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Got Heart

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Lately I’ve been trying to get up earlier to swim. Spotify on the phone has helped in the getting pumped portion of driving to the pool. Every once in while songs like Morning Train and 9 to 5 work, but those get old fast. Here is a list of the current pump up songs:

  • While the Neil’s favorite, Fats Domino’s I’m Walking, will always work, I recently discovered his song Jambalaya.
  • Speaking of brother recommendations(Sweet Brother Numsay!), Austin fav Gone by Kanye is awesome.
  • Mac Miller’s Nikes on me Feet.
  • Tame Impala’s Elephant.
  • Webb Wilder’s Human Cannonball.
  • For the last week or two , the go-to has been Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out for a Hero(which is a pretty awesomely 80s video). Fun fact: the album was backed by the E Street Band.
  • But last night Adam showed me the video for Heart‘s Alone and it has taken the go-to spot.  Maybe one of the reasons that 97.9 doesn’t play this song but regularly plays Crazy on You or Magic Man is because they can’t show the video. I am still blaming the station that I haven’t known this song before.  The video has everything an 80s video should: a piano blowing up, a girl with lots of cleavage riding a horse, playing the guitar like it is a penis, running into the crowd with your guitar.  It is even entertaining how Ann Wilson gets the Kelly Clarkson treatment by having very few shots below the shoulders. Just watch it:

 

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Party Tricks

I put a bunch of these up before (check their youtube for the other 6 trick videos), here are some more:

Via TO, again.

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Municipal Device

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Dad sent an WBEZ article about the Chicago Municipal Device that was interesting (though probably not as much as their article about the immense popularity of the Chicago flag). Been looking up more about it and stumbled upon some fantastic sites with Chicago pictures.  Calument412.com, whose name comes from the phone number of a famous Chicago brothel, has about 4,000 pictures/posts, so be careful how long you are on it.  Which lead to another site of pictures, theManOnFive.com, whose name refers to a nickname for the mayor (the office is on the fifth floor).  This is where I found the above picture (the original at least) of Johnny Weissmuller.  Did you know that Johnny faked his citizenship to be in the Olympics?

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