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I have my top 50 ranked and ready but have been stuck on the cutdown from 72 to 70 for a day now. It's ridiculous I know because a one pointer that I'll probably be alone in ranking is about as inconsequential as you can get. But it's still real to me. :oldunsure:

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He'll return with forty or fifty book reports

We enjoyed Deep Cover (2025) on Amazon. The combination of action and comedy worked better in the first hour than in its convoluted conclusion. Orlando Bloom's over-the-top portrayal of a method actor was funny and Sean Bean is always watchable. It wasn't as good as Deep Cover (1992) but...

You can almost hear Fagan's voice enunciating the word Zanzibar

Michael Head #12 - Michael Head & The Strands - "Something Like You" (1998) The Strands was a one-off solo effort put together while Shack was on hiatus in 1993. Mick's mum was ill at the time so he worked out the songs on acoustic guitars in her kitchen along with his brother and sister. A...

Two trumpets on the second. 🎺 🎺 Both versions date from the beginning of Head's second solo career in the early 2010s.

A couple of the acts are related to the Dunedin Sound of 80s New Zealand Indie. David Kilgour was with The Clean and Martin Phillipps (RIP) was with the Chills. The Mad Scene was another Clean spinoff formed with Kilgour's brother Hamish in the early 90s. The other bands are more obscure...

I was but a child in those days

One of our good friends did this after he retired. He'd made quite a bit of money flipping houses in SF over the years and could pretty much live wherever he wanted. He retired to Santa Fe for a while until the wanderlust hit. He bought a MB Sprinter conversion and hit the road. He met a...

From the school of tonic and gin

"Ready For Love" was such a great tune he recorded it with both groups. https://open.spotify.com/track/2XMmGaJiT0MnOdsUuEJOnP?si=5776ce0f84f94b97 https://open.spotify.com/track/08JVaI77aIffN0wNjTOG4b?si=769e2db311c5461c

I heard a Billy Joel song in the produce section of Trader Joe's today. I think it hasn't appeared in the countdown yet.

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Michael Head #13 - Shack - "Meant To Be" (2003) Heading forward to 2003 for another selection from Shack's fourth album Here's Tom with the Weather. Regular listeners of the playlists are now in the 99th percentile of Americans when it comes to familiarity with Head's music. And as experts...