https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog If Only No One Won... Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:24:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/2024-dfraas-dangerous-folk-rock-appeal-awards-fka-of-the-year/#comment-1317644 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:24:06 +0000 https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=3354#comment-1317644 […] Fingerpistol at ABGB — 7/20/25See last year’s 11th ranked show for the full “why I dig this band” recap, but “Two Dollar Words” never gets […]

]]> https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/of-the-year-2021/#comment-1317643 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:19:13 +0000 https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=2690#comment-1317643 […] LA Exes at Stubb’s — 11/8/2515Have wanted to see this band since their debut album ranked second on my 2021 list, and the opening slot for OK GO was a perfect way to do so. Bonus: We got upgraded to VIP/ADA seats […]

]]> https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/rediscovering-pavement/#comment-1317642 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:18:25 +0000 http://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=862#comment-1317642 […] Pavement at Levitation Fest — 9/28/25A Pavement reunion will never get old. I sorta wish the setlist had more “hits,” but can’t complain […]

]]> https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/of-the-year-2020/#comment-1317641 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:18:10 +0000 https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=2053#comment-1317641 […] year Stick, I consider this one the fourth album in the comeback record trilogy5 that started with 2020’s 7th ranked Pop Up Jim Bob. Still, I realize these subjective ranking exercises are silly and any new Jim Bob […]

]]> https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/thank-the-lord-its-the-pink-stones-musical/#comment-1317634 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:18:26 +0000 https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=3543#comment-1317634 […] aspects to the next level while still being its own unique thing. A record so good it inspired some flash fiction in the spaces between the songs. A lot of real sad groovies here. Bring on […]

]]> https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/lx-commentary-24-love-on-a-budget/#comment-1316876 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:42:26 +0000 https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=2612#comment-1316876 […] perfectly into Benji & L’s deep dive into the finances of their relationship in “Love on a Budget.” Later, “I’ve been working on my magical touch” has echoes of […]

]]> https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/lx-commentary-8-where-do-old-lovers-go/#comment-1316875 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:41:48 +0000 https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=2227#comment-1316875 […] Snuggle BunnyThe best song on the whole soundtrack by a country mile in my humble opinion, it also has the cleanest fit into the novel. “You used to kiss me and tell me I’m funny / now all you want to do is talk about money” slots perfectly into Benji & L’s deep dive into the finances of their relationship in “Love on a Budget.” Later, “I’ve been working on my magical touch” has echoes of Jessica’s penchant for magic tricks and would be a nice one-liner during the “let’s lay here in the dark together” bit that closes out “Where Do Old Lovers Go?“ […]

]]> https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/lbdg-commentary-32-and-then-i-wrote-a-song/#comment-1316784 Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:58:01 +0000 https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=3483#comment-1316784 […] chapter itself is a redux of chapter 32 with an older/wiser Local Boy taking the reins and pushing the previous daughter saving resolution […]

]]> https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/commentary-11-won-one/#comment-1316618 Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:34:03 +0000 http://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=30#comment-1316618 […] eleven […]

]]> https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/lx-commentary-23-so-much-better/#comment-1316467 Fri, 23 May 2025 02:14:56 +0000 https://blog.timelypersuasion.com/blog/?p=2606#comment-1316467 […] “Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…” is a callback to an opening of a chapter of L Extreme that calls back to the opening of a chapter from Timely Persuasion while also doing its own […]

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