U2- You’re The Best Thing About Me
U2- The Blackout
The Darkness- All The Pretty Girls
The Preatures- Mess It Up
The Preatures- Yanada
Robert Palmer- Get Outside
The War On Drugs- In Chains
The War On Drugs- Strangest Thing
Dire Straits- Romeo & Juliet
Songhoy Blues- Voter
Queens Of The Stone Age- The Evil Has Landed

Walter Becker’s death got me to go back and listen to old Steely Dan albums. Forgot how good Pretzel Logic is.

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way. Of all the albums of his I’ve listened to over the last few weeks, this was the most immediate. Probably to do with the guitar.

Sadly I spent a calendar year going to funeral after funeral as a kid so stuffed shells kind of always reminds me of funeral food now. Can’t eat it. Also too many weddings have killed prime rib for me too.

“More trouble than it’s worth”? You’re missing the best part of owning bread! It’s when you hold the bag by the opening, then lightly slap the loaf so it spins around and around, thus creating a tight, plastic coil at the top, over which you can easily fit the plastic tab. Nothing could be simpler, and it’s tremendous…

Doesn’t get much better than switching between Whiskeytown and Neko Case.

Testing.

I like most of Drive By Truckers’ catalog, but Southern Rock Opera is the one I always come back to. 

I still think, for all that it’s a little on the nose, “My Winding Wheel” is Ryan Adams doing what he does best - cheesy, earnest, poppy alt

U2- The Blackout
War On Drugs- Deeper Understanding
Queens Of The Stone Age- Villians
The Preatures- Girlhood

A Charles Pierce quote about a different set of nimrods, but even more applicable here:

Kinja salad:

“We didn’t mean OUR church!”

99% of the time you’d be right to call out that internet hyperbole, but you have hitched your affections to a guy who will attack anybody with red-hot fury at the slightest provocation, and yet when literal Nazis show up, he puts his hands in his pockets and says, “Uh, well, let’s not rush to condemn them. Give it…

We’ve been “kicking the can” down the road for the last 60 years or so. It’s called diplomacy, and in all likelihood, it’s the only thing that has stopped an all-out civil war in Korea, and maybe even a war with China. When we don’t engage in diplomacy, and say, our president wags his piggly little dick at NK, all we…

“and Beric has that eyepatch.”

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and the aforementioned Selling England by the Pound are my favourite of that period.

David Bowie’s Changes, a classic.