I got a message from Jordy tonight about the new Mark Olson/Gary Louris record, Ready for the Flood. He was enjoying "Bicycle." It's pretty great that these guys are making records after so long apart. That leads me to something I've been thinking about lately.

I recently found out that the Jayhawks record, Tomorrow the Green Grass, came out in 1995, not 1993 or '94. This is a pretty crazy revelation for me, as I've felt really behind the times all my life. Of course that's what I get for judging my life based on pop culture. I mesure every moment in my life by the records that I was enjoying at the time. Who's Next dominates my sophmore high school memories, Nebraska is forever tied to a trip I took to Michigan in 1998 and memories of listening to With the Beatles are the only good thing I remember about 6th grade.

So now that I can't remember when a record came out, does that reinforce the fact that I use music to escape, or is it just an anomoly. The reason that this is so bothersome is that I always felt like I was playing catch up when it came to music, and very few bands in my life have released new material after I liked them. Oh well, I'll continue to think about what this means and maybe write some more about it later.