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I would like to submit that it is impossible to have been in high school in Indiana in the 1990s and not be a huge Tom Petty fan. Absolutely, utterly impossible.
Reports are confused; he may still be with us and he may be gone. All I know is I drove home tonight blasting this song, and then Wildflowers, at top volume, and I had to stop singing along partway through the chorus because I was crying.
Let’s just, like, pretend that I wrote a post that was 2000 words of whining, anger, and negativity, and then I don’t have to actually do it.
Here, have a music video. I’m going the hell to bed.
I listened to “Fuck Dying” by Ice Cube four times on the way home from work tonight. This is actually a good thing and indicates a certain amount of nah, world, you can’t touch me tonight.
It’s been a week of short-ass posts, I know, but there’s a lot going on tomorrow, assuming I’m able to keep my momentum up.
In the meantime, and not for the first time:
I’m on the couch with my laptop in its appropriate place, and I think I literally fell asleep with my eyes open a few minutes ago. So watch this and maybe I’ll type words tomorrow:
Today was a Tuesday, in case you were wondering. I don’t know what it is about Tuesdays. But today was definitely a Tuesday. I think I need a T-shirt or something.
At any rate, on the way home from work the following two songs flashed into my head. I still have every syllable of both songs memorized. I probably haven’t listened to the Kool Moe Dee song in the larger part of a decade. It’s really weird how the music that you were listening to when you were in middle school and high school sticks with you forever.
Or maybe it’s not, I dunno. It’s not like I’m not still listening to the same stuff. 🙂 At any rate, enjoy some old-school hiphop while I go to bed early and try to recharge enough to make it through Wednesday.
