“Ever changing lineup” is an understatement...I call “The Top” Robert Smith’s solo album!
I can almost hear Mr. Steadman and my thermodynamics professor (who had a slightly different version of the quote) saying that now. I really need to get going with work email...
I came to them quite late. A friend in high school made me a cassette tape of Standing on A Beach, but I didn’t really listen to them until KMKMKM. Quite a back catalogue which I’ve enjoyed revisiting the past couple of weeks. It’s my 16 y/o who brought them back to my attention- she loves them.
Wonder what Ned is doing these days? Nice quote from him. Two more Cure favorites are In Between Days and A Forest. They were great when I saw them in 1990 but I have to wonder how good the live music is 33 years on.
I'm delighted how I'm never quite sure what you'll cover next! Lately your topics have really resonated that much more for me for some reason and so I enjoyed this one. I'm not a huge Cure fan but I do enjoy a number of their songs. Side note: one of the silliest and funniest things I've heard on the radio is when XTC's Andy Partridge was a guest on a Los Angeles radio show back in the late 80s/early 90s and Andy pokes fun at poor Robert Smith.
Glad you’re enjoying the topics - they’re truly random. I mean, they’re always ones I find interesting, but until the issue is published I’m never 100% sure what it’s going to be. I’ve got a pretty detailed road map in my notebook (!) and always the next six issues planned out on a whiteboard in my study - but the marker is so easily changed!
Steadman was brilliant- and very cool. I got to teach English at my high school for a while and so knew him as a colleague, too. In 2000 (?) when the school system realised they had to get Napster off the computers, the Physics teacher and I spent a workday in the lab downloading as much as we could - literally working as fast as could before the IT person’s immanent arrival. Steadman walked in, saw what we were doing and came over. We knew he was going to say something about us not doing work, but instead he sat down at a desk, took out pen and paper and started making a list of albums he wanted. I think Canned Heat was at the top!
That’s a fantastic story! And I love that you had the opportunity to be a colleague after he was so influential as a teacher. That inspires me to find my favorite teachers and let them know how much they meant—and still mean—to me. Thank you!
“Ever changing lineup” is an understatement...I call “The Top” Robert Smith’s solo album!
I can almost hear Mr. Steadman and my thermodynamics professor (who had a slightly different version of the quote) saying that now. I really need to get going with work email...
Yes - that quote keeps coming back to me. Usually whenever I’m doing exactly the opposite of what I should be!
Soundtrack of my college years! I’m off on another Bus-induced binge ...
I came to them quite late. A friend in high school made me a cassette tape of Standing on A Beach, but I didn’t really listen to them until KMKMKM. Quite a back catalogue which I’ve enjoyed revisiting the past couple of weeks. It’s my 16 y/o who brought them back to my attention- she loves them.
Wonder what Ned is doing these days? Nice quote from him. Two more Cure favorites are In Between Days and A Forest. They were great when I saw them in 1990 but I have to wonder how good the live music is 33 years on.
Yes, the Nedman quote returns to me rather frequently. Usually when I’m doing anything to avoid marking student work! Which I generally detest!
I'm delighted how I'm never quite sure what you'll cover next! Lately your topics have really resonated that much more for me for some reason and so I enjoyed this one. I'm not a huge Cure fan but I do enjoy a number of their songs. Side note: one of the silliest and funniest things I've heard on the radio is when XTC's Andy Partridge was a guest on a Los Angeles radio show back in the late 80s/early 90s and Andy pokes fun at poor Robert Smith.
Glad you’re enjoying the topics - they’re truly random. I mean, they’re always ones I find interesting, but until the issue is published I’m never 100% sure what it’s going to be. I’ve got a pretty detailed road map in my notebook (!) and always the next six issues planned out on a whiteboard in my study - but the marker is so easily changed!
Love the shoutout to Mr. Steadman. Teachers at all levels were probably the most influential people in my life.
Steadman was brilliant- and very cool. I got to teach English at my high school for a while and so knew him as a colleague, too. In 2000 (?) when the school system realised they had to get Napster off the computers, the Physics teacher and I spent a workday in the lab downloading as much as we could - literally working as fast as could before the IT person’s immanent arrival. Steadman walked in, saw what we were doing and came over. We knew he was going to say something about us not doing work, but instead he sat down at a desk, took out pen and paper and started making a list of albums he wanted. I think Canned Heat was at the top!
That’s a fantastic story! And I love that you had the opportunity to be a colleague after he was so influential as a teacher. That inspires me to find my favorite teachers and let them know how much they meant—and still mean—to me. Thank you!