A quick one this morning - for the first time in a while we have what I call true fall - it's cooled right down, the leaves are/have changed (I drove through Franconia Notch earlier this week - breathtaking), and it just seems like the season changed nice and gradually this year.
Got some new music, some classic and a combination of the two in today's podcast, with The New Pornographers, Samantha Fish, Lower Dens, Babe Ruth, Steve Miller, John Mayall, Kaleidoscope, Small Faces, Dukes of Stratusphear, and the Beatles.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Did some chores with my son on Friday - replaced a storm door and did a few other tasks around the house. Man, was I sore afterward, and not the regular sore one normally feels after doing some physical work (that storm door was a little harder to do than I thought it would be). I was what I am calling "old man sore." That was the first time I really felt like age was catching up to me. I need age to stop catching up to me - I'll have to go a little faster in the future.
Lots of great tunes today (yes, they lean old). Please join me in listening to Norah Jones, Dawn Landes, Joan Armatrading, Lloyd Cole, the Connells, Rosanne Cash, Rubber Rodeo, Mike McGear, Yes, Marvin Gaye, Barnaby Bye, Badfinger, and the Bee Gees.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Well, I now have a date for the knee - November 12. It's about as perfect a date as I could get, so I' m glad the surgeon had that day open for me. I had Doctors' appointments, physical therapy, and a whole booklet of things that were given to me as preparation, with more to come before the surgery.
I've been asked whether I'm anxious about the surgery, but I've quickly accepted it as my knee is in constant pain, and I'm ready to do anything to make the pain go away - even trading some intense short-term pain for it. Let me get back to my life of not remembering that I have a knee.
Knee's up time this week with this week's podcast, ehich has Blondie, Norma Tanega, Thundercat, Ann Peebles, the Kitchen Cinq, Concrete Blonde, the Cars, Larris Wallis, Larry Williams, Jesus Jones, Jane's Addiction, Elvis Costello, Stephen Stills, Crosby/Nash, and Stills/Young Band.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
It's Halloween, no longer a holiday that sneaks up on you. I saw people decorating for Halloween on September 30- I guess that's the unofficial start date of decorating for Halloween. And although some are small in scope, many go way overboard. It's like a full cemetery in some yards.
I'm not big on Halloween, so you won't see any decorations outside my house. It's my birth month, and my wedding anniversary is also in October, so my month is already filled up with celebrations.
However, with Halloween in mind, I put together a Halloween podcast. I've seen a lot of people put together different Halloween podcasts, so I joined in. the fun. So listen to this spooky set of music, featuring surprises and these bands: David Bowie, Sons & Daughters, Edgar Winter, Redd Kross, Neko Case, Dave Edmunds, the Cramps, Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Fleshtones, Mekons, the Who, Lou Rawls, Warren Zevon, and the Five Man Electrical Band.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Hi, Computer problems again. Things go fine for weeks, and then for no reason, the computer starts acting up. Why is everything frozen all the time? Can’t I just restart the machine and all is well? Apparently not.
So I’ll have to soldier through, hoping I can use this alternate way to post this week. This week is the week in the year designated as voting week. Mostly we’re involved with local elections (there are a few statewide elections - kinda weird, I think). So vote! Find out what’s going on locally and vote. What happens locally affects you as much, if not more, than what happens in the posturing US Congress.
To help you go vote on Tuesday (because the landowners who had the vote had to ride in from their estates and couldn’t travel on the Lord’s day), I have a great set of songs today, with Rare Earth, Three Dog Night, Argent, Steve Miller, Led Zeppelin, Angel Olson, Blood Orange, NewPornographers, the McCoys, Small Faces, Marvin Gaye, The Velvelettes, Barbar Randolph, the Inmates, Ian Gomm, Eggs Over Easy, and Wilko Johnson.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
As the old blues song goes, "Next time you see me, things won't be the same." I'll have a new left knee. This week, in preparation, I've been to the hospital for joint class and final prep with the surgeon. And phone calls - many phone calls. The hospital is very thorough about this.
