Friday night, my wife and I met some friends at a local brewpub to have a couple of week-ending pops and listen to a neighbor play old-time rock and roll. (For what it's worth, Loudoun County, Virginia is a beer lover's paradise right now - I can walk to no fewer than six brewpubs making their own stuff, and there are another thirteen within easy driving distance.)
We had to leave to pick up our youngest at gymnastics, but she hadn't eaten anything, so we headed back into town to grab some killer street tacos and another beer. It was a beautiful night, and our town has a festive First Friday scene each month, so we finished our evening getting dessert and a manhattan at a restaurant bar. Daddy was feeling good.
When we arrived back at the house, the kidlet wanted to talk about music, so I obliged. She wanted me to hear Panic! At the Disco's cover of Bohemian Rhapsody, which is pretty good. But she needed to hear the original, and she definitely needed to hear Freddy Mercury's voice.
After that lesson, we spent a good hour wandering around YouTube so I could share some of the favorites of my youth. I focused on progressive/alternative stuff, the foundation of my high school catalog, but somehow I figured she needed to hear some early Springsteen, too. I'm working on the next lesson now, so I'll try to focus. Feeling pretty good about my Dadding, though, notwithstanding the fact that I was drunkenly hanging out with my kid.
In no particular order, here's the show:
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ReplyDeleteAdding to the Dadding through music theme, I bought tickets to Kanye for my stepdaughter and I earlier this week. Pumped.
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ReplyDeleteAt a silent auction a month ago, I paid $100 for the right to have a kid lead the high school football onto the field for a home kid, carrying a flag while doing so, and then be the tee boy.
ReplyDeleteMy 9 y/o was very fired up, especially when he got a jersey to wear. He led the team onto the field and was with them when the team huddled together in the end zone to get pumped up. I heard the team captain drop the F bomb at least a dozen times as he barked at the rest of the team, along with my son. My kid played it down, but I think he loved every single F bomb.
zson hisses "goddammit" under his breath through clenched teeth (just like me) when confounded with a difficult Lego issue.
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ReplyDeleteOn the Freddy Mercury, your guy from Mr. Robot will be playing him in an upcoming movie.
danimal's Koresh komment made me chuckle quite a bit
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It's exactly like that.
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When the trump-barbarians start burning shit down they are coming for the folks with the fancy lad asswashin' terlets first.
ReplyDeleteSo "Bill Belichick" wrote Donald Trump a "letter" of endorsement...
ReplyDeleteRichard Sherman blew up Dan Carpenter, so Carpenter isn't allowed to make the PAT on the next play. That makes sense.
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ReplyDeleteSignaling first down is now an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty?
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