There are many reasons why you can part with an old broken car. The first is the trouble that happened — road accidents, floods, vandals. Secondly, an old horse may require attention and costs more than it produces horsepower. But surveys of motorists show another interesting pattern: owners just want to change cars to update their experience. Be that as it may — but what to do with the former car? There are places like this, you just have to watch out for ads like this: “We buy junk cars Jacksonville FL”.
Americans don’t care about changing cars
There are such amorous car owners who drive the same car from youth to old age. Perhaps this is something personal, but such an owner is protected from accidents and floods by higher powers. But for most Americans, a car is not so much a status as a necessity. And if the needs change, then the car also changes. Some events can disrupt this order, but in general, a person always wants to develop and change. This also applies to car use.
1. Growing up
With a change in age, a person does not become better or worse, he simply changes his attitude to life. If earlier it was considered cool to rush at night in violation of the rules on a sports car, now it is a calm daily ride on a familiar route. And for this you do not need a charged engine and a sports suspension, a city sedan is enough.
2. The time has come
No matter how much you love your car and how much you take care of it, metal has a concept of fatigue, and it wears out, or even breaks. The car no longer drives like it used to, and aside from loving it, nothing has improved. So, it’s time to part without tears: the end of one is always the beginning of another.
3. Larger size
When calculating the power, it is customary to add another 20-30 percent to the total number of consumer capacities. In case consumption increases, and devices are upgraded. The same with the family — only there were two people, and already — four. And all together in a small hatchback no longer fit. So, you need a bigger car.
4. In pursuit of prestige
It is widely believed in business circles that dealers during a conversation pay attention to the partner’s glasses, his watch and car. Everyone tends to believe what they want, but if a car is defined as a status thing, then such a thing will change with a change in status. And this change is only for the increase.
5. Desire for new sensations
It is implemented by means of increasing the size — either geometric or power. Tired of sedans — moved to a SUV: you sit high, can see far, drive on the dirt road. Such changes can be for the better not only from a driving point of view, but from a general psychological point. Traveling is also a change of picture and impressions.
Whatever reason you give yours, one question remains: what to do with the car that needs to be replaced? Contact guys like Junk car us, they will find a use for it in the parking lot or at the auction.
Not a junkyard but a museum
After the owner refuses to own a car for any reason, it ends up in a landfill. But it is only called that — in fact, this is an open-air enterprise, where there is its own internal order, and access to outsiders is strictly prohibited. Cars get here in two ways:
from insurance companies — cars after an accident or floods are assessed by the insurance company and if the repair of the car is approximately equal to the price of the car, it is usually sent to a landfill, and the owner receives compensation
landfill owners themselves buy junk cars — from private retailers or the same resellers, since both American cars and their spare parts are very popular on online auctions, and there are really a lot of goods in landfills
By type of service junk car dumps are:
full service — the staff picks up a car or spare parts for the client, consulting the card index, and then helps to disassemble and transport the selected purchases
self-service — is just a pass to the junkyard with your tools: go and pick up what you want, but without the help of staff
Everything is fair with the price: with service it is more expensive, on your own — cheaper.
Why American junk cars are popular
The quality of roads and fuel, as well as the careful attitude of car owners due to the high price of the service, leads to the fact that the resource of parts after a car breakdown is still quite sufficient. The number of cars in the US is huge, and so is the amount in landfills. It turns out that from this you can choose a lot of good things that will continue to serve people.
The benefits of auction trading are as follows:
a large selection and constantly updated stocks allow to find exactly what you need — from a small part to a whole car at an affordable price depending on the condition
the cost of the selected lot will certainly be less than a similar offer from other countries, again, due to the huge volume of the American car market and a fair insurance system
multilingualism — allows you to master the basic actions on the auction site at a sufficient level for visitors who do not know English
detailed and honest product information — the auction system is unfriendly to bad sellers, so the likelihood of fraud is low, and the photos are reliable
As for the delivery of a junk car, and in the case of auctions, with a strong desire to do this, but not having the time, you can turn to specialists. For example, Junk Cars US constantly monitors current prices for used cars and adjusts them depending on the region.
As a man, it is important to take steps to stay healthy and maintain a healthy sex life. Fortunately, there are some simple steps that you can take to improve your sexual health and keep your sex life going strong. Keep reading to learn more about how to improve your sexual health as a man.
Take the all-natural Semenax supplement.
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Get regular medical check-ups.
