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As I’m listening to a 70s Road Trip playlist on Spotify, up popped Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger”. Me being me, I Google him to see what he’s up to nowadays. This is the first picture that came up for me:
Now, for some deeper insight into how I see the world, I couldn’t help but see how much he looks like this White Walker from Game of Thrones:
Yeah, yeah, I’m kinda weird, I know.
In case you don’t know this song:
And here’s the playlist if you’re so inclined:
Anyway, enjoy your Friday!
Well, today was greeted with tough news: Gordon Lightfoot has passed away.
Lightfoot has been part of my pop-culture awareness as long as said awareness existed. For me, it was his gift of story-telling that held the most power. Songs such as The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald were part of my heart for, it seems, forever. I was pretty young when he was at his heyday, and his music seemed omnipresent.
I’m filled with sadness as another icon of my youth has died. Yet, I’m grateful that his music was such a rich part of my life.
It will not be hard to find his music over the next few days, especially his hits. So I feel compelled to feature a song that is lesser know, but one that I find delightful: Alberta Bound.
Alberta Bound seemed, to me, to be the theme song for the Alberta Winter Olympics of 1988. And something about that spoke deeply to me. So, I’m delighted to share something lesser known.
May we all find joy in his music and legacy. Godspeed, Gordon Lightfoot.
Some one (God bless them) left a bag of Key Lime M&Ms in my office kitchen.
Well, for some reason, my brain went immediately to this meme:
My brain can be a strange place…
Update: I see the watermark on the image and dug for seconds on the Google. This Twitter account looks to be the originator of the mem: @jojofrmojerz.