2023 Soundtrack

2023 Soundtrack

I ended up seeing a bunch of live music in 2023 — New Pornographers*, Franz Ferdinand*, Pixies, The Hives*, Liz Phair, Quicksand — many of which ended up on my year-end list. Also went through an electro phase for a while this year (reliving my old breakdancing days?). And of course Rush and the Beatles …

2023 card

2023 Christmas Card: The Go-Go’s

The Go-Go’s: Beauty and the Beat Towels and shaving cream made for an easier job for Jill in the costume department this year. (On the back: “Our gifts are sealed.”)  

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2022 Christmas Card: Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack Apparently disco is back, but since it’s been about 45 years we added some album wear & tear to this year’s cover. The card’s reverse reads “Stayin’ alive this holiday season!”  

Cambridge Flatland

A bunch of us old riders got together at the Cambridge street hockey rink for some long-overdue flatland mini-jam. It was great seeing everybody again — most since pre-COVID — and good riding again, whatever our skill level. I shot some video, too, which proves that we did actually ride and not just talk shit …

2021 Soundtrack

That’s right, I stared this year’s playlist with a long-ass Rush song! (Luckily you can skip it.) I chose it not only because it’s one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums, but also because it was cool this year to see Primus play it live. Anyway, here’s a bunch of songs …

Flatland at Fifty

When I started riding BMX as a kid, I never thought I’d still be riding in my 20s, never mind at 50! So this year I wanted to create a riding edit documenting that I’m still at it (however infrequently). I had a list of tricks I wanted to get on video and some new …

2021 Christmas Card: White Stripes & Fleetwood Mac

With Amelia at college this year it was a little trickier getting everyone together for a photo, so we split things up into twos to make it a little easier. (Or not, since really it was double the work…) The White Stripes: Elephant   Fleetwood Mac: Rumours

2020 Soundtrack

2020 Soundtrack

RebUke: “On You” Descendents: “Hindsight 2020” Bad Religion: “End of History” Bob Mould: “American Crisis” Dropkick Murphys: “Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding” Fishbone: “Skankin’ to the Beat” Prince Buster: “Scorcher” Oingo Boingo: “Something Isn’t Right” Danny Elfman: “Happy” Devo: “Mecha-Mania Boy” Art Brut: “DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake” Superchunk: “My Gap Feels Weird” The Lemonheads: …

2020 Christmas Card: Going Solo

For this year we leaned into the social distancing theme and all went solo: MC Hammer: U Can’t Touch This   Britney Spears: …Baby One More Time   Taylor Swift: 1989   The Clash: London Calling   Beck: Odelay