Oh, by the way...

Oh, by the way, tonight i begin listening to Pink Floyd's Oh, By The Way. It's their 2007 boxed set, so it doesn't have The Endless River. Maybe i'll listen to that one at the end, maybe i won't. Depends on how the story unfolds.

The real question is do i point you to the three albums i've already listened to and discussed? Do i pretend they never happened? Do i revise them to better suit my current place in the universe? Perhaps i simply give you the option to read them if you wish. I like that.

https://albumsforeternity.blogspot.com/2020/04/pink-floyd-dark-side-of-moon.html?m=1

That link will take you to my Dark Side Of The Moon essay, and you can click "next" to read about the tan album, then "next" again to read my long ago thoughts on Syd Barret's Pink Floyd. Or not. I'm not the boss of anybody.

We're currently in the midst of the second wave of a coronavirus pandemic, there's a heavy duty fascist uprising taking place, people are tired of hearing about how horrible they make each other feel by not caring about how they feel, and i'm in the mood to remind you that the day before Trump was elected president i publicly said i was high tailing it to the bottle of beef bunker to make some music and wake up the next day to whatever ridiculous ridiculousness would happen if we elected him to be president. It was like bizarro Christmas where everyone was thrilled that Aunt Karen got drunk and microwaved Timmy's hamster 'cause that meant they were free to just scream at each other like unsupervised children. Trump is a useless moron, and the fact that any human on the planet follows his lead is proof positive that we shouldn't be a country any more (why am i thinking of Neil Young right now?). He was elected president to accomplish exactly what you are watching the world be at this very moment, and he's done such a good job he just might get reelected. I have a conspiracy theory. He was elected to win the civil war the other way around this time. That's just my loudmouthed opinion. I've been promised an actual surprise fathers day gift tomorrow, and i'd prefer you didn't explode us into space in the middle of the night.

Deja vu all over again. Down the escalator we go. Let's skip the formalities and get down to what we're for. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. It's perfect. It's alternatingly silly and underwear soilingly frightening (that's a mouthful of a sentence right there). Enjoy along with me, my friends. All the sides of the moon get alternating sunlight and darkness, space cadets ahoy!

Saucerful

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