I'm not anxious about this at all - the knee has gotten much worse, so it'll be a relief to switch it out for some metal and plastic. Although it did take the surgeon to say (finally, when was I going to hear this?) "you know, it's really going to hurt afterward." Thanks, Doc, everyone I know who's had it done tells me the same thing.
I'm thinking about starting a pain journal to talk about what's happening with my knee - I might post it to the webpage here at brennick.net. I'll certainly have the time on my hands - might be a useful journey for others.
Let's not think about knee pain on this Veteran's Day weekend. Instead, let's listen to some music, which this week includes Roxy Music, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, the Beatles, Badfinger, Nilsson, John Lennon, John Prine, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Beverly "Guitar" Watkins, Samantha Fish, and Ellen McIlwaine.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
What Stewrat said, good luck with the knee. I'm a few years behind you as I'm waiting for keyhole surgery on my left knee (to be followed by righty if it works.) If not and we still have an NHS at that point I'll probably be looking at getting replacements. Isn't it fun getting older?
Had the surgery locally - Wentworth Douglas Hosptial in Dover, NH (part of the MassGeneral network now). Good surgeon. Actually, after all the scare stories about the pain, it's not bad overall. I'll try to stay off the heavy drugs (except maybe for fun) as long as possible. Already the pain is generally below what it was like the month before surgery (guess I didn't realize how bad the pain had gotten in my knee).
Well, if it's not backs then it's knees. Getting old definitely sucks, but it sure beats the alternative. Thank goodness for our health care program in Canada. Hopefully, you'll be up & around in no time and still have a balance in your bank account.
Seems like it was a successful surgery! Great! Rest and careful movements are probably prescribed. Luckily, I’ve yet to have any kind of ailment like this even tho I’m in my 60s, but time plays unexpected tricks on your physical (and mental) being.
Age is definitely a factor - I was fairly healthy until a few years ago, now have arthritis developing in one knee and the other ankle, along with having a kidney stone 'zapped' earlier this week - it sounds worse than it is! Again I'm grateful for our over stretched NHS
Just time for a quick update: I'm doing well. Surgery went well; new knee in and I'm improving daily. Not much more that I can ask. A more full response to come.
Got a great podcast today. Listen in to hear Mickey Newbury, Gary Lewis, Spanky & Our Gang, Archie Bell & the Drells, Aretha Franklin, Bryan Ferry, the Godfathers, Pere Ubu, Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Michael Kiwanuka, the Mavericks, and Julia Jacklin.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
It's Thanksgiving week. It's happening very late this year. In fact, the 28th is the latest date possible for Thanksgiving. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas shorter this year? That's ok, Christmas has already started - that was November 1, the day after Halloween. There must be some way to delineate the seasons better - commercialism is becoming rampant.
But let's give real thanks this Thanksgiving. Don't know how everyone else celebrates, but, maybe before football, we can pause and be thankful for what we have, and how we can help those less fortunate.
Theme week at the pod - Family, glass, mirrors (looking glass) and potpourri are the 4 themes explored with the Mavericks, Dave and Phil Alvin, Johnny Cash, Sly & the Family Stone, Shelby Lynne, Blondie, the Glass Family, the Bees, John Lennon, Leon Russell, Dinosaur, Jr., Barbara Acklin, Pops Staples, the Box Tops, Ray Charles, and the Beatles.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
It won't be long before we have a version of Thanksgiving! When I was a child we used to have Guy Fawkes Day on Novemeber 5th to celebrate when the Catholics tried to blow up Parliamment around 1600 and something. That has been succeeded by Haloween. In the last ten years Black Friday has become a major event, mainly due to Amazon who introduced it to the UK in 2010. Someone will decide that there is something to be gained by us celebrating Thanksgiving, which would be very ironic indeed. Maybe your president will insist on it with the trade deal that is supposed to be coming our way if Brexit succeeds.
