Tag: documentary

• Horrible People, Gravelly Throats, and Autobiographies – Thoughts from November 9 to 23, 2024

  

  November 9, 2024 I need to write now more than ever, but I’m afraid of what I’m going to say. When Patti and I took our trip along Route 66, there were Trump signs almost every mile as we drove. We knew there was a huge section of America that ignored every horrible thing Trump…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 28, 2025

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  2024, acid reducer, addictions, avoiding family members, being abused, Brian Wilson autobiography, comedy autobiographies, conceptual and performance artist, dietary restrictions, documentary, get it lasered off, gravelly voice, hateful renaissance, HBO, Laughlin, Marina Abramović, medication, medication helping?, mental health issues, misinformation and hate, miss singing in the car, music-making, musical process, negative influence, Patti, people rewarded for horrible behavior, prescription, prescription strength, progress, Republicans, Route 66, stomach pain, Thanksgiving, The Artist is Present, The Beach Boys, thoughts, throat doctor, torture herself for art, Trump signs, vocal cord polyp, worst of the worst people, worst President in history

• Fires, Professor Sprout, and the NME Charts – Thoughts from September 7 and 8, 2024

  

  September 7, 2024 There are flames in the hills near our house. Only a freeway separates our house from the evacuation area. Patti is home and freaking out. She can still see the flames from our house. My sixth-grade teacher showed a picture from his front yard of the smoke billowing up as if from…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 12, 2025

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  2020, 2023, 2024, 83 years old, A-holes on the freeway, artsy songs, audiobooks, being a lesbian, being Jewish, British artists, distraction, documentary, Duran Duran, evacuation area, expectations of the world, expecting each day to be the same, fear of thunder, few filters, fires, Harry Potter, liberally opinionated, living alone, magazine from the UK, Miriam Gargolyes, negative or positive opinions, new music, New Musical Express, NME charts, no belief in God, Patti, Pixies, problems to solve, Professor Spout, radio listening, rare events, refusing to leave, seeing flames from our house, Simon Le Bon, sing along with songs, smoke billowing up, songs in stereo, swearing, thoughts, throat problems, thunderstorms, top 100 albums of all time, Velvet Underground

• A Live Studio Audience – Thoughts from October 7, 2002

  

  (Future note: It always seems weird to start a Thoughts paper with a future note, but this requires it because it’s not actually a Thoughts paper. This is an email I wrote to a friend of mine who I hadn’t seen in years. It was the last known email address I had for him, so…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 11, 2023

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  200 Motels, 2002, ampersand, animation, Animation Academy, calling on the phone, Character Design, Chipwich, documentary, email, friend, Just Shoot Me, music, Patti, security, September 11th, signatures, Steve Vai, That 70s Show, The King of Queens, thoughts, TV tapings, writers

• September 2, 1997 – Thoughts from Life 5

  

  Simple doesn’t exist in anything if you examine it long enough, but complex doesn’t have to exist with everything (Logic police alert! Drop the bad sentence and step away from the building!). If you take everything generally and don’t get caught up in too many specifics, life can be more than just bearable. It can…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 17, 2022

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  1997, atheist, atheists, complex, documentary, Elvis Costello, full-time employee, generally, gossip, imperfection, Kurt Cobain, macho, McDonald's, no interest in cars, perfectionist, playing music, poor, porno, punk, rage, rap, simple, soap operas, three-day weekends