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My thirsty wanted whiskey; my hungry needed beans,
But it’d been of month of paydays since I’d heard that eagle scream.
So with a stomach full of empty and a pocket full of dreams,
I left my pride and stepped inside a bar.

Been listening to wayyyy too much alt-country lately. Pretty much anything from before 1980, and then all the Uncle Tupelo / Neko Case stuff from the 90s and 00s (ought oughts). That last Johnny Cash record is… wow. And pretty much anything Waylon Janson recorded before 1975 is blissy. I heard some pretty authentic country while I was in Japan with really salty Japanese lyrics, and I really want to get my workin’ hands on some of that.

That said, I was thinking about it, and arcade games are really close to the country music of games. Built from whatever was available at the time, cheap in many ways but endearing none the less. Pure. Alive.