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You learn to play games about once every day or so

3/20/2020 By dni Leave a Comment

I walk through the day
Through the open fields
I walk to my truck
To my truck and drive away
To the road
Through the broken roads, trusty road
I was headed for the road
The road that runs that way

And I, I see the train
The trains don’t run to Brasilia
I walked through the fields
Through the fields to Brasilia
My ticket stub says I’m going
I’m going to Trenton

When my friends stop by
I try to impress them, no buildings over two stories high
Except my house, oh my my, I see
See crossed lattice work made out of brick
I see buildings
With laundry hanging out of the window
Never in my wildest dreams would I think I’d see
Brasilia crossed with Trenton

When you live in the middle of nowhere
Your imagination runs away and wild
You make games, I make games that I play most once a day
I pretend Brasilia turned to Trenton
Brasilia crossed with Trenton

Department store
The only place that I buy clothes anymore
I used to be a big shopper ’round the world
Big credit cards, they don’t matter anymore
‘Cause I can’t pay any money that I owe
To these cards anymore
They don’t take these things down at the bank
They just take money

Imagine yourself in the middle of nowhere
Imagination runs away for a while
I play games about once a day or so
I don’t know, that’s where I’d rather go
Brasilia crossed with Trenton

I wish that I could tell my story
To all the people that listened to my story long ago
I knew that this would happen sooner or later
That I’d get disillusioned with it all
Just throw my hands up to the sky and say
Oh Lord, what happened, what happened
To make things run this way

Imagine yourself in the middle of nowhere
Your imagination runs away for a while
You learn to play games about once every day or so
I walked to Brasilia crossed with Trenton
Brasilia crossed with Trenton

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Filed Under: song of the day Tagged With: Bob Mould, Brasillia Crossed with Trenton

It’s a Tape Dispenser – Get it?

8/8/2011 By dni Leave a Comment

j-me Tape Dispenser
j-me Tape Dispenser

Love the use of the iconic cassette tape form as a scotch tape dispenser on this product.

The Philips Company of the Netherlands invented and released the first compact audio-cassette in 1962.

Makes me remember with great fondness the days mixing up a really good (and sublimely meaningful) tape in the mode of the ultimate mix-tape book, High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby.  There was great joy when the recipient actually understood what you were getting at.  Fortunately, that kind of backhanded communication vehicle is not a lost art, it has just morphed on into other things…

Mix in a little Bob Mould, and have a listen to his musical interpretation of High Fidelity.  How’s that for a random loop?

Filed Under: art / design Tagged With: Bob Mould, cassette tape, High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

Go see Bob Mould while he is on tour with a band

10/12/2009 By dni Leave a Comment

If you live in Chicago,  Minneapolis,  Seattle,   Portland,  San Francisco, Los Angeles, or San Diego you would be nuts not to go see Bob Mould while he is on tour with a band (those are the remaining dates).

He is traveling with Jason Narducy (ex Verbow) on Bass  and John Wurster (ex Superchunk) on Drums.

I experienced an excellent show last week in Boston, at the Paradise.

Tour dates here: http://granarymusic.com/tour/dates/ or here: http://bobmould.com/shows

A little video taste of the show is here:

and a photo here:

Bob Mould Band at the Paradise Boston 10-07-2009
Bob Mould Band at the Paradise Boston 10-07-2009

Filed Under: music, raves Tagged With: Bob Mould, Boston, loud, music

Bob Mould: Zen and Now

9/23/2005 By dni Leave a Comment

Bob Mould: Zen and Now. From Harp Magazine.

Filed Under: music Tagged With: Bob Mould

Bob Mould wrestles with his muse

8/23/2005 By dni Leave a Comment

Bob Mould wrestles with his muse: from the Boston Phoenix

Filed Under: music Tagged With: Bob Mould

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