Week of 6/14/2015

"Go" by The Chemical Brothers, off of their 2015 album, "Born in the Echoes"

See we get to the end
But that's where we begin~ 💙

omg E3 has got me HYPE

Retrospective Note 2022: This would be the first E3 I'd watch with my wife (at the time girlfriend), and it was her very first one ever to experience. Thank God it was one hell of a good one. Just a year after the PS4 had dropped, PlayStation had a TON of great titles to announce, and they didn't hold back. To top it all off, they kicked off with a cool as fuck introduction montage that showcased all the games they'd be revealing, and it included this fantastic Chemical Brothers song featuring the great Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest fame. You can catch that montage here.

Week of 6/21/2015

"Song For Dad" by Keith Urban, off of his 2002 album, "Golden Road"

And when I feel alone
And I think I can't go on
I hear him sayin' "Son you'll be alright"~ 💙

Retrospective Note 2022: After my father's death, it was easy for me to remember the good times, and the good things he taught me. It's why I chose this as that week's song of the week. As I've grown older, I've found that to be harder to do. He wasn't very kind to me, and was often very judgmental, and verbally abusive. It's taken a lot to pick up the pieces of my childhood, and I'm still working through it. It helped a little to have been able to somewhat reconcile with him before he died, but God do I wish we had more time to figure the rest of that stuff he did and said, not just to me, but to others as well. In the end, I do my best each and every day to learn from my Dad's mistakes in raising me, by being a better man than he was. I don't say that condescendingly. I think it's what he would have wanted. I don't do it for him though, I do it for me.