Unplayed

I own a lot of music.  I have over 10,000 songs in my iTunes library.  After about 20 years of buying CDs, I've been trying to pare down the amount of physical media I own.  I use my work computer as my primary music library.  I back it up and bring it home and copy it to my media PC. 

Looking at the unplayed songs one day, I noticed I had waaaay more Green Day than I realized.  This is somewhat surprising, as I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a huge Green Day fan.  

Apparently I have 141 Green Day songs.

7 hours 11 minutes of Green Day.

That's a lot of Green Day.

In October 2016, I attempted to listen to all them in one day.  This is my own personal Super Size Me.

11:00 AM

Feeling strong.  Made it though Nimrod and American Idiot without any issues.  Still going strong.

(cut to me barfing in the parking lot.)

(interviews with friends and doctors trying to talk me out of doing this)

On to Dookie.


Noon:

(Subject was allowed to for a run at lunch and listened to no music.)


1:15 PM

Insomniac

Bluh.  These are all starting to run together.


2:27 PM

"J.A.R." 

Huh.  This song's not bad.  Haven't heard this in a while.

UH OH...  STOCKHOLM SYNDROME HAS SET IN.


3:19 PM

I have a headache on one side of my head.

I might be having a stroke.

Not giving up yet.


3:24 PM

Finish line in site.  1/2 way through Warning.  Then 21st Century Breakdown and I'm done.

21st Century Breakdown might be the one that takes itself the most seriously though (possibly the inspiration for this video?)

4:58 PM

Phew.  I made it.  I survived.


Experiment follow-up: It was a good six months after this before a Green Day song without immediately hitting skip.

Not really sure we learned anything helpful to man or science (other than "don't try this again").  But... I did it!

"You hear about Carl?"

"No, what?"

"He got the Orange Ribbon."

"Oh... Poor Carl."

"He hasn't been the since same since his wife died."

"Oh well.  He's going to a better place."

"Is he, though?"

Hello 911?

There's either a demon eating a live octopus or a dog trying to snorkel in the office next door to me.

Oh wait... That's just Pat eating a burrito.

Nevermind.

Old Friend

I've got a old buddy who flips burgers for a living. I still check in on him once in a while.

Forget college... I don't even think he passed driving school.

He works hard, but his boss is kinda cheap.

No family. No responsibilities (other than his pet).

He just goes to work and hangs out with his buddies.

He doesn't have much. But he's happy.

Sometimes I envy him.

And his place is, like, weirdly affordable. Probably because it's a pineapple.

Under the sea.

On a Cut

You know why it's so hard to cut back on sugar and alcohol?

Because those things are AWESOME.

Dog Bus

"OK Dogs. Everybody get on the Dog Bus. We're going to PetSmart."

This Spring... Terror has a new face.

Tradition

One of the fun things to do in New England in the Spring is to drive around and guess whose basement is flooding.

Deer Don't Hurt Nobody

Hung out with the Dude-Bros at the barbershop the other day.

They've got a small barbershop on the first floor of an old house in mixed use residential / light commercial area.

They've got 2 giant TVs that are right in your face.

And they turn them up so they're loud enough to be heard over 4 sets of clippers running at the same time.

Last time I was there they were watching some Alaskan State Troopers show (which I was OK with).

This time they were watching Citizens Under Attack.  Which was some type of armed robbery surveillance footage show.  I was not OK with that.

Also, you're supposed to yell stuff at the TV.

***

Overheard at the same visit:

CUSTOMER (with strong RI accent): I don't hunt deer.  Deer don't hurt nobody.  I only hunt bear.

(It sounded like he was hunting bear with a handgun.  Seriously.)

Garden Report

New garden is doing great (except for the spinach... it just didn't grow this year).

We still need to put a gate on the fence.

As you can see in this crude awesome graphic, the new garden area gets much more mid-day sun.

Also... The relocated grass is growing nicely.  If I had moved all that grass by hand and it died, I would have been super pissed.