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Let’s play.

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We all have favorites.

This shouldn’t be difficult.

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For me, two immediately come to mind.

I’m a Jersey girl born and bred, and when I was growing up? Bruce ruled.

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I still have my original vinyl from 1975. I played it endlessly, learned all the words to all the songs and can still sing along verbatim to this day. Including a perfectly timed grunt on the title track. IYKYK.

Bruce’s raspy vocals filled with angst, Clarence’s mournful horn…Thunder Road, Jungleland. I can almost smell the shore.

❤️

My second perfect album?

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The year was 1992, MTV was all we watched and Clapton was mesmerizing. Stripped down acoustic guitar performances that seared right through your soul. Bluesy and heartfelt, it was a masterpiece. His tender version of Layla rocketed to the top but the lesser known songs like Before You Accuse Me and Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out still resonate. Tears in Heaven? I can still feel the pain.

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Now you?

What’s your album of pure perfection…

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Random nonsense.

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This first one is slightly exaggerated, but not by much.

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And by the looks of things in the backyard?

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I think there are baby woodchucks in our future.

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Remember the days of mixed tapes?

I stumbled across a few of my old ones and had a flashback of sitting on the floor by the stereo manically timing the recording sessions.

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Some of the songs are questionable, (Richard Marx? 😳) but I’ll stand by the Fleetwood Mac and Neil Young.

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A lesson I learned early in childhood that still holds true today.

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Worst. Coffee. Advertisement.

Ever.

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Let’s play.

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It’s Friday.

I think it’s required.

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It is said music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. No, it’s not beast, that’s a common misquote. But I think ole William Congreve knew what he was talking about in 1697.

(If you’re interested, the original line is as follows –

“Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak”)

And while music can indeed soothe it can also elicit other emotional responses… joy, sadness, nostalgia, triumph etc.

And when asked what songs move me? The first one that pops into my head is Eric Clapton’s “My Father’s Eyes” from this album.

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https://youtu.be/bocDpFVhyDw?si=_jxK4SbR0l8o9VVF

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I lost my dad when I was 15 years old and to be honest, I still haven’t gotten over it. To this day I can’t talk about him… or listen to that song… without crying.

So yes, music can bring me to tears.

What song moves you, and why?

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Random nonsense.

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A few more sunrise photos, because if I’m up early?

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There better be a show.

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Any idea?

It’s Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots – Disco Duck.

Which admittedly, was pretty darn bad.

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I might have to argue with this one.

It’s Soft Cell’s Tainted Love, which I found rather annoying.

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The birds.

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I admit this surprised me.

Coffee and tea.

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Ugh.

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I don’t drink coffee and have never ordered hot tea on a plane…. so I’m safe.

Are you?

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Random rambling

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I grew up in New Jersey and had many Italian friends. These Italian friends had Italian mothers who cooked. Boy howdy, did they ever. So when I saw this list the other day I knew I would do pretty well…

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Though I do have a tendency to make my bruschetta a soft middle consonant instead of hard.

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It’s bush hogging season in the country and when the man comes to do our neighbor’s field …

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We have him do our back half acre to the woods as well.

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Our backyard leaves have turned, but like the rest of the state not vibrantly.

Are you thinking about moving? Maybe into a slightly larger home?

If so, I’ve got your back.

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And if the high cost seems out of reach, just know it’s the house where Dark Shadows was filmed years ago. Walking the halls with Barnabas Collins? You can’t put a price on that.

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Am I the only one who does this? You’re driving down the road when you hear a song you want to add to your iPod so you take a picture of the radio for future reference?

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Considering no one uses iPods anymore, I’m going to guess yes.

I’m the only dinosaur who does this.

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I’ve long considered myself a tree hugging liberal without ever giving much thought to actually hugging a tree.

Until I read this..

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Who knew?

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Random stuff of very little importance.

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I love to read. And since I do a lot of it, I love a library book sale.

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Two dollars for hardcovers, $1, for paperbacks makes me feel less guilty that these two stacks will be finished in a month and a half.

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This martini is for Mark. Made with fresh watermelon puree it was utterly delightful.

Really!

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This makes me even more glad I can’t stand the stuff.

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Remember I spoke of this a while back?

A third less tourists is not good for Maine’s economy.

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The husband, examining a wagon wheel fence he saw at a yard sale. Needless to say he was disappointed the wheels were not for sale.

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This is Pia.

I’m cat sitting for a neighbor this week… and when Pia wants to be petted?

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You’d better pet.

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Best advice I’ve heard in a while.

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News you can’t use.

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You know I’ll never run out of stupid headlines. The world can be a stupid place…

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I have to wonder about this. Wouldn’t 30 bottles of bull sperm have been sufficient?

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Kendall, give your nipples a rest. I’m tired of their antics.

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I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say swim.

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I think I’ve been listening to music incorrectly for a long time. Damn.

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Ear boners.

I have officially heard everything now.

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Just… wow.

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So bad, they’re good.

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Sometimes you just need a stupid laugh. And I found quite a few the other day when this stupid page appeared on my Facebook feed.

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And yes, they’re as delightfully bad as you’d expect.

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I’m guessing that won’t be easy listening.

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Wow.

And you know he was proud of that hair.

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That’s got to hurt.

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I’m guessing Jesus would pass.

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I like to think I have a wide and varied knowledge of music… but I have to admit, this album escaped my notice.

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Let’s play.

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You know the drill.

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While I can think of quite a few songs that pull at my heart strings or choke me up on occasion…. there’s only one that turns me into a blubbering mess every single time.

I’m an only child of older parents and was a daddy’s girl from day one.

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I lost him when I was 15 and to be honest, I still haven’t gotten over it.

The song that makes me cry every time?

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How about you?

What tune always makes your eyes leak?

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