Weller’s lyrics, especially on the first couple of albums, are like an open diary into the heart of what it is to be young - bursting with confidence, raging with anxiety, desperately trying staking out a place of your own.
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Tired of a distant, overreaching government who’s onerous and oppressive taxes and control they blamed for infringing on their rights, colonists in the British Americas took matters in their own hands.
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"We're Americans. We don't plan. We do."
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Worst of all, yet diabolically brilliant, the prison was run by the inmates.
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He invented a machine that converts music from the stereo into pain on the canvas. It did this by splattering the canvas with paint, in time to the music, until the entire canvas was covered in paint.
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There are no pictures of Grant and Lee at Appomattox. Some would argue it was the most crucial moment in post-Revolutionary American history. Perhaps that's just as it should be because it allows the moment to live in our imaginations.
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Robert Riskin had a way with words and a particularly great way with Capra's words.
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Q: Are you scared when crowds scream at you? John Lennon: More so in Dallas than other places.
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In Huckleberry Finn, Twain is attempting to educate his reader. But Twain was also educating himself.
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What came next was like a blast out of a shotgun, or a smash cut of excerpts from a Beastie Boys video.
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There are songwriters who write songs that are complicated, or exotic, or "new for the sake of new", intent on getting the most accolades. And then there are other songwriters who write straight, pure and true. Tom Petty was the king of the latter.
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