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Joe Strummer God, I love this Man. I miss him true. I liked his verve for life. You could feel it in his writing, like blood between your
fore finger and thumb; it was free form, passionate and rolling in the moment. Life was moving fast before his eyes,
and he was just trying to get it all down. A modern day beat punk poet for sure. And his passion led him on, sometimes into
what seemed like trouble. but he rolled on (even with a devastatingly hurt heart after the Clash break up, that he led), and
roamed his nomad way till he found his new soul's way. "Joe Strummer: The future is unwritten" is an amazing
movie. Julien Temple did a fucking fantastic job sketching Joe's free wheeling ghost. I cried when he died and I cried
when I watched this. I didn't like the way I felt after I saw the Clash documentary "West-way to the World"
because it focused on the ultimate demise of the Clash, and the story was not done yet. But the documentary "Joe Strummer:
The future is unwritten" finishes the story showing Joe in his post break-up wilderness, and then finding his post Clash;
even further Voice, with the Mescaleros and Raves. It's not a "spit / polish" story, it is full of grit.
There will always be a pack of smokes and a bottle
of wine waiting in my house for Joe... Like a light in the window for an old sailor; should the heavy seas drive him to port
for the night. He's always got a couch here.
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