Having regular medical check-ups is an important step in improving a man’s sexual well-being. These check-ups should be scheduled every year or two and will include tests for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV, and other blood tests that can detect infection early on. Additionally, men should discuss any current or past health issues with their doctor to ensure they are taking the necessary steps to maintain physical and mental wellness. Regular screenings can help identify problems before they become more serious, such as prostate cancer. Moreover, doctors may prescribe medications or supplements if needed in order to keep hormones balanced and improve the overall quality of life. Furthermore, these visits provide male patients with an opportunity to ask questions about safe sex practices so that they can make informed decisions when engaging in sexual activities in the future.
Practice safe sex.
Practicing safe sex is one of the most important components of a man’s sexual health. This involves using condoms and taking other preventative measures to protect yourself from sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancies. Additionally, having open conversations with your partner about any risks involved in sexual activity can help ensure that both partners are aware of their own safety and well-being. In some cases, it may also be beneficial to get tested for STIs before engaging in any kind of physical intimacy. When it comes to preventing STIs, the use of condoms is absolutely essential as they provide an effective barrier against bacteria, viruses, and other contagions from being passed between partners during intercourse or oral sex. It’s also important to choose condoms that fit properly so there is no risk of them breaking or slipping off during use. Furthermore, if you have multiple partners make sure you are using a new condom each time you engage in sexual activity with someone new.
Embrace open communication with your partner.
It’s no secret that communication is key to a healthy and successful relationship. But when it comes to sexual health, communication with your partner is even more important. Open communication between partners can help ensure that both individuals are getting their needs met, that both are comfortable and safe, and that all forms of consent are obtained. At the core of effective communication is the need for honesty and respect. It’s important to talk openly and candidly about your feelings and desires, as well as what is and isn’t comfortable for you. It can be difficult to open up and discuss topics such as sex and sexual health, but it’s a necessary part of any healthy relationship.
Overall, improving one’s sexual health as a man is an important part of leading a healthy and fulfilling life. Taking steps to ensure a healthy sex life, such as practicing safe sex, eating well, exercising, and maintaining open communication with sexual partners, can go a long way in improving overall well-being.
Dijon has released a new song called ‘coogie’, marking his first new music since his 2021 debut LP Absolutely. The Los Angeles-based artist made the track with Michael Gordon and Andrew Sarlo. Check it out below.
Claire George has shared a cover of Sufjan Steven’s ‘To Be Alone With You’, from his 2004 album Seven Swans, for Bandcamp Friday. All proceeds from the track will be donated to Planned Parenthood. Give it a listen below.
Fred again.. has teamed up with the Streets’ Mike Skinner and Dermot Kennedy for the new single ‘Mike (desert island duvet)’. According to a press release, the collaboration came about after Fred again.. and Skinner became friends after Skinner was a guest during Fred again..’s All Points East 2022 show. Listen to it below.
Buzzy Lee, the project of Los Angeles singer-songwriter Sasha Spielberg, has released a new song called ‘Internal Affairs’. It’s the title track and second single from her forthcoming Gabe Wax-produced album, following the previously shared ‘Cinderblock’. “‘Internal Affairs’ explores the loneliness of an unmoored partnership and the conflict of loving a person while also being frightened of them,” Spielberg said in a statement. Check it out below.
Sparks have unveiled the title track to their forthcoming album The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte, alongside a music video starring Cate Blanchett. Watch and listen below.
Of the collaboration, brothers Ron and Russell Mael told Variety: “We met Cate Blanchett in Paris at the César Awards last year, little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte.’ Dreams really do come true. We will sleep well tonight knowing that forever we can say we co-starred in a film with Cate Blanchett!”
The Girl is Crying in Her Latte arrives May 26 via Island Records.
Carolyn Flaherty, the New York-based singer-songwriter who records simply as Carol, released her debut EP, Softest Destroyer, in 2019. It was aptly titled, as Carol displayed an ability to wring haunting beauty out of the intense loneliness surrounding fractured relationships. As she honed in her songwriting on 2021’s SoiledEP, a gentle kind of warmth seeped through the same darkness: “In this chapter of confusion/ Dismantle the memory/ Synchronize the cyclic pattern/ To soil is to comfort me,” she sang. Naturally, these cycles never cease, and Carol continues to weave a delicate dance on her debut album, More Than a Goodbye. Though she spent a lot of time alone while writing the songs, she recorded them during a two-week period in the summer of 2020 while living on a farm in upstate New York with her bandmates at the time, who she hadn’t seen since they played their last show together before the pandemic. Carol is still making gorgeous, quietly stirring music about life’s contradictory patterns, but elements of joy, comfort, and sweetness now flourish on deeper ground. “You cry but don’t know why/ Walk the memory slow,” she sings on opener ‘Other Room’, pursuing the question as it unfolds.
We caught up with Carol for this edition of our Artist Spotlight interview series to talk about her journey as a songwriter, the making of her debut album, beginnings and endings, and more.
