So I just finished updating Year 1 of the main site, with meta-taggy goodness. I Believe I got them all coordinated from the mirror site, but just to make sure, I’ll just add them all now.
Except for the ones that deal with the Plan, or Sports attendance. No need to go crazy.
Good times.
Year Two will be a bit tricker, since I need to go in the other direction, transcribing categories from LJ posts and assigning them properly.
Good thing I’m crazy, eh?
More later. Time for vegetables now. Because after all, it’s important to have standards
(ed: this post is 14 months late. I’ve been meaning to write it the entire time, and just never was in the right headspace. Now I am.)
In the waning hours of Song Game II: the revenge, Michael bachelor made the cognitive leap to identify
19. It crawls on his back, won’t ever let him be. (I’m not the man, 10,000 Maniacs, MTV Unplugged) 7 points.
This song, and the Maniacs in general, hit me like a ton of bricks in the fall of 1993. As mentioned above for The Indigo Girls, I was in a very dark place then, and the year after my son’s birth was a particularly bad time. I spent most of it in the bottle, and clawed my way back to life slowly.
But not this day. That winter was cold, long, and harsh. I’m frankly amazed I made it through, but this album was a big part of it. (ed: reference #1 here for more insight as to this, it’s something I wasn’t in a good place with last summer)
But they lyrics, the tones, and the amazing energy of this piece move me. I frequently have to stop and “feel” during certain musical compositions. It’s like my spirit is trying to lift me from the floor, into a different plane altogether. This entire album is chocked full with those moments.
Screw it. 5 bonus points for Michael. Just because.
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