So I was tagged by Mike Brown, but like any pyramid scheme, someone has to be at the bottom. There are no bloggers left to tag, so I feel like a lowly Herbalife recruit with a bag full of magic potions, but no takers. Start blogging now! Ask me how!
At any rate, did you know...
1. ...I genuinely like my job, but I find my course of employment to be the least interesting thing about me and I probably think it's the least interesting thing about you? [note to readers: not you specifically, but most other people]
2. ...after 28 years of near-absolute abstention, I've become an insufferable coffee snob in 9 short months?
3. ...liberal/progressive blogosphere be still, but I still think there are a couple of presidents worse than W, even if none served two terms or after the invention of the telephone? OK, maybe one, but still.
4. ...I've never eaten mayonnaise in an unadulterated state, nor as a condiment?
5. ...I've owned music in many media? Yes I have. First tapes (simultaneous purchase, Singapore 1983) were Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller", which was also my first LP. First 45" single was "We Are the World" (Philadelphia 1985). (I don't remember my first 12", as my first and only 20 were bought in the space of a summer, Hollywood 1995). First cassingle was Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance" (Saugus, CA 1989). First CD was Bobby Brown "Don't be Cruel" (Valencia, CA 1989). FIrst CD single was Public Enemy's "Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya Man" (Newhall, CA 1990) with the non-album solid B-side "Get the F@% Outta Dodge". First illicit download- Usher "My Way"(1) (Davis, CA 1998), first legit download (single) Neil Young "Old Man" (Valencia, 2003) and (album) James Brown "Live at the Apollo" (2004).
Footnotes
(1) In my defense, I didn't pay for Usher and 1997/1998 was the worst musical era of my lifetime, by a longshot. Also, this was pre-napster (for mac at least) and finding MP3s was like casting a net and taking what you got.
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5 comments:
Coffee? Do you watch the OC and reruns of Friends now too? Welcome to the circus. And I won't mention anything about Usher since you let me get away with KeefSwet, eh?
Now that wasn't so hard, was it?
P.P.P.P.S.: I-tunes has changed my life and now I am finding long lost music for my collection again. The last download was The Brand New Heavies first self-titled, and I'm remembering how much I forgot to remember to buy it. Love me some N'Dea.
Does the question mark after the mayonnaise statement indicate that you aren't exactly sure of your mayonnaise-eating status? My friend tells a story of the time when his little sister, who was passionately devoted to mayonnaise, snuck down to the kitchen in the middle of the night, got the jar out of fridge, and ate mayonnaise until she vomited. It's not a nice story.
The question mark is an awkward way of treating the item as a continuation of "...did you know:" But, like all of us, I've encountered substances which could have been mayonnaise or any of four other things, but I never take the chance. Your story is gross, but could make me rethink mayonnaise if it is good enough to eat an entire jar.
Just re-purchased Heavy Rhyme Experience. Wow. I thought that album represented the future of hip-hop, but it was really a one-off. One of the last Main Source songs and the very first Pharcyde song, if I'm not mistaken. I remember driving with my dad hearing the Pharcyde track on KCRW a good six months before I would hear about them again. I'm gonna post on this album once of these days.
I think part of the appeal of BNH for me, at least, was the 'back in the day' experience of hearing "People Get Ready". Good album, but not the future of hip hop (unless Kenny G offers his skills to The Roots with India Arie singing or something).
Do more music posts, you remember more than half of what I forgot.
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