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THE TITLE OF THE BOOK IS A LIE! THERE IS AN ENTRY FOR FEBRUARY 29th!
That makes 366 songs!
It also means I am three days behind all of a sudden.
February 28th — Cold Milk Bottle
February 29th — Song for Roger Maris
March 1st — Cubs in Five
It's hard to express how little I care about sports. I once had a Canadian friend in grad school, Jen, with whom it was mutually understood that we just did not give a shit about sports, unlike most of the other people in grad school with us, who cared about whether USC made it to the Rose Bowl or about baseball or what have you. The biggest betrayal came during the olympics one year when she walked into the grad lounge and said "Canada-US game was pretty exciting, huh?" and I was like "what game are you talking about?" as I was only vaguely aware of the olympics going on at the time, and she said "Canada beat the US in hockey 2-1" or something like that, and I said "Jen, I thought we agreed we don't care about sports" and she said the most Canadian thing I have ever heard in my life: "This isn't sports, it's hockey." Anyway, these songs are nice, but that's in spite of two of them being about baseball.
The song for today is Pure Money
Darnielle's annotations are reflecting on how his career might have gone differently if he had focused on his keyboard/synthesizer compositions instead of his guitar compositions, and how he might likely have wound up a nurse in Hawaii, rather than thirty something years into a career as an indie rocker. And while I don't dislike this track, listening to it makes me think he's not wrong about what other paths would have been taken if he had been focused on keyboard only.
That makes 366 songs!
It also means I am three days behind all of a sudden.
February 28th — Cold Milk Bottle
February 29th — Song for Roger Maris
March 1st — Cubs in Five
It's hard to express how little I care about sports. I once had a Canadian friend in grad school, Jen, with whom it was mutually understood that we just did not give a shit about sports, unlike most of the other people in grad school with us, who cared about whether USC made it to the Rose Bowl or about baseball or what have you. The biggest betrayal came during the olympics one year when she walked into the grad lounge and said "Canada-US game was pretty exciting, huh?" and I was like "what game are you talking about?" as I was only vaguely aware of the olympics going on at the time, and she said "Canada beat the US in hockey 2-1" or something like that, and I said "Jen, I thought we agreed we don't care about sports" and she said the most Canadian thing I have ever heard in my life: "This isn't sports, it's hockey." Anyway, these songs are nice, but that's in spite of two of them being about baseball.
The song for today is Pure Money
Darnielle's annotations are reflecting on how his career might have gone differently if he had focused on his keyboard/synthesizer compositions instead of his guitar compositions, and how he might likely have wound up a nurse in Hawaii, rather than thirty something years into a career as an indie rocker. And while I don't dislike this track, listening to it makes me think he's not wrong about what other paths would have been taken if he had been focused on keyboard only.