What comes to mind when you think about your upbringing and the role music had early on in your life?
I definitely can start with my tape machine. This artist and friend posted the other day about this tape of Raffi, the children’s artist, and I literally would listen to so much Raffi growing up. Music was always a comfort and kind of an addiction for me. I would wake up and flip the tape all night to just re-listen to it over and over and over, and I did that for years with like the same three tapes. I didn’t have much formal musical training growing up. I took guitar lessons at one point in this little back room in this ancient guitar store that was the only one in the town, but it was also kind of far away from where I lived so we had to travel to get there. That was pretty much it. I just had a lot of time in my room, and I wrote and journaled a lot. I always was interested in writing songs and needed a tool to do that, so I learned how to play guitar when I was 10 years old, but probably didn’t know how to play well enough to write a song until I was like 13.
I definitely spent a lot of time outside as well. I think in general, that’s where I find my jumping-off points for creativity. That was where I had the time to be the most creative when I was little, even if it wasn’t in music, something else that would be with a group of people – my siblings, my neighbors, my cousins, my family, friends. Building something, whether it was a fort or writing a play and performing it or whittling sticks into arrows – [laughs] kind of violent – but just always having the urge to be making something and doing it with other people. I think that’s where my upbringing is the most reminiscent in my music.
How do you feel like you’ve grown as a songwriter, from your EPs to More Than a Goodbye?
I think that now I’m more direct. This album is representative of the warmth and the love that I was in – I was very in love while I was writing this album, and not even just in love with a person or a group of people, which I was, but falling in love with the slowness of life and the stillness of life that grounds me the most in this world. Going back to that was making me fall in love with everything in my day, at all times. Just being able to see beauty in a capacity that I hadn’t witnessed in a while. That’s really challenging to get back to at times, but I was able to, like, put my hands into the water and kind of sift through what I needed from that time. And I’m older now, so I have different feelings I’m working through, like anger and forgiveness. I think I have much more of a sense of humor than when I was younger, and I oscillate between being really silly and really serious.
More Than a Goodbye feels to me like it’s as much about endings as it is about beginnings, and learning to trust what they might bring. That’s obviously a difficult process, but there’s also an element of play in the way you describe it – a kind of hide and seek, as you sing in ‘Cartwheel’.
Reflecting on the way that the album was made, I was so focused and obsessed with play at that time. I just felt like we couldn’t play music unless we could play together, like in a silly way. We’d be in this barn playing – this is kind of how it all started – I would be like, “OK, spin around!” and we’d do like a million spins, and then we’d pick up our instruments and just play and record whatever came out. And of course, sometimes it’d sound crazy, but just the feeling of being able to have that release with such a silly, playful element to these songs that are pretty serious and talking about lots of different serious topics, I think that was really important. I don’t think we could have made it without having that element of play. And that was running through my life a lot. I was spending a lot of time around kids, I was nannying at the time. I was just alone all day during the pandemic with these children and then I would go home and be in my childhood bedroom, and I think that definitely does something to you – in good and bad ways, as far as the regression that came from that. [laughs] But also learning that things are not that serious, and that playfulness is essential. And it’s central to playing music.
Another thing about beginnings and endings is that they’re not always clear, especially during the time in which the album was made.
That’s such a big part of it, because the people that I was making this album – I played with them, but a lot of the songs ended up being about them in some way, because they were the only people that I was seeing through the whole time in person, with the exception of my family and one close friend from home. I was very far away from them – two of them were living in Brooklyn and one of them was living a little outside of Hudson, New York – and I would drive to them to play. But when we would say goodbye, I would just break down, because I always felt like maybe I won’t see them again. When we did say goodbye in March of 2020, I had no idea what that meant. We played a show in Massachusetts, I happened to be home because we’re staying at my parents’ house through the night before that show. I was planning to go on a little tour, go to SXSW, all these fun, exciting beginnings. I had my little suitcase when I said goodbye to them, I was like, “I don’t think I’m going to go back with you guys.” And I didn’t. That was it – things were just completely different.
At this moment in 2023, of course we do not want to look back on it and reflect on it. I don’t most of the time. I think moving on from that is a really important thing to do, but I think there is an element of abandonment and just shock that a lot of people felt in that time with saying goodbye. Like, “When will I see you again? Where will you move next? Will we ever play a show again?” Just these questions that were too vast for me to answer. I just kind of checked out in a lot of ways. But most people did, because you couldn’t control anything. There’s lots of beginnings and endings, and a lot of people felt like they didn’t know how they could start again. I felt like I was completely resetting and just falling in love with these very real, basic experiences that I wasn’t as tapped into.
