[We all have the opportunity to change our lives every day. You should use tomorrow as motivation if it's motivation you need, but don't pack a bunch of bad experiences into today with the the hope that 2010 can be better.]
Today's Weather
If you believe Nostradamus, you probably think today is going to start out with lovely weather but by evening the sky will be full of blood and frogs will be raining down from the sky. Fortunately the real forecast is substantially different from that. Some of us will be dealing with precipitation but it's not going to be too cold anywhere in our great nation. Frogs are nowhere to be found on the doppler.
Today's Bob Dylan Album
The length of time it has taken me to finally listen to Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home is criminal, which is why I've been in prison this entire year (and why I can't wait to get out tomorrow). I'd rather stay in prison, though, than lose this album from my life. I like tons of songs on it! The lyrics are iconic/ironic and the guitar licks are as good anything John Frusciante did on Californication. If you don't like Bob Dylan at this point you never will, but if you like him and haven't listened to this album lately please bust it out. My favorite song right now is It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). Wikipedia says: "In a 2004 interview Dylan called song "magically written" and said he didn't know how he got to write the lyrics. He further stated that he couldn't write songs of that calibre anymore."
Today's Year-End Retrospection
This website, One Year in Texas, has been open almost an entire year. 2009 was the year we learned whether Barack Obama would fulfill his campaign promises. For me, it was a year of personal highs and lows, latitudinally and emotionally. Michael Jackson finally died and John Updike had only begun to live, like the ten thousand fetuses they were aborted this year. The point is that 2009 was much different than the other years before it. We should acknowledge that and then move onto 2010, which will probably be the most like 2007.
Today's Prediction
To celebrate the close of the year which contained the 44th anniversary of Bringing It All Back Home, people will go see a Bob Dylan cover band for New Year's Eve concert. Unfortunately some of those people will see the real Bob Dylan, just freed from prison as a non-violent offender. I'll think about what it'd be like to go to sleep tonight and wake up in the morning of January 1st 2009 to live that year over again. Whether that actually happens will be revealed in tomorrow's Good Morning post.
there is no real place in prison for non-violent offenders. it's such a silly rule to put them there in the first place. happy new year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Good Morning@! I really like the idea of referring to weather forecasters sarcastically as Nostradamus. I would rather go to prison than not listen to BIABH too, thanks Jake!
ReplyDeleteHahah, You're welcome!
ReplyDeleteGreat GM Glenn. I like when you talk about abortions and people getting freed from prison.
bringing it all back home is probably my favorite bob album. i'm excited you'll be getting out of prison tomorrow!!!!
ReplyDeleteCan you name all the Bob Dylans albums?
ReplyDeleteThat will be the next quiz I post on OYIT from Sporacle.
ReplyDeleteI OWN all the Bob Dylan albums, all the proper studio albums that is, and I am NOT afraid to brag about it (even though plenty of people have all of them, all the official bootlegs and hundreds of actual bootlegs of live shows). I even own a vinyl version of the never released on CDstudio album 'Dylan' - the album he made to tell his fans he hates them even more than when he made Self Portrait. Although I have to admit as I'm sure Jake would point out, that I stole nearly half of them from Jake. That was after I paid him $100 for waving at a stranger when I was intoxicated six years ago.
ReplyDeleteHaha, it's a fair trade. I probably spent more than $100 on those CDs.
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
ReplyDeletePlus you burnt my face with a cigarette that day! That was my penance, along w/ the Dylan.
ReplyDeleteI burnt a lot of things with cigarettes that day, so count your face lucky@!
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ReplyDeleteI can't ignore that typo Glenn, it hurts.
ReplyDeletewhat typo?
ReplyDeleteGLENN, when you told me this story WHY did you fail to mention it was JAKE who bub paid?!
ReplyDeleteThere was another funny time when Bub had all that money. He took Nick and I to a strip club, but after getting a dance we didn't have enough money to pay the strippers and had to run out of the strip club.
ReplyDeleteI used the money Bub gave me to buy cigarettes and things for people from a gas station.
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