Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6tI76bmYLthiPvsUgq7WPA?si=7e239fc56564401d “It’s Alive!” – Ratboys It’s been a fairly slow album year; my New Music list that I check each Friday has the fewest entries I can recall. But I just added one for Ratboys on August 25 that has me very excited. “The Narcissist” – Blur Their first new music in ages, and it sounds exactly like how music…
Ranking Shit: Most Watched Movies
When I watched part of Real Genius a week ago, it got me thinking about the movies I watched the most between 1985 and 1994.[1] These were the glory days of movies on TV, a time when there was a great chance you would find one of, say, 40 different movies playing on one channel or another. There was no…
Reader’s Notebook, 6/7/23
I’ve been in a weird reading space since May began. Over that span I did not enjoy two of the books I have completed. As I mentioned in my previous RN post, I only finished Bret Easton Ellis’ The Shards because I’m stubborn. I think that effort wore me down, as shortly afterward I quit a book after struggling with…
May Media
Movies, Shows, etc Ted Lasso, season two Got S caught up. She enjoyed it. I don’t think my second viewing changed my opinion of it. It was funnier, deeper, and more emotional than season one. But it also lacked the magic of that first year. Season one wins in a nose because it didn’t have the two extra episodes that…
Weekend Notes
We’ve hit a cycle of boom-bust weekends that should extend at least a couple more weeks. This was one of the bust weekends. At least for four of us. M had parties all weekend, I believe she had 12 she could have attended from Friday through Sunday. We met her at one of her buddy’s on Sunday and she looked…
Friday Playlist
The bulk of this week’s playlist is one of my dumb group of songs that share some minor trait. The music is good even if the “concept” is stupid. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2w2pfIdmyU1VVsYq8xvVgW?si=a203e99bd4d14588 “Summer Breeze” – Seals and Crofts It’s summertime, bitches. “High Life” – Bloc Party “American Candy” – The High Water Marks “Ease On” – The High Violets “Standing on an…
Ted Lasso: One for the Road
Some notes about the end of Ted Lasso. To reset, S had never watched the show before, so in April we watched together from the very first episode. We got caught up three weeks ago, watching the final three episodes on the nights they were released. After binging 30 or so in about 20 nights, I hated going old school…
Grad Night, Part 2
We had our final official event at St P’s last night: the graduation of L’s 8th grade class. We got a new priest a little over a year ago after our long-time, very popular priest retired. The new guy has received a decidedly mixed reaction. As I’m not Catholic I won’t get into the details. That said, homie knocked out…
Holiday Weekend Notes
It was a very busy, extra long, extra special holiday weekend. Let’s get into the details. Thursday L’s next-to-last day of middle school. She begged us to host the annual 8th grade pool party. After weeks of badgering us we relented. Not sure I would have said yes if her class was bigger, but only 28 kids seemed manageable. Everyone…
Friday Playlist
I planned on taking this week’s playlist one direction, then some things happened in the music world, I realized it was a holiday weekend, and we ended our academic year, so I decided to mix things up. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YZ55WO2OKkrOtWsoa4eTj?si=c85864566c5b446f “Lay Low” – My Morning Jacket I watched a documentary on MMJ’s 2004 Bonnaroo performance the other night. Which means I spent…