And, here are the films that I watched this year:
That time of the year again, when I post all about the books and movies that I consumed over the year.
As always, after I talk about the book, I'll have the final sentence, with all of it whited out except the final word.
And for the third year in a row, I've attempt the Across The Year challenge from Goodreads.com, wherein 52 different topics are given, one for each week of the year. I managed to complete all 52 (although not necessarily all in order).
Here we go:
Today is December 28th, 2021. The song of the day is "Sleep Now in the Fire" by Rage Against the Machine.
Today is December 22nd, 2021. The song of the day is "Real World" by Matchbox Twenty. (Fitting that the video features a camel on hump day.)
Also, I can't help but sing the lyrics as "I wish Burrito World would just stop hassling me."
Yes, I'm very much a dork. We all know this.
Today is December 20th, 2021. The song of the day is "God Don't Make Lonely Girls" by The Wallflowers.
Today is December 19th, 2021. The song of the day is "Birdhouse in Your Soul" by They Might Be Giants.
Today is December 12th, 2021. The song of the day is "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)" by Sly & The Family Stone.
Today is December 6th, 2021. The song of the day is "Lies" by the Thompson Twins. Man, the 80s were weird.
Today is December 2nd, 2021. The song of the day is "Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison. There are two versions of this video, and I chose the more fun one, since it's definitely more iconic, in my mind. (also, I had no idea this was a cover until today! Learn something new everyday, I suppose.)
Today is November 27th, 2021. The song of the day is "That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)" by Panic! At the Disco.
The Pretty. Odd. album may have been one that wasn't well received when it came out, but I personally love it. It's been a while since I've listened to it, I may have to remedy that today.
Today is November 26th, 2021. The song of the day is "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion.
Today is November 8th, 2021. The song of the day is "Everyday I Love You Less and Less" by the Kaiser Chiefs.
Today is November 2nd, 2021. The song of the day is "What Would You Say" by the Dave Matthews Band.
Today is November 1st, 2021. The song of the day is "MMMBop" by Hanson. (What? They can't all be gems.)
Happy Halloween! Today is October 31st, 2021. The song of the day is "Salute Your Solution" by The Raconteurs.
today is October 25th, 2021. The song of the day is "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by Simon & Garfunkel.
Today is October 15th, 2021. The song of the day is "I'm the Man" by Anthrax. This is censored, and the audio mix is pretty crappy, but the song still takes me back to when I was 14 and could sing along with every word.
Today is October 14th, 2021. The song of the day is "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)" by Citizen King.
Today is October 12th, 2021. The song of the day is "We Are Not Going To Make It" by The Presidents of the United States of America.
Today is October 3rd, 2021. The song of the day is "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory.
Today is October 1st, 2021. The song of the day is "Pictures of Matchstick Men" by Camper Van Beethoven.
Today is September 17th, 2021. The song of the day is "We Don't Believe What's On TV" by Twenty One Pilots.
Today is August 28th, 2021. The song of the day is "Blood//Water" by grandson. grandson is AMAZING. This generation's Rage Against the Machine.
Today is August 25th, 2021. The song of the day is "Take the Money and Run" by the Steve Miller Band. (hoo hoo hoo!)
Today is August 19th, 2021. The song of the day is "Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols. Sing along, everyone!
Today is August 12th, 2021. The song of the day is "All the Love in the World" by Nine Inch Nails.
The Downward Spiral is often touted as NIN's masterpiece, but With_Teeth is truly an underappreciated album in my opinion. This is the opening track, and it's a great beginning to an awesome piece of art.
Today is August 11th, 2021. The song of the day is "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees. I think it's a post-apocalypse setting in the video. But at least the Bee Gees survived it. Which is not surprising. Their music will outlive us all. :)
Today is August 9th, 2021. The song of the day is "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind.
Good byeeeeeeeeeee!!
Today is August 6th, 2021. The song of the day is "Pill Bugs" by Zach Sherwin. Awww, yeah. Rollie pollies, muthafuckas!!
Today is August 4th, 2021. The song of the day is "The Long and Winding Road" by The Beatles.
Easily my favorite Beatles song.
Today is August 2nd, 2021. The song of the day is "Big God" by Florence + The Machine.
Today is July 31st, 2021. The song of the day is "Obsession" by Animotion. This might possibly be the most '80s video ever.
Today is July 28th, 2021. The song of the day is "Good Morning Good Morning" by The Beatles, which might just be my favorite Beatles song.
Today is July 20th, 2021. The song of the day is "Parents Just Don't Understand" by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
Today is July 18th, 2021. The song of the day is "Your Call's Very Important To Us. Please Hold." by Sparks.
Today is July 16th, 2021. The song of the day is "Somewhere Out There" by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram.
Today is July 14th, 2021. To celebrate those sevens, the song of the day is "Seven Sticks of Dynamite" by AWOLNATION.
There are a TON of people out there who just do NOT know how to do their jobs properly. Holy shit, ya'll.
I mean, I know that I'm not the best at what I do, but oh my god. It's astonishing.
Today is July 7th, 2021. The song of the day is "I'll Follow the Sun" by The Beatles. I think this may be my favorite Beatles song.
Today is June 29th, 2021. The song of the day is the absolute classic, "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" by Chicago.
Today is June 26th, 2021. The song of the day is "Summer in the City" by The Lovin' Spoonful.
Stay cool out there, folks. It's freaking hot.
Today is June 22nd, 2021. The song of the day is "And I Love Her" by The Beatles. It's amazing to me that it took this long for a Beatles song to get picked.
See, the way I pick the song of the day is that I have a spreadsheet with some 2900ish songs on it. Each day (with exceptions for themed days) I use a random number generator to pick one of the songs. There are probably around a hundred songs by the Beatles (or post-Beatles stuff like Wings) on the list, and it took this long to land on one. Kinda surprising is all.
