Okay, so we all watched that insane dogshit alternate ending to Titanic that’s been making the rounds online today. And while we can all agree James Cameron made the right choice, some of us heard something surprising, familiar, and as beautiful as the Heart of the Ocean itself. Dog’s Eye View’s 1995 classic “Everything Falls Apart” plays over shots of Bill Paxton and his crew kicking back on the deck of their research vessel. It’s a nice reminder of the glory days of alternative radio, and even though it’s a song about being young and drunk and self-destructive, it works, because it is a jam, and also because it comes in before things go really off the rails.Dog’s Eye View was a project of New York singer/songwriter Peter Stuart, who after a second album and a truly great solo debut Propeller, left the music business, got his Master’s degree in clinical psychology, and now works as a therapist in Austin, TX, helping people with problems including but not limited to “identifying strongly with the lyrics of ‘Everything Falls Apart.’” (He and his family are snowed in but doing fine.) Stuart is an old friend of mine, and an absolute-best-case scenario for post-rock-star life. He’s much happ… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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