Thursday

Thursday is for the professionals. Charlie Warzel writes the story about The Sphere, and this is the story you want to read if you want to experience The Sphere without being there. The next pro is an author who writes a wonderful poem about his daughter, and his description of the poem is as good as the poem! Movies from the 90s and a song from a movie in the 80s to finish up.

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Galaxy Brain is a newsletter written by Charlie Warzel for The Atlantic. It is a newsletter about technology, media, politics, and big ideas. We love big ideas, and today, Warzel gave us his take on The Sphere in Las Vegas. I have highlighted several stories about The Sphere, highlighted podcasts that interview U2 and how they created the opening residency this fall and included pictures from all over the place, even one from the plane I was in for a connecting flight that went through Vegas.

There is a big difference between my tiny little newsletter filled with reflections, commentary, and other story highlights and a fully thought out and exceptionally written piece by a professional journalist like Warzel. The story reads like a short novel and brings you into the middle of The Sphere; you can see it through his words, hear it, and understand it through his use of associations and analogies.

Reading a great writer is the same as listening to The Edge play Two Hearts Beat As One and rushing out to buy a guitar and amp – something I did in 1984. Ultimately, I made it a little further with the writing than with the guitar, but there's always tomorrow.

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Here is a quote from the author of Far Away, a poem about loss. Matt W. Miller wrote the poem, please click the links to see it on the poem-a-day website. I am highlighting Miller's commentary on his poem; his description of the piece has as many heart-felt lines as the poem itself. I have been fortunate to have loved people, blessed that some people have loved me, and I have also experienced many great losses. In every case of loss, I am grateful for my time with each of them.

Quote from Matt W. Miller

Another list of curiosities, and this list is all about your favorite movies from the 90s. A Guns-N-Roses song in Wayne's World instead of Bohemian Rhapsody? Matt Damon made an impression on Denzel Washington in Courage Under Fire. Rob Reiner did his best to make life for James Caan on the Misery set, well, miserable. Rosie Perez is starstruck by Alex Trebek and a dragon resembling Sean Connery. 

Staying with the movies, there is a song in Ferris Bueller's Day Off by an obscure electronic band called The Flowerpot Men. Director John Hughes, who put together some of the best soundtracks for his movies, found this gem, and I have been searching for it for years. It finally popped up on my Spotify feed; it is now on several playlists and is the day's tune. If you can’t remember the song, watch this:

Beat City.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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