Throughout the album, there’s a desire to reach some form of shared understanding, which coincided with the way the songs ended up being about the people you made them with, in some way. Does music offer a pathway to that understanding for you, or is there more to it?
I feel like there’s always room for greater understanding. This is something that someone that I was working with said to me when I was feeling obsessive, a little bit, about trying to understand them, but I think understanding sometimes can almost be this possessive term. Sometimes it doesn’t leave room for growth or understanding the multifaceted parts of a person. It just felt like, in life, cycles were never-ending. I definitely felt sadness in a relationship that I was going through and ended, and different deaths – little deaths, actual deaths – that were going through in my life at that time. But it was comforting to see that the things that I felt the most in touch with were also going through these deaths, and I actually had time to see that more than ever. Life is just so beautiful when you’re in love and you’re also okay with things ending. And not in a passive way, in an active way where you’re really like, “This is gonna end, and it’s okay because this is just the way it goes.”
To be quite honest with you, I was so overwhelmed after that [release] show last night. I had all of my stuff, I had my amp and my two guitars and my box of merchandise. All of they stuff that you have at your show as you go, and this is your routine, this is what you do as a musician. And I just literally couldn’t carry it all at the end of the night. It was so heavy. I was trying to figure out how to get home, and I turned the corner and my friend was there, and was like, “I’m going to help you get this all home.” And [they] were not in my life when all this stuff is going on, but to be able to constantly have these relationships that you cycle through and go through, where people are just so good – it’s just crazy. It makes you emotional that there are different people in your life at different times, for reasons maybe you feel guilty or shame, or maybe actual deaths – actual things that you just simply cannot control. But to know that it always just cycles back, and it always, pretty much always, gets better… It constantly amazes me how resilient people are, and people get that from what we’re derived from, which is everything around us. Our environment is so resilient, for how many shameful things we do to where we live all the time – the resilience is incredible. I’m so thankful I can’t even believe it.
On the final track, ‘Clear As This’, a sudden sense of clarity is balanced out by the realization of how old these truths and feelings are, and how slow you might be to embrace them; you describe yourself as a “slow bleeder” and an “old crier.” With the release of the record, do you feel like some of those old feelings and truths are still coming to you?
Yeah, totally. That line about being an old crier, it was a warning a little bit to someone that I was in love with. But it’s not about the other person necessarily, what you’re crying about or bleeding about or whatever is going on. I think that’s important to state, because at the end of the day, you’re really just with you. That takes a lifetime for people to figure out and feel comfortable with. But you can love someone – you can have unconditional love from family, from friends, from lovers, anyone can show you that – but at the end of the day, you kind of are with you. And the things that you’re upset about or going through, it’s coming from a really deep, deep place for every person. There’s such a thing in our culture and in songwriting where it’s like, “You did this to me. You’re causing me this feeling.” Which is true, we all go through that. But I think the way that you handle and go through it is so unique to each person. You show up scarred, you just can’t help it. You show up in love already bearing those wounds, and it doesn’t have to do with another person, necessarily. That’s a really important thing that I think about a lot, because I think that’s the only way to continue love, is to know that.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
Thurston Moore has shared the new song ‘Isadora’, an ode to his longtime muse Isadora Duncan. It arrives today with a music video directed by Radieux Radio that features Sky Ferreira performing what Moore describes as a “Sky Dance.” Watch and listen via Bandcamp.
“Sky is a talented friend who’s been spending time in London, and immediately understood the connection to this mysticism & music and sent through this magical digital diary for the song,” Moore said in a press release. “Sky’s insight into modern dance, including her love of Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham sparked off a conversation about Judson Theatre Group, Douglas Dunn, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer and other artists of performance and dance who bring the word ‘freedom’ to mind and spirit.”
‘Isadora’ is the second single from Moore’s forthcoming album, following the previously released ‘Hypnogram’.
Miya Folick has unveiled her new single ‘Mommy’, which will appear on her forthcoming album Roach. Following the recent track ‘Get Out of My House’, ‘Mommy’ was co-produced with Gabe Wax and features saxophone from Sam Gendel. Check it out below.
“‘Mommy’ is maybe the most intimate song on my record,” Folick said in a press release. ” “It’s about heritage, memory, and family. I think there’s an ache in the song that exposes the gap between my limited understanding of my parents and the full richness of their lives. The first time I played this song live was at The Echo in Los Angeles, and my mom showed up—not joking—with a jar of honey for me, to soothe my throat (you’ll understand this anecdote when you listen to the song).”
In addition to ‘Get Out of My House’ and ‘Mommy’, Roach will include all six songs from Folick’s 2022 EP 2007. It’s out May 26 via Nettwerk. Read our track-by-track breakdown of 2007.
