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Getting old sucks
Check out BPPV on Google. There are physical therapists Who can help
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
I bought a box full of every replacement part I could need. I won't live long enough to run out. After that it's my son's problem. 😁 Maybe "Good things about growing old"?
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
I had these installed in a recent remodel. Not so humble brag.
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The Beatles - Get Back (by Peter Jackson)
To the best of my memory Chet Atkins was the only Gretsch player. Gretsch was a country guitar. Everybody played Fenders and Gibson...when they could afford to move up from Airline and Silvertone. Yes, even the instruments were revolutionary. And Vox amps? What was that shit? Get ya' a Fender, or Gibson if you were country. Vox? Get outa here with that shit!
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The Beatles - Get Back (by Peter Jackson)
I have never figured out why the sound of that screaming sort of gets me in the feels. I finally realized that that sound is the sound of unrestrained, inexhaustible joy. Nowhere else have I ever heard so much happiness, all at once, all in the same place. If they hadn't released all that joy they would have exploded, like the guy's head in Scanners.
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The Beatles - Get Back (by Peter Jackson)
I have tried to explain it to my kids but they sort of glaze over like, "Sure Dad. Sure". I can't explain "Beatle Mania" any more than my parents can explain their feeling when they heard about Pearl Harbor. I'm not trying to say that the gravity of Beatle Mania was the same as Pearl Harbor, but the difficulty/impossibility of explaining it to a younger generation is somewhat similar. You simply "Had to be there". There were kids who didn't catch The Mania, but I'd say a large majority did. Beatle Mania engulfed us. It was the main topic of conversation in my group of friends. The hair. The boots. The devil may care attitude, which perfectly hit a rebellious teenager right in the gut. The stage presence, and my God, the music. We had been listening to what was essentially manipulated 12 bar blues, some of our parent's old music (some of which I still love), and "hits" coming out of the Aldon Music New York commercial music machine. All good fun music, but nothing, absolutely nothing like what The Beatles were doing. The complexity, making 12 bar blues rock seem juvenile. The harmony that only The Everly Brothers had done before hand. The beat which was similar but different to existing rock songs...they were after all "The BEATles." (I have tried to explain the new beat to friends. All I can come up with is that their music was "boom, chic, boom boom chic" and we had been listening to "boom, chic chic, boom chic".) I'm not a drummer, but it was new and different. Subtle but different. Hit after Hit. A guy here and there had a really good hit, but nobody had the abundance of fantastic songs. Hit after hit. It seemed impossible. And they were good at it, very good at it. The time they spent in Germany had essentially perfected their craft. We had to grow our hair out, greatly pissing off our fathers. We had to wear Beatle Boots, which were crappy, cheaply made uncomfortable shoes. But we had to emulate The Beatles. Had to. We listened to the radio and read everything we could trying to find out when the new release would be. Our girls were in love with them, which pissed us off, but the music was so good, and they were so fucking cool, that we loved them too. You had to be there.
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The Beatles - Get Back (by Peter Jackson)
Watching that trailer reminded me that the sound of the girls screaming...that was real. Today we are used to fake sound tracks and effects, laugh tracks. That screaming was real. I read a quote from John I think that they didn't like it because they couldn't hear the performance. It was so loud they couldn't hear the amps they were standing right next to. For a few minutes those girls lost their fucking minds. It's almost frightening, but it's cool as fuck also.
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I have graduated after 20 years
I graduated before most of y'all were out of diapers but I still have the occasional dream about walking into a test that I forgot to study for, or a paper that I didn't write or I can't find the classroom. Y'all have those anxiety dreams? I hate when that happens.
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Lasik - Austin 2018
Google "Wong family Austin Texas". Amazing history
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