@JacobCJameson 58 year old, lifetime music obsessive, and yeah

I recall how one musician I interviewed told me he finally had to move out of Boston because every year the college students would return and stay the same age. While he didn’t. At the American Studies Association conference and…yeah. It being in San Juan takes the edge off

Sending this out to Larry Down the Road as he packs up his Harvard office

Mama, I made it to the big screen, just like you always said I would

My weird and possibly delusional take is that I think we’ll win because we love more

Sometimes I just let my mind fix on the great (forgotten) Ruth Chew, author of a bunch of early reader fantasy chapter books in the 1970s which were premised on the (true) notion that Brooklyn’s Prospect Park is a magical place

Just wrote my dear friend and stalwart concert buddy to tell him we have plans now in April and bless his heart he just said “on the calendar”

I love how the young people say that they are “manifesting” this or that because (if I understand correctly?) they just mean they are imagining that a better world is possible. Which is always true.

Jeanines, a new band I love, opening the show: they so obviously worship at the Heavenly altar where I am a simple usher. Feeling giddy.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change but I just got tix to see Heavenly, a band I adore that I long ago gave up hope of ever seeing, in a small club next April, and if you could just guard them and me till then that would be so deeply appreciated

Stand with Israel or pray for peace: you gotta pick one

Daughter, editing my conference paper: “With love in my heart, I can’t believe you still do 2 spaces after each sentence.”

I cannot explain how their music has captivated me but PS Eliot/Swearin’/Waxahatchee feels like “my” music as much as anything since I first heard Darkness on the Edge of Town when I was 14

I’m way Allison identified because she’s scrappy and chaotic and because I’m a youngest child I assume she got born after her twin

I spend a little too much time thinking about the interpersonal family dynamics of the Crutchfield siblings but they are my favorite Sisters of Rock since probably the Deals so I am ok I think

Elvis at Sun Records too

I hate when people do math on here (“we are now farther from from Mmmbop than Abe Lincoln was from the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs!”) but I just figured out that Larry Summers and Steven Pinker were both born a few months after Brown v. Board of Ed was decided. Now what?

Trying not to overpromote but: this Wednesday there will be a showing of Vinny Straggas’ new documentary on Boston rock and roll of the ‘70s and ‘80s at Arlington’s Regent at 7:30. I’m in the film yakking and will be part of a Q and A after with Fred Pineau of the Atlantics.

It’s wonderful and strange to be youngest of four children: I again watched the Boston rock documentary I’m in the other day and every one of my hand gestures, every facial expression is stolen from my oldest brother.

I DJed at parties and bars my senior year and it was always very hard to decide which song from Madonna’s debut to play

Kinda surprising that nobody has seen fit to tell me that the amazing Courtney Barnett has done a killer cover of this song and really roughs up the queer line with fetching gusto