Saturday Spins: Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
This was my Dwight Yoakam gateway drug…I like guitars, Cadillacs, and depending on what one considers “hillbilly music,” I like that too.
Category: Weekend
Weekend Plans Post: Work From Home
I always used to daydream about working from home.
Until I started working from home.
Saturday Spins: Rage Against The Machine’s The Battle of Los Angeles
This week the randomizer was in a bit of a mood and spat out an excellent record from my youth: RATM’s The Battle of Los Angeles
Weekend Plans Post: Agilely Sprinting
My workplace has recently switched to “Agile”. This has increased the number of meetings I go to dramatically.
Weekend Plans Post: Dealing With Daylight Saving Time
As such, this might be the first year of my life that I found myself regretting the end of DST and wandering back to Standard Time. Which is a weird feeling.
Saturday Spins: Dawes North Hills
Have you ever had the opener actually being better than the main act? While Dawes was performing, we knew they were something special then.
Weekend Plans Post: Participating In An Event Without Knowing About It
I found out that I ran in the CU Boulder Virtual 5K!
Saturday Spins: The Beatles Rubber Soul
I know I placed the “underrated” moniker on this album, but that is through the lens of a casual fan of the Beatles, not a fanatic.
Saturday Spins: Steve Earle’s Ghosts of West Virginia
Earle’s goal on this album was to cut through a lot of that and attempt to understand, not condescend to, the dualities that exists in one state in particular, West Virginia.
Weekend Plans Post: Starting to Prepare for Winter
Holy cow, is the season changing again already?
Indeed it is.
Saturday Spins: Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin III turned 50 years old on Monday. However, many of the songs contained herein are timeless classics.
Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ It In A Time Of Covid
Batching it in the beforetime had a schedule, even if most of the schedule was “goofin’ off”.
Batching it during a pandemic means time has no meaning.
Weekend Plans Post: Visiting Friends For The First Time Again
Maribou and I went out and visited friends for the first time since February. Holy cow.
How in the world did we do this regularly in the beforetime?
Weekend Plans Post: The Joke that Still Bugs Me
Holy cow, is tomorrow Friday already?
Indeed it is.
Saturday Spins: Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love
The Boss decided to look inward in the summer and fall of 1987 after his marriage to actress Julianne Phillips went down the shitter.
Weekend Plans Post: Advancements In Dentistry
On Smoking. On Chewing Gum. On Losing a Filling. On Going to the Dentist.
Saturday Spins: Justin Townes Earle In Memoriam
It is pretty hard for me to listen to this album and think that the world will not get any new music written by Justin Townes Earle
Weekend Plans Post: Lime Cilantro Rice (Illustrated)
So all weekend we’re going to have burritos with lime cilantro rice, burrito bowls with lime cilantro rice, maybe a bowl of lime cilantro rice…
