Guitar Hero

 
I’m not one for video games, but this one is crazy addictive.  I can’t stop playing it.  I resented that fact for a while, but then I got to ’hard’ last night, and it finally turned into something cool.  Fun!  I was at a snowboard competition this weekend, and they had a Guitar Hero tent set up with two massive [...]

Velvet Underground Lyrics

“I’m gonna try to nullify my life…cause when the blood begins to flow…
And it shoots up the dropper’s neck…when I’m closin’ in on death…
Ah, you can’t help me, not you guys, or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk…
you can all go take a walk!  And I guess I just don’t know.
 
Heroin…be the [...]

Sixties Dichotomy

So I had a discussion tonight with my friend about sixties music.  Lucky for both of us, it was via text rather than in person, or else it probably would have been more of a brawl than a polite discussion where people take turns and treat each others’ opinions kindly. 
My list: Doors, Hendrix, Joplin, Velvet Underground, [...]

Dropkick Murphys, “For Boston”

“For Boston, for Boston, we sing our proud refrain!
For Boston, for Boston, ’tis wisdom’s earthly fame!
For here all are one and our hearts are true,
And the towers on the heights reach the heavens blue,
For Boston, for Boston, ’til the echoes ring again!
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For Boston, for Boston, thy glory is our own!
For Boston, for Boston, ’tis here [...]

Jim Morrison

What was it about this guy!?  Why was I not alive and dating him in 1965?   ”Wake up!  Wake up!  Wake up!”  He would be the quintessential man.  Sexy, artistic, philosophical, a little expatriotic, poetic, passionate, unfaithful, audacious, reckless, addicted.  (Sigh.)  Maybe in another lifetime….