slow-dog.backintheusa

Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Merrry Christmas to All

08:40 PM PST
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Friday, December 12, 2003

Birth of the Boom Box.

11:17 PM PST
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Saturday, December 6, 2003

I just saw USA Today's Top 40 albums (of all time?). Anyway, no real surprises, no real reaches.

Last night, I was playing poker with some friends and there friends, and we were talking about music. Someone brought up "Train in Vain" by the Clash. I mentioned that I did like the song, but for the longest time, I didn't. I had left it, and then it came back to me.

I point this out, only, because as I read through the USA Today list and came across Paul Simon's Graceland, I said to myself, "I #@%$ing hate that album!" I don't know when that happened. Maybe it's just because it's a staple of music collections (usually smaller than 50 CDs), of people of a certain age--right there on the shelf with Buena Vista Social Club (don't own it) and The Joshua Tree (do own it). I think I've got a dubbed cassette copy of Graceland, but man, could I be less interested in "the former folkie's rich and exotically fanciful collaborations with such African talents as Ladysmith Black Mambazo." No I couldn't. Will there be a "Train in Vain"-ish triumphant return somewhere down the line. Not likely. I #@%$ing hate that album.

09:37 PM PST
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