Matthew Landis

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In one of those strange synchronicities that let’s you know that the ones you love are out there in the aether: Springsteen (whom Jack loved and admired) played Kilkenny, Ireland yesterday. He opened the show–in honor of Shane Macgown, also departed–by playing, of all Pogues’ songs, “A Rainy Night in Soho.”

That song was the song that came up on shuffle as I was driving away from the memorial at that park near the Raritan after Jack’s funeral. It’s the song Teorema closed…

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