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After having bought another soundtrack album over the weekend -- (500) Days of Summer -- I have scanned through my music library for songs that repeat or are covered multiple times. After moving past the thousand versions of "Over the Rainbow" and "Hallelujah," two songs are repeated a few times in my library that I get a lot of pleasure.
One is a cover of Harry Nillson's "Think About Your Troubles." Look it up. It's a good song.
The other is a cover of The Smith's "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want."
Wow. What a great song. It was included twice in the "(500)" soundtrack. It was in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." It was also in one of my all-time favorite movies, "This Is England." This is actually a very good cover of it. Lots of emotion. It speaks to me, man. Take a listen:
"Beware thoughts that come in the night." --William Least-Heat Moon
I had one of those crazy thoughts telling me to do one of those crazy things that, when you do it, you were wondering what the hell you were thinking. But I feel I need to do it. I've been a blank slate for a couple of months now, and I need to get out.
I need to go on a great walk.
My first thought was to go on the Katy Trail. That's a good 225-mile walk. But I used to live in Missouri and would like to see another state.
Does anybody have any ideas about where I could go to do a similar-length walk? I would want to do it over 14-21 days. I'm thinking April or May-ish as a time.
Ideas?
I made some late-stage changes to my year-end video that I thought made it to the DVD burning process, but I discovered the other day that it did not. So, all of you who got a DVD... you got a slightly unfinished product. I hope you don't mind.
One is a cover of Harry Nillson's "Think About Your Troubles." Look it up. It's a good song.
The other is a cover of The Smith's "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want."
Wow. What a great song. It was included twice in the "(500)" soundtrack. It was in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." It was also in one of my all-time favorite movies, "This Is England." This is actually a very good cover of it. Lots of emotion. It speaks to me, man. Take a listen:
Click to view"Beware thoughts that come in the night." --William Least-Heat Moon
I had one of those crazy thoughts telling me to do one of those crazy things that, when you do it, you were wondering what the hell you were thinking. But I feel I need to do it. I've been a blank slate for a couple of months now, and I need to get out.
I need to go on a great walk.
My first thought was to go on the Katy Trail. That's a good 225-mile walk. But I used to live in Missouri and would like to see another state.
Does anybody have any ideas about where I could go to do a similar-length walk? I would want to do it over 14-21 days. I'm thinking April or May-ish as a time.
Ideas?
I made some late-stage changes to my year-end video that I thought made it to the DVD burning process, but I discovered the other day that it did not. So, all of you who got a DVD... you got a slightly unfinished product. I hope you don't mind.