Went back to work on Tuesday. Drove down to my son's for Thanksgiving on Thursday. Thanksgiving with the family went well. I'm pretty much back to normal with my knee. Stairs are still a one step at a time thing, and I'm not quite ready for road races, but all has been good with my knee. The pain at night isn't as intense as it was, either - it's getting easier for me to get to sleep and stay asleep. I'm almost normal.
Let's get back to normal with today's podcast, which has these normal artists: Van Morrison, Tindersticks, Angel Olson, Nick Cave, Yeasayer, the Dirty Projectors, Cream, the Pink Fairies, Peter Stone Brown, the Jeff Beck Group, the Four Tops, the Temptations, and Stevie Wonder.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Old man winter has moved back in, and we've been fairly pounded with snow. Am I the last old guy who's ok with winter and snow? I was able to stay on top of shoveling and using the snowblower - the storms all took breaks so we could clean up. It might have been a different story if we got all the snow in one continuous storm - but we didn't. Knee held up well. I expect this to keep up until March or April - it's winter.
This week's podcast is a flurry of different songs, with Depeche Mode, Captain Sensible, Raphael Saadiq, Beck, Gene Clark, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Rockpile, Fats Domino, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Bonnie Raitt, the Raveonettes, the Kills, the Dum Dum Girls, and Frankie Rose.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Let's see, anything happen in the last week? Nope...well, as many of you know, I became a grandfather this week. Owen Patrick Brennick was born on Tuesday, December 10 at 10:00 PM. He was 8 lbs, 2 oz, and 22 inches in length. He's a happy, healthy little boy, and I can't tell you how excited Kate and I were. We've been getting congratulations all week (even though we didn't have all that much to do with it). We went down to see the family on Wednesday and will be back today (and we'll keep going until they tell us to stay away).
Today's podcast is themed - we start with the dirty before cleaning up in the end, so listen along with Steely Dan, Samantha Fox, Frank Zappa, the Standells, Little Milton, Coco Montoya, Luther Allison, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bruce Wooley & the Camera Club, the Dream Syndicate, the Jam, Holly Golightly, Camera Obscura, Tower of Power, and Van Morrison.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Today's podcast isn't Christmas-y (there's still time, though), but great tunes abound, with XTC, Lizzo, Beck, AC Reed, Santana. Tinariwin, Squeeze, World Party, Prince, the Who, Bonnie Raitt, Mose Allison, and Sam Cooke.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
I must say, overall 2019 was a good year for me: new knee with little complications, a new grandson who's healthy, and family and friends doing well. There's a lot to be thankful for. Let's hope it continues in 2020.
This week's podcast is a year-end round-up of some of my favorite new music (with leftovers that might pop up later). Let's listen to Lizzo, Sharon Van Etten, Toro y Moi, Ladytron, Yola, Ibibio Sound Machine, Marvin Gaye, Seratones, Lower Dens, Miles Davis, Samantha Fish, Beck, the Black Keys, the New Pornographers, and Sleeper. to help ring in the new year.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Winter is here in New Hampshire. We got nailed with snow last week, and the city made a decision not to plow my road until late in the morning on Tuesday. Ruined my whole day, as not everyone gets the day before New Year's off. C'mon Somersworth, do better than that.
I live in a cul de sac, so I know that we will be close to the last people plowed out, but it's ridiculous that they can't do something, even a quick swipe so people can get out of the neighborhood. We have some larger streets next to ours. It's frustrating.
Today's podcast has a true or false start before heading into what I hope is a somewhat hopeful message for 2020. Let's all work together this year to improve things. We can start by listening to Linda Ronstadt, Jane Siberry, June Tabor, Camera Obscura, World Party, Fistful of Mercy, Elvis Costello, Dave & Ansell Collins, Third World, Toots & the Maytals, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Roxy Music, and Talk Talk.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Summer returned to New England yesterday to visit briefly and to remind everyone that it will return later this year. Temperatures were in the upper 60's most of the day and the sun, the actual sun, was shining brightly.
Kate and I went down to visit Owen, and we took him out in the stroller. "See Owen, it's not always cold outside. We'll have tons of fun this summer," we said to him while walking around.
The forecast is currently saying that we're getting 10 inches of snow next Saturday, but we won't think about that until later. It was summer today, and we enjoyed it.
Today's podcast is a mixture of tunes, a couple of which remind me of summer (but many are just songs). Listen in on this mostly fine day with Hot Tuna, Randy Newman, Ten Years After, Joni Mitchell, the Be Good Tanyas, Aztec Camera, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Corey Harris, Traffic, Yo La Tengo, Gogol Bordello, and Erykah Badu.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
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A quick one this morning - for the first time in a while we have what I call true fall - it's cooled right down, the leaves are/have changed (I drove through Franconia Notch earlier this week - breathtaking), and it just seems like the season changed nice and gradually this year.
Got some new music, some classic and a combination of the two in today's podcast, with The New Pornographers, Samantha Fish, Lower Dens, Babe Ruth, Steve Miller, John Mayall, Kaleidoscope, Small Faces, Dukes of Stratusphear, and the Beatles.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Did some chores with my son on Friday - replaced a storm door and did a few other tasks around the house. Man, was I sore afterward, and not the regular sore one normally feels after doing some physical work (that storm door was a little harder to do than I thought it would be). I was what I am calling "old man sore." That was the first time I really felt like age was catching up to me. I need age to stop catching up to me - I'll have to go a little faster in the future.
Lots of great tunes today (yes, they lean old). Please join me in listening to Norah Jones, Dawn Landes, Joan Armatrading, Lloyd Cole, the Connells, Rosanne Cash, Rubber Rodeo, Mike McGear, Yes, Marvin Gaye, Barnaby Bye, Badfinger, and the Bee Gees.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Well, I now have a date for the knee - November 12. It's about as perfect a date as I could get, so I' m glad the surgeon had that day open for me. I had Doctors' appointments, physical therapy, and a whole booklet of things that were given to me as preparation, with more to come before the surgery.
I've been asked whether I'm anxious about the surgery, but I've quickly accepted it as my knee is in constant pain, and I'm ready to do anything to make the pain go away - even trading some intense short-term pain for it. Let me get back to my life of not remembering that I have a knee.
Knee's up time this week with this week's podcast, ehich has Blondie, Norma Tanega, Thundercat, Ann Peebles, the Kitchen Cinq, Concrete Blonde, the Cars, Larris Wallis, Larry Williams, Jesus Jones, Jane's Addiction, Elvis Costello, Stephen Stills, Crosby/Nash, and Stills/Young Band.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
It's Halloween, no longer a holiday that sneaks up on you. I saw people decorating for Halloween on September 30- I guess that's the unofficial start date of decorating for Halloween. And although some are small in scope, many go way overboard. It's like a full cemetery in some yards.
I'm not big on Halloween, so you won't see any decorations outside my house. It's my birth month, and my wedding anniversary is also in October, so my month is already filled up with celebrations.
However, with Halloween in mind, I put together a Halloween podcast. I've seen a lot of people put together different Halloween podcasts, so I joined in. the fun. So listen to this spooky set of music, featuring surprises and these bands: David Bowie, Sons & Daughters, Edgar Winter, Redd Kross, Neko Case, Dave Edmunds, the Cramps, Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Fleshtones, Mekons, the Who, Lou Rawls, Warren Zevon, and the Five Man Electrical Band.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Hi, Computer problems again. Things go fine for weeks, and then for no reason, the computer starts acting up. Why is everything frozen all the time? Can’t I just restart the machine and all is well? Apparently not.
