I've been discussing Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum in the Nineties elsewhere. Impossible to tell Jeremy's story, from Manayunk-Villanova to 'd' magazine to P.F.S., without mentioning his fanatical devotion to both the Smiths, shown here, and Morrissey. Jeremy not only knew everything there was to know about Morrissey and the Smiths, the entire city of Philadelphia followed Jeremy's lead and made the Smiths stars in the early Aughts. Jeremy himself started with the Smiths while still in high school in South Jersey. So, for anyone who for any reason wants a soundtrack to/for Jeremy, you must turn on something like this. And also understand that for me, because of Jeremy's obsession, all memories of Manayunk tend to re-route themselves towards hearing the Smiths' nuggets in my head. Jeremy more than colonized them; he built into his personality a solid wall of Morrissey-ism to push people back. It did.
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