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Unhinged spotify playlist names5/11/2023 I never had anywhere to be or anything to do but stay inside and read young adult novels or watch Tumblr-acceptable indie movies like Nowhere Boy and Adventureland. The summer I was 15 was a long one, the days stretching and bleeding into one another. I developed a crush that never went away. “He’s dead,” my mom reminded me, sounding slightly sadder this time. He was tall and brooding, hair dyed darker, but his eyes were vulnerable and world-weary all the same. He played guitar and sang softly, somberly. I would see him again years later, in The Thing Called Love, one of his last films. I couldn’t comprehend that he was right there, and yet he was also gone. I was 10 years old when my mom pointed to the television and said, as though greeting an old friend, “Oh, that boy is dead.” Stand By Me was on and I looked past her outstretched arm to watch the kid with his sleeves rolled up and a cigarette in his mouth, his eyes vulnerable but also world-weary. ![]() We never walked an earth where the other existed. Which was a foolish thought, wasn’t it? He died exactly a year before I was born, on the Halloween of 1993. ![]() I didn’t save it to my library, but I would listen to it sometimes, when I wanted to hear his voice or when I was missing him. The track was a collaboration with Brazilian singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento, whom I would learn had been a good friend of his. I felt a jolt I didn’t expect it to actually be him. ![]() I didn’t know what to expect until about halfway, when the late actor’s voice suddenly began reciting a spoken word piece. The first result, though, was an artist page with only one track called Curi Curi, a one-minute 15-second song. There were a handful, but none by artists I’d heard of. I remember searching his name on the music streaming platform a few years back, curious to see if anybody’s ever written a song with his name in the title.
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