Sunday Reads

 A film nobody will likely watch, Coda, won Best Picture tonight.

The Oscar ratings will continue to plummet, and celebrities making political statements don't do much to help matters.

However, there was this "highlight":

A little bit more:

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Obituary:  Drummer Taylor Hawkins, 50, died the other day in South America.  Rumor has it his heart was twice normal size.

Snip:

Born Oliver Taylor Hawkins in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1972, Hawkins was raised in Laguna Beach, California. He played in the small Southern California band Sylvia before landing his first major gig as a drummer for Canadian singer Sass Jordan.

Hawkins told The Associated Press in 2019 that his early drumming influences included Stewart Copeland of The Police, Roger Taylor from Queen, and Phil Collins, who he said was “one of my favorite drummers ever. You know, people forget that he was a great drummer as well as a sweater-wearing nice guy from the ’80s, poor fella.”

When he spent two years in the mid-1990s drumming for Morissette, he was inspired primarily by the playing of Jane’s Addiction’s Stephen Perkins.

“My drums were set up like him, the whole thing,” Hawkins told the AP. “I was still sort of a copycat at that point. It takes a while and takes a little while to sort of establish your own sort of style. I didn’t sound exactly like him, I sound like me, but he was a big, huge influence.”

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Of course Biden can cancel student loan debt.  This is from somebody who knows what he is talking about.

Biden is playing politics with this issue, and he needs to stop.

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