This Moment in Pod will tell you the life story of a man who's at loggerheads with his past all the time

Two stories about the same thing.

Number one - A while ago I wrote about having come across a posting of a batch of cover versions of "The Weight." One of these covers led me to say this: "I've never known that The Staple Singers did a cover of 'The Weight.'" As I was going through my cd's, I discover that I own a copy of "The Best of the Staple Singers" (US, UK) "The Weight" is track number six.

Number two - For the last couple of months, I've been debating getting the new Deluxe Edition release of "The La's" (US, UK) One of the reasons I've been wanting to get this is because I've never gotten around to picking up a copy of it and so long as I'm starting fresh, I might as well go whole hog. A week ago, I found a cdr that had the whole album in mp3 format. Then I found a homemade CD that I burnt of it. Then I found the cassette release of the album that I must have purchased, ripped to my computer and used to make the CD and the mp3s with. And then totally forgot. I've just listened to the album - the whole thing is really familiar. I suspect that I was listening to this a lot for a while and then somehow blanked on the whole thing.

I suppose the silver lining is that I get to discover it twice!