Rain

Spent a week in the ICU a few years back, intubated, which messed up my voice and brought it down a bit. Not quite as low as that gentleman, but still lower than it was before. My (ex)wife HATED it for some reason - but other ladies LOVE it. Me, I thought it was amusing, so I went ahead and recorded a little poem by Baudelaire for fun.

The Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy

Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein

Alice Cooper - Teenage Lament '74

Lenny Kravitz - Black Velveteen

Sound Forge was one of my favorite pieces of software, back in the days of Sonic Foundry. The developers were very active on the web, and participated in the old Cakewalk newsgroup. I seem to remember a nice fellow named Peter Haller (?) - that may have been during the early Sony days, though. I kind of missed Sound Forge when I switched to Mac but when it was eventually ported, I 'd found an alternative, and did not really have a use for an audio editor all that much anyway. Glad I did not buy it because they seem to have discontinued that Mac version. Didn't know Acid still was being developped. As revolutionary as it was when it came out, with looping available in every DAW, I'm not sure what's its place in the current market. The advertised regular price tag seems beyond ridiculous.

Yeah, different type of environment. It was quite a shock for me when I started hanging out in places where DJ's had pre-established playlists from which they did not deviate much and were so focused on the BPM of their songs. Me I had to entertain people from 9-10 pm to 3 am, and I did that 4-5 nights a week, sometimes more. But you never knew what you were in for until the evening hit its stride. An evening might start with Django Reinhardt and end with Front Line Assembly. Really. The clientele was just that diverse, and although people did dance at times, it might to Violent Femme and Bob Marley one night and Ministry the next. The only thing you could be sure of is that at least one girl would ask for Closer, by Nine Inch Nails. Every night. For years.

Cheap Trick - Dream Police

On behalf of Steve: The Clash - Police and Thieves

Ministry - Thieves (lyrics "Inside, outside, which side, you don't know") It had been a while and I really felt like listening to it. A staple of my DJ days.

The Cure - A Man Inside My Mouth

Faith No More - Mouth to Mouth

Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby

Last night's picks. Both quite interesting.

For the first decade of the 2000's, I had a job as part of workforce management, and the last few years, for a company with an office in the US. That was my first glimpse at how big the Superbowl is. A lot of folks planned that months in adavance when they submitted vacation request for the year ahead. I was surprised to see how huge it was. Some were pretty blunt about it too, and they'd tell me that if their request for that Monday off was to be declined, they would call in sick. Although it was a really bad idea to be "sick" on that day, as it looked really suspicious.

Sorry your team lost, brother. I don't watch football but if I were to, I guess I would have rooted for the Eagles, being from the east coast up north and all.

Alice Cooper - Fresh Blood

Soundgarden - Fresh Tendrils

My work here is done. ?

I was tall and quite skinny, but I played rather nasty. I grew up admiring tough players like Terry O'Reilly and Cam Neely, so I guess I modelled myself after them a lot. I'd hit guys I would have never dared go up against in real life. I was lucky - not one tooth lost, not one stitch. My younger brother would come home with a concussion or missing teeth, and he played clean hockey - -but for some reason, I got through unarmed. I eventually broke my arm in a fall, but kept playing, because, hockey... Then I fell again and made it worse. That ended my hockey "career" - not being able to play guitar made the decision easy.

Sorry again, brother. No more hockey talk. I guess this time at least I had the right city, just not the right sport and decade.

This gorgeous b*st*rd agrees. In my book, that smile below IS hockey. Clarke is another one of my all-time favorites. Those mid 70's Flyers, man...

The Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs. I've been here for over 10 years but I've not figured out football yet. And this is by no mean intended to put off the sport, but all the celebrating on the field kind of turns me off. I'm not condemning it or anything, it's just not for me. I'm old and boring like that. It's not exclusive to football and it seems to be becoming more common in hockey, too. The game has become very exciting, the level of playing is phenomenal, but a lot of what goes on around the game is kind of cringey for an old dude like myself. I guess I'm just too set in my ways. My favorite hockey player of all time is Bobby Orr, and unless we're talking about a drought ending, Stanley cup winning goal, the man would typically just bow his head and exchange a few pats on the back with his teammates. That's more in line with my tastes. See, invite a Canadian to speak Superbowl and before you know it, he'll be talking about hockey. Sorry.

Of course, with the key words in the last one, I could potentially go on posting Priest songs all day. But I will spare you guys. For now.

Judas Priest - Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days