A quick run through a busy weekend.
FNL It was Cathedral’s homecoming week. They pounded their Jesuit brothers pretty easily, winning 42–21 with two of those scores against coming late in the game. I went for the first half but it was chilly, C’s back was bothering her (she’s been seeing a chiropractor), so we left after we watched one of M’s best friends since kindergarten win homecoming queen. Next week is the big season finale: at Center Grove, who have lost one game - by one point in overtime to a team from Kentucky - in the past three seasons.
I did not do a lot of new music listening this week. So, to switch things up, I’m just going to play my Spotify Liked Songs on shuffle and see what it throws out for this week’s list. I’ll also make it extra-long, hopefully a good soundtrack as you wrap up your week.
open.spotify.com/playlist/…
“1234” - Feist Remember when iPod commercials took songs that were niche hits and turned them into songs everyone knew?
A quick kid hoops update, as L’s St P’s team has hit their (stupid) fall break-break.
First, a refresher about the dumbness of the CYO girls basketball schedule.
Girls hoops has always been a fall CYO sport, so that the gyms are cleared out for boys basketball and boys/girls volleyball in the winter. Never mind that girls volleyball should be a fall sport, to mirror high school and avoid the core travel season.
A belated rundown of this past weekend.
FNL Cathedral finally had their first home game of the year. Since they only have one after this, and it has already been tagged as homecoming, Friday became senior night. Which was a little weird. I stayed home and listened to an easy 37–6 win over Cincinnati LaSalle. LaSalle has won four Ohio state titles in the past eight years, but this year’s team was kind of dog crap.
Movies, Series, Shows US Open Probably watched as much of the tournament this year as I’ve watched in several years. It was time well spent. A
30 for 30: Shark I LOVED Greg Norman when I was a kid. He was my first favorite golfer and until Tiger came along I was all-in with the Great White Shark. Over time I’ve come to think he is kind of a douche, a view that has been affirmed this year as he has spearheaded the new LIV tour.
September 2022
Stevie Wonder - 62 The Beths - 40 Maggie Rogers - 34 The War on Drugs - 34 Beastie Boys - 22 Complete stats available at my Last.fm page.
Once again we are brushing up against a slowing stream of new music, so this week’s playlist is a little more eclectic, at least in terms of date of recording.
open.spotify.com/playlist/…
“At Attention” - Northern Portrait You cannot convince me these kids aren’t actually from the industrial north of England. Sure, their bio says they are from Denmark, but I’m not buying that for one minute.
“Zenosyne” - Caroline Loveglow What a gorgeous song!
My season-long boycott of baseball has continued. It’s really not been hard since the Royals have been so shitty this year. I’m not feeling any inclination to crack in a week when the playoffs begin. I’m sure I’ll watch some of the games, but I don’t expect to be as into them as I have been in recent years. I have plenty of other things that can entertain me during evenings in October.
Every so often I bust out a post dedicated to a show or movie I have watched as soon as I see it rather than wait for my monthly Media edition. Last weekend I watched an entire season of a streaming service exclusive that rocked my world. Yes, I watched the latest season of Cobra Kai last week. But this post is not about that.
This post is about The Bear.
A jam-packed weekend full of events that may be of mild interest to my loyal readers.
FNL Cathedral traveled three hours to play a horrible team - they were up 56–0 at halftime and held on to win by that exact score - so I walked across the street with my pal Nicole H to watch The Other CHS play the school our tax dollars support. It was the first, real, fall-weather night of the season, and it was terrific, other than the occasional sprinkles that surprised us.
open.spotify.com/playlist/…
“Cold Shoulder” - Peace Ritual Since I first heard this band a month or so ago I’ve been trying to figure out who they remind me of. I know it’s some late ’90s/early ’00s band that I did not like. I think my mind is intentionally blocking those memories since I like Peace Ritual’s songs and it doesn’t want to ruin them by making the connection to the turn-of-the-millennium band I did not like.
Today I unveil a new style of post. Who knows how regular these will be, or how long they will last. But let’s give it a shot.
As the title suggests, in these posts I will be Ranking Shit. Five things I will place in an order with just a few words of explanation.
To kick us off, I will rank the top five songs on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Chart Week: September 18, 1982
Song: “Somebody’s Baby” - Jackson Browne
Chart Position: #18, 8th week on the chart. Peaked at #7 for three weeks in October.
I loved this song when I was 11. It wasn’t because I was a big Jackson Browne fan, or because it was a fantastic song. No, it was solely because it was the lead single off the soundtrack for Fast Times at Ridgemont High, arguably the greatest movie ever made about being in high school.
Some weekend. No Cathedral football Friday. L’s hoops team got blasted on Saturday. The Colts appear to be shitty and have made the wrong selection, yet again, for their quarterback. I could write a lot about two of those three topics.
I’m going to save all my writing effort for another topic, though. And I think you know what that is.
THE KANSAS FOOTBALL JAYHAWKS ARE THREE-AND-OH!!!!!
First 3–0 start since 2009.
open.spotify.com/playlist/…
“Shine A Light” - Paolo Nutini Forget where I came across this, either via a Spotify recommendation or somewhere else, but it was a nice surprise. I remember Nutini’s name from somewhere in my musical past, but can’t find where I’ve ever listened to much of his music or shared it with you. Thinking this song might be an opening to something new and interesting, I gave his new album a spin.
I suddenly have a bunch of links to share. Not all of them are fully cooked, but I’ll go ahead and serve up what has been simmering for awhile.
As I get older I realize how hard it is to do big lists like those in the next two links. I’m way overdue for updating my Favorite Songs of All Time list but it seems like a much more daunting task than it did two years ago.
I’ve stuck to a pretty brisk reading pace lately. Several of my latest batch of books have some common themes, so I’m going to pair them up to attempt to get through them quicker.
Suburban Dicks - Fabian Nicieza The Damage - Caitlin Wahrer Two mysteries from first-time authors that were both very good. In Suburban Dicks a disgraced reporter and a one-time phenom profiler who had her career derailed by normal life stuff team up to not only solve a murder the local police don’t seem to want to solve, but also uncover a deeper conspiracy that has plagued their town for over half a century.
The first full football weekend of the year. I have some notes.
Friday We had the big 6A #3 Cathedral at 3A #1 Bishop Chatard game Friday. Or the girls did. S and I knew it was going to be an absolute shit show; BC has a tiny stadium in the middle of a packed neighborhood and it seemed like every Indianpolis Northside Catholic was going to go. So we went to dinner with friends while the girls enjoyed the game.
open.spotify.com/playlist/…
“The Queen Is Dead” - The Smiths I’m sorry, but if you think I’m not playing this song today you don’t know me very well. I’m not here to dance on graves but rather shout to the heavens, for the thousandth time, about the genius of Johnny Marr. “Has the world changed or have I changed?”
“Be Careful With Yourself” - Julia Jacklin As usual Jacklin’s new album, to my ears, is filled with slow, precious songs that are a little too slow and precious.
Well, it’s over.
L’s team went out with a whimper in their final two kickball games, losing 21–7 on Tuesday then getting run-ruled 42–13 on Wednesday, ending the season at 2–5. I believe that was the first time they had a losing record.[1] These two games were more of the same. We couldn’t kick or field, and it killed us. In the Tuesday game, against the team we beat to start the season, we were up 4–0 after one then gave up eight runs in the second and were dead after that.