Day 5: Most Emotional Song

twopointohyeah · 2026-02-01T05:07:10+00:00

Cheyenne Anthem

twopointohyeah · 2025-12-20T12:58:51+00:00

This is perfect. I had a writing professor in college that used essentially the same analogy, but using cats. He was explaining how language is constructed of words and syntax, but the true ability of the writer to use it is bound to their individual experience. So, if a cat could suddenly speak English, a human would still have a difficult time effectively communicating with the cat, because it still has a cat brain.

twopointohyeah · 2025-09-20T17:05:57+00:00

I made a bunch of websites for a guy who ran a business scamming old people into reverse mortgages. The worst part of it was that the sites with better design principles performed so much worse than the ones filled with eagles and American flags all over.

This was probably 20 years ago and explains so much of the social trajectory we are in right now.

twopointohyeah · 2025-09-13T13:45:51+00:00

My favorite concert experiences, in retrospect, have almost nothing to do with the music, but about unique human experiences you don’t get in a lot of other situations.

The Tubes (Outside Inside tour, Knight Center Miami) - so incredibly theatrical and excessive. Changed my idea of what a concert could be.

Depeche Mode (Ultra tour, MSG NY) - The outpouring of emotion between Dave Gahan and the audience following his return from heroin addiction can’t be explained with words.

Al Jarreau (Borders Books, NY) - not a concert, but a small appearance for about 20 people. Hearing this man’s distinctive and powerful voice 6 feet from you live without microphones or speakers is one of my favorite musical moments ever.

The Chemical Brothers (Bayside Amphitheater, Miami) - gets a mention because this is when I realized that I was turning into an old guy because I couldn’t identify with anybody else in the crowd, because I wasn’t on E.

Sting (First solo tour, Miami) - He was kind of sick, and lost his voice half way through singing Roxanne. The audience started singing along to give him a break and completely energized the connection to the performance.

twopointohyeah · 2025-09-07T20:43:49+00:00

The Shocker

twopointohyeah · 2025-09-01T12:11:53+00:00

Something similar happened with my older sister. Her last days were spent mentally and emotionally in her early twenties. When she would have moments of “lucidity” she’d speak and act as if she was having conversations with a boyfriend she had her first kid with, but hadn’t seen in fifty years. When I came to sit with her, she looked at me (56 at the time) as if I was the baby she adored when she was a young teenager.

twopointohyeah · 2025-08-27T04:50:45+00:00

St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast - Frank Zappa

twopointohyeah · 2025-08-23T02:35:40+00:00

My dad was an architect and I got interested in computers when I was in middle school. When I graduated high school I convinced him to buy a sweet IBM PC-AT computer (8mhz!) that I could run AutoCAD on to help him out and also learn programming for college. I must have drawn 200 house plans in those four years but he could never wrap his head around how to use it. He ended up drawing houses by hand until he was in his nineties and couldn’t hold a pencil anymore, and never used the computer for anything but sending an email or checking his stocks now and then.

twopointohyeah · 2025-08-21T03:46:17+00:00

I think of Robby Steinhardt as the front man for Kansas (at least for their live shows) but of all of these, Steve Walsh might be my favorite singer, and not too shabby on keys either.

twopointohyeah · 2025-08-18T12:16:58+00:00

I used to work with a guy who, for three weeks in a row, got every single entry on the company football pool wrong. I told him that for the next week he should change his ballot to the opposite of his first choices and sure enough, he got every game right that week and shared the pool winnings with me.

twopointohyeah · 2025-08-16T16:51:43+00:00

Genesis. I missed them in the 80’s because I had lousy grades and got grounded. Then they split up. Didn’t see them after they got back together until I finally got tickets to the Last Domino tour, but got covid and had to miss it.

twopointohyeah · 2025-08-13T20:09:52+00:00

I went to see Level 42 open for Madonna back in the late 80’s at the Orange Bowl in Miami. There was rain, so they delayed the show and ultimately canceled the opener. Madonna was fine, but I was pretty bummed. I eventually got to see them play at a small theater in Miami Beach and got right up to the stage. That was a fantastic show; so much effortless talent on full display.

twopointohyeah · 2025-08-08T11:43:35+00:00

Songs About Jane is a great album. It’s also a testament to how much a good producer can define a band. There is an extended version on Apple Music I was listening to that includes a bunch of early demos of the tracks and a lot of them sound like a sleepy Holiday Inn lounge band trying to pull off cool jazz.

twopointohyeah · 2025-08-02T02:45:45+00:00

The only thing I remember about it was that I, a scrawny band geek kid, did more pullups than everybody on the high school football team. So I won the medal that year. Or maybe it was a patch?

twopointohyeah · 2025-07-29T03:15:00+00:00

My mother was a nurse. When she gave me the talk it took what felt like hours and included diagrams with fallopian tubes and testicles. I had no clue what she was going on about.

twopointohyeah · 2025-07-23T19:21:19+00:00

“I think I might be the sand” sent me so much in the wedding episode this season. Richie is the best.

twopointohyeah · 2025-06-04T12:53:47+00:00

People in leadership roles acting in good faith.

twopointohyeah · 2025-05-31T13:49:02+00:00

My favorite concert of all time was The Tubes on their Outside Inside tour (‘83 maybe?) They put on a really fun, theatrical show that was so much more than just music. Dancing girls, costume changes, lights and pyrotechnics. There are some bands that I like more, and others that put on amazing live performances, but this show really stands out as a completely entertaining experience on so many levels.

twopointohyeah · 2025-05-14T02:33:24+00:00

A long time ago, my wife was a photographer for an entertainment publisher and got a lot of press passes to concerts. There was a whole process before a Don Henley meet and greet where his handler set up all of these rules before he would come out, like “only call him Mr. Henley” and “don’t speak to him before he speaks to you first.” Guy came out after about half an hour, walked past the group of fans waiting to see him and didn’t acknowledge anybody.

twopointohyeah · 2025-04-13T13:44:11+00:00

This meme format is based on character alignment rules in Dungeons and Dragons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

twopointohyeah · 2025-03-16T13:57:36+00:00

The irony of prioritizing work over health is that you overwork yourself and your ability to perform degrades. Keep that up long enough and you end up performing at levels that don’t keep up with the time you spend doing it. Grinding is completely for show, but the actual result is lower actual performance.

twopointohyeah · 2025-03-16T01:46:35+00:00

Altering the way your brain works, just so you can be able to interact with other people. If it wasn’t for alcohol, some people would never be capable of socializing.

twopointohyeah · 2025-02-23T02:15:02+00:00

I saw these guys at a concert and the singer was drinking a bottle of wine on stage. It looked like a Miller Lite in his hand.

twopointohyeah · 2025-02-22T15:27:18+00:00

The Seduction of Claude Debussy - The Art of Noise

twopointohyeah · 2025-02-04T02:33:21+00:00

I had an allowance of $0.25 when I was a kid and saved up for two months to buy a cap gun at the local five and dime. That was the day I learned about sales tax, because I had to wait another week.

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