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Fighter jets are practicing for the air show tomorrow, flying low to the ground and making lots of noise and generally giving everyone in the Loop the willies.
I�ve decided that I�m not meant to spend the rest of my life in a big city. I don�t want to live in a small town, either. So it looks like I�ll be settling in a pleasant, mid-sized community. Joliet, here I come!
This summer has seen several albums released which are arguably comebacks by bands I count among my favorites. Last week, I purchased three of them: Orbital�s swan song The Blue Album, Macha�s Forget Tomorrow, and Codename: Dustsucker by Bark Psychosis. My reaction to all of them has pretty much been the same, and progresses thusly: �Well, this is pretty good so far. It doesn�t flat-out suck, like I was afraid it would.� Then: �This is a good track. I�ll add this to my Favorites playlist.� Then: �I just listened to this whole album all the way through, twice in a row, and it definitely made my day better.� And finally: �Holy shit. Can I somehow copulate with this album so we can have great-album babies?�
Speaking of great albums, I�m almost through my big fifty, for those of you still awake and keeping track. At first I was going to cut it off after I Can Hear The Heart (#43), since I felt like I�d written all there was to write about my junior year of college. Then I took a breath, listened to a few more favorites, and found that, lo and behold, my logorrhea had kicked right back into high gear. So there are a few left, and then I�ll put the whole thing to bed. The challenge with the remaining albums will be to somehow avoid my already heavily-trodden memoiristic Jeopardy! categories: London, The Year 1998, Wes & Mark, Grinnell, Bands I�ve Been In, Iowa City, and Potent Potables.
Overheard snippet of attorney's phone conversation: "Why can't you just pronounce John Kerry's name like the rest of the country does?"
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