Down To Earth is comically sleezier and has the radio hit. But the Joe Lynn Turner albums were the first I owned, period when I saw them live, so Difficult To Cure. Still wistful that my Straight Between The Eyes tour t-shirt went missing. ;)
Mysteries of the pre internet era. What does the music of Richard & Linda Thompson, who I keep reading about in Creem magazine, sound like? When I finally heard ‘em, I too wanted to ride on the wall of death.
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Teen in the eighties. Don’t think I knew anyone who didn’t unironically love The Monkees. We all grew up watching the reruns.
Wife went with her sisters to a Micky Dolenz show at a casino in Michigan last night. Said he sounded great.
They’re filming for the new season of The Bear near our youngest’s appartment in Pilsen today. Cool Chicago stuff.
Uh oh.
Six month chart for Oracle stock, down 42.63%.
The market seems to have lost conviction that OpenAI will be a solid customer.
Joe Strummer solo show years later at “Clubland” on Woodward sounded a lot better. Only other show I ever saw at the Silverdome was U2 set up for half of the stadium, with a giant curtain in the middle.
Saw them at the cavernous Pontiac Silverdome a year later, early fall of ‘82. On a school night with early marching band practice the next morning. The Clash opened and were probably at their peak US popularity then, or about to be, with Combat Rock.
Just finished watching Fargo for the Nth time, and as the credits rolled, noticed that the artist formerly known as prince played the “Victim in Field”.
Covers of The Kinks Kronikles by John Mendelssohn, Dalva by Jim Harrison, So Far Gone by Jess Walter, Dylan Goes Electric by Elijah Wald, Cat Chaser and Split Images by Elmore Leonard, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, The Name of This Band Is R.E.M. by Peter Ames Carlin, Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Copland, and about twenty more books.
Another year spent watching too much TV.
Woke up imagining how great it’d have been if offensive pass interference hadn’t been called on Amon Ra on the final play yesterday. Lions forever, baby. In a haunting way.
Big Thief, Double Infinity Dean Wareham, That's The Price Of Loving Me Jeff Tweedy, Twilight Override Wet Leg, Moisturizer The Mekons, Horror Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, self-titled MJ Lenderman & Wednesday, Guttering Faces, Early Steps The Replacements, Live at City Gardens 1984 Various, Stax Revue: Live In '65 Neil Young, Oceanside Countryside
I can make a list of some of the music released this year I’ve enjoyed. No one can stop me. Dad rock (mostly) for everyone!
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
You will have to pay a premium for a monitor. Prices for TVs are subsidized by advertising and selling your data. As are Roku devices. Even with a TLC Roku TV, we never use the Roku software built in, but an older AppleTV (with Siri disabled). None of this is great.
Yes, but if there’s a less invasive streaming device with better privacy controls, I’m unaware of it.
“Just disconnect your TV from the Internet and use an Apple TV box.”
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For years I thought this was a fake soundtrack for a movie that didn’t exist. But no, it does, and it’s hilariously bad.
“I was young, reckless, and in love. And then… I was DEAD, young, reckless, and in love.”
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Bah fucking humbug, Macy’s. Get the hell outta here with Christmas advertisements before Halloween.
Young girl at the beach today, said to another in the water: “Be careful. I can’t save you, but I’ll dance on your grave. Not like that, not happy.”
Kinda in awe of kids these days.
Bought a few Curless records, years ago, from a guy who went to high school with my dad. But he wouldn’t sell me his copy of this one. Finally found a nice copy. “Down on the corner at Kelly’s getting stoned.”
Trio of musicians, bass, drums, and guitar, with three bright circular lights behind them, and red lighting from the front, up on stage in front of a packed crowd.
Chalk drawing of the three band members on a black chalk board hanging on a brick wall, with the band name in cursive in white chalk above their portraits.
Finally caught Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, at Thalia hall tonight.
Went and saw One Battle After Another last night. Gonna tell all my Fox News watching relatives they’ll love it, that it’s about ANTIFA’s war on Christmas.
Have a nice little weekend planned. Went out during lunch and bought some frozen pizzas. Stopped by the library and checked out a copy of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel. And splurged on a few new LPs from the local record store. John Coltrane’s Giant Steps from Rhino Reserve and the latest Big Thief.
V shaped opening between dark trees in the foreground, revealing a Halloween orange moon near the bottom of the v, with cloudy blue sky behind. Faint outline of a crucifix to the right the moon formed by a telephone pole.
Creepy old moon over Crystal Lake tonight.
Drive-in movie theater. Film count down reel on the number 8 projected on a large screen, with a row of cars in rows in front of it, and the night sky behind.
Not IMAX, but it’s alright.
I like to think Sting convinced him it was a good idea to do it solo on the piano.
Been watching the 40th anniversary of Live Aid on youtube. No day drinking this time, as during the original broadcast on MTV though. Even sober, Phil Collins looking into the camera while sitting at a piano when the drums should come in during In The Air Tonight was pretty funny.
Dragged my ass up to Lincoln Square to see the Mekons. Worth it.
“Here’s one from our new album, HORROR!!!”
