Waiting for Impact

22 Mary 2024: Finally got around to listening to Dave Holmes's fantastic podcast, Waiting for Impact. It's really good, like everyone said. 

Here's a bit from episode seven that made me kind of stop in my tracks today (metaphorically, since I was on my walk): thinking about moving through life with audacity, he compares two "yeah"s from Counting Crows: the one at the end of "Rain King" and the one at the end of "Long December." Holmes explains, "All of life can be summed up by those two yeahs. It's easy to be a 'Long December' at this time in history, but the world needs you at a 'Rain King.'" 

Twenty years ago (!)

Check out this great piece about the 20th (!) anniversary of two terrific albums: In Utero and August and Everything After. Nice connections here to arguments about canonicity that come up in the literature classroom, too. Now I am off to listen to "Round Here" and recapture some of my teenage angst.