5K EVERY DAY – Day #37

(“One Way” – Saba)

That’s old Saba, we’ll talk about some new Saba tomorrow for New Music Friday.

There’s also renforshort and the new album from Inhaler – who’s the lead singer’s dad?

(“Pride”)

Bono. Bono. That U2 guy. All that is tomorrow for New Music Friday.

In the meantime, Happy Friday Eve and I ran.

(Day #37)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When you’re really learning, you’ll feel stupid and vulnerable – like a hermit crab between shells.” – by Derek Sivers

5K EVERY DAY – Day #36

(“Greased Lightning” song)

Every Wednesday around 5:46am at The Edge Gym in Pike Creek – I hear that song

(“Greased Lightning” song)

Amusing how that part isn’t edited out of the song at the gym. But if you hear that Kanye and Jay-Z song

(clip)

A whole lot of editing occuring there. So, I did hear that Greased Lightning song this morning which means – I ran.

(Day #36)

Quote of the Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Never say anything unless you have to.” – by John Travolta

5K EVERY DAY #35

(Imperial March theme)

I have Garmin watch and it monitors a “body battery” to help give you an idea of how your body is doing. I have a habit of checking it every morning because i want to see how well I apparently slept. Today, I woke up with a 100% filled up body battery. I still would have much rather gone back to bed than run that 5K.

(Imperial March theme)

Why Star Wars? Well, after today’s 5K run, it was a Star Wars Corn Bag that I heated up. Still smelling like popcorn – delicious. But I did run.

(Day #35)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Always remember your focus determines your reality” – by George Lucas

missed music Monday / Monday 02-03-25

(Missed Music Monday opener)

Last September, Amy Allen dropped her self-titled album with 12 songs to enjoy. My favorite ended up being track #1 “Darkside” (clip)

So, why am I also bringing her up – she won Grammy for Best Songwriting. During her acceptance speech, she said “Without us, there would be no songs for anyone to win awards for.” She’s got that right. She’s got co-writing creds with Harry Styles, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Timberlake, Tate McRae, and fellow Grammy winner Sabrina Carpenter.

(Espresso) Amy Allen helped on that song. Go enjoy some Amy Allen.

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Tune in tomorrow for: Quote of the Day!

5K EVERY DAY #34

(“Sad But True” cut)

It’s been nothing but angry music for the past week while running my 5Ks every day. It’s all directed towards my right ankle.

(“Sad But True” cut)

I don’t have video of me running today, but I do have a common practice that I’ve been doing before, after, and sometimes wish could be done during a run. Go looky.

Shot of the Ankle – “Beauty. Go Birds. I ran.”

(Day #34)

(show them the corn bag) Heat this corn bag up non-stop in the microwave. My daughter tells me that I smell like popcorn – could be worse.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I choose to live, not just exist.” – by James Hetfield

Metallica was up for best Metal Performance at the Grammys but ending up losing to Gojira

5K EVERY DAY

(“Pepper” song)

Fun to say that you need a good “pick-me-up” song and then request The Butthole Surfers

(“Pepper” song)

A whole bunch of their music was remastered last year for all you butthole surfer fans.

By the way – I ran

(Day #33)

Enjoying my bone broth – or as my wife likes to call it – my Meat Coffee.

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By the way – here’s the link for the Billy Oppenheimer Newsletter

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Struggling through a workout or new skill – I like think ‘how many people would quit right now?’ The, I keep going.” – by Chris Bosh via Billy Oppenheimer

5K EVERY DAY

(song)

Happy February! It is windy around me again.

That song “February Winds” is from Billy Talent – it’s a rock song about how we should all come together as one even though we all have differences in our lives.

That’s all I’m saying. I ran.

(Day #32)

Ankle is holding up – barely. Gonna keep going for now.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Goodness isn’t something that’s going to be delivered by mail. You have to dig it up inside your own soul. You find it within your own thoughts, and you make it with your own actions.” – by Ryan Holiday

new music friday / Friday 01-31-25

(New Music Friday Intro)

One month already gone for 2025 – We got a full weekend of February. Goals – keep going everyone! For new music, we’ve got Sleigh Bells, David Kushner, TORRES & Julien Baker, as well as some dude named The Weeknd.

(Countdown Video)

New Music Friday:

• Back in 2010, this duo of band released an album called Treats that I simply loved and unfortunately fell off my radar (“Tell Me”) I’m putting that on my running playlist – when you hear that – how can NOT get hyped up (little more) ANYWAY – the band is Sleigh Bells and they are back with their first new music in basically 3 years (clip) Song is called “Wanna Start A Band?” – now the story that’s been told has a song to go along with it. You see – back in 2008, while Alexis Krauss was eating at a restaurant in Brooklyn with her mom, their server, Derek, eventually asked during the meal – “Wanna Start A Band?” (clip)

• Three years, David Kushner released the song “Miserable Man” and it went viral on TikTok (clip) Between then and now, he’s tallied up his fair share of music (“Daylight”) Today though, via his own label – Miserable Music Group, he’s released “Breathe In, Breathe Out” (“Machinehead” clip) But – that’s not it. That’s Bush. Don’t worry, we’ll get to David’s. His new EP arrives on Valentine’s Day called 20 Years From Now and without any further delay let’s hear that new song from David Kushner (clip)

• Last January, TORRES released an album called: What an enormous room. (“Collect” cut) Also last year, Julien Baker was putting a wrap on her tour with boygenius (clip) After a whole lotta teasing, TORRES and Julien Baker have finally announced their new combo album: Send a Prayer My Way (clip) The indie rockers have turned toward a country sound. Album comes out April 18th. Let’s hear the new song that was released called “Sylvia” (clip)

• Several quick hits of new music: The final entry in a trilogy of albums that began in 2020, The Weeknd has released Hurry Up Tomorrow // Lady Gaga has finally announced the release of her next album (March 7th) which had been known as LG7, but now is offically called Mayhem. FYI – she’s releasing a new song that will premiere during the Grammy’s this weekend – during a commercial break. Don’t be so quick to hit the bathroom. // As we creep closer & closer to Valentine’s Day, The Lumineers are treating us to more of their new album: Automatic. (cut) That’s actually track #1 “Same Old Song” which I’ve totally been digging. Today’s release is called “You’re All I Got” (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

(“Tell ‘Em”)

I just added that song to my running playlist, which I will share at some point in time soon. The band is Sleigh Bells and they have new music out, which you’ll be able to hear about on this (show card).

(“Wanna Start a Band?”)

In the meantime, 5K Every Day – One Month Down, Eleven to Go

(Day #31)

So yes – I ran. AND – an update on the ankle – still hurts. I’ve been elevating it, heating up cornbags for it, and I’ve switched up my shoes.

(“That’s Shocking”)

As my daughter calls them – my pretty shoes – HOKA Mach X from last year. Tread is bad, but I’m hoping it helps change things up.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that’s why life is hard.” – by Jeremy Goldberg

5K EVERY DAY

(“I can feel it coming in the air tonight”)

Happy Friday Eve! AND – Happy Birthday to this drummer boy!

(Drum solo)

Mr. Phil Collins is 74 years old (young) today. Growing up, he is definitely the one that inspired me to love music and to keep digging for more and more.

(clip)

I could play stuff from him all day, but I won’t.

(clip)

Alright – so there was one more. FYI – I did do this – 5K Every Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values: they’re hobbies.” – by Phil Collins