So I’ll have to soldier through, hoping I can use this alternate way to post this week. This week is the week in the year designated as voting week. Mostly we’re involved with local elections (there are a few statewide elections - kinda weird, I think). So vote! Find out what’s going on locally and vote. What happens locally affects you as much, if not more, than what happens in the posturing US Congress.
To help you go vote on Tuesday (because the landowners who had the vote had to ride in from their estates and couldn’t travel on the Lord’s day), I have a great set of songs today, with Rare Earth, Three Dog Night, Argent, Steve Miller, Led Zeppelin, Angel Olson, Blood Orange, NewPornographers, the McCoys, Small Faces, Marvin Gaye, The Velvelettes, Barbar Randolph, the Inmates, Ian Gomm, Eggs Over Easy, and Wilko Johnson.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
As the old blues song goes, "Next time you see me, things won't be the same." I'll have a new left knee. This week, in preparation, I've been to the hospital for joint class and final prep with the surgeon. And phone calls - many phone calls. The hospital is very thorough about this.
I'm not anxious about this at all - the knee has gotten much worse, so it'll be a relief to switch it out for some metal and plastic. Although it did take the surgeon to say (finally, when was I going to hear this?) "you know, it's really going to hurt afterward." Thanks, Doc, everyone I know who's had it done tells me the same thing.
I'm thinking about starting a pain journal to talk about what's happening with my knee - I might post it to the webpage here at brennick.net. I'll certainly have the time on my hands - might be a useful journey for others.
Let's not think about knee pain on this Veteran's Day weekend. Instead, let's listen to some music, which this week includes Roxy Music, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, the Beatles, Badfinger, Nilsson, John Lennon, John Prine, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Beverly "Guitar" Watkins, Samantha Fish, and Ellen McIlwaine.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Luckily, I’ve yet to have any kind of ailment like this even tho I’m in my 60s, but time plays unexpected
tricks on your physical (and mental) being.
Just time for a quick update: I'm doing well. Surgery went well; new knee in and I'm improving daily. Not much more that I can ask. A more full response to come.
Got a great podcast today. Listen in to hear Mickey Newbury, Gary Lewis, Spanky & Our Gang, Archie Bell & the Drells, Aretha Franklin, Bryan Ferry, the Godfathers, Pere Ubu, Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Michael Kiwanuka, the Mavericks, and Julia Jacklin.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
It's Thanksgiving week. It's happening very late this year. In fact, the 28th is the latest date possible for Thanksgiving. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas shorter this year? That's ok, Christmas has already started - that was November 1, the day after Halloween. There must be some way to delineate the seasons better - commercialism is becoming rampant.
But let's give real thanks this Thanksgiving. Don't know how everyone else celebrates, but, maybe before football, we can pause and be thankful for what we have, and how we can help those less fortunate.
Theme week at the pod - Family, glass, mirrors (looking glass) and potpourri are the 4 themes explored with the Mavericks, Dave and Phil Alvin, Johnny Cash, Sly & the Family Stone, Shelby Lynne, Blondie, the Glass Family, the Bees, John Lennon, Leon Russell, Dinosaur, Jr., Barbara Acklin, Pops Staples, the Box Tops, Ray Charles, and the Beatles.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Went back to work on Tuesday. Drove down to my son's for Thanksgiving on Thursday. Thanksgiving with the family went well. I'm pretty much back to normal with my knee. Stairs are still a one step at a time thing, and I'm not quite ready for road races, but all has been good with my knee. The pain at night isn't as intense as it was, either - it's getting easier for me to get to sleep and stay asleep. I'm almost normal.
