Hollywood Hopeful, by Loudon Wainwright III.
We’ve all been holed up in our Hollywood hotel suites for year now, with tequila to drink and avocado to eat.
This song is the second Loudon Wainwright III number on the list — oh and by the way, the skunk is back. I fell into listening to this guy’s music after John Prine died and there was a really nice and relatively recent video going around of John Prine playing in like an apartment in Paris or something — it was a small space, whatever, and Loudon Wainwright was sitting there enjoying himself, singing along, eyes closed.
Do I have that story right? googling noises
Yes. Yes I do.
John Prine was one of the first famous (to us, anyway) people we lost a year ago when this all started, and his was the first song I sang for this project on the first of the year. That was not intentional, but here we are, a year into this particular sickness, an anniversary offset, the beginning and end of a season.
I am a full fledged grown up adult.
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