[All due respect…]

Jeez, Pat, how do you find the time to watch all ‘at shtuff on TV in a week?
Did I say watch them in a week Messy? I've got a new hobby :)

P.S.  Your signature reference to R.E.M Automatic for the People takes m’best [oh so best] gal & I way back to ’92 ~~ the year our second son was born & Magic was diagnosed with HIV ~~ …where we wore the coating off ‘at disc in the Cali mountains of Frazier Park.  For R.E.M. that was tremendous…& certainly endlessly spinable….

Funny but I hated the whole album till that song comes on and at the time is the only song on album I think is any good. I had played in heavy rotation Out of Time which I thought was far superior. It was not till over a year later that I realized that Automatic was their masterpiece and by a stretch. In the winter following the release R.E.M came into San Antonio and did the video for Everybody Hurts which was shot on the lower deck of I-10 heading into downtown. I sure wish they could recapture the magic of any of the 1st 5 albums or Automatic but 15 years has been an awful long wait.

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been to hollywood, ...been to redwood, ...walked th’ river for a mile t' go....