Putting Baby in the Corner. You’re a grown ass person with decades of life experience and refined tastes, and yet, somewhere in your mental closet you’ve got an array of awkward nostalgic loves for people, places and things that no longer fit your view of yourself as a person, like when you smoked weed and thought the Dead were good, or when you wore a Catholic school girl uniform to the office potluck because Britney, bitch.
Music pick of the week:
Robot – The True Loves – Famous Last Words
Stevil – Saps – Lard Baby
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Got to listen for my weekly dose of rigid nonconformity.
Nailed it.
I think that Patrick Swayze, all shaved and oiled up, is mostly responsible for the demise of the chest hair and moustache era of masculinity.
U2 is similar to Metallica in that their first 4 albums were good with the first 3 being great. Then they became insufferable. The difference is that Metallica’s first 3 albums were so good that even though they’ve sucked for so much longer than they’ve been good, we all still remember how great they were. However, I also like The Joshua Tree and when I went to see U2 on the Achtung Baby tour (gross in retrospect) in 1990ish, The Pixies opened for them. So there’s that.