these are very different songs but they both remind me of traveling and make me feel like i need to be in motion, escaping one thing and moving towards another…

michael stipe in between playing “the apologist” and “so. central rain” in stockholm:

“we’re really really really really really really really really really really sorry.”

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beautiful man.

(Source: thomasdozol)

(torrent)

iloverem:

This is one of the reasons R.E.M. should have not called it day.  Bruce and Patti are 63 and 65 are they stopping? 

Michael Stipe channeling Patti Smith. I got to see this live in Philadelphia.  What a show.

Here during the guitar solo Michael is as amazed as if he was a fan who was just pulled from the Audience.

Oh and don’t get me started about how Gorgeous Michael is in that white suit. 

this album saved my life today.

i dreamt that r.e.m. was planning an east coast tour

and then i went to michael’s apartment in nyc and ate cereal.

love seeing live versions of this song that i haven’t seen before.

too bad about the watermark in the middle…incredibly moving performance.

[for william s. burroughs] my queer grandfather

confessionsofamichaelstipe:

hammered, shooting plywood in the backyard

laughing ‘cause the racket makes the blackbirds sing

write the holy terror, suck the marrow from the bones

singe your own wings burning books, you got the chorus and the ring