Sod it, the time has come. Blow off the cobwebs, crank up the loudspeaker, cos an announcement is in order here at pogo a go-go:
FiL is hereby abandoning linear time.
What? You thought I was packing it in? Not a chance, Dearest Friend. Yes, yes, I know postings have been rather thin around here as of late, but it's a trickle, not a drought.
I still have stories to tell, it's just that I can't get them out in a timely manner. So if time is the problem, then time must be removed. Abolished. Spurned. So the stories will come when they come, in the order they choose.
There, I feel better.
Speaking of time, this week's
Contrast Podcast urges us to go back to when we were 21 and share what music we hear back then (See? I'm messing with the tenses.
Woot! Fuck you, time!!). The theme was actually suggested by my Dearest Friend
Brad, who was one of my roommates at college. I'm actually going back to Washington, DC for a long weekend of catching up with him and other close friends. Ostensibly it's a late 40
th birthday celebration. Well, I'm happy for that to be the excuse; it's been
waaaay too long since I spent proper time with Brad
et al, and I am looking forward to it something fierce. I just hope I'll be able to remember it all after all the alcohol...
Drop by
here to download the
CP Nation's collective
reminiscence, and stop
here to leave your comments.
As I mentioned in my intro, the song I chose (not gonna tell you what it is - new policy
chez FiL: go have a look/listen on the
CP website) nailed a particular transition point as I navigated into my 22
nd year. During those 12 months I finished up my undergraduate studies, spent a couple of months backpacking around Europe, then started graduate studies in England, where I didn't quite reckon I'd spend the next 15 years. But there were a lot of musical
currents swirling around, and so my choice could just have well been one of these:
The Pixies -
Wave Of Mutilation (buy
here)
I lived & breathed this album...De La Soul -
Jenifa Taught Me (buy
here)
Awww, bay-beh!!Mudhoney -
This Gift (buy
here)
They dumped me headlong into grunge. Been there, done that, still got the flannel shirt...Pop Will Eat Itself -
Wise Up! Sucker (buy
here)
I forget too often how good the PWEI's brand of screeching pop fusion often was.The Soup Dragons -
I'm Free (buy here)
There's always been a baggy dance element to FiL..Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine -
Sheriff Fatman (buy
here)
Jimbob & Fruitbat - what a duo! A cleverly anthemic, socially scathing piece of pop goodness, this is. And did you know that CP compere Tim once boasted a stringy, Jimbob rattail hairdo? It's true!Ned's Atomic Dustbin -
Kill Your Television (buy
here)
Noisy boys with a thing for multiple t-shirts and loose shorts. I've had tinnitus in my left ear ever since going to a 1992 Ned's gig. Fact!Lush -
Sweetness & Light (buy
here or
e-here)
I've been gazing rapturously at my shoes for hours. Can't stop.So I'm off to DC tomorrow evening for the weekend, then I jet to Toronto for a couple days of work. No idea when I'll be back around here, but, well, it'll be sometime. Until then, Dearest Friends, stay excellent.
3 comments:
FiL,
Hope you and the boys had a great time catching up..... and drinking!
T
And these take me waaaaay back.
Sorry I aint been around for a while and only just got round to reading this.
Hope all is OK.....
We'll always have Toronto.
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