City Still Breathing: Listening to the Weakerthans
Listening to the Weakerthans - This is one of my favorite pieces on music. Grab some coffee, sit down, and enjoy:
It’s the deepest relationship you can have with a place, I think: hating it and staying. It’s the flip side of officially sanctioned civic pride—something I’d seen plenty of, living in Toronto— which always feels lightweight, defensive, insubstantial: a cheap substitute for a real relationship with a place. Samson may think about leaving, but that only makes him more at home here: everyone in Winnipeg thinks about leaving, all the time.
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