#Music

I never really listened to Terry Hall’s band The Colour Field that much. Which means I’d never heard their gorgeous cover of The Roches’ Hammond Song until today. Hammond Song on YouTube 🎶

🙁 Contemplating the first Christmas without my dad around.

🙁 Contemplating the first Christmas without my dad around.

#Films

Another Round, 2020 - ★★★★

Watched on Friday December 9, 2022.

I don’t like the way rich and powerful men get referred to using their first names eg “Boris”, “Elon”. They’re not our friends.

#Films

Detective Story, 1951 - ★★★½

Watched on Sunday November 6, 2022.

#Films

Ball of Fire, 1941 - ★★★★

Watched on Saturday November 5, 2022.

#Music

Steely Dan’s 20 greatest songs – ranked! | Steely Dan | The Guardian:

With November marking 50 years since their debut album, we pick the best of the band’s idiosyncratic output, with tales of capitalism, drug dealers and mid-life crises.

Nice list. Deacon Blues is my fave. 🎵

🧐 It’s the start of a three week work break and I’m thinking about what needs to be done.

🧐 It’s the start of a three week work break and I’m thinking about what needs to be done.

I watch baseball late at night here in the UK. My late dad was in the US Navy and we lived in San Diego for a while when I was very young. I would love to see the Padres beat the Yankees to win the World Series for sentimental reasons.

That word “late” is still hard to say.

I shouldn’t still be surprised that there are people who will watch hours of a TV show they claim to be boring, and awful, just to dump on others enjoyment of that show.