Weekend Notes
A lot to get caught up on after a long holiday weekend. July 4th Our standard family pool party for the Fourth of July. Almost all the locals were over for a daytime gathering. I smoked rather than grilled burgers for the first time and they turned out pretty good. All the young ones were well behaved, and it seems…
Independence Day Playlist, 2023
It is my fifth year offering a playlist to celebrate the day in my own, unique, musical way. There are two new songs this year, one of which I can’t believe took me five years to add.
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5I6v54HH86WTRauxBA0nL3?si=5b2fea81f6ec449d “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) – Arcade Fire As I write this our power has been out for about 15 hours, our home just one of over 45,000 in Indianapolis that remain powerless after major storms hit us yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately for us, it seems like just one wire affecting 4-5 houses in our neighborhood is causing our outage. So…
Weekend Notes
Quite a few things to discuss this week, so I’m going to split this into two posts. The personal stuff first, the NBA Draft stuff later on today. Weather We dodged a big ol’ bullet Sunday when storms roared through our area. There was a tornado on the ground about 10 minutes north of us. Several on the ground on…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0KlZoh7I55N0MKTi7WiJMQ?si=5dc542acf73240fc “Body” – Briston Maroney It’s always exciting when young artists prepare to release their second album, and it seems like it will be as good as their first one. “Roll the Credits” – Danielle Ponder As if it isn’t enough that Ms. Ponder can sing like this, she also used to be a public defender. What are all my…
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…
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…
Friday Playlist
The bulk of this week’s playlist is one of my dumb group of songs that share some minor trait. The music is good even if the “concept” is stupid. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2w2pfIdmyU1VVsYq8xvVgW?si=a203e99bd4d14588 “Summer Breeze” – Seals and Crofts It’s summertime, bitches. “High Life” – Bloc Party “American Candy” – The High Water Marks “Ease On” – The High Violets “Standing on an…
Friday Playlist
I planned on taking this week’s playlist one direction, then some things happened in the music world, I realized it was a holiday weekend, and we ended our academic year, so I decided to mix things up. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YZ55WO2OKkrOtWsoa4eTj?si=c85864566c5b446f “Lay Low” – My Morning Jacket I watched a documentary on MMJ’s 2004 Bonnaroo performance the other night. Which means I spent…