5K EVERY DAY – Day #53

(“Little Lion Man”)

Running outside!

(Day #53)

Quote of the Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Goal without deadline = fantasy.” – by Jim Rohn

new music friday / Friday 02-21-25

(New Music Friday Intro)

Who’s coming up – little heavy on the alt rock – Mumford & Sons, Noshows, The Wombats, and The Tings Tings

(Countdown Video)

New Music Friday:

• End of last year, I talked about the Indie-Hop sounding band: Noshows (“Portrait”) I also mentioned how the band isn’t just putting out good music , they’re also helping people navigate anxiety through music and pop-up events – the community is called: Magnify the Mind. I’ll provide a link (clip) “Used To It” was the first release off the new EP called Tightrope which is all hanging out today. Song being pushed on Spotify is “Pieces” (clip)

• I talked about this duo just a couple weeks ago (“Tell ‘Em”) – I really like that song. I apologize for playing it too much. The band is Sleigh Bells and they went on to release their first new music in basically 3 years (clip) New song is called “Wanna Start A Band?” They have since announced their sixth album – Bunky Becky Birthday Boy – will be shared to us all on Friday, April 11th. But today – we do get another song from that upcoming record called “Bunky Pop” (clip)

• Remember that band Mumford & Sons (“Little Lion Man”). They’ve actually done several albums since this first glorious one. One of my first vinyl albums to get me back into vinyl. (“The Cave”) If you watched the SNL 50th Anniversary Concert, you got to see the guys performed their hit song from 2012 – “I Will Wait” (“I Will Wait”) Fast Forward to January 17th – yes, last month and we received our first taste of the upcoming album – Rushmere – with the title track song – “Rushmere” (“Rushmere”) And now today – we get our 2nd helping called “Malibu” – ooo, Rushmere – their 5th studio album fully drops on March 28th. (“Malibu”)

• Several quick hits of new music: This would have been a good one for Missed Music Monday – didn’t realize that The Wombats released a full album last week. They did. It’s called “Oh! The Ocean” – you should go listen to it as well. // Fontaines D.C. had one of the best albums of the year for 2024 with the release of Romance. And the Dublin band is already back with a new song: “It’s Amazing To Be Young”. Video arrives over the weekend. // Yet again another band that fell off my radar (“That’s Not My Name”) Well, their name is The Ting Tings and they have a new album coming out next Friday. I missed this song release from last October. A little chill sounding – “Danced on the Wire” (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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5K EVERY DAY – Day #52

(Chappell Roan “Coffee”)

I worship the java bean but come the 3rd day of any 3-Day Fast – coffee just begins to taste horrible to me. I was having serious issues at the end there just everything was tasting bad in my mouth like coffee, water and water.

(Tom Hanks clip)

After this recent fast, I’ve already noticed some better constraint on my part like I saw a jar of peanut butter this morning and I thought nope I should not have 9 spoonfuls. By the way, 5K Every Day continues on – a little rough today, but I did it.

(Day #52)

“Quote of the Day”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” – (“That’s What She Said” clip) – Tom Hanks

5K EVERY DAY – Day #51

(song)

Sorry. They probably shouldn’t leave me home alone. I ran.

(#52)

It was an angry music day – needed all the help that I could get since it’s Day 3 of my 3-Day Fast. I can eat tonight. Sadly

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I prefer a real villain to a false hero.” – by Killer Mike

5K EVERY DAY – Day #50

(“That’s How I’m Feeling”)

Jack White was inspired by a book authored by Upton Sinclair from 1911 called “The Fasting Cure.” This book led him to explore the effects of fasting on his creative process.

(“What’s the Rumpus”)

With fasting, the brain fog lifts and the mental clarity helps bring about new ideas – that’s certainly what I have felt before. Currently, I’m in Day #2 of my 3-Day Fast.

And yes – I did my 50th 5K run of the year, too.

(Day #50)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Vinyl is the real deal. I’ve always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don’t really own the album.” – by Jack White

5K EVERY DAY – Day #49

(“I Want Candy”)

Maybe not yet, but I’m going to want something soon. Day 1 of my 3-Day Fast is underway.

I started it really late last night – gonna be a long Thursday.

And yes – I’m running all along the way.

