Magical Mystery Tour/My Ever Changing Moods

In a week that's seen me cut back my mileage and run less than I have been I've sure had a lot to blog about.
Tonite saw the beginning of my 6 milers between now and months end,it'll be a shock to the system moving back up to 10 milers again in mid October but that as they say is a conversation for another day.

And so to the magical mystery tour/my ever changing moods of this week,musically my ipod has been all over the shop,Big Country morphed into The Skids since they were Stuart Adamson's band b4 Big Country,then I started diggin' on The Jam,which of course led to The Style Council{the music savvy amongst you will have gotten the My Ever Changing Moods reference}I'm surprised I haven't been groovin' to Paul Weller's solo stuff since that would be the next progression....hell I need something to listen to next week!
Then to round out the week Regina Spektor and Ben Folds took over,I'll be coming back to Ben Folds shortly.

The rest of this Odyssey kicked off Monday as I was leaving from work,there's a classic line in ''St Elmo's Fire"when Emilio Estevez says to Andrew McCarthy"There are several quintessential moments in a mans life,losing his virginity,getting married,becoming a father and having the right girl smile at you"
While I'm reasonably sure hardly anyone reads my blog I could come out and say who the girl in question was who smiled at me but I won't,lets just say I'm playing this one close to the vest but actions speak louder than words and "A''s wave and smile convinced me to pursue an issue I've spent several years standing on the sidelines pondering the possibilities of,I'll keep you posted IF anything happens.

''St Elmos's Fire" is one of my favourite "Brat Pack/John Hughes" movies,although Joel Schumacher directed ''St Elmo's Fire"it plays a close second to the granddaddy of them all "The Breakfast Club" which is possibly my favourite movie of ALL TIME and Monday's incident set off a whole chain reaction as I looked to upgrade my old and somewhat obsolete vhs copy of "St Elmo's Fire" to dvd,I also started looking for a tshirt from ''Breakfast Club"
I couldn't find what I really wanted so I may get one air brushed w/ two of my favourite Judd Nelson as the freakin awesome John Bender quotes
"If Andrew gets up,we'll all get up,it'll be anarchy....it's out of my hands"on the front and"Screws fall out all the time,it's an imperfect world"on the back,I need to scope out some air brush stores and see if I can get this done.

Sometime after that I vaguely recalled there being a Brat Pack movies book so I went looking online for that,I found it"Sweets,You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried"another classic John Bender line,anyway while reading up on that I stumbled on a book I'd made a note of on the flight home from Sacramento in one of the in flight magazines"Talking To Girls About Duran Duran"
Yes I was a teenage Duran Duran fan I cannot lie so while the title drew me in I began to read more about the author Rob Sheffield,turns out his first book was called"Love Is A Mix Tape,Life & Loss One Song At A Time"which Chronicles how he met his wife and talks about the mix tapes he made for her and her tragic and sudden death.
Long b4 the advent of burning mix cds and ipods mix tapes were the way to go,I have boxes of them in the basement and my brother has a boat load that I've sent him over the years and is one of the reasons I've been working on his current one "McPhisto's Ipod Mix" the last few days.

Having ordered the Rob Sheffield book from Amazon I began to look up other books of a similar vein,Jason Bitner's "Cassette From My Ex,Stories & Soundtracks Of Lost Loves" made my list as did "31 Songs" by Nick Hornby.
I'm a huge Nick Hornby fan,I've read most of his books,''Fever Pitch""High Fidelity""About A Boy""How To Be Good" and "Long Way Down" but discovered a few recent ones I'd missed plus collections of his columns he's written for magazines over the years,as one reviewer said"I'd read the phone book if Nick Hornby wrote it,I know what she means,Nick Hornby is a literary genius and has a wicked sense of humor,case in point one of his collections"Shakespeare Wrote For The Money"

And so back to Ben Folds,turns out Nick Hornby and Ben Folds are great admirers of one anothers work and so the new Ben Folds cd was written by Nick Hornby w/ Ben Folds providing the music,I've heard a few tracks so far and like what I've heard,the cd "Lonely Avenue"gets released on Sept 28th and Ben Folds is about to tour,he hits Philly on Nov 13th at The Tower....so there!
Back to running I hope to hit the track tomorrow in what will be my final track workout not only b4 5th Avenue Mile but also for the next few months,here's to"Going out in a blaze of glory"