This Week's Wednesday

Hey, leave me out of this, man. You've never even seen my TV show!

Wednesday is my weekly designated day to accomplish a combination of getting stuff done and recharging the ol' battery for the rest of the week. On Wednesdays, I record my parts for the following Sunday night's exciting edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio With Dana & Carl. I pick up my fresh supply of new comic books at Comix Zone, and see to whatever other responsibilities I have lined up for the day. Sometimes I write. Sometimes I do laundry. Sometimes I do both, at least on Wednesdays when I don't have other commitments that eat up the day.

On this Wednesday, before even attempting to address doing the radio show, I resolved to dedicate an hour and a half to watching a prerelease cut of Justin Fielding's forthcoming documentary The Power Pop Movie. That was my priority for the morning, and it was time well spent. I'll be writing more about this film in the near future; for now, suffice it to say that The Power Pop Movie is simply wonderful, and it is the closest thing to a definitive history of power pop music that I have ever seen in any medium. I'm going to be watching it again, and that will also be time well spent.

After finishing the movie, I started doing the radio show, and got more than half of it done before I had to leave for a scheduled regular check-up appointment with my health provider. With clean bill of health firmly in hand, I did my Comix Zone score (while still raving about The Power Pop Movie to anyone who would listen), grabbed a slice of pizza for lunch, got a much-needed haircut, and returned home to complete the radio show.

As the afternoon grew late, I responded to messages from the Flashcubes and Big Stir Records about artwork for the forthcoming various-artists blockbuster Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes. The mighty mighty Margie Finer has done an outstanding job with the graphics for this album, and I can't wait to share the images with you. 

I took lovely wife Brenda out for dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. Back home after supper, I hauled out my rarely-used electric guitar, plugged it in, used my phone's handy-dandy Fender app to tune my six-string to the best of my nearly nonexistent ability, and tried to teach myself how to approximate a rudimentary, rough (and how!) version of one of my favorite songs. I didn't fail quite as badly as I would have presumed, and I'll continue to try to get my rendition up to something that's merely many miles (in contrast to my current distance of light years) from the song's familiar form. More on this next week.

Finally, after watching a little bit of TV with Brenda, I sent an email to the manager of a local library regarding an upcoming in-person appearance alongside fellow author Dave Murray. Dave and I will be at Syracuse's Paine Library branch on Sepember 22nd to hawk..er, discuss our books, Dave's A Breath Of Fresh Air (A Transplant Tale) and my The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) and Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones. I meant to get to that email earlier in the day, but time slipped away.

That's what Wednesdays are for me. I have goals to do a lot of things on Wednesdays, but I run out of Wednesday before I run out of Wednesday things to do. Nonetheless: I'll try again...

...next Wednesday.

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