July Media
Movies and Shows The Night Manager This was a bit strange, and thus I’m not sure how to properly rate it. Based on a John Le Carré novel, and updated for the modern age, it follows a night manager at an Egyptian hotel – and former British Army officer – as he stumbles into an affair with a woman connected…
Olympics Notebook, Part 2
The first, and best, week of the Olympics is in the books. I say best because the swimming week tends to be better than the track week, which has fewer glamor events. And it also appears the US might suck at track. Puerto Rican medals are technically ours, right? Saturday night I went back and read some of my Olympic…
Stats
July 2021 * The War on Drugs – 27 * Leon Bridges – 21 * Flowertown – 19 * Van Halen – 18 * Wolf Alice – 18 Complete stats available at my Last.fm page.
Friday Playlist
A little different format this week. You will learn why below. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1wuBbYVmLRYsgjy1i9rB0F?si=056352a4429b4260 “Natural Light” – Flowertown This band went so hard for the retro sound that they put fake crackles and pops, as if you were listening to vinyl, onto it. In fact, they put those “artifacts” on every song on their new album. Which, to be honest, gets a…
Reader’s Notebook, 7/29/21
I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll (Except When I Hate It) – Brian Boone Between both switching to the smaller, satellite Indy library near our house from the larger Carmel library and Covid, I don’t just go wonder the library stacks very often, surprising myself with books that speak to me as I pass them. That is how I found this…
Olympics Notebook, Part One
Not much has been going on the past few days. M turned 17 over the weekend. I read a terrific book in a single day. We went out on a boat with some friends. Ted Lasso returned. The Big 12 may be kaput. Oh, and the Olympics started. Thus it is time to bring back a time-honored recurring feature here…
Friday Links
This week’s round up of some cool shit I’ve read and think you might also enjoy. ‘You’ve never seen The Beatles like this before’: Peter Jackson on his epic Get Back docuseries This feature/interview sure makes the upcoming Peter Jackson Beatles series sound phenomenal. I found this line interesting: For any self-respecting Beatles nut, this must surely count as one…
Friday Playlist
Another jam-packed playlist to please your ears and your hearts this week. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mi0T5AIfQqXbbk1awmXJE?si=071b64a23e984236 “Living Proof” – The War on Drugs Here it is, the first new TWOD song in four years! It does not hit with the same impact that the early songs from A Deeper Understanding hit with in the spring/summer of 2017. But as a side one, track…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 59
Chart Week: July 12, 1986 Song: “If She Knew What She Wants” – The Bangles Chart Position: #29, 10th week on the chart. This was the song’s peak; it fell out of the Top 40 the next week. I recall being in love with a lot of unattainable women in the summer of 1986. There was Heather Thomas, whose poster…
Reader’s Notebook, 7/20/21
The Alice Network – Kate Quinn A friend gave me this book awhile back, but I left it in my bookshelf for months before finally cracking it open. When I did, S told me she had read it on one of our vacations and loved it. We don’t read a lot of the same books, so I was both excited…