Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lXQVulcpAb6qNaVOu1o8k?si=8132032798e34c17 “Silk Chiffon” – MUNA featuring Phoebe Bridgers MUNA is doing it right. They landed a gig opening for Phoebe Bridgers on her fall tour. Then they parlayed that into her taking a guest vocal spot on their latest single. In a different time, this song would be a huge radio hit. And making a large chunk of the country…
An Old Man on the Court
I’m a little shocked that I am upright and able to walk today. You see, L’s coaches cancelled their practice last night and decided to have a loose shoot-around/scrimmage. I took L then hung around in case they wrapped up early. The coach, who I’ve coached with four different times, roped me into the fun. We started with a game…
Weather and Sports
Mother Nature can’t figure out what she wants to do. For the past few days, if you’ve looked through a window to see what’s going on outside, you would assume fall has taken over. It’s been cloudy most of the times, flat out dreary a few times, so you would think you would need to bundle up a bit when…
September Media
Somehow I did not watch a single movie last month. I think that was mostly due to paralysis by too many choices. There were plenty of nights when I scrolled through the various streaming services we pay for, searching for a movie that jumped out at me for 30–45 minutes then gave up and watched a show. Movies and Shows…
Stats
September 2021 The Cranberries – 30 Matt Pond PA – 27 The War on Drugs – 27 We Were Promised Jetpacks – 24 Beastie Boys – 23 Complete stats available at my Last.fm page.
Friday Playlist
Welcome to the fourth quarter of 2021. My late year itch to build my favorite songs of the year list has already started to make its presence known. Holiday music is eight weeks away. Let’s kick it off with a pretty standard Friday Playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3NkI0YkMQm4E4XrgEnZENs?si=8fa6d2deab9f404b “Weights” – Bartees Strange A bonus track from the updated, deluxe version of Strange’s debut…
Reader’s Notebook, 9/30/21
After a six-week-ish lull, my pace of knocking out books has picked back up. I’ll likely finish another book later today, but wanted to go ahead and get this out. Missionaries – Phil Klay Klay’s second work about modern warfare is his first true novel; Redeployment was a series of short stories based loosely on his service as a Marine…
Some Sports From the Weekend
My sports weekend was a little more compressed than normal. We hosted several of M’s friends and their families Sunday evening, so we spent a lot of time prepping for them and then enjoying their company. Friday night was CHS’ homecoming. We went to dinner with a couple other families and by the time we walked in, the Irish were…
Friday Playlist
No long essays about how old music makes me feel this week. I do write a little more about most of these songs than I usually do, though. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1EnYwdzLt7XAvHneeIa6rp?si=6322b695f8114d0a “Waste Your Time” – Jackson+Sellers Jade Jackson says this song is about those final moments of a toxic relationship, when you are reevaluating everything you’ve been through and realize it wasn’t…
Thursday Links
Finally worked through my Instapaper account to find some things I’ve saved to share with you. Dave Holmes Visits 1988 to Pay Respect to Casey Kasem’s Last True American Top 40 Countdown Someone posted this piece to the AT40 Facebook group I’m a member of. It comes from right after Casey Kasem died back in 2014, but I still enjoyed…