Newly-engaged songsmith, wordsmith, singer, former blogger, and Blackbookmag.com writer Ryan Adams really loves New York, which is why I can’t think of anyone better than him to put to words the magic this city holds. As a self-professed loner, I felt especially close to the passage marked below in his article posted today on Blackbookmag.com about his thoughts on the LA life.
Hey Ryan, if things don’t work out with Mandy, call me will ya?
Ryan Adams: Golden Stars on Streets of Piss
By: Ryan Adams
March 02, 2009
“In the back of my mind, as my feet walked over the golden stars that line the Hollywood Boulevard, filthy, horrid and bleak, littered with crumpled McDonald’s bags and streams of piss, I thought of home, my bed in my cavernous New York apartment, walls stacked with books like a shield from my own thoughts and the sounds outside. I thought of walking the empty streets alone and about how no matter how sad I or anyone else gets there, New York seems to prop a loner up on his side and up by the bootstraps we go, we loners. Our fair city is here to remind us that we are all alone together.”
Back in 2001, Ryan Adams recorded his video for the Grammy nominated single, “New York, New York” four days before the 9/11 attacks. It features multiple shots of the World Trade Center towers and an homage to the city.
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I can NOT believe he’s engaged. AND to Mandy Moore, no less. No words…