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Nov 24, 2012
Wasted Van Morrison in the Last Waltz cracks me up every time.
So Chubby. So Good.
I totally made this GIF after getting drunk and watching The Last Waltz for the first time.
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Apr 20, 2012
Oct 02, 2008
“Van Morrison is interested, obsessed with how much musical or verbal information he can compress into a small space, and, almost, conversely, how far he can spread one note, word, sound, or picture. To capture one moment, be it a caress or a twitch. He repeats certain phrases to extremes that from anybody else would seem ridiculous, because he’s waiting for a vision to unfold, trying as unobtrusively as possible to nudge it along. Sometimes he gives it to you through silence, by choking off the song in midflight: “It’s too late to stop now!” It’s the great search, fueled by the belief that through these musical and mental processes illumination is attainable. Or may at least be glimpsed.
— Lester Bangs on Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks
