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Music Monday – “I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm/The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won’t get snagged/The bells are ringing through the town again/The children look up, all they hear is sky-blue bells ringing”
Live music is slowly coming back including Jason Isbell covering R.E.M. at Red Rocks the other night. (Not to mention, that same night, I got to see a local artist covering an Isbell song at the Nickle Lake beer gardens which was just as enjoyable!) “Driver 8” – Jason Isbell (R.E.M. Cover)
Music Monday – “He’s brown as a berry from ridin’ the prairie/And he sings with an ol’ western drawl/Ooh-ooh-ooh-doo-di-di/Singing his cattle call”
“Cattle Call” – Eddy Arnold RIP Lloyd Thompson (1942-2021)
Music Monday – “There’s a great hot desert/Down in Mexicali/And if you don’t have water/Boy, you’d better not go/Tequila won’t get you/Across that desert/To Evangelina/In old Mexico”
“Evangelina” – Colter Wall (Hoyt Axton Cover)
Why Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Is So Good
Maybe because, like “Nanette” by Hannah Gadsby, it totally deconstructs what a “comedy” special is? Or maybe because it’s one of only a handful of truly reflective, unique artworks created during Covid that capture what this past year has been like? Or maybe because I’m pretty sure he does this by not mentioning Covid once […]
Music Monday – “Let’s get friendship right/Get life day to day/In the forget yer skates dream/Full of countervailing woes”
“It’s A Good Life (If You Don’t Weaken)” – The Tragically Hip with Feist
Music Monday – “The snow is so merciless/Poor old Montreal/In spite of everything that’s happened/Yeah, in spite of it all”
The Tragically Hip released a new album this weekend called “Saskadelphia” comprised of six Road Apples-era unreleased songs including one of their most emotionally powerful songs ever… “Montreal” – Tragically Hip
Music Monday – “This is how you play/This is how you play/This is how you play/The lick”
A co-worker’s son is the bassist in this band… “The Lick” – People of the Sun
Music Monday – “It was easier to have fun back when we had nothing/Nothing much to manage/Back when we were damaged”
“Once” – Liam Gallagher
Music Monday – “So while you sit back and wonder why/I got this fucking thorn in my side/Oh my God, it’s a mirage/I’m tellin’ y’all, it’s a sabotage”
Shea and I recently watched the Beastie Boys documentary on AppleTV+ and really enjoyed it. “Sabotage” – Beastie Boys