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“Before his first step, he's off again…”
Off He Goes: Pearl Jam, No Code
I love this ballad off of Pearl Jam’s No Code album. Eddie tells the story of a wanderer and the stereotypes that people have with such people… that they really are people who have wonderful things to say and feel. It makes me want to get on a motorcycle and start traveling the land.
The music in this song is some of Pearl Jam’s best. I love the use of their acoustic and the 50’s retro style tremolo chords. They have such a knack for blending words and music- and doing it better than so many out there. Beautiful song!
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I chose the option of thumbing a ride to go wandering...
Lyrics:
Know a man
His face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's ridin' on a motorbike
In the strongest winds
So I approach with tact
Suggest that he should relax
But he's always movin' much too fast
Said he'll see me on the flip side
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes
He's yet to come back
But I've seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back
I wonder 'bout his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size
He's been taken...where, I don't know
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes
And now I rub my eyes, for he has returned
It seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles... And he's still strong
Nothing's changed but the surroundin' bullshit
That has grown
And now he's home and we're laughin'
Like we always did, my same old, same old friend
Until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next
Before his first step, he's off again
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Number: 21
Date: JUL95
Film: Kodachrome white with red
Charlene Helman:
Rachel Helman, Tyler Goodell, Perry Goodell, Eschol Goodell, Anna Goodell, Emily Blackadar
in back - Patrick Goodell, Jessica Goodell, Sarah Helman
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Number: 8
Date: ?????
Film: Kodachrome red-on-grey
D17
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Tray 68: "Barkhapstead, Laura Pease, 1957". Woman looks like the same one in 33-042-1, taken on Nantucket. Laura Pease lived and died on Nantucket, according to Mother's genealogy.
Senate House, Deane Campus, at night.
Thanks to the 'Bowness, Hepworth Estate' for allowing images of the Two Forms sculpture by Barbara Hepworth to be used.
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Number: 14
Date: JUL95
Film: Kodachrome white with red
Charlene Helman says:
In front of cabin 13
Patrick Goodell, Dustin Hill, Sarah Hellman
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Number: 5
Date: AUG53
Film: Kodachrome Red-on-grey
C46
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Annual picnic at Aunt Elsie and Uncle Ernest Spencer's house.
Date on slide likely incorrect. Number and content match previous and next slide -- Kathleen's blue shirt, man in white shirt and pants, woman in purple checked dress, picnic basket.
Kathleen Ellis wote 2/19/10:
Aunt Elsie was Zita’s best friend.
Steve Ellis found this in the Brookfield Historical Society Web site, 2/20/10:
Mrs. Margaret (Chew) Waddington and her daughters Mary and Elsie came to Brookfield in November, 1913, as noted previously. Mary married John Harford and set up housekeeping on the Waddington place. Elsie stayed with John and Mary a short time, and then went to work for Dr. Ellis in the telephone office in the village. From there she went to New Brunswick to work in the seed laboratory. Elsie was married in 1934 at Brookfield to Dr. Ernest Spencer, whom she had met at Rutgers University, while he was working for Rockefeller Institute.
After John and Mary Harford moved to the village, Ernest and Elsie acquired the place on Stone Road, which they continued to own until they built their present residence in Brookfield Center.
Handwritten date on slide likely incorrect. Number and content matches previous and next slide.