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Song of the Day #1,497: ‘Seven Devils’ – Florence + The Machine

I’ve spent the week looking back on the summer through the prism of sports, television, movies and song, so it’s only fitting that I should close things out with a discussion of the written word.

I suppose the official book of the summer would be Fifty Shades of Grey (along with its sequels) but I have no time for glorified Twilight fan fiction. Another much-hyped book, Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, has received much higher praise (including from my wife, who read it in about two days), and I definitely plan to read that one.

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Song of the Day #1,496: ”Til Kingdom Come’ – Coldplay

I used to write regular movie reviews on this blog. In fact, as recently as 2010, I wrote a review of every movie I saw both in the theater and on DVD.

But I find it difficult and time-consuming to write movie reviews, and given the daily responsibility of my Song of the Day posts, I just couldn’t keep up the pace and managed to write only a couple of them in 2011. This year I’ve yet to write about a movie.

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Song of the Day #1,495: ‘Call Me Maybe’ – Carly Rae Jepsen

For the past two years, I’ve spent a couple of weeks presenting each year’s “songs of the summer” — those inescapable, feel-good tracks dominating TV and radio airplay.

Inherent in my singling out those songs in July or August was the chauvinistic assumption that none of those songs would show up on my year-end best songs lists.

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Song of the Day #1,494: ‘Outside’ – Childish Gambino

Next up in this week’s summer catch-up are some thoughts on the 2012 Emmy nominations.

I’ve chosen a track from Childish Gambino’s 2011 album Camp as my accompaniment because Gambino is the alter ego of actor Donald Glover, an actor on NBC’s Community, one of the shows I believe was wrongly shut out of the major nominations.

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Song of the Day #1,493: ‘Boys’ – Sabrina

I’ve been doing theme weeks of one sort or another for months now. In fact, I just checked and the last non-theme weekday song I posted was on March 2. I figured I’d spend this week on a handful of unrelated songs for a change.

But as I started compiling the tracks, I wound up stumbling upon a theme (of sorts) anyway. This week I’ll be looking back on the summer from various angles, using these songs as entry points.

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