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Max's Musings

by Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2041762

A math guy's random thoughts.

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Raven

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:16am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Happy birthday!! We watched Reacher...last year sometime I think? It's ok if you just don't think too hard about the economics of any of the things the criminals do. Or about circulatory systems.

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JACE

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:09am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Thanks, Max.

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Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:00am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

JACE

--BTW, Regarding Henry is available to rent on Amazon.

Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Mar 2, 2025 at 9:58am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

JACE

, I do remember Regarding Henry. You're right--the thematic material is similar. There's a scene where he's amazed to see his daughter tying her shoes and asks "Who taught you that?" She says, "You did."

I remember seeing that scene with my daughter, and I asked her who taught her to tie her shoes. She said, "you did." I have no memory of teaching her, but she did!

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JACE

Mar 2, 2025 at 9:47am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Your list sounds just like our TV playlist, although my wife doesn't care for Reacher. We love Irrational.

Did you ever see an old movie, Regarding Henry? Harrison Ford stars in this 1991 movie. Very similar to the plot of Doc. Loved that movie. I believe it's time to see if it's streaming anywhere.

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BIG BAD WOLF is Merry

Mar 2, 2025 at 9:40am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Been watching playthroughs of a game called Rimworld. Looks interesting.

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Seabreeze

Feb 26, 2025 at 10:15am
In response to "Soundtrack, Feb 26, Melancholy Baby"

Nice. I love just about anything played on a piano.

Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Feb 7, 2025 at 12:39pm
In response to "Soundtrack, Day 4, Hallelujah"

Allan, that's a nice rendition. Here's another by a group I like.

Allan Charles 🐾

Feb 7, 2025 at 11:33am
In response to "Soundtrack, Day 4, Hallelujah"

I absolutely love this song. It gives me goosebumps every time. This is personally my favorite cover of the song:

🐕GeminiGem🎁

Feb 6, 2025 at 3:36pm
In response to "Soundtrack, Feb 6, Come Sail Away"

I became a rabid Styx fan in the early 80's. At one point I had all the vinyl they had released, but those are long gone. I rely on greatest hits CD's or a Styx mix on Spotify. This song comes up often. I always wondered about the line about climbing aboard the starship, but not enough to research it or anything like that, LOL

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February 16, 2025 at 8:16pm

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Soundtrack, Feb 16, Everyday

Everyday, it's gettin' closer
Goin' faster than a roller coaster.

So starts the 1957 BuddHolly song "Everyday." It was the B side of his much better-known hit "Peggy Sue," but it's the one that I like much better of the two. The song reached number three on the BIllboard Top 100 chart in 1957, then hit number three again in 1987 when James Taylor covered it, this time on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Other artists to cover this include John Denver and Pearl Jam.

I used this song in "Chapter 5--Everyday"

of the novella "Dreamin' Life Away"

. Part of the plot of the novella is that Dante, the protagonist, is taken on tour of 1950s Tutlsa, sort of like another Dante's famous tour of...a similar place. Dante's rather bemused, possibly from taking drugs, and goes along with the tour without much thought or resistance. But he does have the feeling that every day his life is going nowhere, faster than a roller coaster--at least, that's what he thinks when he hears the song playing on the radio in his guide's Edsel.

There's a lot more I could say about this song or about the mulitple references I had fun putting into this story, but I've already blogged about the song elsehwere. As to the references, well, looking for Easter Eggs can be fun, so why give it away? (Looking at you, T.S. Eliot.)

Anyway, this particular blog is just about how the song connects to a story I've written.

Here's a link to the song.

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