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It's not that All Things Must Pass was a bad song in itself. It just wasn't a Beatles song. And it sounded too dour and funereal.

How is it that some people seem to live forever, no matter how they mistreat themselves, and some healthy people get a disease in their 50's and die off? I almost wrote "in their 40's," but since I'm going to be turning 40 next year, I had to promptly excise that line.

How is it that some people seem to live forever, no matter how they mistreat themselves, and some healthy people get a disease in their 50's and die off? I almost wrote "in their 40's," but since I'm going to be turning 40 next year, I had to promptly excise that line.

I like putting the GET BACK doc on while I'm puttering around in the evening just to feel like I'm hanging out with The Beatles.

I am falling HARD again for Breath of the Wild. Like I did during those first nights in 2017. Thrilling exploration and climbing and the challenge. I am seeing it through the eyes of FX all over again.

I heard a stat today: 72% of TX nursing home workers have received at least one vaccine dose. HOW IS THIS NUMBER SO LOW. They've only had nearly two years to do their part to protect the most vulnerable population in the country.

Some Bible verses about worship that don't get quoted very often: "I hate, I despise, your feasts! I can't stand the stench of your solemn assemblies ... Take away from me the noise of your song! I will not listen to the music of your harps." Amos 5:21,23

I am not a big fan of musicals in general, but the recent Fresh Air triple episode tribute to Steven Sondheim was moving and it turns out I actually like his music a lot. It's complex and dense and beautiful and abstract.

Why can't Siri, the musicologist, as Phil Schiller called it, do something as simple as Play all my Sting albums in order of release? Or Add all of Beethoven to my up next?

I usually shower on Thursday and Sunday. But I needed to shower yesterday - so I'm off my schedule. Which means I can't shower today, Sunday, because that would mean showering 2 days in a row.

Every person makes observations and draws conclusions from those observations. This is what we are, and that's alright.

in other news ... yes, I got my covid booster today ... and why does it feel like a risky thing to discuss? I feel all twisted up about this aspect of the current state of things. There are only a few people I know with whom I would dare to bring up vaccines.

Could the entire Internet go back to just Wikipedia and a few friendly forums I like?

During my COVID booster today, I heard "Wonderful Christmas Time" for the first time this year. Among my all time least favorite songs. The timing of it all just seemed odd.

Last night I watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager - the main plot was that the crew found a planet where an alien species had stashed some humans that they abducted from Earth in 1937, INCLUDING, Amelia Earhart. Some abductees had escaped and in the 400 intervening years formed a new human civilization. Incredible story. This is why I watch TV.

Just as sounds do indeed exist in empty woods, albums can still exist even though they're not available on the major retail streaming outlets.

I don't like being seen, and I don't understand why people like to do live videos so much. Attention grubbing and vain.

The "new" Radiohead song Follow Me Around is just weird. In the vein of Electioneering. Drop D. Almost bluesy, which is disorienting.

Started playing SUPER METROID. Unsure why it took me nearly 30 years to figure out that it's a great game, but I'm glad I did.

you want to write about your middle school rock band - and the jimmy jam - and teaching George the bass. But you also want to eat mozza sticks and watch SUCCESSION - because the internet is talking a lot about SUCCESSION - a marketing thing. Also, you want to listen to the REM album NEW ADVENTURES IN HI FI - which is their most underrated album to debut at no.2. Goodnight.

Among cultural artifacts I should revisit: Plastic Ono Band is higher up the list than The Queen's Gambit.

No offense to The Queen's Gambit.

I don't know why but I can't shake the feeling that I am secretly despised by many - almost everyone actually secretly despises me.

American Idiot is a great album. Not embarrassed to say so. It's no Invisible Man - but it's good.