Posted on 09/20/2025 1:28:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Husband had a theory on how to slow down time. In a bored period, I put out a book proposal with an agent for a book on husband’s thoughts.
His idea was that when we live a life that is repetitious - when we park in the same place at the grocery, we come home at the same time to watch the same TV shows, and eat one of our standard meals - all those times merge together in our mind and seem like a single experience. Time flies as it skips over the sameness.
But when something startling happens, then we think back to each separate event clearly and that slows our perception of time.
So it was a book of 100 events that could be done by anyone any day that were so out of the ordinary that if you did one per day, your memory of the recent past would be so full of events that your sense of time passing would slow. A lot of the events were binding ones that pulled you closer to friends and relatives.
Husband is brilliant, bless his adorable heart!
It’s funny how time changes things.
I Fought the Law by the Clash is now a classic.
But it definitely wasn’t a hit, as this article describes it
It wasn’t even released in the US except as part of a bonus 7” single included with the second US release of a Clash album.
Actually, It's kind of the opposite. It was released on an EP in the U.K. in May 1979. In late July 1979, it was released as the A side. Supposedly it got them their first U.S. airplay, but I don't know about that.
It may be the second most known version of the song, but I don't think it's in the top 20 Clash songs you hear.
Where did you hear that?
There are several recorded variants of the song (Crickets and Bobby Fuller):
1. Robbing people with a zip gun...
2. Robbing people with a shot gun...
3. Robbing people with a six gun...
There’s another interesting question in the Crickets version. They sang...
“I miss my baby and uh good fun...”
But did he really sing “I miss my baby and uh good ****”?
Either way, it’s a great song, and the Crickets’ version was the best in my opinion.
RIP Sonny.
I was disappointed that the article puts the Clash version in instead of the BF4.
I was in the computer field and we had frequent meetings that lasted all day but felt like a day was made up of a week’s worth of minutes.
I used to record a lot of my life in music videos as memories. This was an all day meeting of the Common Lisp Working Group in IEEE, of which I was secretary. It goes thru an absolutely typical day meeting that starts with everyone bushy-tailed, still amusing around lunch time, and then gradually everyone slows down, fades, and they even fall asleep. Precious memories of precious people in 5 min rather than 480 min.
X3J13 Common Lisp - Jun 1989 - San Jose - Joseph Blanchard
https://youtu.be/VvU3pJbZBj0
Yes Cost of Living EP.
Never released in US. US dint release EP’s like in Britain.
You’re saying the single that was included in the second US Clash album release was released as a single on its own also. That’s probably true, but it got no airplay, no chart.
My point is now it’s well known enough that people think it charted or was a “hit” as this article says.
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It’s on the CD I have in the car at this very moment
I’m a little jealous that you still have a CD player in your car.
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