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Dies Irae is AWESOME. I love random discoveries that turn out to be magical pots of gold. Progressive metal with death vocals (and some non-death vocals) and just a whole pile of what I did NOT expect when I initially snagged it. Surprises ROCK. Awww, nevermind. Karma has returned to bite me in the ass [...]

Note to self: determine how long an album is before you decide to take a walk and only turn around when you’re finished with side one. The walking tape today? Anthrax’s Persistence of Time. The length of this album? 60 minutes, 24 seconds. Time I left my house: 8pm Length of time it takes to [...]

I’ve been bitching and bitching for the last god knows how many months about how my stereo can only pick up a couple of local stations because we live behind a bluff. Well, I finally did something intelligent: I went and took the wire FM antenna off my home theater in the living room (cuz [...]

So while I spent 2+ hours burning cds, well, the house is empty… MUST HAVE TUNES. For some reason, digging around my CDs didn’t sound like fun, so I busted out the vinyl. I listened to Van Halen – 1984, Prince – 1999 (wow, didn’t notice that whole year thing, that’s kinda silly), and Madonna’s [...]

There are a lot of interesting reasons why I have purchased certain CDs in my lifetime. And there are also a lot of boring ass reasons (I heard “Alive” by Pearl Jam so I bought the CD… snore). Luckily, when your collection is around 900 actual purchased discs, the good stories amount to quite a [...]

I’m listening to Snake River Conspiracy, which I got from Bill, and I come upon track 4, “You and Your Friend.” This is a very silly song with lyrics as such: In my dreams I can see us in a tight embrace Doin’ all the things that we never really dare I think I’m in [...]