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    Happy 30th Anniversary to one of my favorite albums of all time, Purple by Stone Temple Pilots. 30 years ago today I was fresh out of high school and just starting my time in Austin attending college. I walked down to Tower Records on the Drag and bought this album on CD. I spent the rest of the day driving around Austin getting to know my new city while listening. Maybe that's why this album still sticks with me.
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    The word of the day is gratitude. The kind you have when you haven't had power at your home since Tuesday and it finally comes back on. The kind you have for electric utility workers and tree clearing crews who have post-hurricane like conditions to clear out to bring your services back on. I would go bake them some cookies but we had to throw all our eggs and butter out. It did allow me to deep clean out our fridge.
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    Pet Sounds is 58 years old today. I know what I'll be listening to in just a little bit. The Beach Boys will always occupy a special place for me as that was my late father's favorite band.
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    BB's were also one of my late father's favorites. But, really, the pre-PS surf music. I still remember hearing songs like Be True to Your School and Help Me Rhonda on cassette as a young boy zipping around CT in his Saab. We'll soon be coming up on a year since his passing and I appreciate you bringing up these memories!
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    I once read an article making the case for BB's straddling two worlds and appealing to two sensibilities. The surf music appealed to conservative reactionaries toward a perceived golden age. And PS on to a progressive fan base. This fits with my father's personality (although he wasn't conservative in politics - a liberal blue state Jew - but in some of his attitudes).
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    i don't know if the BB were one of my dads fav bands but one of those comps they released in the '90s got a lot of play time in the family van as kids.sadly my pops is no longer with us passed away in 2018 so the BB music will always have fond memories with me and also a special place in my heart.i'm sure many others can relate to this.
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    As I get older, the notion of sunk cost becomes more of an acceptable rationalization for parting with things even if you don't get a lot for them. But I got a decent amount at Half Price Books yesterday for old VMP and other vinyl I no longer listen to. And before you ask, I don't have enough boxes to PIF things otherwise I would have.
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    Is it bad that while watching 60 Minutes, I see the commercials for river cruises obviously aimed at 60+ year old people and think "actually that looks kinda nice"?
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    Listening to some records to make sure they're ready to go because I want to sell them on Discogs. It really makes it hard to part with them because you remember why you bought them in the first place. Then again, daddy needs a new projector and you will go towards that fund. I will miss you.
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    Well that was pretty awesome. The clouds cleared away just in time for us to see the total eclipse. Seeing the stars during the daytime is quite the freaky experience. I am being informed that the stars were actually Jupiter and Venus.

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    A pro-tip during Girl Scouts cookie season. Thin Mints put in your freezer and had with afternoon coffee is the perfect antidote for dreary, cold, rainy days.
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    Always makes me feel like a kid to wake up and see snow on the ground. We got a nice dusting here in Texas which is rare. Now let's just hope the power holds up. Already had to unfreeze a pipe in our outside utility room.
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    Watched A Christmas Story again with our kids. Love this movie a lot and used to completely see myself through the Ralphie character. Now I empathise more with The Old Man. The joy in his eyes when he relives being a kid again through the gift to his son makes the movie for me now. And who doesn't hate your furnace when you're a homeowner? NOT A FINGA!
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    Why do some Christmas songs sound like threats? YOU'LL GET YOURS! BETTER WATCH OUT! HANG YOUR STOCKINGS AND SAY YOUR PRAYERS!
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    @mdmost i need to know what song started this.

    As to Baby it’s cold just don’t listen to the cee-lo version which is extra rapey.
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    I was listening to The Man With the Bag and the line "you'll get yours" always stuck out as a funny dumb double meaning in my weird head. Like you'll get yours...which could be a terrible fate. I was never a fan of using Santa as a children discipline device like in Santa Clause is Coming to Town.
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    Grandma got run over by a reindeer has some truly gruesome lyrics...

    Like finding your grandma dead in the snow Christmas morning and the implication that she was killed by Santa and his sleigh.
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    I thought getting my oldest Taylor Swift tickets was hard. Those have nothing on trying to get Laufey tickets for the younger one. 2 dates in a 2,000 seat performance venue and the queue was over 6,000 ahead of me for both dates. And that was with 3 devices all trying at the same time.
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    Always happy with a chance encounter with music. I was coming home from dropping the kid off from school this morning. I normally listen to my sports radio station every morning. Instead I flipped on KXT, my local NPR music station, and they were playing an artist I have never heard of before, Laufey. It was right up my alley. Now, I've spent the morning listening to all her stuff. Really enjoyable vocal jazz.
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    Going back to Austin this Friday for the National show. I haven't been to Austin since 2017. I went to college there from 1994-1998. I'm such a nerd that I made myself a playlist on Spotify of music I'm going to listen to from that era as I drive down and around town. Also listening to STP's Purple the whole way through...
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    as that is the album I most associate with my time in Austin. I had moved down the summer before my freshman year. I didn't know anyone but I had a car. I went to Tower Records and bought Purple when it came out and just drove around all day listening to it and learning about my new home.
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    Austin has changed a lot since you were last here. Admittedly, most of the changes have not been for the better, but I think the same can be said of most cities. Overall, I still enjoy living here. I was at UT from 1992-1996, so we overlapped a bit.
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    @Aron yeah, I'm actually thinking about what I might do while I'm there and I bet most of the places I used to go to are all gone now. Mostly, it will be going to breweries and food places that I know still exist.
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    Heaven help me, I now have a 16 year old child. It was just yesterday we were trying to bring her out into this world. I may now officially be old AF. Well....50 is fast approaching.
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