Let's get back to normal with today's podcast, which has these normal artists: Van Morrison, Tindersticks, Angel Olson, Nick Cave, Yeasayer, the Dirty Projectors, Cream, the Pink Fairies, Peter Stone Brown, the Jeff Beck Group, the Four Tops, the Temptations, and Stevie Wonder.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Old man winter has moved back in, and we've been fairly pounded with snow. Am I the last old guy who's ok with winter and snow? I was able to stay on top of shoveling and using the snowblower - the storms all took breaks so we could clean up. It might have been a different story if we got all the snow in one continuous storm - but we didn't. Knee held up well. I expect this to keep up until March or April - it's winter.
This week's podcast is a flurry of different songs, with Depeche Mode, Captain Sensible, Raphael Saadiq, Beck, Gene Clark, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Rockpile, Fats Domino, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Bonnie Raitt, the Raveonettes, the Kills, the Dum Dum Girls, and Frankie Rose.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Let's see, anything happen in the last week? Nope...well, as many of you know, I became a grandfather this week. Owen Patrick Brennick was born on Tuesday, December 10 at 10:00 PM. He was 8 lbs, 2 oz, and 22 inches in length. He's a happy, healthy little boy, and I can't tell you how excited Kate and I were. We've been getting congratulations all week (even though we didn't have all that much to do with it). We went down to see the family on Wednesday and will be back today (and we'll keep going until they tell us to stay away).
Today's podcast is themed - we start with the dirty before cleaning up in the end, so listen along with Steely Dan, Samantha Fox, Frank Zappa, the Standells, Little Milton, Coco Montoya, Luther Allison, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bruce Wooley & the Camera Club, the Dream Syndicate, the Jam, Holly Golightly, Camera Obscura, Tower of Power, and Van Morrison.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Hope everyone has a great Christmas season.
Today's podcast isn't Christmas-y (there's still time, though), but great tunes abound, with XTC, Lizzo, Beck, AC Reed, Santana. Tinariwin, Squeeze, World Party, Prince, the Who, Bonnie Raitt, Mose Allison, and Sam Cooke.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
I must say, overall 2019 was a good year for me: new knee with little complications, a new grandson who's healthy, and family and friends doing well. There's a lot to be thankful for. Let's hope it continues in 2020.
This week's podcast is a year-end round-up of some of my favorite new music (with leftovers that might pop up later). Let's listen to Lizzo, Sharon Van Etten, Toro y Moi, Ladytron, Yola, Ibibio Sound Machine, Marvin Gaye, Seratones, Lower Dens, Miles Davis, Samantha Fish, Beck, the Black Keys, the New Pornographers, and Sleeper. to help ring in the new year.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Winter is here in New Hampshire. We got nailed with snow last week, and the city made a decision not to plow my road until late in the morning on Tuesday. Ruined my whole day, as not everyone gets the day before New Year's off. C'mon Somersworth, do better than that.
I live in a cul de sac, so I know that we will be close to the last people plowed out, but it's ridiculous that they can't do something, even a quick swipe so people can get out of the neighborhood. We have some larger streets next to ours. It's frustrating.
Today's podcast has a true or false start before heading into what I hope is a somewhat hopeful message for 2020. Let's all work together this year to improve things. We can start by listening to Linda Ronstadt, Jane Siberry, June Tabor, Camera Obscura, World Party, Fistful of Mercy, Elvis Costello, Dave & Ansell Collins, Third World, Toots & the Maytals, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Roxy Music, and Talk Talk.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Kate and I went down to visit Owen, and we took him out in the stroller. "See Owen, it's not always cold outside. We'll have tons of fun this summer," we said to him while walking around.
The forecast is currently saying that we're getting 10 inches of snow next Saturday, but we won't think about that until later. It was summer today, and we enjoyed it.
Today's podcast is a mixture of tunes, a couple of which remind me of summer (but many are just songs). Listen in on this mostly fine day with Hot Tuna, Randy Newman, Ten Years After, Joni Mitchell, the Be Good Tanyas, Aztec Camera, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Corey Harris, Traffic, Yo La Tengo, Gogol Bordello, and Erykah Badu.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.