The Hammock Papers: Styx

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30 January 2026

Styx, "Borrowed Time"

Lowenbrau pitchers are the lunch special ...

01 December 2024

Released.

Styx released Equinox on this day in 1975.

"Light Up"...

Order an extra side of ranch with your chicken nachos.

19 October 2024

Released.

Styx released Cornerstone on this day in 1979.

"Borrowed Time" ...

01 October 2023

Released.

Styx released Crystal Ball on this day in 1976.

"Mademoiselle" ...

07 July 2023

Released.

Styx released The Grand Illusion on this day in 1977.

"Miss America" ...

18 February 2023

Happy Birthday, DeYoung

Dennis DeYoung was born on this day in 1947.

"Borrowed Time" with Styx, back when Olivia Newton-John was in the band ...

11 September 2022

08 September 2022

Released.

Styx released Pieces of Eight on this day in 1978.

"Great White Hope," when Olivia Newton John was in the band ...

07 July 2022

Released.

Styx released The Grand Illusion on this day in 1977.

"Miss America", featuring Olivia Newton John on guitar and backing vocals ...

19 February 2022

Five.

Chicken nachos are on special and it's always five plays for a dollar on the jukebox.

Elton John, "Grow Some Funk of Your Own"

Styx, "Lorelei"

Sweet, "Action"

Linda Ronstadt, "Tracks of My Tears"

Earth Wind & Fire, "Sing a Song"

06 May 2021

"Hang care!" exclaimed he. "This is a delicious evening; the wine has a finer relish here than in the house, and the song is more exciting and melodious under the tranquil sky than in the close room, where the sound is stifled. Come, let us have a bacchanalian chant—let us, with old Sir Toby, make the welkin dance and rouse the night-owl with a catch! I am right merry. Pass the bottle, and tune your voices—a catch, a catch! The lights will be here anon."

Charles Ollier, from "The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington"

Styx, "Borrowed Time" ...

The euphony transformed me and inundated my soul in a roguish countenance, the likes of which I had know well in younger days. Such impishness soon drove out the complaints of the day.

Umberto Limongiello

01 April 2021

Styx, "Fooling Yourself"

With a rare appearance of Olivia Newton-John on lead vocals ...

28 November 2020

Styx, "I'm O.K."

DEVIL OUT!

14 November 2020

Happy Birthday, Young

James Young was born on this day in 1949.

"Miss America" ...

16 October 2018

Styx, "Miss America"

01 December 2016

Today.

1975.

"Light Up," the perfect song for putting up Christmas lights ...

01 October 2016

Today.

1976.

"Mademoiselle," featuring Princess Leia on lead vocals ...

05 September 2016

Styx, "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)"

I guess this is from the days when Olivia Newton-John was in the band ...

05 February 2016

Styx, "Mademoiselle"

Happy Friday!

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."