Currently formulating my head canon of how Zorak managed to sabotage this little get together

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Matthew Sweet
Day 12 (in no order)

If Time Permits • In Reverse • 1999

I’m determined to finish this challenge even if life keeps interrupting. The production on In Reverse is gorgeous throughout, but especially so on this track.

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This made my day!

Richard Thompson - Oops I Did It Again YouTube video by Laurie Girling

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A song everyone should hear

*Thompson’s cover is a delight.

bender from futurama sits in a chair and says i 'm afraid we need to use math ALT: bender from futurama sits in a chair and says i 'm afraid we need to use math

I say this one to my kids all the time

In a league full of deeply unserious clubs, somehow DC keeps sinking even further down...

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Matthew Sweet
Day 11 (in no order)

I Can’t Remember • The Thorns • 2003

One of many great, harmony-heavy tracks on this CSN-flavored album with Pete Droge and Shawn Mullins.

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Alphabet Aerobics YouTube video by Blackalicious - Topic

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Blackalicious • Alphabet Aerobics

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Matthew Sweet
Day 10 (in no order)

Love the synths on this one

Where You Get Love • Blue Sky on Mars • 1997

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Everyone who has ever worked in an office knows that no one at Crocker's level of management ever creates their own decks or posts – it’s farmed out to “the team." I have full faith in the members of the US Soccer staff who have been writing that stuff for his entire tenure continuing to do so.

I posted this right after the election. Seems even more true now

The older I get, the more I appreciate my 10th grade English teacher. We read Main Street, Babbit, Huck Finn, The Sound and the Fury, Grapes of Wrath… sadly more topical than ever

A screen grab from the video for “Let’s Dance” showing David Bowie playing guitar while wearing white gloves

Ironic that he is so prominently featured playing guitar throughout the video for the title track, then (while wearing white cotton gloves, no less)

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Matthew Sweet
Day 9 (in no order)

Had to miss a few days but I want to get back into this, starting with my favorite track in Matthew’s catalog

I’ve Been Waiting • Girlfriend • 1992

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If I had to guess, it would be that Saudi Arabia’s pitch was something like, “Same job, bigger bags o’ cash"

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Matthew Sweet
Day 8 (in no order)

Ugly Truth Rock • Altered Beast • 1993

Both versions of this song are great, but Richard Lloyd shredding on lead guitar makes this superior imo

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Most punchable face in the administration. And that’s a pretty high bar.

Tell me you’re an East Coaster without actually saying you’re an East Coaster

Apologies for the “adult content” label – apparently the Renaissance-style painting on the album cover got flagged for a really, tiny, pixelated nipple

Gianni Infantino in shambles

Yeah, absolutely killer bassline. It was years before I figured out that was Edge on the first verse

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Seconds • U2

“USSR, GDR, London, New York, Peking,
It's the puppets, it's the puppets,
pull the strings…”

The country names may change, but the system stays the same

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Matthew Sweet
Day 7 (in no order)

Daylight (guest vocal on a Delerium song) • Poem • 2003

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A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

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Matthew Sweet
Day 6 (in no order)

Get Older • 100% Fun • 1995

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Anybody else secretly hoping that Artemis II would disturb an ancient race of aliens on the dark side of the moon who would come to Earth and take the world’s leaders hostage?

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No matter how it ends, you know Trump’s gonna keep the trophy

Dr. Sorgut catching (fully-deserved) strays

The Artemis II eclipse 🌑

A rare view of a solar eclipse from deep space

Earth behind the Moon

Awesome image from Artemis.
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