The Saturday List - October 11, 2025

What I'm Watching, Reading, Listening to, and Rediscovering

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Watching:

Joel Bauer is quite the legend in online marketing. His website, JoelBauer.com, will show you the sort of thing he can do if you’re interested…but that’s not what we’re watching today.

Today, it is, quite simply, The Best How To Pack A Suitcase Video Ever.

Please, invest 21 minutes in watching this. Thank me later.

(Yes, the video is old. Who cares? Joel is the guru’s guru. Hear him out.)

Reading: Rolling Stone, ‘The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far’

After last week’s music-only edition, this article from Rolling Stone magazine was a pleasant surprise, maybe mostly for the internal debates it started. (None of my Top Ten for the 2010s or the 2020s are on this list.)

And I think I have pretty decent music knowledge, but…well, I guess mine pales in comparison to the RS team. Especially the bottom half of this list, like 150 on down to 250, with a lot of artists I’ve never heard of.

Warning: it will take a long time to get through it. Or you can scroll all the way to the Top 5 and…start really wondering who the voters are. (2 of the Top 5, IMHO, are classics but…in 50 years, will they be remembered? Let the debates begin!)

(Click here or on the image above to get the full post.)

Listening To: Constantines

I decided to focus on one of my all-time favorite unsung bands today: Constantines, a Canadian alt-rock group that had some success in the mid-2000s in Canada, but never quite crossed over into mainstream success.

Who cares? The band delivered. A couple examples:

“Working Full-Time” is (again, here’s Dave with his superlatives) one of the Top Ten Songs of All-Time. (At least it was in my take here: Area 224 Top Songs All-Time.) The stop-motion animation is timeless and cool — while looking like a 70s throwback — and you may hear influences from The Who in the song.

Also, here’s Constantines playing in Toronto’s legendary Massey Hall. Great 30-minute spend of time, this video.

Lead singer Bryan Webb is making the rounds in the Canadian folk/rock circles these days, performing solo shows as Bry Webb. You can find him on Instagram as mrbrywebb.

Rediscovering: Jerry Seinfeld, Interviewed by Harvard Business Review (2017)

If you’ve never read it, you’re in for a treat. And it won’t take you very long. Here’s an excerpt:

Full article here: Seinfeld HBR.

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