This morning I saw a kid wearing a Maradona jersey on the soccer field by my office, and now I have questions for that kid’s parents.
Asides
Quick thought 18 April 2023
What’s the odds that the final season of Barry will have a 100 gecs needle drop? 2:1? 5:2? “Most Wanted Person in the United States” would be a perfect fit. This is a show that ended an episode on “Davey Crockett” so anything is possible.
Anyway, Barry’s back! Our long national fever dream about fame and violence is coming to a discomfiting end!
Quick thought 15 April 2023
Even for the Times, this is a ridiculous alignment of subject matter and author.
Dining in Style, at 90 Miles an Hour (The New York Times)
Quick thought 9 April 2023
The best Easter jazz album is still Donald Byrd’s A New Perspective:
Now if I can just keep Spotify from jumping into a Christmas jazz playlist after this album wraps up. Happy Easter, y’all!
Quick thought 3 April 2023
Taking the L: It’s honestly pretty embarrassing that, despite being around music for a quarter century and a fan of Belle and Sebastian for almost that long, I’m only learning from his obituary that Seymour Stein was not just a real person but one of the most influential music executives of the past 75 years.
He signed the Ramones, the Talking Heads and Madonna! He got Lou Reed to write New York! What a fucking life!
Seymour Stein, Record Industry Giant Who Signed Madonna, Dies at 80 (New York Times)
Quick thought 30 March 2023
Who do I talk to about MLB’s programmatic audio ads? I’ve heard the same five ads about ten times each today.
But who cares? Other than the ads I’m listening to baseball!