What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

Love the slogans on the stickers! Very honest, straight guy. Going to buy this. Great lyrics. (throwing rocks at sorrow's window pane).
I come from a completely dysfunctional family so I can relate to what he says entirely. Close to the bone. He tells it like it is. No bullshit. Another masterstroke from Aunty Ruby. Where DO you find this stuff Miss Tuesday? Made my day. 

Found his list of professions very interesting - from Wiki

'Professional surfer, comedian, guitarist, fashion model, cab driver, singer-songwriter, boxer, preacher'

From an old friend who sadly died far too young – cancer. He spent the last decade of his life in Denmark and would pop up every now and then and send me a link to a song he thought I might like. 

His family life was totally messed up and although still able to find beauty and amusement in the unlikeliest of settings, great sense of humour, he never really found his way out of the maze. A fraternal twin, he and his brother were like chalk and cheese – a sensitive, gentle, creative, severely dyslexic boy born into a family who had no idea what to do with him or why he struggled so much, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. He was the type of child who’d be late for school because he’d been rescuing snails from the path of harm – military service nearly finished him off. Music was his saviour, at least as much as any saving was possible. He just went his own way and ended up having an unconventional but not uninteresting life!

You’re quite right Jerome – every family has its issues, usually endlessly repeated in cycles unless consciously interrupted. 

My intro to Jim White, from Mike, was this one …