Today on the treadmill – I was listening to a Modern Wisdom podcast. The host is Chris Williamson. He had Naval Ravikant on – who spews quotes. I have a quote of the day from him. BUT – I started to wonder what music would Naval listen to. I could see him listening to a band like Tool.
(“Invincible” Tool)
Tool is heady, multilayered music, right? I mean, I don’t think he’s listening to “All the Small Things”
(“All the Small Things”)
I love Blink. I just had a Mark Hoppus quote yesterday. I just think if Naval had his choice – it’s probably Tool – Both bands have kick-ass drums.
(clip)
Running out of time here – I ran.
(Day #113)
“Quote of the Day”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Inspiration is perishable — act on it immediately.” – by Naval Ravikant
Initially today, I was listening to a Tim Ferriss podcast with Seth Godin as a guest and then my player just stopped. That’s when I noticed that I was 2 1/2 miles into my 5K run. That’s conflicting number systems.
(“Edging” song)
Anyway – I quickly switched to Spotify and just hit the first thing. It was Blink and I finished my run. #112
(#112)
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If at first you don’t succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.” – by Mark Hoppus
Happy “Big Word Day” – my little vlog will never be accused of such sesquipedalian
that word means involving long words. I did run – wasn’t been any longer than any other day this year. 5K Ever Day Continues
(#111)
“Quote of the Day” or “Pronouncement of the Twenty-Four Hour Period”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you’ve never been hurt.” – by Dick Van Dyke (Bert, Mary Poppins)
Philadelphia’s own – The Hooters – with “Day By Day”
That’s exactly how I’m taking my 5K Every Day
(#110)
The Who, The Black Keys, The National, The Hooters. The “the” is important.
I love The Hooters vs. I love hooters. I’m getting myself in trouble.
What’s another good song from The Hooters.
(“All You Zombies”)
FYI – Easter Bunny arrived at the Evans household. Basic Peeps are extinct anymore.
Used to just be the yellow chick or pink rabbits.
(“Pink Rabbits”)
That’s a deep cut from The National. Anyway – peeps s’mores. So good!
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – by Audrey Hepburn
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives, we may forget altogether to live them.” by Alan Watts
Happy Holiday Weekend – for some people. Others, all good. You’re saving money and don’t have to purchase all those eggs to decorate.
(Gene Autry – “Peter Cottontail”)
I prefer Gene Autry and his Rudolph song. FYI – that is 1 of 37 “Classic” Easter songs available on a Spotify playlist. I’ll provide a link. Who’s coming up! The always prolific King Gizzard, The National’s lead guy doing his solo thing, new Sublime, and Petey USA!
(Countdown Video)
New Music Weekend:
Over the years, The National’s Matt Berninger has shared the microphone with various female voices: Caroline Spence, Phoebe Bridgers (clip), Julia Stone, Taylor Swift (clip) and now for the 2nd release off his upcoming album, we get the sole member of Hand Habits – Meg Duffy joining him (clip) That’s “Breaking into Acting” off the Get Sunk album which is dropping in its entirety on May 30th. Here’s a refresher, Matt Berninger’s 1st release of this new album was “Bonnet of Pins” (clip)
With King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, I’m a rookie Gizzhead – in fact, I probably don’t have any right in calling myself that quite yet. BUT – I do have two of their vinyls. Baby steps (“Alluda Majaka”) Oddments was my first vinyl purchase of theirs – older album from 2014, but a recent purchase for me. Another King Gizzard vinyl I picked up Sketches of Brunswick East (clip) I received help with choosing that one from Austen at my local shop – Rainbow Records. Anyway – why all this King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard talk – they have announced a release date for their upcoming album. (“Phantom Island”) Phantom Island is due out June 13th – the band’s 27th album – quite prolific those Aussies. Recently, they shared the record’s title track, but now we have the follow up and Track #2 on the album called “Deadstick” (clip)
I just talked about this possiblity last Sunday – new music from Sublime (clip) In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Look At All The Love We Found: A Tribute to Sublime, there is an expanded edition of the compilation arriving May 9th from Sublime (clip) This edition includes brand spanking new recordings from Pennywise, Zac Brown Band, Slightly Stoopid, Jack Johnson, and Fishbone. I don’t have any samples of those new songs. BUT – we do have the son of the late Bradley Nowell – Jakob Nowell offering up his solo project Jakobs Castle version of “Garden Grove” (clip)
Several quick hits of new music: One of the most anticipated albums of the year – Send A Prayer from Julien Baker & TORRES is out. They gone country and if you felt optimistic about the first couple releases, this album will NOT let you down // Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker has announced a new live album. 43-tracks that were recorded over three nights during the tour of her 2024 solo album, Bright Future. Also, there are live renditions of five previously unreleased songs. Live at Revolution Hall is out April 24 – that’s soon. // This one actually came out back on March 28th, but personally, I just heard it. Could be a “Missed Music Monday”. (clip) Petey USA is someone who I watched numerous funny videos of and had no idea he did music. His new album THE YIPS comes out July 11th, but for the time being we can enjoy its 1st release called “The Milkman” (clip)
Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Spill Magazine, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.
I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that! Anything that I really messed up and missed – well, that’s why I’ll be doing Missed Music Monday on Monday.
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My first 5K Race is coming up. How official is it? It’s on the family calendar.
(“Cool Runnings Slow Clap”)
That’s all I got for locking it in. I’m signed up for the Annual UnLocke the Night 5k in Newark, DE on Friday night, May 9th. This group helps those with mental health struggles. Their mission is to educate, assist, and support youth on their mental health journey.
I thought this was a good first 5K race for me this year. I ran.
(#108)
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are.” – by Rocky Balboa
Does everyone have their own special song that they lean into during trying times?
That’s mine – the live version of “Runaway” from the National
(song)
Off of their High Violet album from 2010 – I liked it then, but something about the live version is magical to me. It is funny though how I’ll sing along to the “I won’t run”
(Day #107)
A lot of people interpret the song as relationship between you and a significant other. My feeling with it is me against life. And to that – I won’t run away.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.” – by Sam Harris
On this date back in 1991, The Temple of the Dog album is released. It’s a tribute to Andrew “Dog” Wood, the Mother Love Bone lead singer who died in 1990.
(“Stargazer”)
Temple of the Dog is comprised of both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden members including each lead singer Eddie Vedder and Crhis Cornell
(“Say Hello 2 Heaven”)
Psst – I did run again
(#106)
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The words you say never live up to the words in your head.” – by Chris Cornell
Today, I was running at the back of the treadmill. Felt like I was catching up the entire 5K.
But – I finished it.
(#105)
Today’s “Quote of the Day” was taken from Shane Parrish’s weekly newsletter – comes out every Sunday. I’ll provide a link – Farnam Street.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise.” – by Frank Ocean
