In Spite of Me

Morphine

These guitars and mandolins sound beautiful and crisp this rainy, Saturday morning — especially under Mark Sandman’s almost whispered baritone. Feeling respect and love for this narrator — who remains in the rearview of someone special. And the vision he has in his living room still feels haunting and cinematic to me.

Late last night I saw you in my living room
You seemed so close but yet so cool
For a long time I thought that you’d be coming back to me
Those kind of thoughts can be so cruel
So cruel
And I know you did it all in spite of me

While revisiting this towering 90’s record CURE FOR PAIN, it’s obvious how well it holds up. And it brings back all those wonderful, misguided years of being a naive kid in film school trying to find my way. Mark Sandman recorded this timeless batch of songs in two weeks. He wrote them all and also mixed the record. Sandman was a taxi driver who finally hit it big. Sadly, he died of a heart attack on stage at 46. He was not a drug user according to family and friends. RIP ❤️