Anyway, since I got a Beatles song, I'm going to get myself a Pepsi. (There's a whole story behind THAT too.) Back when I would drive in to work each day, I would hit "scan" on the radio and I would tell myself if I hear a Beatles song, that's the Universe telling me that it's okay to get a Pepsi on the way in. To this day, I still like to use The Beatles as a marker for doing things. "I'm hungry, but I'm working, so I'll wait until I hear the Beatles to go grab my lunch."
I think "And I Love Her" may be my favorite Beatles song.
Today is June 1st, 2021. It's the birthday of singer and actress Alanis Morissette, so the song of the day is "Alanis Morissette" by Wesley Willis.
Today is May 30th, 2021. The song of the day is "Satin in a Coffin" by Modest Mouse.
Today is May 24th, 2021. It's my 26 year work anniversary. So, the song of the day is "Wish" by Nine Inch Nails.
Today is May 17th, 2021. The song of the day is "123456 Pokemon" by Neil Cicierega.
Today is May 12th, 2021. The song of the day is "Ghosts Are Everywhere" by The Presidents of the United States of America.
Today is May 1st, 2021. The song of the day is "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by the Crash Test Dummies.
Today is April 29th, 2021. The song of the day is "The Kids Are All Wrong" by Lagwagon. (Shortest song of the day so far!)
Today is Saturday, April 24th, 2021. The song of the day is "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers.
Today is April 21st, 2021. The song of the day is "Cleveland Rocks" by The Presidents of the United States of America.
Today is April 20th, 2021. The song of the day is "Paris (Ooh La La)" by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Today is April 15th, 2021. The song of the day is "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine" by Spoon.
Today is April 8th, 2021. The song of the day is "Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead" by Akron/Family.
statistically speaking, if you advertise on television, you're a god damn moron.
And I'm not talking about the efficiency of advertising, and whether that is something that is a waste of money, I'm talking about the agencies that do this for a living and (evidently) have no fucking clue what they're doing.
How hard is it to be consistent in what you say in an email and what you deliver IN THAT SAME EMAIL? If you are going to ask us to run a spot called "Waste of time_30", don't send us a file named WOT30. Tell us you want to run WOT30. (Or change the filename to Waste of time_30. Either way is fine!)
But apparently that's too much logic for these people. And it's like a god damn epidemic in the industry! I would understand if it were one or two, but it's DOZENS of people who operate this way.
This nitpick has been present in my job from day one, and it's just part of the annoyances that I have to deal with, and it's really not THAT big a deal. But... it kind of is? I mean. WHY is it so difficult for these companies to make that tiny tweak to make? Has nobody actually pointed it out before?
I don't know. I just know that this (and a lot of other) things that are slightly irritating in my job are lately becoming much more grating to me. Maybe I need a vacation.
Today is April 5th, 2021. The song sandwich of the day is "This is Not a Song, It's a Sandwich" by Psychostick.
Today is April 2nd, 2021. The song of the day is "Saturday Morning" by eels. (Yes, it's Friday. Deal with it.)
Today is March 31st, 2021. The song of the day is the classic, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants.
Today is March 28th, 2021. And the song of the day is "Something For Your M.I.N.D." by Superorganism.
Today is March 23, 2021. The song of the day is "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce.
Today is March 22nd, 2021, and the song of the day is "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2.
Arguably the best thing to come from the disaster that was Batman Forever.
And today's bonus song of the day is "1999" by Prince.
"Mommy, why does everybody have a bomb?" (not on this version, sadly.)
Today is March 16th, 2021. The song of the day is "Space Oddity" by David Bowie.
Today is March 14th, 2021. The song of the day is "Back to the Shack" by Weezer.
Today is March 13th 2021. Song of the day is "Losing A Whole Year" by Third Eye Blind.
Kinda crazy that it's been an entire year of working from home.
Today is March 11th, 2021. The song of the day is "Year of the Rat" by Badly Drawn Boy.
everybody needs a hug. (Although maybe not during the most recent year of the rat, 2020.)
Today is 3/4/21, and the song of the day is "Philosophy" by Ben Folds Five.
Today is February 28th, 2021. The song of the day is "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
It's February 24th, 2021. Song of the day is "#1 Crush" by Garbage.
Happy Anniversary, Steph. :)
Today is February 23rd, 2021. The song of the day is "Black Gold" by Soul Asylum.
Today is February 21st, and the song of the day is "One of These Nights" by the Eagles.
Today's song of the day is "Alternative Girlfriend" by Barenaked Ladies.
Today's song of the day is "It's Kickin' In" by They Might Be Giants
Today's song of the day is "Digging in the Dirt" by Peter Gabriel.
Today's song of the day is "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" by The Animals.
In honor of Groundhog Day, today's song of the day is "I Hope Tomorrow is Like Today" by Guster.
Today's song of the day is "When Did Your Heart Go Missing?" by Rooney.
Today's song of the day is "Like Gold" by Vance Joy.
Today's song of the day is "For Once in My Life" by Stevie Wonder.
Today's song of the day is "From God's Perspective" by Bo Burnham.
Today is January 21st, 2021, and the song of the day is "Perfect Stranger" by Patti Rothberg.
Today's song of the day is "The Best" by Tina Turner.
Tina Turner + Horse + Sax solo = The Best.
Today's song of the day is "Burn It Down" by AWOLNATION
Today's song of the day is "The Guillotine" by The Coup.
Today's song of the day is "I Love It" by Icona Pop.
Today's song of the day is "The Beast and Dragon, Adored" by Spoon.
Today's song of the day is "Tempted" by Squeeze.
Happy New Year, everyone! Today's song of the day is "1921" by The Who.