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[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 95: [H]ere we are, for the first time ever, two adults, sitting at my kitchen table, drinking, talking, laughing. It feels strange and—awesome.
at awesome, adj.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 58: Several pop open beers. A few knock back shots.
at knock back, v.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 188: You know what? I just decided. I’m not doing this fundraiser. [...] Book some other band. I’m bailing.
at bail, v.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 110: We’re old, true, and some of us may not be in the best shape of our lives, but we can ball.
at ball, v.4
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 102: KISS. My current jam. I blast their albums.
at blast, v.1
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 212: Every day is a trip. Completely joyful. I’m having such a blast, I want to pinch myself.
at blast, n.1
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 80: I bullshit with the bartender.
at bullshit, v.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 62: T]here is something so easy about us, a familiarity, like we’ve known each other before and we’re picking up where we left off. Dean and I just click.
at click, v.3
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 155: I wish my mom were alive. I would have comped her a first-row seat.
at comp, v.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 45: When he offers advice, he speaks with care and kindness. He also takes no crap and calls us out.
at take crap (v.) under crap, n.1
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 98: I’ve been listening to Nanci’s album Little Love Affairs constantly and especially to this song, the eighth or ninth cut.
at cut, n.1
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 132: I’m not into the Devil’s Lettuce even though here [i.e. Amsterdam] you find the highest-quality weed in Europe.
at devil’s lettuce (n.) under devil, n.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 45: I duff shots and shank drives.
at duff, v.1
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 130: Ecstasy. Coke. Our middle names.
at ecstasy, n.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 107: We make hundreds of copies and send them everywhere, an epic CD blast.
at epic, adj.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 91: Not only does Rusty listen to it, he flips. He loves the music.
at flip, v.4
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 68: One time, after we set up to play at a frat party, I hit the head.
at frat, n.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 6: We’ve been touring nonstop, on the road constantly, finally coming to the last leg of back-to-back tour stops, and I’m fried. I need a break.
at fried, adj.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 139: I’m feeling a little gassed from the travel and the nonstop performing.
at gassed(-out), adj.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 25: Give my mom props. She gets into Barry [Manilow]—a little.
at get into, v.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 188: As always, I rise to the occasion, get it up to perform.
at get it up, v.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 212: A couple days [of recording] in, I loosen up and go with the flow.
at go with the flow (v.) under go with, v.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 6: [T]hose days we played stadiums at night, night after night, and smoked and snorted and drank the rest of the time. We partied hard.
at hard, adv.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 102: I can’t get enough of these guys—[...] their costumes, their makeup, their attitude, and their headbanging music.
at headbanging, adj.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 110: Mark is a hoop rat [...] eager to take on any five who’ll play us.
at hoop, n.1
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 8: ‘I know what you need. Let’s fire up a hooter.’ We head into the house, to my room, and we smoke a blunt the size of an eggplant.
at hooter, n.5
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 50: I hoover my half-price quesadilla.
at hoover (up), v.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 98: Every song on the album has become my current jam.
at jam, n.1
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 143: [of a song] Two and a half minutes of heaven. We kill it.
at kill, v.
[US] D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 119: Two days later [...] David Crosby struts into the studio. [...] At that instant, I know. We have landed.
at land, v.
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