One of Ian Anderson’s best, off one of their best albums. I think Aqualung turned me on to progressive rock.
And I bet I’m not the only one.
Tag: Music
Today’s Earworm
Na na na, na na na… you know the rest.
Today’s Earworm
From the comfort of my sofa…
Today’s Earworm
…actually, it’s a perennial earworm for me.
From their much-derided 80s period (which I happen to love): ABACAB.
Random Totty
Here’s young Grace Bowers, for your delectation:
Girl cleans up pretty good, too:
Never Stopped
Via Insty, this happy tale:
You probably know the feeling — you’re in the mood to watch a movie, so you open up Netflix. The next thing you know, two hours have passed, and you still haven’t decided what to watch. Even when I go on a streaming platform, knowing what I’m looking for, it’s easy to get distracted by a homepage flooded with endless recommendations. Eventually, it starts to feel overwhelming and all that content just blurs together into one giant, forgettable backlog.
That’s why I’ve started buying CDs and DVDs again. I recently revived some old PC setups, so I thought it was time to try taking a similar trip back in time with my music and movies. What started as a passing interest in physical media ended up highlighting everything I’m missing out on with streaming.
And the rest, as they say, was history. It’s a lovely story, so haste ye thither and peruse the thing in its entirety.
Longtime Readers will know full well that I’ve never stopped doing that. I’ve always had a large collection of DVDs and CDs on hand, precisely for the reasons stated in the article. Only the recent move by media companies [spit] towards sunsetting access and availability — not to mention editing the original releases into something… well, less — has reaffirmed my preference toward ownership over subscription.
So to all those — Olde Pharttes, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, whatever — who decide to make a similar lifestyle decision: welcome to the club.
It’s a decision you will never regret.