Holiday #1 in the Trifecta of Holiday Evil has come and gone without incident, as expected. Mostly because B’s schedule and dog-boarding issues prevented us1 from traveling 13+ hours round trip for the pleasure of me being riddled with enough sadness, anxiety, and resurrected childhood traumas to keep my mind racing in The Bed of Torment for the next 12 months again. Fuck that shit.
Part of me holds out a bit of hope that I fall gravely ill with a very curable illness, and I am forced to miss the Christmas holiday2to convalesce in the Battle Creek Sanitarium (or reasonable facsimile) until January 2nd, 2023.
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Between fighting the throngs of camo-clad turkey-lusting Michiganders at Meijer, cooking, hanging out with B, and watching the deservedly maligned but nothing to do with players on the pitch, 2022 FIFA World Cup, I continued my near-daily hikes. And as I sit here typing this shit Saturday afternoon whilst waiting for some pasta water to boil, I have exceeded my planned 25-mile week by a nugget hair with a day to spare3, bringing current 2022 Not Dead Yet Comeback Special stats to 247.95 251.97 miles since its start on September 19th. This means I have officially hiked more miles in the past 2+ months than in the months leading up to the start of the N.D.Y.C.S.
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Looking forward to getting back to a more normal-ish schedule this week. Well, at least as normal as someone like me can get.
Later.
SOILED SOUNDS TRACK OF THE POST
This EP is so fresh in my earholes that I don’t have much to say about this duo other than I love their name, and this track is my favorite from their 2021 Smoked EP. However, I think one review I read summed Teen Mortgage up best by saying they sound like “a car crash of Ty Segall’s FUZZ, Metz, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Mud Honey pulverized and spit out into something else. That something else being like Teen Mortgage except 100% its own thing.” Well said.
I seriously think I’ve listened to this song about 100 times in the past week or so. As many of you might remember, I have limited hearing in my left ear, and if my right ear goes too, it will be because of this track!