Anyway, have been feeling way too 'online' for awhile now, even as most of it is when I'm working and I'm bored, and think it's for the best if that stops for a good long while. Dont appear to be missing much, and nobody cares anyway, have a bitchin' summer!
I've discovered during this plague year that, musically, I'm more of a head than I'd previously realized. I'm happy about it, but have informed friends if I start talking about Zappa, to hang up the goddam phone and call 911 immediately, because I've likely suffered a stroke
I own four Sparks albums, and I like them, but must admit that most times I listen to them, after about 10 minutes I'm like 'OK, that's probably enough'
Listening to early 90s Teenage Fanclub, and thinking how different world would've been if FM radio jumped on them instead of Nirvana. I mean, no Staind for one, I guess.
The Cars had a ton of good/hit songs for a decent amount of years, but if anybody had ever said 'They're my favorite band', we would've looked at them like they were really weird.
Just realized the other day I own two (2) Throbbing Gristle albums and, for the life of me, I don't ever remember buying them. So we'll see how that goes, I guess.
This Bee Gees doc is A+, tunes top notch, but as an AM radio kid who grew up in disco era, all the socioeconomic theses about the backlash are probably true, but as an 11 year-old, it got old and corny fast, and had to die to live, and I had Silver Connections 45s so I know stuff
Meanwhile, a current Metro D.C. police officer on the scene yesterday said in a public Facebook post that off-duty police officers and members of the military, who were among the rioters, flashed their badges and I.D. cards as they attempted to overrun the Capitol.
1/13 The people who stormed the U.S. Capitol are getting support from the president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police lodge. John Catanzara, elected to represent the city’s 12,000 rank-and-file cops, told me last night he understands the frustration. His explanation: