Aug 8, 2021 – Austere August. Day 8.
Happy Monday fellow wetshavers! Hope everyone is doing well heading into our second week of Austere August. I continue on my unscented, MMOC, with a new boar brush daily journey. Today’s shave went well. Once again, no nicks, not cuts, no fuss, and no muss. Built up a nice, slick lather and had a nice, smooth, unscented shave.
Every day the stank of the boar gets less and less. I’m starting to wonder if using an unscented soap is slowing down the unstankification of the new brush. Where if I was using scented soaps, the brush would pick up those scents and lose the wet pig scent faster. I suppose the only way to figure that out would be to break in the same boar brush again and this time use scented soaps. And while this journey has been fun, I think it’ll be a while before I go down this road again.
For today’s #sidetracked music selection, I’m going with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get. Few songs can bring me back to the late 90s like this one can. After I shared the band Lawrence’s music two days ago, I had it in my mind to share this one next. Both heavily feature brass instruments and are really upbeat. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are one of the many, many one-hit wonders the world has seen and I really have to wonder (no pun intended) what that is like. These guys started as a band in 1983, had this MASSIVE hit in 1997, then continued on for another 25 years without coming close the same mainstream success. Gotta be a weird feeling. When I searched for this song on youtube, I watched some (somewhat) recent live performances and the lead singer, Dicky Barrett, almost looks bored performing it. And I can’t say I blame him! Every show and festival they play, this is the one they close it down with, day after day, show after show, most of the people there know you for this one song. Gotta be really, really strange. In early 2022, the Bosstones finally hung it up and retired just shy of 40 years making music and dancing together. (Sidetracked-sidenote: They had a member of the band who's only job was to dance and he killed it. What a great gig that must've been!) Upon doing some limited research for this post, I saw that Dicky Barrett was also Jimmy Kimmel Live’s announcer from 2004-2022 and apparently a big anti-vaxxer, performing at a Defeat the Mandate rally earlier this year. It’s speculated it’s that stance that cost him his announcer job at Kimmel and caused the band to break up. No clue if that’s true or not. It’s probably not a bad thing though, they were probably all tired of playing this damn song over and over again, but what do I know... That’s just the impression that I get.
Tags: #unscented #rawhoggin #GEMsOfWisdom
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