That’s right, I stared this year’s playlist with a long-ass Rush song! (Luckily you can skip it.) I chose it not only because it’s one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums, but also because it was cool this year to see Primus play it live. Anyway, here’s a bunch of songs …
When I started riding BMX as a kid, I never thought I’d still be riding in my 20s, never mind at 50! So this year I wanted to create a riding edit documenting that I’m still at it (however infrequently). I had a list of tricks I wanted to get on video and some new …
With Amelia at college this year it was a little trickier getting everyone together for a photo, so we split things up into twos to make it a little easier. (Or not, since really it was double the work…) The White Stripes: Elephant Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
RebUke: “On You” Descendents: “Hindsight 2020” Bad Religion: “End of History” Bob Mould: “American Crisis” Dropkick Murphys: “Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding” Fishbone: “Skankin’ to the Beat” Prince Buster: “Scorcher” Oingo Boingo: “Something Isn’t Right” Danny Elfman: “Happy” Devo: “Mecha-Mania Boy” Art Brut: “DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake” Superchunk: “My Gap Feels Weird” The Lemonheads: …
For this year we leaned into the social distancing theme and all went solo: MC Hammer: U Can’t Touch This Britney Spears: …Baby One More Time Taylor Swift: 1989 The Clash: London Calling Beck: Odelay
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Music to quarantine to
7L & Esoteric: “Protocol” Thes One: “Dogwhistles” Beastie Boys: “Say It” Bis: “Sound of a Heartbreak” Simple Minds: “Summer” R.E.M.: “Star 69” Wire: “Cactused” The Muffs: “Sad Tomorrow” Bad Religion: “End of History” Jawbreaker: “Jinx Removing” Superchunk: “Lost My Brain” Green Day: “Fire, Ready, Aim” Drug Church: “Weed Pin” Foster the People: “Style” The Amazing …
Since there’s only 3 members we had to figure out a way to get a fourth person in the photo, and Jill as the guitar case ended up being my favorite part.
I (finally) got off my butt and got on my bike, and Jeremy was there with his phone — he shot and edited this for me: