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Today's AT40
Mar. 23rd, 2008 12:16 pmIs March 28, 1987. Another non-repeat, so I'll blog it 'til I have to start dinner (we're cooking for my parents today). correction - I have done this one before, but I didn't say much about it. Took a long distance dedication (a kid who drove a drunk driving accident telling ALL kids "It's Hip to Be Square") to make me remember. I'm cool with the sentiment, of course.
Lets see...at this point, I was recovering from an educational-induced depression (yes, I'm permanently scarred by "The Scarlet Letter", that trashy soap opera of insane "morality" that is supposedly this great American work but I merely saw it then and still do today that religion has no place in politics at all. Not even my own.
Other things going on? Lets see...The Wrath of Keim (our pre-calc teacher), AP American History (struggling through a paper on McCarthy), band (the usual), no science (took chem during the summer school before the year started), Latin 3 (did THAT one one year too many, but didn't have a choice in the matter)...
...and oh yeah, a year of Psychology. now THAT was cool. Teacher was a straight-out rocker whose methods were effective but non-standard enough to easily piss of micro-managing administrations. He was effective as a football coach as well - his Freshman team went 7-0. That of course meant that the next year that team would be broken up - some into JV, some into Varsity, and my graduation-year team the next year sucked dogs...but the NEXT year, that team was reunited all in Varsity and almost made it to state champs. Go fig. I learned early on "never break up a winning, gelled team". Shame my wife's former company hadn't learned that lesson 20 years later...
Musically, I was mostly into two things: blues-rock (Clapton/Cream, the Doors) and New Age electronic (the artists of the defunct Private Music label, for example). The rock scene was still cool, but there were often too many "pop" songs of the producer-manufactured variety for me to bother to listen to anymore.
Last week's #1 - Lean on Me by Club Nuveau. Not my fav (by a long shot), but lots of friends liked it.
( Now, on with the countdown... )
Lets see...at this point, I was recovering from an educational-induced depression (yes, I'm permanently scarred by "The Scarlet Letter", that trashy soap opera of insane "morality" that is supposedly this great American work but I merely saw it then and still do today that religion has no place in politics at all. Not even my own.
Other things going on? Lets see...The Wrath of Keim (our pre-calc teacher), AP American History (struggling through a paper on McCarthy), band (the usual), no science (took chem during the summer school before the year started), Latin 3 (did THAT one one year too many, but didn't have a choice in the matter)...
...and oh yeah, a year of Psychology. now THAT was cool. Teacher was a straight-out rocker whose methods were effective but non-standard enough to easily piss of micro-managing administrations. He was effective as a football coach as well - his Freshman team went 7-0. That of course meant that the next year that team would be broken up - some into JV, some into Varsity, and my graduation-year team the next year sucked dogs...but the NEXT year, that team was reunited all in Varsity and almost made it to state champs. Go fig. I learned early on "never break up a winning, gelled team". Shame my wife's former company hadn't learned that lesson 20 years later...
Musically, I was mostly into two things: blues-rock (Clapton/Cream, the Doors) and New Age electronic (the artists of the defunct Private Music label, for example). The rock scene was still cool, but there were often too many "pop" songs of the producer-manufactured variety for me to bother to listen to anymore.
Last week's #1 - Lean on Me by Club Nuveau. Not my fav (by a long shot), but lots of friends liked it.
( Now, on with the countdown... )
