Below is the latest The Pain -- When Will It End?
Updated 7/04/07

Artist's Statement

Mr. Kreider is indisposed this week as he is a man broken, inconsolable about a personal question. While waiting for his reestablishment, we reprint a drawing which appeared on this Web site, but not in the newspaper, on last year’s American Day of Independence. Instead of the usual artist’s comment, I reproduce comments made by Mr. Kreider at a reading at the Warehouse Theater in Washington, D.C. during the "Laugh While You Can" tour of 2005. (Thanks to the intern of Mr. Tom Hart to provide me this transcription.) Mr. Kreider also asked me to refer you to the text of Bruce Springsteen’s "Land of Hope and Dreams," which in his current state it is the only song that he can withstand.

Additionally, I would inform the readers that I have lengthily updated the letters pages from February through June of this year.

Respect,

C.-H.

 

"I, too, said I would leave the country before the election. But it's easier said than done, because, you know, I live here--all my friends are here, all my favorite bars are here, and all my things are here. And it's my country, goddamn it. I don't want to let it be Their country. That's one reason I wear this American flag lapel, which I'll tell you I feel very self-conscious about when I'm not up here on the stage--I imagine people are looking at me and thinking, 'asshole.' But… when I go to anti-war protests, I dress [conservatively], I carry a big American flag. I don't want to let them appropriate that symbolism for themselves. It's not their country. It's Hunter Thompson's country; it's Jimi Hendrix's country; it's our America too. So I guess we have to stay."

-Tim Kreider

29 March 2005

 

"Land of Hope and Dreams," by Bruce Springsteen

Grab your ticket and your suitcase
Thunder’s rollin’ down this track
You don’t know where you’re goin’now
But you know you won’t be back
Darlin’ if you’re weary
Lay your head upon my chest
We’ll take what we can carry
And we’ll leave the rest

Big wheels roll through fields where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

I will provide for you
And I’ll stand by your side
You’ll need a good companion now
For this part of the ride
Leave behind your sorrows
Let this day be the last
Tomorrow there’ll be sunshine
And all this darkness past

Big wheels roll through fields where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

This train
Carries saints and sinners
This train
Carries losers and winners
This train
Carries whores and gamblers
This train
Carries lost souls
This train
Dreams will not be thwarted
This train
Faith will be rewarded
This train
Hear the steel wheels singin’
This train
Bells of freedom ringin’


This train
Carries broken-hearted
This train
Thieves and sweet souls departed
This train
Carries fools and kings
This train
All aboard


This train
Dreams will not be thwarted
This train
Faith will be rewarded
This train
Hear the steel wheels singin’
This train
Bells of freedom ringin’


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