When You Were Young

"When You Were Young"- The Killers

From the album Sam's Town

This video and song stands as one of my favs of all time. The video involves cowboy boots, deserts, and romance. The track invokes something deep that I can't really explain especially the lyrics. They get me every time:

You sit there in your heartache

Waiting on some beautiful boy to

save you from your old ways

You play forgiveness

Watch it now ... here he comes!

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus

But he talks like a gentleman

Like you imagined when you were young

Can we climb this mountain

I don't know

Higher now than ever before

I know we can make it if we take it slow

Let's take it easy

Easy now, watch it go

We're burning down the highway skyline

On the back of a hurricane that started turning

When you were young

When you were young

And sometimes you close your eyes

and see the place where you used to live

When you were young

They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet

You don't have to drink right now

But you can dip your feet

Every once in a little while.

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?

"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone"- Paula Cole

I'm watching Thelma and Louise and I thought of this song; probably because of the desert, sleazy cowboys, cigarettes and sunsets.

I first discovered this song on a Clueless episode and it still hasn't lost its charm among the 90's female empowerment canon.

Where the Buffalo Roam

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Dreams Come True

Robert Downey Jr. for GQ UK

Fist Full Of Turquoise

The original Marlboro man Clint Eastwood

Crocheted ponochos

Vintage cowboy boots

Turquoise rings

Navajo patterns

and bolo ties.

When You Were Young...

I dream of a land of cacti and Mexican cowboys. Sunsets and canyons.

One of my favourite songs by The Killers, "When you were young".

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus

But he talks like a gentlemen

Like you imagined when

You were young...

"Playing Suck and Blow With My Marlboro Man"

Let's talk about ad Icons for a second. The top of the tops for advertising is the "cowboy killer" campaign - the iconic Marlboro Man.

He is seen as an enemy to the healthcare system, an ultimate- male gay icon, and the epitome of an advertising campaign.

Marlboro Man, you are the ultimate fantasy; smoking cigarettes from 1954 -1999, looking sexy under that cowboy hat, and giving boys the chills. Oh Marlboro Man.

However,the image of Marlboro Man "still remains instantly evocative of a mythical Marlboro country, of a mythical American cowboy and of the No. 1 brand of cigarettes that gave that cowboy real lung cancer." (Ad age)

P.s.- The heading is part of lyrics from Peter Breeze- "Hook Me Up"