A great head-on-pillow start to my day, Tom. I read your "What's Curation?" piece, too. I'd have a hard time choosing one song to write about, since I walk around to an imagined soundtrack 24 hours a day, and music has always been a big part of my creative life.
I'll always associate Rod Stewart and Frank Zappa with my dad. And Boys II Men wrote the theme song for my first impossible crush.
Now I just have to choose something for my latest impossible crush on 1986 Tom. 😉 🔥
I'm gonna guess something by Bob Dylan, but since I didn't follow his music closely I don't have a good guess for the track name. As it happens my first concert was at the Palace of Auburn Hills -- the Led Zeppelin reunion tour in 1994.
Re: Wordle, I used to be a daily player. I started off on like a 70-game win streak on Hard Mode but then lost on one of those where it could've been one of five words with three choices left (e.g., LEAST, BEAST, FEAST). After I turned off Hard Mode and now play whenever the mood strikes.
I did get the Worldle on the first try once. I can't remember the word but I saved the image.
Great article over on What's Curation?, and my musical tastes are pretty eclectic as well. As far as country and blues, I like the very old stuff, like 30s-50s. One of my favorite songs is Big Rock Candy Mountain, although that came out a little later. If it's an old guy, a twangy guitar and a barstool, then that's my taste. Your photo of you, and your comment on REM is funny because I have a Christmas photo of me holding a cassette tape of Oingo Boingo. Good times.
That's quite some Wordle record - nice one! Thanks to the influence of a certain Mr Tom Pendergast my loyalty to the game has been entirely scotched by his recommendation of Waffle.... I've been obsessed with it for WEEKS now!
I used to play Wordle -- didn't stop for any specific reason, just didn't open it one day... I used to make it harder by choosing different, random words every day. First one that popped into my head, I'd use. Even if it was something ridiculous like "DIZZY".
As for your concert question -- I'm going to guess either "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent or "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John. (And I'm not really guessing Ted Nugent... lol)
Funny, the first stadium/arena concert I got tickets for was at the Silverdome -- The Rolling Stones on their Steel Wheels Tour in 1989. That's when we moved to Hamilton, Ont. for a couple of years (relatively close to Detroit...) However, we got tickets for Paul McCartney after that for (I think) December 6 at the Skydome in Toronto, so technically saw him first. Definitely some good memories at both!
A great head-on-pillow start to my day, Tom. I read your "What's Curation?" piece, too. I'd have a hard time choosing one song to write about, since I walk around to an imagined soundtrack 24 hours a day, and music has always been a big part of my creative life.
I'll always associate Rod Stewart and Frank Zappa with my dad. And Boys II Men wrote the theme song for my first impossible crush.
Now I just have to choose something for my latest impossible crush on 1986 Tom. 😉 🔥
I'm gonna guess something by Bob Dylan, but since I didn't follow his music closely I don't have a good guess for the track name. As it happens my first concert was at the Palace of Auburn Hills -- the Led Zeppelin reunion tour in 1994.
Re: Wordle, I used to be a daily player. I started off on like a 70-game win streak on Hard Mode but then lost on one of those where it could've been one of five words with three choices left (e.g., LEAST, BEAST, FEAST). After I turned off Hard Mode and now play whenever the mood strikes.
I did get the Worldle on the first try once. I can't remember the word but I saved the image.
Great article over on What's Curation?, and my musical tastes are pretty eclectic as well. As far as country and blues, I like the very old stuff, like 30s-50s. One of my favorite songs is Big Rock Candy Mountain, although that came out a little later. If it's an old guy, a twangy guitar and a barstool, then that's my taste. Your photo of you, and your comment on REM is funny because I have a Christmas photo of me holding a cassette tape of Oingo Boingo. Good times.
That's quite some Wordle record - nice one! Thanks to the influence of a certain Mr Tom Pendergast my loyalty to the game has been entirely scotched by his recommendation of Waffle.... I've been obsessed with it for WEEKS now!
I used to play Wordle -- didn't stop for any specific reason, just didn't open it one day... I used to make it harder by choosing different, random words every day. First one that popped into my head, I'd use. Even if it was something ridiculous like "DIZZY".
As for your concert question -- I'm going to guess either "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent or "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John. (And I'm not really guessing Ted Nugent... lol)
Funny, the first stadium/arena concert I got tickets for was at the Silverdome -- The Rolling Stones on their Steel Wheels Tour in 1989. That's when we moved to Hamilton, Ont. for a couple of years (relatively close to Detroit...) However, we got tickets for Paul McCartney after that for (I think) December 6 at the Skydome in Toronto, so technically saw him first. Definitely some good memories at both!
~Graham
Thanks for coming on as a guest, Tom. I'm happy that you contributed your story.