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Just started a binge on this. Excellent hard sci fi so far.

thanks to all

I have a good Eddie Van Halen story that I was too upset & ill to share yesterday. I had chemo yesterday morning & got home to hear the news of Eddie's passing. Not a good day. So let's hop in the time machine & head back to 1978. I was 17 & a junior in high school. At this point I am seriously getting into music which affected my life (good & bad) for decades to come. The first record came out in February of 1978. I was hanging out at my favorite record store & they said listen to this & put the record on as there was no radio play yet. Eruption comes on & it

RIP Eddie.

Drive-by Truckers "The New OK". Nice Wes Freed cover. Good to have him back on the cover.

You mean this?: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/hope-hicks-positive-coronavirus/index.html

I've been watching it in small chunks as that is all I can handle. I did enjoy Biden calling Trump a clown early on. The really scary part is that there is a significant portion of the country that still believe that asshole. Frightening.

I drove people crazy with Summerteeth. I had liked the first two WIlco records plenty but seriously flipped out on Summerteeth. It's been an issue ever since, haha. Both of those records have a timeless quality & still hold up today. Neither sounds dated at all. Probably still my favorite Wilco record although it's close. YHF, AGIB & definitely Kicking Television are right up there, also.

Another band I've been into for a real long time. This record is wonderful. Comment above about Soft Bulletin is totally appropriate. Since SB is 1 of my favorite records of all time.....well, you do the math!

Calvino, check out link below. It's stunning. I would love for them to do this version in concert. I think Edge is a great singer in his own right. Maybe not as messianic as Bono but that's ok in my book. Hope you like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12d-5Azr6PI this one is pretty cool, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-RsogWt6wg

That Joshua Tree show was amazing. Just as good was the 360 show, at least the night I saw. I go way back with U2. I'm about the same age as them, so lot of common ground musically. They played a tiny bar in Seattle between Boy & October (famously, the handwritten lyrics for October got stolen here). I was 20 & couldn't get in due to liquor laws at the time. I made up for it on the War tour. Saw them in a 2000 seat theater. For a long time I kind of went back & forth on them in direct correlation to the amount Bono talked, haha. I think my favorite show was the arena Zoo TV show wi

RIP

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