Weeknote 5, 2024
§1 xkcd
§2 A writing prompt
“So what if they would have snubbed each other five years ago? I'll bet in another five years they won't know what they were thinking today. But they need each other now, and sometimes nothing else matters but ‘need’ and ‘now’.”
§3 Fun with meter
“You killed my father / Now prepare to die” can be sung to the meter of “I hear you knockin' / But you can't come in”.
§4 Quotation
“If I only get to bring one recording to a desert island, the lyrics better be about how to make a boat.”—Ted Gioia
§5 Brunch?
“I want to have a message at the end…because I always want that…”—Hannah Hart
§6 When The Jam surrendered
Many criticized Paul Weller for breaking up The Jam right after releasing chart-topping single “Beat Surrender,” but why not go out at the top? Were The Jam ever going to release a better song than that one? How many bands ever have?