This day is going entirely too fast. Funny how that happens when all the time in the day is yours to fill with things you enjoy doing.
Here I am, on the second day of the rest of my life, enjoying obscene amounts of coffee made from the most perfectly roasted beans, blogging and e-mailing and reading and working up the courage to now, finally, start my book group book (Joshua Ferris's Then We came to the End).
We have some fun weekend plans, including helping two friends—a married couple—celebrate their birthdays. Her birthday is April 18 (oh, today!). His birthday is April 20. They went to high school together in Wisconsin, but weren't high school sweethearts. I love the coincidence.
John and I have some responsibilites to Simon's soccer team that we need to fulfill over the weekend. We're the team managers and need to receive some training. We're also trying to track down the coaches so we might meet them and make a plan for the season. Stop me now—feeling a lot of agita over our The Organization That Shall Remain Nameless. Let's just say communication from the club SUCKS, and there's a serious time crunch to get a very long list of things done. Good thing I don't have a job getting in the way (heh heh).
I'm off to Minneapolis to make my premier visit to Premier Cheese. At Simon's request, we're pulling out the raclette grill tonight so I need to get some supplies, such as cured meat and the raclette cheese. It's a chilly, overcast day so this mostly winter meal won't seem out of place.
The Beastie Boys last album, The Mix-Up, has been in HEAVY rotation chez Shepard. Most of the videos I found online were filmed at concerts or festivals. While I enjoy listening to live renditions, I cannot abide by the bobbing bald pates that inevitably fill the screen of the "videographer's" camera phone. Instead, I'm leaving you today with some classic, mid-career Beasties. Natch, Simon and Winston LOVE this song.
As a bonus, I found the "Off the Grid" video. I love the sweet groove, the penetrating bass, the spacey keyboards. Perfect modern funk. Let me know what you think.
3 comments:
YES! Me heartily approve! Between your and J's blogs, I've got a nifty soundtrack for my painting project (hallway going up stairs sans appropriate scaffolding--YIPES! Don't tell BJ.) Thanks to both of you for providing me with the mental energy to get through this.
Being a HUGE fan of the Boys, I love it. I've always had a crushy-crush on Adam Yauch. Sid and John have their fave Beastie songs, too. We usually have their mp3s cranked in the car.
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