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  "title": "music on The Art Of Not Asking Why",
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        "title": "🎶 Creep: Stone Temple Pilots",
        "content_html": "<p>When I was in college and got a dorm room through a scholarship, I had a friend who dealt more closely with the grunge of life. We were both part of the staff of the college&rsquo;s newspaper, often working long nights that stretched into tired mornings of drip coffee and cheap Chinese food.</p>\n<p>When it was time to head back to my room, KU would go to the parking garage, where he&rsquo;d sleep in his car, or if it wasn&rsquo;t too late (and by that I mean to early in the morning), in the office under one of the desks. Going back home was a long drive to South Jersey, and since he was ready to crash anyway at this point, he shrugged it off as a better option. At one point, I remember someone opened a drawer and saw his toothpaste and toothbrush and people got worried that he had nowhere to go. I guess he understood it was &ldquo;weird,&rdquo; but to him it was just a thing to do. No biggie.</p>\n<p>In college, KU was tough but approachable. He quickly became one of my best friends, whom I always respected. He was a true-to-life example of &ldquo;when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.&rdquo;</p>\n<p>He was so good at it that he didn&rsquo;t stop to perceive the lemons as lemons; he always saw the lemonade he could make. An excellent writer with a sharp mind, he worked his way up to the head of his fraternity, landed an internship at NASA, and became an astrophysicist.</p>\n<p>STP was one of his favorite bands, and I imagine Creep was one of his favorite songs. I didn&rsquo;t know this until I researched the song today, but according to Scott Weiland, Creep is about &ldquo;the idea of being a young person somewhere, caught between still being a kid and becoming a young man. It&rsquo;s that youth apathy, that second-guessing yourself, not feeling like you fit in.&rdquo; Wow. Nailed it. I don&rsquo;t know whether KU knew that, but this song was written for him:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m half the man I used to be</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(For as I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Well, I&rsquo;m half the man I used to be</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(For as I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m going to write him an email.</p>\n<p>View entry: <a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/jtr/20260704\">www.crucialtracks.org/profile/j&hellip;</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-07-04T12:27:47-04:00",
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