Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 86
A rather uninteresting weekend around here, even with an extra day thrown in, so let’s jump straight into our latest exploration of Old School American Top 40s. Chart Week: June 23, 1979 Song: “I Want You To Want Me” – Cheap Trick Chart Position: #16, 9th week on the chart. Peaked at #7 for two weeks in July. Sometimes our…
Friday Playlist
Boy do I have a list for you this week. A couple gems I’ve come up with on my own. Some discovered via Spotify’s suggestions. Two new entries in the “Country Or Not” category. One track from a performer facing a huge challenge. And our latest shoutout to a lost artist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xQ8S3mKdw9SMLNoBa55ni?si=aaeb82dfc1f9452d “No Reason” – Sunny War If this song…
Kid Notes
There’s been a lot of talk about M here lately. Maybe too much talk. A few words about her sisters. Middle Sister C has had a pretty quiet summer break so far. She has filled M’s spot working for their aunt the chef on weekends a couple times. She will take that job over full time in August so this…
Weekend Notes: Grad Party SZN
Quick Blog Note You may have noticed that I updated the header image of the site. I actually did a little bit of Dicking Around™ with the entire site over the weekend. I installed a couple new themes and played around with them for about five minutes before switching back to the one I’ve been using for five years. I…
Monday Links
A busy weekend in the past and a packed day ahead of me, so we’ll get caught up tomorrow. For now, some links I’ve collected in recent weeks. First, a rather chilling account by a Ukrainian from the front lines of the war with Russia. I haven’t had a chance to personally kill any Russians. They say it’s good luck…
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…