What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

I tried on a pair of my wife's jeans for the sake of doing something silly.

I'm over six feet tall, wear a 46 jacket...and can fit into a pair of women's jeans, size 0.

Size 0. Women's jeans. I have photo evidence.

[mjmjr25]

First 45 degree day since November and it's glorious. If it were 30-60 all year i'd be a happy camper. Nevertheless, we got another foot on Thursday and now have about 5' around our property. With this weather it is PERFECT for snow sculptures.

Fair warning - when it gets hawt like this it can get a little NSFW:

[dsheinem]

Feeling bummed out tonight by the 20th Anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. I may have been a young teen when it happened, but it absolutely made an impact on me unlike any "celebrity" related event before or since.

Nirvana is a band that I got really into for many years both just before and then for a very long time after Kurt's death - I was quite active in the tape trading community (swapping bootlegged shows back and forth in the mail on cassette and, eventually, CD) and I came to have this weird catalog of knowledge of all these non-album songs that made the full range of Nirvana's musical oeuvre so much richer and nuanced than most "casual fans" (the vast majority of their audience) would ever know. It's been fascinating watching some of this stuff (though not all of it) trickle out on official posthumous releases over the past twenty years.

Moreover the band's choice of songs they covered in their seven year run (FFS that seems so short!) gave me a rich set of artists to also explore in the used record bins of the era and they helped shape my musical tastes in interesting ways. I think it is fair to say that my primary intital interest in the 90s band that would eventually replace Nirvana to become my favorite - The Smashing Pumpkins - was provoked by them having a similar deep well of unreleased songs, a bootlegging community, and a range of bands they covered live (and, of course, Cobain and Corgan could both write about angst in a way that I connected to viscerally).

: Summer starts in about a month

[noiseredux]

Dave, you know when someone makes a post and you feel like you coulda made it...?

Except relace SP with SY.

[dsheinem]

Dave, you know when someone makes a post and you feel like you coulda made it...?

Indeed

I think a key part of the nostalgia for this time was also simply it being pre-broadband/pre-ALL OF CULTURE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. I posted this related image, too:

[noiseredux]

that's amazing. I remember when MTV Unplugged was first aired, I had recorded it on VHS and watched it over and over. And I had handwritten lyrics to the songs that weren't "Nirvana songs" at the time. Funny.

I still consider that show to be one of my favorite albums of all time.

[dsheinem]

that's amazing. I remember when MTV Unplugged was first aired, I had recorded it on VHS and watched it over and over. And I had handwritten lyrics to the songs that weren't "Nirvana songs" at the time. Funny.

I still consider that show to be one of my favorite albums of all time.

I feel like we'd have been up to all kinds of shenanigans together in study hall.

[noiseredux]

I feel like we'd have been up to all kinds of shenanigans together in study hall.

I feel like an e-hug is necessary.

[dsheinem]

I feel like we'd have been up to all kinds of shenanigans together in study hall.

I feel like an e-hug is necessary.

Oh, the guilt!

[noiseredux]

Oh, the guilt!

Listening to "Oh Me" right now.