Favorite tracks:
A Little Bit Of Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr51EmoKQnA
Time Spent In Los Angeles
If I Wanted Someone
Fire Away
Million Dollar Bill
How Far We’ve Come
Thursday, June 25, 2020
LP #34 Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong (2011)
This, the second studio album from Dawes, offers both consistency and a
number of true high points. Their fourth album, All Your Favorite Bands, and their sixth effort, Passwords, also stand out, although only
the title track from the former reaches the level of the best 3 or 4 tracks
from Nothing Is Wrong. I still haven’t
figured out why their even-numbered releases significantly outshine the others.
Friday, June 19, 2020
An open letter to Rob Manfred and Tony Clark
“What the (bleep), dudes?” My sentiments exactly.
It gets better from here:
The negotiations
have been going on for more than a month now, and every day brings a new low.
Speaking on behalf of baseball fans everywhere, we’re tired of your incessant
squabbling, your inane counterproposals and your constant harrumphing.
…
These negotiations
have been a travesty, or in the words of Fielding Mellish from “Bananas,” a
“travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of
a sham.”
You both have
embarrassed yourselves and the game, even making Trevor Bauer look
statesman-like. Even Bud Selig is laughing at you.
Lyric Of The Day #18 (June 19, 2020)
A Bob Dylan trifecta for Juneteenth
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'
You say, "Oh my God, am I here all alone?"
But something is happening and you don't know what it is
Do you, Mr. Jones?
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Shuffle #135 (June 14, 2020)
All Day And All Of The Night – The Kinks
Werewolves Of London – Warren Zevon
Don’t Mess With Bill – The Marvelettes
The Golden State – John Doe
Smells Like Nirvana – “Weird Al” Yankovic
Kansas City – The New Basement Tapes
Angel – Sarah McLachlan
Tossin’ Benjamins – Throwing Wrenches
C’mon Marianne – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Tonight, Tonight – The Smashing Pumpkins
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Lyric Of The Day #17 (June 13, 2020)
[Y]ou're movin' on the back roads by the rivers of my memory
Vivid imagery throughout this classic, written by John Hartford but
made famous by Glen Campbell.
Twitter is our window into Trump’s shriveled soul
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/twitter-is-our-window-into-trumps-shriveled-soul/2020/06/11/492c84a2-ac11-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html
Believe it or not, Michael Gerson’s column is even better than the title would suggest.
He starts out with the following: Witnessing a new low for the Trump presidency means it
is a day of the week ending in “y.”
A few paragraphs later, he discusses whether our current President is a
“credulous simpleton” or a “cynical weasel”. (Spoiler alert: the correct answer
is “Yes.”)
Friday, June 12, 2020
The President has lost America’s clubhouse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/10/its-not-which-sports-figures-are-speaking-out-thats-telling-its-how-many/
Great Boswell column on the intersection between sports and societal-political
issues.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
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