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I wanted so much I wanted it all.

I never wanted to accept the terms the world offered. I thought they hid what mattered.

For the last ten years I have been trying to Dream the Big Dream. What is that. I'm not sure. The Big Fish. Paracosmic play. Maybe ten years isn't so long. But I feel tired, and like I am less equipped to get there and attain it then I was a few years ago.

Hard to articulate

It was at last attaining some vision of a better and spiritual world that cast me into the shadows.

The world has finally disappointed me and it threatens to be permanent. Been in a bad mood since I got back.

Oliver Craner. We need you. Come to the assistance of your adopted homeland. The West you yearned for but were never brave enough to escape to. The great stone turban of Morro Rock. The rolling golden hills. The pure Pacific blue.

Calling "I Get Around" the best of the Beach Boys is what's embarrassing. Talk about adolescent. Pure 14 year-old empty braggadocio. None of the sensibility, the Romantic love of solitude and interiority, the lush texture and layering that really defines their best work.

Sit in the sunshine. Pop a brewski just to sip. Throw a tennis ball to the golden retriever. Swap tunes with pals on the Bluetooth speaker. Fistbump over chicks.

We're wholesome people, we Californians. Our guilty vices are skiing and mountain biking and surfing, these pure thrills of gravity and speed.

Sorry I forgot everyone in Britain is mentally ill and incapable of having any form of fun that doesn't involve being sloshed in a basement/gutter. I should be more sensitive.

What's there to dislike? You're hanging out in the backyard, grilling with family, flippin patties. Some gals in red-white-n-blue bikinis are attempting to shotgun beer by the framed-board fence. The kids are squirting each other with water guns. Just good vibes all around.

I dare you to listen to this track and claim Wilson lost it post-Pet Sounds:

Brian Wilson was an Eternal Childe that's part of the beauty. It's Malibu Romanticism.

Yeah I can't think of a song after Love & Mercy that has staying power, from Brian's solo career, and even that one's pretty slight, feels like a bad rehash Dennis put together a decent album with Pacific Ocean Blue, "Time" is really moving. But yeah.

It never occured to me that Jagger or Richards had solo careers! Never heard anyone mention before. Will have to explore

Spector shoutout in the lyrics

Infinitely more interesting people and aesthetic sensibility than the Beatles.

All the brothers live such stories. Dennis died what, drunken, diving for pearls? Or an old photograph, fallen from his sloop.

Gonna post more little gems