collage on card c.1985 ©StudioMONDO
I've lived in the city all my life with the except one brief stay in a sprawling apartment complex in Atlanta that was like a buffer zone between the the city and the suburbs. It was close enough to downtown to have good bus service and close enough to the suburbs to be close to a mall and be near dead silent at night. I loved living in the city, though. Cities are for social people who like to go out and make new friends because gathering places are many and, often, the options are within walking distance of each other. The suburbs tend to be for those with families who already have a core group of friends and neighbors to socialize with. As I've gotten older I've started think about a third mode of living: the country.
Now that i have a car (which, for those that know me, is a fairly recent development) the country's lure of quiet solitude beckons me and i think i could be comfortable with intermittent/molasses slow Internet (i have Verizon DSL now so how much worse could it be?), lame TV reception (i have a digital box that barely works anymore but i don't watch much TV anyhow). My Mom lives in the country and is very content to have satellite TV but she also has her sewing hobby and lots of family and friends to visit. I wish i had more time to go and visit her except i don't know how many more times i can spend the night sleeping on, what may be, the same bed i had when i was 11.
Still, for right now, i love living in the city.
The Take Back the Streets mixtape:
A1 Fear - I Love Livin' in the City
A2 Living Colour - Open Letter (To a Landlord)
A3 Nina Hagen - New York, New York
A4 Grace Jones - Barefoot in Beverly Hills
A5 Simple Minds - Theme for Great Cities
A6 Seventh Wave - Metropolis
A7 The Motors - Metropolis
A8 Eurythmics - The City Never Sleeps
A9 Randy Newman - Baltimore
A10 Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam
B1 The Platters - Harbor Lights
B2 David & David - All Alone in the Big City
B3 10,000 Maniacs - City of Angels
B4 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Do You Know the Way to San Jose
B5 Rufus feat. Chaka Khan - Hollywood
B6 Flash & The Pan - California
B7 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities in Dust
B8 Talking Heads - Cities
B9 B-52s - Mesopotamia
B10 The Silencers - Letter From St. Paul
B11 The Lounge Lizards -Harlem Nocturne / Do the Wrong Thing
A2 Living Colour - Open Letter (To a Landlord)
A3 Nina Hagen - New York, New York
A4 Grace Jones - Barefoot in Beverly Hills
A5 Simple Minds - Theme for Great Cities
A6 Seventh Wave - Metropolis
A7 The Motors - Metropolis
A8 Eurythmics - The City Never Sleeps
A9 Randy Newman - Baltimore
A10 Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam
B1 The Platters - Harbor Lights
B2 David & David - All Alone in the Big City
B3 10,000 Maniacs - City of Angels
B4 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Do You Know the Way to San Jose
B5 Rufus feat. Chaka Khan - Hollywood
B6 Flash & The Pan - California
B7 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities in Dust
B8 Talking Heads - Cities
B9 B-52s - Mesopotamia
B10 The Silencers - Letter From St. Paul
B11 The Lounge Lizards -Harlem Nocturne / Do the Wrong Thing
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