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19th Nervous Breakdown (This Week): An Isolation Photo Journal, Round 2
Guess who ended up in English quarantine again? (For anyone that wasn’t around for the last time this happened, you can read/see the beginning of the saga right here).
Because I chose to visit my parents in Massachusetts for three weeks, I got to have a lovely, ten-day mandatory quarantine alone, in my dorm room/flat. In between all of the fun of completing graduate school applications and getting ready for the start of school on Monday (as well as painting, reading, contemplating escape, practicing harp, working on Hebrew, contemplating escape, workshopping recital routines, boxing practice, and contemplating escape), I took a few minutes each day to make a meme about my experiences in isolation for the PiT, through the medium of Keith Richards. So without further a-due, for your amusement ‘The 14 days of Quarantine: Keef Style, Part 2’:
Brilliant :-)
That face, though…a whole little livin’ gone on there.
I don’t doubt that you have more nervous breakdowns than I do, but it seems that your weeks are longer than mine as well.
I did lift that off a song title, but it feels like a pretty accurate description of the last 12 days.
Funnily enough, you’re not the first person to say that to me.
We in the PIT had to endure it for almost two weeks. It is time to inflict it on the rest of the world.
But you guys are pretty used to dealing with me anyways. Mostly with the ‘just humor the mental patient’ strategy.
I wonder who handled the Quarantine better – Keith or Mick?
Works with everyone else, why wouldn’t it work with you?
The state placed an innocent person under house arrest for 10 days without cause, under a massive program of human rights violation propped up by a media disinformation campaign, and no one even thinks anything of it, let alone protests.
It isn’t funny.
As a big Stones fan, I loved this. Reminds me of one of my favorites of Keith’s songs.
You deserve the lyrics on this one.
You know, I’ve been waiting about fifty years to find time to have my nervous breakdown. Now I have the time, but it just wouldn’t be worth it, to only annoy one other person. Sigh…
I don’t think either are massive homebodies (they were actually meant to be on tour when it started), but Keith was in CT and Jagger left London for France. As far as I know, CT was never as strict as France on lockdown, so it was probably an easier experience for him.
They did all make a recording together from their respective homes (wherein everyone learned that Charlie Watts prefers to air drum sometimes):
And Jagger was in a video on ‘how to quarantine’ for Jimmy Fallon:
Okay, that was fun.
Of course they are.
Could have been worse…
That’s great. I’m quite fond of a lot of the songs he sings lead on, and some of his solo work as well; his voice is a little odd, but when it works with a song, it really works. “Slipping Away” and “Little T&A” are probably my favorite Stones songs with him on lead, and “Just a Gift” from Crosseyed Heart and “You Don’t Move Me” from Talk Is Cheap are also wonderful. He can write a superb love song, which is not something I think a lot of people expect based on his image.
I can’t tell you how many meltdowns we’ve had here! Being without working antidepressants for a few weeks is not a laughing matter!
On the one hand, yeah, I’ve been there. On the other hand, there’s the obvious joke to be made.
“Quite the opposite, in fact.”
I’m so sorry, that sounds terrible. My prescription migraine medication, during the first lockdown in England last year, ran out (because I’m under an American prescription), and then, when I did get it, decided to stop working entirely. It was murder, I don’t think I’ve ever been so consistently miserable in my life.
You have migraine as well? We’re in the same boat (relatively speaking)! I’m so sorry! I have migraine, too. I haven’t really been able treat the migraine since the whole Covid craziness started.
Great stuff. I consider the Talk Is Cheap album to be a great album. It blew me away when it first came out. My favorite song on that album is Struggle. Might be my favorite Keith song.
Also, Kirkian did you know the Stones put out a pandemic song this year, Living in a Ghost Town.
Yes, I did. I heard it when it first came out and was pretty impressed, I think it’s one of the better songs they’ve done in the last 20 years. Apparently they’ve got a whole new album that was supposed to be released in 2020, but with everything going on and the inability to tour, it never happened.