🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Lay Low" by Fiddlehead →
What's your favorite song about change?
This hits home right now. All three kids going off to college this month. My dad in the cancer hospital for a stem cell transplant to try to beat MDS. Feeling old.
Watch your kids grow - see them leave home In a breeze without ease, feel your throat choke Watch your friends go - see your hair grow Black to grey in a day and see yourself old Its too much for me I gotta lay low
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Loser" by Tame Impala →
Saw the new Spider-Man with the kids. Well, they are young adults now, but it’s been a thing for us since they were little, starting with Milo when he was 9 or 10. We’ve seen every Tom Holland Spider-Man movie in the theaters as well as all of the Spider-verse movies. So glad we were able to again, it made my day.
And yeah the movie was so good too!
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Debaser" by Pixies →
What's a song you associate with your favorite person?
The Pixies were one of the first bands we bonded over and have seen them a few times now.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Talk On The Hill" by WILLOW →
Was a WILLOW day. Bought the album on Bandcamp and published a review on the blog.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Misanthrope" by MOULD →
Been digging this new album today. More coming to the blog soon.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Revelate" by The Frames →
All Glen, all day.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "It's a Curse" by Wolf Parade →
Tonight’s driving / Navidrome shuffle nostalgia… this song is so good.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "I Am the Mountain" by Damien Jurado →
This came on my recent Navidrome shuffle. Need to listen to more Jurado.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "All of This Will End" by Indigo De Souza →
Geez I’ve really fallen behind for the first time in a while. Lots going on: kids prepping for college, loan hunting, and my dad is in the process of getting a stem cell transplant. So much stress and trying to take it one hour at a time.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Cold Cash and Cold Hearts" by Thrice →
Introduced my daughter to Thrice last night and now she's interested in seeing them this fall when they come to Buffalo. Win. 🏆
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His lyrics through Sick Of It All were some of my earliest introductions to injustice, fighting racism and inequality, and our corrupt system. Rest in power, Lou.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "revolver" by 44go →
Heard this song on KEXP today. Some Madchester vibes. So good!
The reporting on this admin is consistently horrible. NPR publishes this headline, then TWELVE paragraphs in:
Tariffs are paid by companies in the United States that import foreign products. The importers usually try to pass along the cost by charging consumers higher prices.
Indifference through obfuscation.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Letting Go" by Angie McMahon →
What song makes you think about the future?
Big changes coming up with all three kids going off to college. 18 years of chaos with twins and an older child by just 13 months. Now we will be empty nesters. Gonna be quiet!
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Bad Mouth" by Fugazi →
More appropriate lyrical goodness:
You can't be what you were So you better start being just what you are You can't be what you were The time is now, it's running out It's running out, it's running, running, running out
You can't be what you were So you better start living the life That you're talking about You can't be what you were The no movement, the no movement The no movement in a bad mouth
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "No God" by Show Me the Body →
Still can’t get enough of this album. Today a song about not waiting for anyone to tell you to do what’s right:
There's more to this Earth than I can see Who's gonna dance in the circle for me? No line in the sand, with demand how I feel No god to make it real
🎟️🍿tickets acquired for The Odyssey tonight.
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Open web and indie web, forever. Part 2.
I've seen a few bigger "indie" or open web proponents make overtures about returning to X recently and it boggles my mind. You even have Mozilla, who did go back back to X, posting: "We took time off of X,...
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Halfway" by Swapmeet →
What's a song you'd want your best friend to hear for the first time?
Another new album I am super psyched about... I'd want them to check this song out, especially the last 40 seconds of noise-y power pop hooks.
🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Supercollider" by Quicksand →
Road trip home music. Still super impressed by this album.