Car Shopping Chronicles, Part 5
I have no set order or reasoning to how I am scheduling my test drives. I guess some of it is stock dependent: if a dealer does not have the car I’m interested in on their lot, I’m not going to drive something else just for grins. In general, though, I head to whatever dealership my car muse sends me…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6KEo7ezfigfqs5raGoN8RS?si=1654d8d19f544ce4 “Throw Me Around” – The Blips While not your standard supergroup, I think The Blips officially qualify. Made up of members from various bands in the Birmingham, AL scene, they may not be known entities, but they are still coming from different backgrounds to make something new. One reviewer described this as “Tom Petty takes on pop-punk.” That seems…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 56
Chart Week: May 1, 1982 Song: “867–5309/Jenny” – Tommy Tutone Chart Position: #8, 15th week on the chart. Peaked at #4 for three weeks in May and June. Quick show of hands: if you were alive and old enough in 1982, how many of you dialed 867–5309 to see if Jenny would answer? I know I did. I believe in…
April Media
Shows and Movies Pearl Jam Live On 6/25/2010, Hyde Park, London, England To celebrate Easter weekend, I guess, online streaming service nugs.net put this show up for free from Good Friday evening through Easter Monday. An outstanding show with terrific sound and a stellar setlist. It was unnerving to see how tightly the crowd was packed in, though. Not because…
Weekend Kid Sports Notes
The pace is winding down but still kid sports notes to share from the past few days. Track Yesterday was CYO track meet #3. This one was a little different: kids were free to make their own schedules. They picked a race, show up when it was called, and then scanned their wristband at the finish line to “register” themselves…
Stats
April 2021 Middle Kids – 61 Manchester Orchestra – 39 The Natvral – 26 Dumptruck – 24 The Pack A.D. – 23 Complete stats available at my Last.fm page.
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6OCp6yw9LPdxZBOwWIDB00?si=47017d6a6b5b46cb “Keel Timing” – Manchester Orchestra Their new album drops today, and it is getting excellent reviews. I’ve really liked each of the advance singles. Perhaps an early contender for album of the year? I will give it my first listen as soon as I post this. “The Right Thing is Hard to Do” – Lightning Bug I was reading…
Car Shopping Chronicles, Part 4
We’ve made it! After three entries of background bullshit about my search for a new car, we’ve finally arrived at my first test drive! As previously noted, I am focusing on the luxury compact SUV class. While there are a ton of cars in this space, I have pretty much whittled it down to five I want to compare first…
Mid-Week Kid Sports Notes
I mentioned that this would be a very busy kid sports week. That has proven to be true. As there were a couple big developments, I’m going to go ahead and get you caught up on what’s gone down the past two days. Tennis Monday M played her second tennis match. We never heard why, but they mixed up the…
Car Shopping Chronicles, Part 3
Crap. I realized in part two of this series, I left out one angle of my car search. It’s not terribly important to the big picture, but I figure if I’m writing about the process, and some of you are actually reading about it, I shouldn’t skip anything that happened along the way. At the end of my last entry,…