| Friday On My Mind: Twenty Things |
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| Written by Jim Walsh | |
| Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:35 PM | |
Twenty things I could have done instead of wasting two hours on the boring-ass cliché-dipped Joy Division movie “Control” at the Uptown Theater Monday night:1. Nothing. 2. Listen to “She’s Lost Control,” “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” and a few others; thumb through a good Ian Curtis biography; re-watch the Manchester biopic “24 Hour Party People.” 3. Go on YouTube and find every scrap of film of Vikings rookie running back/artist-of-the-year Adrian Peterson, proof positive that the future is now and that history is there for the making.  4. Run. 5. Read Oliver Sacks’ “Musicophilia: Tales Of Music and the Brain,” a good self-analysis for all the music-mad mavens of this music-mad burg. 6. Ruminate on the many ways – who knew? – in which Mister Rogers is like a flower. 7. Listen to The Format’s stunning “On Your Front Porch,” and spend a few lifetimes thinking about porches and lakes and the someones I used to know. 8. Rake. 9. Revisit Robyn Hitchcock’s “Television” and “Creeped Out” – the surprise highlights of his show Sunday night at the Cedar Cultural Center.  Robyn Hitchcock at the Cedar - Photo by Alexa Jones 11. Devour David Meyers’ “Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad Of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music.” 12. Find out wherever the hell Roma di Luna, Meg Ashling, Eliza Blue, A Night In The Box, Dragich, or any of the other new old-timey kids are playing, so as to get in touch with my inner busker and out of touch with technology. 13. Listen to my kid practice the piano. 14. Listen to my kid do anything. Within reason. 15. Listen to my kid’s lame excuse for missing the school bus in the morning and all its attendant drama, then listen to his YouTube suggestion in the evening and almost barf all over each other laughing. 16. Walk the dog and solve the world’s problems. 17. Sit in the chilly autumn night with my friend and neighbor, the talented and soulful painter/artist/dad Mike Carson, a bonfire and dogs at our feet, beer in hand, wives and children at our side or tucked in for the night, and solve the world’s problems. 18. Say a prayer. 19. Bore someone one more time about “Across The Universe” at the Edina, Frida Kahlo at Walker, and all the local bands who aren’t killing themselves before embarking on their first U.S. tour, which is what Ian Curtis did, the looming gallows spectacle of which “Control” hangs itself on, and certainly not the music. 20. Relive Springsteen’s “Incident On 57th Street” from last Friday via this. |
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