#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge 2003 | Day 6 unranked Venus As A Boy | Björk Cheating a skoosh. Released in 2003 on Live Box, a collection of live recordings. Originally from Debut (1993), this recording is from 1995 appearance on Jools Holland (1995). youtu.be/uW4wdQkZxW8?...

#ArtistFave15 #SuzanneVega 15>1 Widow's Walk / Songs In Red & Gray Shedding the industrial sound post-divorce from Mitchell Froom, Vega returns to her folk/rock roots. Chosen this live version (may prefer to the album version). youtu.be/SVtQB8PBbdw?...

hanging out with Stephan & Herman (our drummer and bass player) #bettieserveert

In front of a national TV audience, the Patriots proved they’re not going to back down from a challenge.

Congratulations Big Z!!! The Boston Bruins will retire Zdeno Chara's No. 33 on Jan. 15, honoring the legendary defenseman and former captain for his 14-year leadership and Stanley Cup win. https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-bruins-to-retire-zdeno-charas-no-33-before-game-on-jan-15/68848464 

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge 2003 | Day 5 unranked Snake Oil | Kristin Hersh From Hersh' fantastic solo album, The Grotto, released the same day as Throwing Muses' album. "My sleeping pills melted and I sleep fine The tears on my shoulder won't keep me up tonight" youtu.be/Zm7WguuBcMg?...

#ArtistFave15 #SuzanneVega 15>1 Ludlow Street / Beauty & Crime A tribute to her brother, Tim, who'd died young a few years prior. "When I go back to Ludlow Street I find each stoop and doorway's incomplete Without you there" youtu.be/ADjSOOj7hSw?...

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge 2003 | Day 4 unranked Toxic | Britney Spears Not a huge Britney fan-more of a Madonna/Kylie Minogue guy. But this song is awesome. Iconic video. youtu.be/LOZuxwVk7TU?...

#ArtistFave15 #SuzanneVega 15>1 Caramel / Nine Objects of Desire A friend remarked when Nine Objects came out (1996), that Vega had had good songs, but lacked a good album, until this. Not sure I agreed; I liked Days & 99. youtu.be/kD7TZyLeCfk?...

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge 2003 | Day 4 unranked Obsession | Kylie Minogue Body Language is one a phenomenal album and this is my favorite track (a tough choice: Slow, Red Blooded Woman, Chocolate). youtu.be/tT4Ye9XDuGA?...

#ArtistFave15 #SuzanneVega 15>1 Men In A War / Days Of Open Hand After success with Luka/Tom's Diner, a foray into experimental industrial sounds, but still Vega's style. "If your nerve is cut And you're kept on a stretch You can't feel your will You can't find your gut" youtu.be/koaKOXbIhT8?...

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge 2003 | Day 3 unranked Robot City | Some Girls Any opportunity to add to my Juliana Hatfield list. youtu.be/0eOrXgKcXLs?...

#ArtistFave15 #SuzanneVega 15>1 Bad Wisdom / 99.9F° Fantastic album. Leonard Cohen interviewed Vega in 1993, they discussed this song, it's meaning is knowing things you're not ready to know. youtu.be/4sVgO-KtIuk?...

There's a word for guys obsessed with other guys' masculinity. 🍆🐷

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge 2003 | Day 2 unranked Hollywood | Madonna From the fantastic and a bit underrated (IMHO) American Life album. Some of my all-time fave M songs are from this album, including this. youtu.be/uaNLvjCkYDE?...

#ArtistFave15 #SuzanneVega 15>1 In The Eye / Solitude Standing Vega's second album that begat Luka and Tom's Diner. She doesn't rock out like this often, but when she does! youtu.be/tXwmeEZPl0Y?...

There are fart inspectors looking at a clogged colon who had more enthusiasm in their expressions than those generals did listening to those two freakshows.

Watched this live and was stunned by the pushback/fact-checking. Where was this critique in say…Oct/Nov 2024? This is nice but would rather have had LM not normalize crazy THEN.

If you think the Dems did all of this, it's possible... just possible you're a deplorable. You just want to seem "hip" at brunch, but really you couldn't stand voting for the black woman. BTW as a gay man, I can't recall a time when Dems tried to take my rights away. Reps? Damn skippy.

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge 2003 | Day 1 unranked Speed and Sleep | Throwing Muses From TM's self-titled album (first album was clarified as Untitled). I saw them in NYC at the Knitting Factory with Tanya Donelly. One of my most memorable shows. youtu.be/KflXqAfmFe8?...

#ArtistFave15 #SuzanneVega 15>1 Knight Moves / Suzanne Vega From her 1995 debut album. "And if you wonder what I am doing As I am heading for the sink I am spitting out all the bitterness Along with half of my last drink" youtu.be/x4rBQe9SOdE?...

