Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock

“Do you know why your brother is in the back of a police car right now?” my cousin asked me.

“Is it about the tree?”

The problem is this: when I drink, I think about two songs: “A Kiss Before I Go,” by Ryan Adams and the Cardinals and “Teachers” by Leonard Cohen—the former when I’m happy, the latter otherwise. The night started well, and because I interpret these songs however I want, I had one shot, one beer, and a kiss before each time I walked to a different sector of the house. After a few hours of this, we headed to a party (inevitably, I had the aforementioned triad of pleasures before we left).

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