For my grandmother, who passed this morning at the age of 100. I should be so lucky.
"As long as you live, shine. Let nothing trouble you. For life is short, and time demands its toll."
For anyone unaware, Jonny Polonsky's "Hi My Name Is Jonny" is available on vinyl now... But there's only 250 copies. And it's still available widely. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
I don't know why I thought about this yesterday, but I did. It took a little research to remember who it was and when I saw it, but I found it again after 27 years. And oh man is it beautiful.
How is it my summer vacation was 10 weeks long, and I only figured out today that I can fill in inflatable pool with a leaf blower in a matter of seconds?
I have listened to a LOT of music this summer and I am telling you: The Anniversary's "Designing A Nervous Breakdown" not only holds up, but is even better than it was 20 years ago.
Finally got around to the new Sleater Kinney in the last day or two.
If you pretend it was put out under a different name, it's actually quite good. If I have to rank it among all their other albums, it's third or fourth from the bottom.
Have you ever been just going about your day and then, out of nowhere, a song that you have heard many times just all of a sudden makes you weep like a baby? Damn you, "He Went To Paris."
After several weeks of "sorry out of stock" emails from places I had ordered from, a box FINALLY came today with a copy of the Wedding Present's "Seamonsters" 2xLP/CD expanded reissue. Did they not think people in the US would want this?