The Morning After

I updated my Purevolume page today with a clip from my radio show.  A couple Fridays ago, I was laying on the couch watching the view as I do most mornings.  Basking in the warmth form my fake electrical fire, when my little baby girl Madelyn crawled over to the fake fire.  I  sprang to Ninja Dad action, but alas, too late.  Madelyn had planted her dirty baby palm on the glass to my fake fire.

I freaked!

But she did not wail, nay, she did not even whimper.

I thought I had witnessed a miracle.  Could my baby have super human powers?  The power to to touch fire and control its mystery?  Harnessing the raw power of fire to fight evil… or perhaps, to fight good?

I walked over to the fire and touched it myself.

I too felt no pain.  But I do not have super powers.  The fake fire is just that.  Fake.  And cold to the touch.  Now, how this cold fire creates heat?  The engineer who designed this feat of modern engineering, that man is a magician.

Purevolume: Miracle Baby

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Coral has been having a bizarre lust for the Soul Asylum song “Misery” lately.

Today before our adventures around Esquimalt putting up campaign posters she commanded me to craft a “Misery” playlist.  And so, today I present and 90s-ish inspired riff rock radio requiem… or some sort of alliteration.

Coral’s Misery

01) Soul Asylum – “Misery”
02) The Replacements – “I’ll Be You”
03) Dishwalla – “Counting Blue Cars”
04) Live – “Selling the Drama”
05) Wallflowers – “The Difference”
06) Wallflowers – “6th Avenue Heartache”
07) K’s Choice – “Not An Addict”
08) Mad Season – “River of Deceit”
09) Alice in Chains – “Don’t Follow”
10) Ryan Adams – “To Be Young”
11) Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal”
12) Smashing Pumpkins – “Mayonnaise”
13) Buckcherry – “Lit Up”
14) Nada Surf – “Popular”
15) Eve 6 – “Promise”
16) Goldfinger – “Here In Your Bedroom”
17) Ugly Kid Joe – “Everything About You”
18) Hole – “Violet”
19) R.E.M. – “Whats the Frequency, Kenneth?”

Most these songs are form the 90s.  Actually, I think Against Me! and Ryan Adams are the only two from the modern rock era to make the grade.  hmmm.  I used the Genius to randomly select a playlist, then massaged it for time and cut out the bizarre shit and moved things around for flow.  Ilike the genius because it sometimes gets me thinking about songs I’d never think to listen to, or I overthink the playlist, when really I want some something groovy to drive to.  If you grew up in the suburbs and listened to mainstream commercial rock radio in the 90s, then you shouldn’t be a stranger to any of these bands… and most these songs were the “hits.”  Replacements maybe will be new for you.  But if you read my blog with any regularity, you’ll know that I love the Replacements and they will fit most any rock inspired playlist.

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