Tracking a Monday

Tracking a Monday

• Here we are. 
• 1. 
• 2. 
• I’m having a Monday, folks. 
• Sometimes, I feel I neglect my mandate. 
• Boost morale. 
• How am I supposed to boost your morale when can’t boost my own? 
• Hmmm? 
• This a chicken-and-egg situation? 
• I’m trying to music my way out of it. 
• As I sit here sweating in my too-warm office. 
• 3. 
• Youtube’s serving up the music this morning. 
• I only clicked on the first one. 
• 4. 
• Buy the ticket, take the ride. 
• Was an old movie weekend. 
• That’s what I do when I’m riding the headache wave. 
• Watched Smokey and the Bandit, which was one of my favorite movies as a kid. 
• Because Trans Am. 
• Oof. 
• Those jokes have not aged well. 
• It was interesting to consider it from a cultural snapshot. 
• Add that to Convoy, The Dukes of Hazard, and that sort of outlaw country music movement … Maybe BJ and the Bear.  
• All the CB talk.  
• The last charge of the folk hero? 
• Who are our counterculture icons now?  
• 5. 
• (It’s not the Twenty-one Pilots, I don’t think.) 
• Anyway, Smokey and the Bandit.
• I’m good for the rest of my life on that one. 
• Also in the old movie rotation: Ocean’s Eleven and The Matrix.  
• Mostly those two hold up. 
• Brad Pitt eating makes me laugh every time. 
• Twenty-one Pilots trivia: Someone told me that their last three albums stitch together to tell a story. 
• 6. 
• It occurs to me you can measure the amount of time it took me to write this list by the music links. 
• Sometimes this goes really fast. 
• Others, not so much. 
• Some of the gaps between the songs are when I zone out and think about what to type next. 
• For instance, I just noticed the subtitles for one of the lyrics of this one said, “Upbeat Music.” 
• That needs better writing. 
• 7. 
• Every time I hear this song (“Sail,” by AWOLNATION), I think about that video clip with the cat on the balcony. 
• I can’t believe there are still official videos for these things. 
• Where do they show them?  
• They just hope everyone watches on YouTube? 
• That’s awfully optimistic? 
• (I say that, but apparently this video has 2m views.) 
• (What do I know?) 
• (Obviously.) 
• Used to be, I think all you really needed was one top-10 hit and you were set for life as a band/performer. 
• Constant residuals. 
• Remembered forever on lists of songs from whatever year your hit was in. 
• Eternal (so far). 
• Immortal (for now). 
• The poor pay of the streaming services to artists probably put that to pasture.
• 8. 
• I do not know who Chet Faker is. 
• I have never heard this song. 
• Kinda dig it. 
• There is a girl roller skating in the video. 
• Huh. 
• We also watched Sugar on AppleTV. 
• So far so good. 
• At least I don’t have it figured out yet. 
• We didn’t sit on the couch the entire weekend. 
• I know it sounds like it. 
• It was just media heavy. 
• Did a cool hike at Turkey. 
• The old red trail has been graveled and turned into a walking path. 
• Felt like enchanted woods. 
• 9. 
• (I’m pasting the links as they pop up.) 
• I would like to be in California with my toes in the sand right now. 
• Need some water therapy.  
• Slow mornings, the sound of waves, a coffee and some fresh fruit. 
• When I think of vacations these days, they always involve being near the water and doing as little as possible. 
• I still have that drive to visit some of the great cities of the world, but … the thought of a sight-seeing itinerary makes me twitchy. 
• I want out of the stimulation and pace. 
• I have to purposefully do that to myself. 
• Because my brain is overclocked. 
• I gotta wrap this up because it looks like the next song is Sleep Token, and I’m not sure any of us are prepared for that. 
• Are? Is? Feels like that might’ve been an is instead. 
• Singular vs. plural with collective pronouns.  
• Had a prof in college try to trip us up with one of those. 
• (The commercials between songs are intolerable.) 
• 10. 
• Didn’t make it, and I’m not going to sanitize it for you. 
• My algorithm is messed up.  
• Okay, the riff in that song makes my metalhead heart happy. 
• One person’s catharsis is another’s torment. 
• Everyone have their glasses ready for the giant shadow? 
• Have a magical Monday, folks.