July Media
M and I are off to Bloomington for campus visit number five today, so it is a perfect day to drop this list on you. Movies, Series, Shows Somebody Feed Phil, season one Crap, I forgot to include this in my June entry. After watching the Anthony Bourdain film, I tried to find something similar to his classic shows to…
Stats
July 2022 The War on Drugs – 31 Jack White – 23 Maggie Rogers – 20 The Beatles – 19 MUNA – 18 Complete stats available at my Last.fm page.
Friday Playlist
Just a little more cleanup from my podcast archives research, a whole heck of a lot of new music, and no playlist next week due to travel means (at least) one more mega playlist for your listening pleasure. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3RMd9vUbM2i3tyciGfjuSo?si=fe9bdbeda7c4407a “In the Right” – The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness Some jim-dandy power pop here, my friends. “Overcome” – Young Guv…
Wednesday Links
M and I are off to visit Purdue so it seems like a great day to share some more interesting reads. I don’t know a thing about cricket, and I’m guessing most of you don’t, either. That doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate the ridiculousness of this story. “I have never seen a scam like this. These guys just cleared a…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 76
Chart Week: July 22, 1978 Song: “Baker Street” – Gerry Rafferty Chart Position: #2, 14th week on the chart. Peaked at #2 for six weeks. I’ve been wanting to write about this song for ages, and everything finally lined up thanks to an AT40 I caught last week. “Baker Street” is one of the greatest songs of its time. Or…
Family Notes
It has been a lazy few days around our house. M spent last week in Michigan with one of her best friend’s families. She seemed to have a great time. Boy was the house quiet without the most talkative sister around. Kind of a preview of what awaits us next fall. I had big plans to do something fun with…
Friday Playlist
I continue to clean out the holding pen of music that is overflowing with both new tracks and classics I rediscovered while trolling the archives of my old music podcast. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7FY3DOvNCgtuXnd5SUzPxE?si=a2041e6372ef40fb “Alright” – Sam Fender The life cycle of albums can be strange. These days many bands will drop multiple singles well before releasing the full album. Streaming messes up…
Weekend Sports Notes
Some sports happenings over the past few days. Royals As if being shitty wasn’t bad enough, ten Royals players “did their own research” and decided not to get vaccinated against Covid, preventing them from traveling to Canada for the series with the Blue Jays over the weekend. Just an exhausting moment. As I am barely interested in the team or…
Friday Playlist
Normally my Spotify playlist where I stash songs for the Friday Playists has anywhere from three to eight songs in it. This week is different, though. First off, this has been a very good year for music already and it feels like a ton of solid tunes get released every week. So I have plenty of new tracks to share.…
Reader’s Notebook, 7/14/22
The Committed – Viet Thanh Nguyen I read, and loved, Nguyen’s The Sympathizer in 2015. His sequel did not quite meet the original’s standard. The Committed picks up a few years after The Sympathizer, with the main character living in Paris in the early 1980s, and attempting to start a new life in the Vietnamese ex-pat community. Once again he…