🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

Day 15: A song that reminds you of something you did this weekend

The irony is that this isn't actually about pool hopping at all, but it is a catchy song by an artist I dig, and if you only watch the video you'd totally buy that it was about pool hopping. And since we were blessed with hot weather this weekend, this is what I'm going with.

 
Day 15: A song that reminds you of something you did this weekend

Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra
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I went up to Boston yesterday to visit a friend who moved to the area and showed her around. We strolled around this amazing city that I love so dearly. As we strolled through (and every time I stroll through) the Public Garden I couldn't help but reminisce about the time back in the mid 90s, I was walking through on my way to work and I saw a film crew shooting a scene with Robin Williams and some unknown actor. I remember it being on the news at the time that Robin Williams was shooting a movie in the area, little did I know that I was watching the iconic scene from Good Will Hunting that made a simple park bench famous. So my choice for today is the lovely Miss Misery from Elliot Smith.

I have said it before, and I will probably keep saying it until it is no longer true: I so fucking miss Elliot Smith.
 
Day 15: A song that reminds you of something you did this weekend

The irony is that this isn't actually about pool hopping at all, but it is a catchy song by an artist I dig, and if you only watch the video you'd totally buy that it was about pool hopping. And since we were blessed with hot weather this weekend, this is what I'm going with.

I haven't hear this one before, and I like it.

"You're twisted like an ampersand" is a brilliant line.
 
Day 15: A song that reminds you of something you did this weekend

Not just this weekend. More of what I didn't do. And this is one of the most important unknown artists in music.

Jon Astley is a producer and engineer for some of the biggest artiusts and bands in the world. And he put out two outstanding albums in the 80s that, apart from a ketchup commercial staring a pre-Friends Matt LeBlanc that probably made him more money than both albums combined, were just about ignored. Which is too bad, since he has a sardonic, dry wit in his writing and a gift for a great hook.
I'd like to say that I don't care
That I am here and you are there
But I'm not a good liar
Knowledge isn't such a wealth
I'm trying hard to fool myself
But you have me beat
So I lay down and I turn out the light
I get so tired when I close my eyes
I dream about you but I cannot sleep
He is also a brilliant Fairlight CMI workstation programmer. Unlike most artists, he didn't come to the record company to ask to be signed -- the head of Atlantic Records looked at his work on other albums and told him to go make a record. Most of the many instruments on both albums are actually him on the Fairlight, and it holds up startlingly well 35 years later.

I just wish I could sleep...

"I Dream About You (But I Cannot Sleep)," Jon Astley

 
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