There’s no such thing as a bitter jury. It’s your job to ensure jurors aren’t bitter or can overcome that & recognize your game. If you didn’t do that, you shouldn’t win #BB27

Curious if Vinny owned his stuff more (eg. I’m here to slit throats, throw the bodies in the river>here to win) if he could have got more jury votes. Still think Ashley would have won #BB27

Way to go, Ashley #BB27

Yeeesh... what a mess. #BB27

Kelley looks like she swallowed a lemon whole whenever Vince speaks. She's not picking up what he's putting down. #BB27

But god, Ashley is eating this up #BB27

Vince is actually giving decent answers, just sloppy about it. #BB27

Betting Vince tears up at least twice at the jury questions #BB27

The jury said they wanted "resume" but they want accountability (Lauren and Will "Vince was messy"). If Ashley can show she's been intentional, I think she has this. But this jury is chaos. #BB27

Holyyyy, this is gonna be good. LFG, Ashley!! #BB27

Let's go, Ashley! #BB27

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #ArtistFaveLP Album: Sarah McLachlan / Fumbling Toward Ecstasy Day 10: Track 8 / Ice "Your angels speak with jilted tongues The serpent's tale has come undone You have no strength to squander" Incredible lyric. youtu.be/jHeDglCNadc?...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #ArtistFaveLP Album: Sarah McLachlan / Fumbling Toward Ecstasy Day 9: Track 6 / Elsewhere (Mirrorball Version) "Oh, the quiet child awaits the day When she can break free The mold that clings like desperation". youtu.be/aHxOQkejaRk?...

You guys. It’s clearly not the massive kleptocracy of dunces destroying our was of life for pay from garbage sources, it’s probably someone questioning their gender identity in an Arby’s in Ohio somewhere. Akron, maybe.

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #ArtistFaveLP Album: Sarah McLachlan / Fumbling Toward Ecstasy Day 8: Track 2 / Wait Possession (Track 1) was regarded as "too rock" for Schoenhof's, so we were only allowed to start from Wait. youtu.be/mgIgEJTz7YY?...

We created Boston Family Days to guarantee every kid growing up in Boston can bring their family to museums/aquarium/zoo for free. 65,000+ free visits so far! Now we’ve added free performing arts access so our students are at every major stage in our city. Thank you to all our amazing partners!

I worked at 53 State in the 00s, this was ‘my’ Starbucks as it was right off Govt Ctr T. The manager knew EVERYone’s order (“u like cream”, “skim for you”, etc).

Could future hgs never use the phrase "resume-builder" again? #BB27

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #ArtistFaveLP Album: Sarah McLachlan / Fumbling Toward Ecstasy Day 7: Track 9 / Hold On McLachlan played a free concert (radio-sponsored, remember those?) on Boston City Hall Plaza ~1997. I still think about her version of this live. youtu.be/MHBmpGLGyk8?...

That was FAST!

If you see this post a concert picture you took

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #ArtistFaveLP Album: Sarah McLachlan / Fumbling Toward Ecstasy Day 6: Track 11 / Fear 1994-96 Schoenhof's Foreign Books/Harvard Sq shoppers must have heard me play this album 5,000x. Fear was a highlight, how it sound on store speakers 🤌 youtu.be/5GTmkv7Vcy4?...

Small potatoes, but DHS/ICE is running ads here, basically, 'Boston cops, wanna help us be fascists?' Tacky, ca. 2005 art direction, natch. I think about the poor designer who had to make that. We used to have a joke: "Can't make it good, make it big; Can't make it big, make it blue."

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #ArtistFaveLP Album: Sarah McLachlan / Fumbling Toward Ecstasy Day 5: Track 3 / Plenty (Mirroball Version) McLachlan really defies genre definition. Folk? Jazz? Alternative? Goth? Alt Rock? Cabaret? Yes. And, More. youtu.be/rddPmCAzKxs?...

Did I miss the rapture?

As a classicist, I learned gods (=natural forces) HAVE no morality, which is a human concept. Heroes challenge & often are punished. The god is unbothered. It's childish to be mad/want to blame nature for just existing. THIS is what MAGAs do bc they don't understand science. It's all about blame.

Kids today won't know about the Tylenol Recall in 1982. It led to tamper-proof packaging in OTC & RX meds. It's a case study of how corporations are SUPPOSED to respond to a crisis: they just pulled products off the shelves & took the loss. No, "yeah, but..." Deserves better than this shit.

FWIW, ‘The Cheeseman’ is an excellent sobriquet.

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #ArtistFaveLP Album: Sarah McLachlan / Fumbling Toward Ecstasy Day 4: Track 7 / Circle youtu.be/rzYy1T04Ipo?...