music defines times

 that big S streaming service that underpays artists but has an unrivaled catalog is doing the 2021 wrapped already...

Fuck December right? no one wants to know what you listen to this month... or something.

But it was a big year for music, a few huge bands dropped new music and a lot of it was insanely good. If you combine my listening of the new Mighty Mighty Bosstones album between Youtube, YoutubeMusic and spotify...  well that's a fuck shit ton of on repeat of that album.

Remember when i found those two 10mm sockets? Yeah, I was listening to that album on repeat.

I mean when WASN'T I listening to it? Probably 24HOGG because i didn't listen to anything there.

This morning I fucked around on the S trying to figure a few things out - I don't use the mobile app just the desktop one and it is different. but also annoying because if you have the mobile on and the desktop it gets all fucked up and confused and yeah maybe only cause i have a free account.

Anyway... I looked for a few artists I wanted to listen to on Bandcamp, they weren't there so I just cued up C89.5 and boom it was New Wave with DJ Trent Von. And I got working and then went to get up to head down the hall for something and a remix of the Eurythmics Sweet Dreams came on and well...  I sure as hell wasn't going anywhere till that song was done.

that song reminds me of Maryland in the summer. Spending a month at my Dad's house. We listened to the radio a bit and the summer of 1983 no one could get enough of that song. it was played all the time and no one got tired of it. Well I'm sure someone did but I didn't. 

So now long after the day is pulled me thin and worn me out... I'm cuing up remix after remix.

And yeah. The OG from 83 sounds like a remix no? Hard to top that but some give it enough of a modern twist to make the song fresh or just a tiny bit better/different.

So far I like this one

But then, I haven't really found one I don't like. But there are too many to listen to and too much work to do.

Was here way too late getting shit sorted on the system upgrade. And then, well, meant I was home late and needed to make dinner, got that done at nearly 8pm... still hadn't done the workout... an hour, only an hour, but there was some hard z4 and z5 work and i knew that if i ate first it would be bad, but if I ate after that means eating cold food after 9pm and then trying to turn around and get some sleep... that has never worked out. The night before I got home a bit early, did the workout and then made dinner and it was good.

That whole athlete lifestyle is fucking elusive and 100% incompatible with my life. I guess maybe if someone else was making dinner every night or even some of the nights it could work to be more like that...

I'm also in a kind of funk... odd that the cloud has drifted back after so long. but not unexpected. Maybe getting out of here early and getting a workout in tonight will make a difference.

Probably not but worth a shot.

or not...

Fuck

Oh well, time to pull up the socks and head out the door. Had a nice headwind this morning, the tall gear on the SS Surly is perfect for tailwind days, not so much for headwinds. We'll see what is really out there (conflicting weather reports - could just be swirling winds or some other bullshit). If i leave right the fuck now i might beat the rain. But guessing that by the time I'm ready it'll be raining.

That's why there are fenders on the bike.

FUCK - replied to work email and the big green blob moved overhead between writing the last sentence, sending the email and returning here.

Amor Fati Motherfucker - at least maybe the bike path will be empty.

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