It is indeed Friday when this gets posted (if not when it gets composed). This week, clearly, has not been good. Lots of crap, everywhere, shoveled heavily over my existence. To put it plainly, it sucked; there was very little worth feeling good about, all told.

But, this is the world we live in now.

My only escape, sort of, was riding the bike in the woods, and having a couple of beers with my fellow barflies at the Kroger bar on Thursday evening. Of course afterwards, I had to grab some groceries, which is kind of tedious, even if you’ve got a couple of pints in you while you walk the aisles. Sobers you right up.

Y’all have read the posts this week; I don’t need to elaborate. Life was…not good. Some of it I didn’t even mention, and I’m not going to, because it’s not necessarily mine to tell, but take it as read that things were generally awful all around.

But, it’s kind of over, at least. We have that. I won’t belabor it.

I shall, however, say that today is once again Bandcamp Friday, where the service waives fees and all the proceeds go to the artist. One could do worse than to grab the tunes from any of the folks in the “play list” category to your right (bandcamp links will be on those pages if it doesn’t go straight there). One could also aim toward the “tunes” category to your left, which includes a few links toward stuff that I’ve been involved with and/or contributed to.

Of course, if you like me, you could take a look here:

That right there is my record; I’m mostly proud of it. If you were interested in buying that, or anything else from bandcamp, today would be the day, as the artists get a little extra. Just sayin’.

Anyway, other tunes. Spotify generated a “Time Capsule” playlist for me Thursday afternoon; that’s where this week’s tunes come from. It plays like late high school/early college, if I were just a tiny bit cooler than I actually was. Enjoy:

1. “Heaven’s Trail (No Way Out)” – Tesla
2. “Rush” – Big Audio Dynamite
3. “Lay It Down” – Ratt
4. “In God’s Country” – U2
5. “Voices Carry” – ‘Til Tuesday
6. “Stars” – Hum
7. “Man on the Moon” – REM
8. More Than Words” – Extreme
9. “Nothing Else Matters” – Metallica
10. “Zombie” – Cranberries
11. Androdgynous” – Replacements
12. “Coming of Age” – Damn Yankees
13. “Driver 8” – REM
14. “Blue” – Jayhawks
15. “Punk Rock Girl” – Dead Milkmen
16. “Where Is My Mind?” – Pixies