friday random elevenish – “failed state” edition
A week. The past seven days have certainly been one.
Personally, I’ve been busy with work and bike; tons of meetings, extra work, flow charts, and spreadsheets for the former, more than a hundred (occasionally wet) saddle miles for the latter. One helping me shake the stresses of the other.
Not much to speak of, except to briefly address the header image: Between one worker bee’s oddly specific questions about the penalties for not adhering to the mandate in an all-hands meeting, reading this disjointed stream of consciousness “explanation” from one of the supposedly “vaccine hesitant”, as well as just looking around in my local community, I’m not particularly confident in our fitness as a nation and/or species.
But there are tunes…garage rock interspersed with some new wave. Sure:
- “Stars” – Hum
- “So Long Baby Goodbye” – The Blasters
- “Hush” – Deep Purple
- “Tell Me When It’s Over” – The Dream Syndicate
- “Space Age Love Song” – A Flock of Seagulls
- “Only After Dark” – Mick Ronson
- “The Solar Sex Panel” – Little Village
- “Jump Into The Fire” – Harry Nilsson
- “Bloc Bloc Bloc” – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
- “Slipping (Into Something)” – The Feelies
- “The Emperor’s New Clothes” – Sinéad O’Connor
- “Range Rover Bitch” – Taylor Hawkins
- “Love Is Alright Tonite” – Rick Springfield
- “Valerie Loves Me” – Material Issue
