- Free WiFi in Philly's airport. This should be a standard thing.
- The ending harmonic bit of Bob Dylan's "You're a Big Girl Now."
- Johnny Cash's "Give My Love to Rose" and "Send a Picture of Mother." They're the exact same song, but with different lyrics.
- SMiLE bootlegs. Yeah, Brian came out with the real thing a couple years back, but if he had finished this and released it 1967, our opinion of the Beach Boys, pop music and the Beatles would have changed. As it is, even in its unfinished form, it's brilliant, and Brian turned a pretty good album out of it in 2004 and even Smiley Smile is a good album, but it's hard to listen to those two albums without thinking about what could have been.
- Rural Minnesota in the spring. 10,000 lakes and I think I saw a good 1/8th of that amount driving up and down the state.
- The NBA Playoffs - They're faaaaaaaaaaaantastic.
Things I no like:
- Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. Seriously, that two terminal business where you have to take the light rail to get between the two, it's just too much for me to handle in the early morning.
- Early mornings. I was up at 4:10 this morning. Jesus. Nothing good comes out of a 7:00a flight.
- Calexico. Kinda boring. I keep thinking I'll like them because it's supposed to be indie mariachi pop, but it's really just a big downer. Most of the songs are slow and there's nothing really distinctive about the singer's voice. I think it might be worse to have a completely non-distinctive voice than a bad one. At least there's character in a bad voice. For indie mariachi pop done right, I'll have to settle for Beirut's latest EP, March of the Zapotec.
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The things you like inspire songs for the band, right? Or is it the things you don't like, e.g., Diet Coke?
But not the whole Philly airport.
the things i like inspire songs, i think. maybe not. we need to get brian coke on as a commercial. and ben loves diet coke and diet dr. pepper, which may be the sequel to brian coke. Brian Dr. Pepper or perhaps Dr. Brian Pepper.
I only saw part of the Philly airport, though they did take us on a bus to go from the big planes to the little tiny ones and i saw a lot of the runway. looked sturdy enough.
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