(Day #49)

Oooooo #49. Tomorrow is the big 5-0.

I’m happy this fast is happening. Trying to have some self-control again.

The other night, my daughter gave me some candy that she got from her cast party of Les Mis (“Look Down”) Still have that music in my head. Anyway – she handed it to me and then it was like empty wrapper.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Starve your distractions, feed your focus!” – by Tony Robbins / Anonymous

5K EVERY DAY – Day #48

(“Look Down” song)

My daughter performed in her school’s musical of Les Mis. Which means – I got to see it 3x this past weekend. Just an FYI – that’s 9 total hours of Les Mis.

(“Master of the House”)

I’m working on a new 2025 angry run playlist – hopefully, it will help eliminate all these songs that keep dancing through my head. I ran.

(Run #48)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.” – by Hugh Jackman

5K EVERY DAY – Day #47

(“Work Shoes” song)

Ever need a weekend away from a weekend? I’m feeling that

(“SOS”)

Those songs are from a running playlist I created back in 2019. 5K Every Day – I succeeded in doing this back in 2021. BUT – I first tried doing it in 2019. I made it all the way to July 15th and then I hurt my knee in Jiu-Jitsu class.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A short book can still be an excellent one. A long book can be a terrible one. It’s not the length of life, but its quality that matters.” – by Seneca

new music friday / Friday 02-14-25

(New Music Friday Intro)

Happy Valentine’s Day Weekend! Spread that love around . . . even to them. Everyone’s like – who’s them? Cowboys Fans . . . it’s a sad time for them. (picture of the parade) They probably wouldn’t have gotten any love there – that was a shot of the Art Museum on Friday for the Eagles Super Bowl parade – before it got really crowded (picture) And – that’s a picture of my gang that went to the parade. It’s why New Music Friday is a little tardy. Who’s coming up: Bryce Fox, Japanese Breakfast, Bon Iver, FJM, and Saint Motel

(Countdown Video)

New Music Friday:

• Bryce Fox already has a busy 2025 lined up while touring with AWOLNATION, but he added to his workload fun by announcing the upcoming release of a new album called The Butterfly and the Bomb (“Butterfly”) That song “Butterfly” is a part of an EP called The Butterfly – 4 of those 5 songs will be found on this upcoming album along with 9 others like the song “King is Dead” (clip) Today though, we’ve got a new one to add to the Valentine’s Day Weekend playlist called “Psychopath” (clip)

• Japanese Breakfast is a band that I talked about last month. Remember – Michelle Zauner is Japanese Breakfast and her memoir is Crying In H Mart (clip) “Orlando in Love” was the 1st release we heard off her upcoming 4th album: For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women). The whole album drops on March 21st, but today we have the 2nd song release called: “Mega Circuit” (clip)

• Last October, Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver released a 4 pack of songs EP called SABLE (“SPEYSIDE” clip) Those same 4 songs will lead off his upcoming new album which will have 8 other songs – 12 in all if my calculator proves correct – album is called SABLE, fABLE (clip) “Everything Is Peaceful Love” is the first release off this new album, which is the first from Bon Iver since 2019 – arrival time is April 11th. //

• Several quick hits of new music: Father John Misty who released Mahashmashana last November. Love that album, so much so – I got it on vinyl. Anyway – for all you FJM fans, he released an album of demos from his I Love You, Honeybear album – which turns 10 this year // Our Lady Peace snuck in a new song on their EP release called OLP 30 Vol. 3 – it’s 5 song of their past work along with this new one called “No Angels in this Town” // I listen to the weekly show Advanced Placement on Sirius XM’s AltNation channel. I heard new song from the band Saint Motel which also just dropped a new album called: Symphony in the Sky. I’m still digging into it, but here’s a sip of the sound I experienced with the song called “Get It At Home” (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.

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5K EVERY DAY – Day #46

(“Celebration” clip)

Yesterday, I celebrated with way too many Eagles fans in Philadelphia for the parade. A lot of people got wonderful pictures and videos of the players, but how about Eagles in a Tree?

(Video Tree clip)

It was fun and memories were made. Just like the 45 record says – it was a celebration.

And – personally, I celebrated run #46 of the year.

(song or Day?)

Quote of the Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Don’t focus on the pain. Focus on the progress.” – by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson