March 14, 2021
As I sit down to bang out this week's power rankings, CBS is currently airing the Grammy awards (as Sunday Morning pointed out just a few times.) It being a music-centric episode, I present: The Ballad of Weaves #53: Part 1 I don't listen to music as much as I once did. I'm sure there are a lot of reasons... growing older chief among them . I can pinpoint going to graduate school as a major turning point away from my avocation of pop and indie music discovery. First and foremost, I attended Purdue which was not, and did not have, "a scene". Cincinnati did. Louisville did more so. I spent a summer in Austin, TX, which blows pretty much everyone else away in terms of scenedom. At Purdue, we got the occasional act touring college campuses that would play in our main auditorium. Which was also the place I had to proctor exams for a freshmen physics course that enrolled over 3000 students a semester. (I think I just got a twinge of PTSD writing that sentence.) Of the b...