December 13th, 2025

A bit of a crisis of identity last night, and some rough dreams following, has me thinking a lot about how I’m approaching things these days. Thoughts of change swirling around in my brain all day and I started a list of areas where I want to make some changes. I’ll tackle it one item at a time. Change can be (is) hard and no need to sabotage the whole enterprise with trying too many changes at once.

Holiday catalogs seem to be making a bit of a comeback. Nothing says being a kid in the 1970s/80s like getting the Sears Wish Book or the JC Penney Christmas catalog in the mail and spending days looking through it, lusting after all of the toys. Even into the 90s these catalogs were gigantic, 500-600 pages of stuff.

You want to see one right? Ask and ye shall receive.

I’ve got to say that I’m really becoming a fan of Sabrina Carpenter. She really pulled me in with the Shania Twain covers and the bit of her show bringing Earth, Wind, and Fire on-stage at Lollapalooza. The Twain covers are dead on. Really good stuff.

Same goes for Olivia Rodrigo. Her appearance at Glastonbury bringing Robert Smith from The Cure on-stage was something I never expected to see. Also really good stuff.

I found some of the stuff on the BBC Music YouTube channel. There is some really good content there. Including this Nat King Cole cover from Teddy Swims:

The strings in that are just so unbelievably lush. Really makes me think back to the 1950s and 60s recordings.