for me---

Live with me, live with me
Live with me, live with me
Live with me.

Lost in space
I heard you were lost in space
That's such a lonely place
for you to be.

Out of control
Singin' with too much soul
I heard you got out on parole
Workin' for the queen.

Gardening again
Landscape again
Keepin' all the grounds
around her clean
Workin' for the queen.

Don't take out the magic pen
Don't draw on the infinity board
Your buildings, if they rise again
Would do much better
on the ocean floor
They'll never feel the way
they did before
They did before.

Out on the ocean floor,
out on the ocean floor
What could be stranger
than the unknown danger
That lies on the ocean floor?

Breakers crash on the beach
I count them like lambs in my sleep
They come at me steady
They know I'm not ready
They pound on my mattress door
Have they got a big one in store.

Losing you
I heard I was losing you
That's not the only thing
that I got to lose
I got to lose
The deep sea blues
Look at these blues
The deep sea blues

Live with me, live with me.

"gardening again / landscape again" kind of blows my mind every time.

What's an infinity board anyhow?!

Love is a nose, but you'd better not pick it.

i like the idea that neil actually meant sid vicious in my my hey hey

Well yeah, because if there was ever a definitive example of fading away rather than burning out it was Cap'n Lydon.

Is it strange you should change? I don't know, why don't you try it and see if it works?

Revive!

I was looking at my map the other day and got to thinking. Do you have any idea how far it is from Peru to Texarkana? How the heck is Neil going to ride his llama all that way? It's thousands of miles for crying out loud! My guess is the llama drops dead somewhere in Venezuela. He should just take a plane.

I follow him on twitter and he's doing a Q&A this week! You should ask him.

So many Neil threads these days.

"tired eyes" gives me the same eerie violent chill as certain stretches of "no country for old men"

omar hugely otm

It's like some conversation you'd overhear snippets of in an interstate diner in new Mexico at 2 am and you'd quietly pay yr bill and get back on the road quick and go fifty miles further than you planned. Tingles me spine it does.

Good comparison.

"This is a mess, isn't it Sheriff?"
"I reckon it'll do till the real mess comes along."

What do you mean, "he had bullet holes in his mirrors"?

it wasn't supposed to go down that way

Do drug deals ever go down the way they're supposed to? there's usually a a lot of waiting around

Enough to make anyone's eyes tired

mentioned over in the psychedelic pill thread, but we could get neil to answer all of these questions tomorrow -- via twitter! #askneil

but speaking of tonight's the night, i'm flipping through this new-ish Neil Young FAQ book i picked up from the library, and it's ok, but there are these mistakes that keep bugging me. like saying that jack nitzsche played piano on tonight's the night, the song (he didn't), or that "change your mind" is a haunting eulogy for kurt cobain (neil was playing this song live in 1993). nerdy complaints, but the book is basically supposed to be the ultimate neil young nerd book.

I caught rust sleeping just the other night - claimed it was "just resting its eyes"

I'm of half a mind to repost that to what a horribly formed "joke"

I think he's musing out loud about the appeal of burning out rather than fading away, eff you, rust! On the other hand: "Once you're gone/ You can never come back", well, yas yas, h'mmm, if we're talkin mortality--career-wise, it seems everybody in rawk can always come back, to some level...yo Seinfeld!

Can't find the actual interview, but he was talking about when people ask him about his lyrics and said, "'What is the color when black is burned?' What does that mean? It's like, I dunno, dark grey or something."

iirc from shakey a lot of tired eyes is based around a real incident that happened in topanga

There's this one picture online of Bruce Berry's van, seemingly shot up--I thought it was about him, but maybe not.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5141/5746414238_d6ce0afda8.jpg

nah those are just rust spots....i'll have to pull out shakey, but there was a shooting of some dude that was kinda like the topanga drug dealer to the stars or something, a local character

yeah, they even tracked down the guy in shakey, he had been in jail for a while iirc. he really did shoot four guys in a cocaine deal.

Some dude is dead?

i would say that van is dead

Some dude is dead?

the family claims his posts come from a backlog of 500 he had stored on his computer, but some of the references are suspiciously topical