Category: Music & Arts

  • If I had $1,000,000

    04 Oct 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    Ordinarily, I have a phenomenal memory for songs and can associate them with very specific activities when I first heard them. It’s uncanny and often quite eerie. Tonight I heard, for the second time in my life, The Barenaked Ladies “If I had $1,000,000”. I knew all of the lines, which is not unusual for…

  • Freebird

    02 Oct 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    Yes, ladies and gentlemen, here I am, lead air-drummer for Lynard Skynard (ah-ha! I corrected the spelling before strausmouse‘s head exploded) Lynryd Skynyrd, air-drumming my way through the best part of “Freebird”. Nice way to close out a lazy weekend with a burst of what energy I had left.

  • Ring of Laughter

    12 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    Thanks to kevnyc and strausmouse, I found myself cracking up on the Metro this morning while I came into work. Last week I’d been talking about how I wanted to pick up some more punk for my music collection. Kevin and Eric both made some recommendation, in particular, Social Distortion’s self-titled album. But they both…

  • The Greatest Music Video Ever?

    08 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    Okay, maybe not the greatest, but one of the funniest I’ve ever seen. David Hasselholf has taken a page out of William Shatner’s book when it comes to making fun of himeself with his lastest video, “Jump In My Car”. Check it out!

  • Ring of fire

    08 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    I’m finally getting around to listening the new Bob Dylan album and thank god! The girl outside my office has a cell phone with a ring tone for “Ring of Fire” and it goes off when she’s not sitting there and the song has gotten into my head to the point where I am humming…

  • The Dutchess of York has an album!?

    08 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    When I first saw that Fergie was coming out with an album called Dutchess on September 19, my first thought was are you kidding me? First Weight Watchers, and now a record deal? I didn’t even know she could sing! Of course, once I read the press release, I realized my mistake. Still…

  • Modern Times

    06 Sep 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    Like the rest of America, it would seem, I just bought Bob Dylan’s new album, Modern TImes. It’s the first Dylan album I’ve ever bought and the purchase was highly influenced by Trevor, who seems to think Bob Dylan is the best thing since sliced bread. I had to see what all of the fuss…

  • On an island

    31 Aug 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    On a whim, and for no real reason, I bought David Gilmour’s latest album, On an Island, this evening from the Apple Music store. I’m listening to it now and it’s pretty good. A good album to listen to if you are feeling mellow.

  • Best of Metallica

    27 Aug 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    It is almost pointless to do a “best of” list for Metallica because all of their stuff before the Black Album is so good, you could almost say that their first four albums and EP are their “best of” list. But I was listening to Metallica on the way to the book store yesterday, and…

  • Easy like a Sunday morning

    27 Aug 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    I was in a musical mood when I woke up this morning. So I wandered my mouse over to the Apple Music Store and purchased a couple of new albums: Reggatta de Blanc by The Police (adding to my growing Police collection) How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb by U2 (the first U2 album I…

  • In the department of “too much information”, Part Deux

    25 Aug 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    I just did my best ever rendition of Lars Ulrich, air-drumming to Metallica’s “Breadfan”. And keeping with the Lars tradition, I was wearing nothing but my boxers. And now my arms feel like they are going to fall off! But I can’t resist: I’ve got to follow this up with an encore of “Whiplash”!

  • More Metallica

    25 Aug 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    strausmouse will hate this, but I just bought Metallica’s Garage, Inc. off the Apple Music Store. Most everything I’ve heard by Metallica after the Black Album is Just No Good. However, I discovered the “disc 2” of Garage, Inc. is, in fact, Garage Days Revisited and that’s the one early album that I don’t have.…