Wonderful Rainbow and Running

The album cover and metaphor for the music I remember the details of my first listen to Lightning Bolt (LB) and their third album, "Wonderful Rainbow" (WR), quite well. I was instantly hooked. I was a freshman at UC Santa Cruz. I was hitchhiking with a friend from the campus' summit to that...

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An Emotional Account of Loveless

The cover does justice to the album  I was going write about Radiohead.  “Kid A” was the first album that threw me into musicophilia.  "Loveless" solidified it.  It became the album to which I compared all other albums.  It is and has remained my favorite.  I refer...

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Don’t Fear the Sweetener

I am an unapologetic and uncompromising diet and exercise fanatic. I gave up sugar long ago. When one decides to become prejudice with calories, sugar is almost always the first dismissal. Your plans for Friday night follow closely. Unfortunately, if you have a sweet tooth, it never goes away fully...

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Radiohead seems to have an inescapable tendency to create flawless masterpieces. Way to go on "A Moon Shaped Pool," sirs.

Radiohead seems to have an inescapable tendency to create flawless masterpieces. Way to go on "A Moon Shaped Pool," sirs. — Jordan Smith (@PTJordanSmith) June 1, 2016 from Twitter https://twitter.com/PTJordanSmith June 01, 2016 at 11:38AM via IFT...

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It says on the ingredients of Kombucha "pure love." NOW I feel like it's reasonable t pay almost 5 bucks for it.

It says on the ingredients of Kombucha "pure love." NOW I feel like it's reasonable to pay almost 5 bucks for it. — Jordan Smith (@PTJordanSmith) January 23, 2016 from Twitter https://twitter.com/PTJordanSmith January 23, 2016 at 11:02AM via IFT...

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Linkin Park: Living Things

Always recognize talent when you see it.  Even if what is produced does not tickle your fancy; any artist that can make a name for themselves has to have talent or a brilliant formula for putting their names on the map.  Linkin Park fits in this category.  Except now there is a...

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Wha-wha Worthy

I was put to death when I went in for surgery. Don't forget to interject a good Michael Jackson joke - oh, wait. The anesthesiologist told me beforehand that I would be brought below an autonomously functioning level.  All of my vitals and governing chemical would be done through him rather...

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How to Have Comfortable Long Distance Training Runs

       There are a lot of preparations to be made before you actually do a long distance run.  I have had the immense chagrin to be doing marathon training for years.  Some of my runs went as long as eight hours.  Silver lining: I pay attention to what I am doing and think of ways to make the runs not (as) terrible.  Let's cover the day before, of and after...

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