A totally crazy thing has happened in the last two months. I have become a person who can just walk out the front door and run five miles through the city in less time than it takes me to go to the gym and come back. I can’t even tell you how much this amazes [...]
Lately I’ve been working out frequently with Audrey, and we typically gab away through our cardio. And on days I do go alone, I find myself flipping through the channels watching some unconscionably bad show like Candy Girls or the Housewives of Orange County. Today I watched a What Not to Wear type show with [...]
14 Mar, 2009
Posted by: joymanning In: Gym Tunes
I have a feeling I’m going to love this whole album, but I especially love this one.
Choice lyric:
I saw taillights last night
in a dream about my first wife.
Everybody leaves and I’d expect as much from you.
I saw taillights last night
in a dream about my old life
Everybody leaves and why, why wouldn’t you?
This is kind of the perfect elliptical song. It sounds like a circle.
Unfamiliar songs are something like unfamiliar foods. When you go to a concert, the crowd never clamors to hear the new stuff. Fans want what they know. Similarly, we want the foods whose cherished flavors we have memorized like lyrics to favorite songs.
The first 50 times I tasted an oyster, I resisted. Like so many [...]
I vividly remember the day Anna-Lisa Donovan introduced me to this song in 1998. It was ancient then. I still love it. Thanks, Anna-Lisa!
OK. This tune is awesome for the gym or any time you feel misanthropic. It’s not safe for work. Or kids. Or those who dislike the F word. But if your sensibilities are less delicate, you might like it as much as I do.
Sing it, MJB. This has been on every one of my workout mixes for over a year.
06 Feb, 2009
Posted by: joymanning In: Gym Tunes
This is not a terrific version, with all the skate board noise and everything, but it’s the best I could find. I love this song.
Choice lyric:
You can tell me secrets if you want to
but my house ain’t got no ceiling, and my heart won’t hold no lies.
I’m not like everybody that you talk to.
And I [...]
31 Jan, 2009
Posted by: joymanning In: Gym Tunes| Working out
This song is also the overall theme of the week.