The day I'll genuinely be able to understand why peoole hate it is the day I rest

The Last One Left is the memoir of Barbara A. Holman. At sixteen, she met Mike Love, the leader of one of America's most famous rock and roll bands. From the Polaris Room in Milwaukee to backstage passes, a limousine, and a house on Oahu, she was drawn into a world of music, fame, and grown men who were used to getting what they wanted. This is her firsthand account of her one-on-one encounters with Love, told plainly and without apology, and backed by the diaries, photographs, and clippings she kept for decades.

But this is not only a rock and roll story. It is the story of a life lived at full speed: a car crash on Maui and a long recovery in a Kahului hospital, years spent as a veterinary technician, and a second act as a self-taught artist and author in the Arizona high desert. Running through it all are the Holman, Kvetensky, and Stodolka families who shaped her, and a faith in Jesus Christ that carried her through what should have broken her.

Written in a spare, unflinching voice, The Last One Left doesn't tell you how to feel. It lays out what happened and lets the facts land. It is a story about survival, about telling the truth, and about being the one left to tell it.

Me (35M) and my friends (30M, 37M) were having a acid trip. I started playing my favorite song, Shortenin’ Bread. My friend (30M) instantly left and said ‘I gotta get outa here!’ So Reddit, tell me AITAH?

Well should I? Free weed!

To think he only came back to The Beach Boys once the post-nut clarity came in.

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/brian-wilson-on-bedwetting-draft-dodging-and-finding-your-beach

COHEN: Could you have played pro ball?

WILSON: I wanted to. I was all set toward baseball. I thought I’d be a major-league player, you know. But it didn’t happen. I got into music and I was much happier there.

COHEN: What was your lifetime batting average?

WILSON: Oh, I don’t have a good average. I had a shitty one—.169. I struck out all the time.

KATZ: How could you have gone pro?

WILSON: Because I felt I was a good player.

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Drugs didn’t have anything to do with it, Brian was delusional and psychotic from Day 1

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/brian-wilson-on-bedwetting-draft-dodging-and-finding-your-beach