WHAT We’re DIGGING in 2017
musings on music, film, books, art, and pretty things.
December
November
18 - When children figure out how to add their own music to your Spotify playlists: yes, now I have a song by Charles Ritchie called Our God Is Able: Daniel 3:17 as a public playlist on my profile. Added, I’m quite certain, by a certain 7-year old caught up in all things having to do with Judaism, the Torah, and the book of Daniel.
October
17 - Listening: a trifecta of Beatles from 1963: Please Please Me, Love Me Do , Misery
10 - Watching All the Way, an HBO film on President Lyndon Johnson and civil rights. Also: Is there such a thing as listening to too much Dylan and Cohen?
05 - Listening to the Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
September
27 - Listening to the Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
21 - Listening to Blonde Redhead Silently, along with the Beatles’ Rubber Soul
20 - Listening to the Beatles’ 1965 masterpiece Rubber Soul. To be clear…they released not only this, but Help! in the same year. The prolific nature of their output over that decade at the level of innovation and quality they did gets more mind-blowing every year.
August
26 - Listening to Dylan’s John Wesley Harding (1967).
23 - Listening to the Beatles’ Revolver (1966) on repeat.
July
26 - Listening to the 1967 classic Beatles album Magical Mystery Tour
07 - A almost-10yo buys Flora & Ulysses at Barnes and Noble. I miss Borders Books and Music. But am so glad for kids who love books, regardless of where they come from.
June
May
April
March
February
25 - A Playlist : “A jolly good Friday afternoon blast" (x5)
Wind In Our Sail - Weezer
Silly Me - Yeasayer
Police Encounters - FFS
You Are Killing Me - the Dandy Warhols
The Orange Monkey - PJ Harvey
18 - Watching Moana.
January
06 - Reading Neal Stephenson’s techno thriller Reamde (1999). Caught up in its sprawling, hacker-scenariod,, MMORPG, hunter-hunted-the-hunted, country-hopping tale covering all kinds of geographic and thematic ground.