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HE WAS A CARPENTER AND HE MADE BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN HIS LIFETIME.

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I instantly fell in love with singer-songwriter Dan Mangan  the moment I heard his song "The Indie Queens are Waiting" on 8tracks. Tonight I'm listening to his playlist, and gleefully drowning myself in the stories he tells in every song. There has not been one song that I did not like (I've listened to a total of five now!). Every song just sounds like a beautiful postcard letter from a faraway, interesting stranger sharing his feelings and encounters with the world. To someone who is as tired as I am after a long day at work, THIS is the best therapeutic escape I've had since Sims 3 was installed in my laptop over a month ago.  His song 'Basket' is so poignant and deep ( I used to be so young, how did I get so old? ), it made me want to learn why and how it was written. Dan tells that it is an ode to his grandfather, and that basket is a metaphor to life and how, growing up, we fill it with our individual treasures that make us who we are--experien