We've reached a fairly momentous point.


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If I don't do this now, I don't know if I'll get to it today, but I've got less than five minutes to write this post.

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( If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top. Clean the fucking car. )

This week's One for Friday post got me thinking about the timing of the songs that come to us. I suspect there'll be a follow-up topic next week.

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( Hey, I may be a cold-blooded jelly doughnut, but my timing is impeccable. )

As a reminder, there's five here, and one there.

Today is the 197th Five for Friday. You'd think by now I'd know what I'm doing. And yet last week I posted the entry with an incomplete title.

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( You know, I have a little prepared speech I tell my suitor when he wants more than I'd like to give him. Gee, blank, I had a really nice... )

Today's topic ties in with the name of the band featured in the "One for Friday" entry in that other digital space of mine. Actually, it ties in to one of the posts that should go up this weekend, too.

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( She gave you... your own room in... in your whole house? For your... for your stuff? Wow, she's got you on a long leash, Mark. )

Five here, one there.

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( We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand. )

Our regular reminder: there's five here, and one there.

So I've clearly been thinking in retrospective terms lately. Naturally that's going to filter into this recurring feature at some point, so why not sooner rather than later?

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( When was the last time you remember turning on the radio and listening to popular music? Or, just give me a decade. The 70's? I'm guessing - was, was Michael Jackson still black? Pearl Jam - I'll go back ten years with you. Ten years - 20 years, The Cure? Nothing? )

There is, of course, a long-standing tradition 'round these here digital parts to look to celebrate birthdays with Five for Friday topics. That how the whole endeavor got started, in fact. So I certainly can't neglect one of our most devoted respondents as she celebrates one of the more momentous birthdays. I also feel that, given her the scary ( Read more... )

I posted a Replacements cover at the other site. We'll consider different covers here.

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( It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black. )

First, the obligatory five here, one there reminder.

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( Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or being able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact, I bought her a harp for Christmas. She asked me what it was. )