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[jeremypmeyers-blog]

So long, 45.

Note: this is a draft that I wrote in 2018 but didn’t post until 2023. I am now 50, and 2022 was a pretty great year, all things considered! 2018 was a rough year for me. But there was a lot of beauty in it, and I felt like I managed to keep moving forward despite a lot of setbacks. Here are the things that I found to enjoy along the way, or that helped to propel me along.

Culture

Music: Reissue of the Voyager Golden Record, Ozma Records. In a year in which our culture seems to be in retreat, turning inward and nursing resentments, it’s helpful to contemplate a time when we decided to embark on a project to understand our universe better and to capture a representation of all of our humanity to share with it. Voyager 1 is now 13 billion miles away from us, and it has carried this “message in a bottle” outside our solar system. I hope that by the the time it is found, we have regained some of the curiosity and optimism that Voyager’s launch represented. The box set is beautiful to look at, and the Related: The Farthest (a documentary on the Voyager mission and the curation of the Golden Record) and this article about the engineers who have been guiding Voyager’s journey for 40 years.

Music: Phoebe Bridgers, Stranger In the Alps.  As it turns out, I listened to a LOT of younger female singers and female-fronted bands this year (Bridgers, Vagabon, Diet Cig, Jay Som, Alyeska, Big Thief, Japanese Breakfast, Allison Crutchfield), at the same time that my streaming history suggests that I sought a lot of solace in familiar dad rock. Even before it became apparent that one of the trends of 2017 was a resurgent feminism, I found that these women just had more compelling things to say than most of their indie rock male counterparts this year. Among those strong female voices, Phoebe Bridgers’s debut album really stood out for me. Her songs are confessional without being maudlin or self-serving, and the album combines folk arrangement with gorgeous production and delivers melodies that I am compelled to sing along with. I linked to the video for “Motion Sickness” because it’s one of the more uptempo numbers on the album, but the track that drew me in was “Funeral.”

Music: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary Tour. Tom Petty released Full Moon Fever when I was a senior in high school. The summer after I graduated, several of my friends and I drove the 80 miles to go see Tom and the Heartbreakers play at the Summit in Houston, TX. They blew the roof off the joint and provided the soundtrack for most of my college years and a lot of the years after. I drifted away from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers after Into the Great Wide Open disappointed me, but my favorite songs of his never left heavy rotation for me. After Bowie and Prince died in 2016 without my having seen them perform, I vowed not to let any of my other favorites come around on tour again without seeing them play live. The Heartbreakers’ show at the Frank Erwin Center this May was one of the highlights of my year, and when Tom Petty died in October, I was sad but felt fortunate that I’d gotten to see him go out at the top of his game.

Music: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, The Nashville Sound. 

Book: Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang. I didn’t read as much as I should have this year, but this collection of short stories that I discovered after seeing the movie Arrival blew me away.

Other: Diana crosses No Man’s Land in Wonder Woman. The Millennium Falcon joins the fray in The Last Jedi. Loot train! Mike Ehrmantraut silently takes apart a gas cap on Better Call Saul. Steve and Dustin’s unlikely friendship in Stranger Things 2. The Big Sick. “The Watch” podcast. “Pod Save America.” 

Fitness

Training with Beckie Lough at Austin Simply Fit. I’ve been working out with Beckie as my personal trainer since late 2015, and I’ve finally gotten through some initial problems with form and old nagging injuries (see below). Beckie has trained me, encouraged me, and gotten me to appreciate weight training as an end unto itself instead of just cross-training to prevent injuries on my runs.

OrangeTheory Fitness. Orange Theory is an hour-long interval training workout class. You wear a heart-rate monitor and are encouraged to adjust your effort to keep your heart rate in various target zones (the orange zone is the target which gives the workout chain its name). It alternates between treadmill and weight room activities. I go 2-3 days a week at 5am 

Next Level Physical Therapy. I’ve had less-than-great posture for years, and it has taken its toll. While I’ve always gotten regular exercise, strength training wasn’t part of my routine until recently. When I finally started trying to get stronger, I found that I was really limited by weakness in my shoulder, with tightness, knots, and crunchiness that restricted my movement and precluded making gains. I’ve tried a few different physical therapists going back to 2014, but this is the first one I’ve found that really made a difference.

Waterloo Sparkling Water. I try to drink a gallon of water per day, and I find that my enthusiasm for the habit peters out later in the day. Topo Chico is great, but those iconic glass bottles get expensive. Austin local chain

RX Bars. Even as an omnivore/carnivore, I find it a little bit hard to ingest all the protein that the books tell me that I need.

Things

Bombas socks. I’ve been using the same gym socks for nearly 20 years. Not the same brand, mind you-- the same pairs of socks. I kept seeing the ads for Bombas show up on my FB feed, and I decided to try them out. They really are comfortable, thick, snuggly, great for wearing with your feet up on the couch on a cold day without feeling like they’re too thick or too hot on a run. The honeycomb structure that provides support on the mid arch really does make a significant difference, and getting rid of the seam across the toe is great, too. I’ve gotten rid of all of my old socks and replaced them with these and my feet have never been happier. You can feel good about your purchase, too: they donate a pair to homeless shelters for every pair you buy.

Lego brick separator. This thing costs just $2.49, though it’s also included in some of the larger Lego sets. and it is one of the most useful pieces of plastic I’ve ever encountered. It helps separate Lego tiles that are stuck together and hard to get leverage on. My son and I each have one now and it makes short work of de-constructing Lego sets to get ready for the next build. I shudder to think how often I used sharp blades in precarious ways to achieve the same result less effectively in my youth.

Experiences

Wearing a tie to work.

Bonus stuff: Phoebe Bridgers covering Tom Petty’s “It’ll All Work Out”

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[stereoculturesociety]

CultureTRIBUTE: Tom Petty (1950 - 2017)

"You belong among the wildflowers You belong somewhere close to me Far away from your trouble and worries You belong somewhere you feel free"

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Love Is Not Enough by Rocktoart on #Spotify #itunes https://open.spotify.com/album/4dhIou229OzmEJ36OkRBXy Love Is Not Enough #roots #rootsmusic #culture #culturemusic #reggae #reggaemusic This is Rocktoart

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[donlifted]

Much appreciation to Ezra Wheeler for this wonderful write up in The Daily Memphian Check it out in the link below!

“I wanted to make the best video that anyone’s seen coming out of Memphis,” he said. “I want to make it clear that the team who worked on it are all local Memphians. I think it’s a testament to what the local creative community is capable of when they have the support and the resources. Fat Possum Records gave that to us, and I’m really excited for what’s next.”

Images: Amber Ahmad

https://dailymemphian.com/section/arts-culturemusic/article/21355/record-label-song-video-raise-memphis-musician

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[stereoculturesociety]

CultureSOUL: “Down By The Riverside (Live)” - Mahalia Jackson c. 1950s

Sunday Gospel from the Queen. And we need it right now. 

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