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Yes, we had the good fortune to celebrate Visitor Blim’s birthday at the mega-posh Zone Duxbury locale. Moreover it marked the 49 day countdown to BSMXIII.
Three Full Circles at the Olympic Standard were spun, and a short fourth to conclude.
Set List:
I
Opium 5:45 Dead Can Dance
Wintertime Love (New Stereo Mix) 1:57 The Doors
The Writ 8:46 Black Sabbath
I Take Comfort in Your Ignorance (Tycho Remix) 5:47 Ulrich Schnauss
Agape 6:54 Dead Can Dance
Quand Vas Tu Rentrer 4:21 Melody’s Echo Chamber
Bhairveen (Raag of the Morning.) 5:11 Igbal Jogi & Party
Trees and Flowers 4:01 Dum Dum Girls
II
Saltwater 4:09 Isidore
If (2011 – Remaster) 4:31 Pink Floyd
Under The Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes 5:51 Black Sabbath
Reply (Vitaminsforyou Remix) 4:36 Madrid
Vessel 4:42 Zola Jesus
A Forest 3:21 Bat for Lashes
Onomatopoeia 5:20 Max Roach
If Not For You 3:34 George Harrison
III
Rollercoaster 4:18 Red House Painters
Turquoise 3:29 Donovan
The Meditant (Dialogue With the Stars) 10:14 Blut Aus Nord
Elephant (Canyons Wooly Mammoth remix) 7:20 Tame Impala
Hag 6:28 Storm Corrosion
Going To California 3:32 Led Zeppelin
Sit Down If You Can 5:13 Elwood Haygood With The Campbell Brothers
The Mistress of the Night Terrors 4:05 The Midsummer Nightmare Ensemble
IV
P.S.Y. 12:12 Butthole Surfers
Swamp Thing 5:58 The Chameleons
Return of the She-King 7:51 Dead Can Dance
Like a Ghost in Your Own Life 5:49 Ulrich Schnauss
pretty nice, right?


Wow, what an event. Three complete Olympic rounds of the circle. And if memory serves me correctly, all up dance rounds were “haverhast” rounds! A most grand birthday celebration for the host. Many thanks.
HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY TO VISITOR BLIM!!
(looks like a was great Circle Game!)
Indeed, a happy birthday to Visitor Blim. And a thank you for being a frequent contirbutor to the ever expansive Circles. The playlist reveals some tremendous depth, a real heroic undertaking. But as ever, for the Good Times, it is worth it. In the Circle, we are always young and strong.
RE: The timeline of BSM Events. Is there a place called Cronin’s in Quincy, or is that the Plymouth bar? I remember being in a bar in Quincy with Janice once or twice, but these may have been some other celebration days. And the Starbucks notation – I rememebr being a bit disoriented by the stop there. It seemed an odd fit with the spirit of the day, and as I was already pretty fucked up and never ordered anything in Starbuck’s before, but knew there was some complicated nonsense one had to engage in to do so, I dutifully took a spot in line as The Host headed straight for the bathroom. There was a lethargic, dare I say even deathly silence in there, made all the more apparent by having come from the raucous Kia and its rolling Good Times. The Host emerged from the bathroom, a glean of determination breaking through the Club Gear and declared to me in line, “I will not be purchasing anything here.” With that, vitality and focus were restored, and a spirit of mayhem in the tradition of Bryant Evans (and later, Tech Support) took over. I probably loudly cursed the satisfied comfort of the patrons within and restrained my impulse to start smashing windows in the parking lot. Not certain, but my sense is that some more self-righteous condemnations ensued, likely well into Plymouth, fueled by the music and The Good Times.
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Ah yes, Cronins, a well travelled place by many on this list. But, to my reckoning, never an official part of BSM. Certainly a place for Keno and great chicken parm subs, and … possibly a late day stop for one of the first OFFICIAL BSMs, but I do doubt it. Brother Jerome may be thinking of “The Galway” in Plymouth where we stopped one or three times.
As for the Starbucks episode, you describe it perfectly, other than if Tech Support were with us, we would’ve been in the Caravan.
So begs the question … why Starbucks? Of late, even WF asks and he even proposes providing nips or something.
I say yes to Starbucks. It’s a good stop to piss early in the programme and get people really pumped for whats going on. It’s like: this is really happening, and yes we got the whole day ahead doing just exactly this.
45 days …
oh wait .. 44
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I can’t *&%*!*# wait for BSM XIII!