Feels fitting on a day when I’m setting out to drive to his former homeland in the Dirty Jurrz to post this article I found on Anthony Bourdain. It’s on an interview the author did with him two-plus years ago, which is endearing enough to read as it has Tony swilling booze and telling tales in the corner of a dark bar, but it’s the closing advice Bourdain left him with that’s so good. Definitely give it a read (and live the words at the end)…
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Also thought since we’re going to the beach and officially embracing the season it was worth throwing out Death Cab’s new song “Summer Years” for a listen. It’s been a tumultuous few years for the band — founding member Chris Walla left, their last album Kintsugi was middling at best, and then there was the very public breakup of frontman Ben Gibbard’s marriage with Zooey Deschanel. Thankfully it looks like they might be righting the ship with this one, which hearkens back to another summer-titled track and its friends from their classic album Plans. We’ll see how the rest come out — in the meantime give it a listen here: