Two Throw Backs
My busy-ness, sickness, and laziness over break kept me from posting my thoughts about The Rise of Skywalker and Eddie Murphy hosting Saturday Night Live. Allow me to rectify… Skywalker I saw The Rise of Skywalker the Sunday before Christmas with two of my brothers-in-law. I also saw The Force Awakens with them, and the local b-i-l of that duo…
Weekend Notes
Before I get to the notes, a quick warning that if you still access this site via thebrannanblog.net address, that site name will be going away at the end of the month. Please update your bookmarks to reflect dsnotebook.me as the correct address. We are back at it today. Well, kind of. M started at her normal time today, but…
Friday Playlist
Wow, is it Friday already? Time to kick off the new year with some new tunes. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zOSLehoazSUNCPOSljdvV?si=gE4NbSQbQ-mSd5xWbaiexA “All Is On My Side” – Sam Fender. Two weeks ago one of my brothers-in-music sent me a message saying that he was really craving some new War on Drugs music. Two days later this song dropped and I pointed out that his…
The New Year
Happy New Year, everyone! We had our annual boring New Year’s Eve, with a twist. Although we stayed in, M had five friends over for the evening. As we were banishing them to the basement for the evening, S and I cleared out our liquor cabinet and beer fridge down there. It’s the first time we’ve ever done something like…
Stats
My January 1 stats are always wack, thanks to the flood of Christmas music I listen to each December. With it being a new year and new decade, I will adjust this time to show both my year/decade most listened to artists. 2019 Hatchie – 212 Middle Kids – 183 The War on Drugs – 177 Frightened Rabbit – 165…
Decade in Review
I love the turning of the calendar. A new year is an opportunity to look back on what you’ve experienced over the past 12 months while building anticipation for what is to come in the next 12. When the decade is rolling over, that just makes it more fun. I have vivid memories of Christmas break 1979, watching various decade-end…
Christmas Notes
As my post yesterday said, we have closed out the family portion of our Christmas break. Here’s what we were up to over the last week. Like every year, Christmas Eve was a day of manic getting ready. There was prepping as much food as possible for the brunch we were hosting the next day. That included detailed evaluations of…
Sunday Song
https://youtu.be/e6QDVE67jwY “The Week Between” – Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick Our house has cleared out. Folks departed last night and this afternoon and now we’ve hit the lull after all the frenzy of the Christmas season. Perfect for listening to this song.
Friday Vid
Every Sample from Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique I figure most of you are on alternate schedules this week. So here’s a bit of a different take on the Friday vid. This person has taken every song sampled on the Beasties’ legendary Paul’s Boutique album and IDed them then offered a snippet of each set against their use on the album.…
Weekend Notes
Last week was wild and wacky, which kept me away from my blogging duties. I’ll share some notes to try to get caught up before Christmas. Family News I’m very much a creature of habit. I can adjust most of the time. But when things get too out of whack, I do struggle. Last week we had four different schedules…