Five Song Friday: A Message from the Future
This Week: Hobo Hangouts, Bombast & Hullabaloo and a Mouthful of Fist
I have nothing but good news about the next 12 months.
Thanks to a recent out-of-body experience after taking nighttime cold medicine and falling asleep to reruns of Forensic Files, I can tell you all about the future.
I saw it with my own eyes and, boy oh boy, are you going to love 2024!
First of all, 40 countries will hold major elections this year. Forty!
This is a good thing because politics is a unifying force that always brings out the best in people. Voting is how people respectfully showcase their individuality, much as it is with football teams, guns and abortion.
Hardly anything bad happens when people are inspired to go to the polls and exercise their freedom of choice. Especially in exciting places like Russia, Pakistan, Rwanda and Bangladesh!
Trust me on this, everything will work out and NOTHING weird will happen!
Second, Hollywood is back in business and ready to give you more of the stuff you love!
If you long for the warm embrace of the safe and familiar like I do, it will feel like Christmas all year because studios are going to smash the “reheat” button on their microwave movie machines in 2024.
Keep an eye out for reboots and sequels of Dune, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Godzilla, King Kong, The Fall Guy, Mad Max, Garfield, Planet of the Apes, Beetlejuice, Transformers, Karate Kid and Spiderman!
Did someone order a prolonged Eighties pre-teen fever dream… with a side of AWESOME? Because your order is UP!
And if you thought 2023 was hot, 2024 is going to be like, “hold my beer.”
“Hold my beer while I melt your face.”
“Hold my beer while I slow cook Scandinavia.”
“Hold my beer while I set the Earth on fire.”
How hot is it going to be in 2024? Literally the HOTTEST it has ever been in the history of recorded time.
For real, we are ALL going to be the HOTTEST people alive in 2024.
Suck on that, Patrick Dempsey!
And finally, there will be no shortage of surprises in 2024!
I’m not going to ruin any of them because I have a firm no-spoiler policy.
But let’s just say that there will be lots of things that make you go HMMMM.
Plenty that make you go OH MY GOODNESS.
And more than a few that make you go YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME.
So take your seat and buckle up buttercup, 2024 is about to begin.
See you next year!
Sincerely,
DJ CrankyPete
Five Song Friday 095
“New Best Thing” - KOYOTIE
Hey 2023. We’ve had some really great times these last 12 months, but it’s time for me to move on. We both knew it wasn’t going to last forever, so I don’t want you to be sad. I’ll keep all of our pictures collected in a Google Photos album. Anytime I miss you, I can look back at all of our appointments and emails thanks to Gmail and my Google calendar. Amazon will show me a list of all the purchases we made together. Technology will keep you alive forever in my heart. I’m sorry you have to die, but I am hoping at least that you can be happy for me. Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are introducing me to someone new in a couple days. It’s been real. I’ll never forget you!
“Steely Dad” - Drug Cabin
It wasn’t exactly a “drug cabin” but I remember this overgrown brush fort in the woods behind my house. Some kids used it as a hangout and it was always littered with cigarette butts and busted bottles. There was an old mattress (I’m guessing they used for naps?). I only went during the day, when it looked like a sunlit hobo hangout. But I like to imagine at night it was lively with the sounds of teenagers making sweet and tangy tunes like this while puffing on ditch weed from crushed beer cans.
“Warhorse’” - Benefits
Times are tough all over and these British punks are going to give it to you straight. You want to hand out life advice about making good choices and living within your means? You want to promote the merits of Parliamentary policy and social reform? I wouldn’t say it to their face otherwise you might find yourself with a mouthful of fist.
“Miss Cindy” - The High Decibels
This song sounds and feels like a throwback in more ways than one. On “Miss Cindy,” The High Decibels blend hip-hop and the blues with not-so-serious subject matter to create 2008’s version of a 1988 rap jam. Not sure how I’ve missed these guys. I’ve got some catching up to do!
“So Sorry” - Clarke and the Himselfs
I’m old enough to remember when music videos were a really big deal. Back in the awkward old days, new videos got hyped all week on MTV and debuted to massive bombast and hullabaloo. Then something happened where videos just got really dumb and repetitive or they didn’t add anything to your appreciation of the song. But once in a while, a video comes along that makes a great song even better. Because it gives you a view of something you didn’t expect, delivered in a way you never saw coming.
Five Song Friday Year Two Playlist!
Technically I started this nonsense in February of 2022, so the real Year Two starts in a couple of months, but I decided to switch to an annual calendar because I said so that’s why. So here are all of the Five Song Friday songs from February 2023 to December 2023 in one place for your listening convenience and pleasure!
Listen to FSF Year Two Playlist
Still catching up? Listen to the Five Song Friday Year One Playlist.
“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson