call rodney harrison; we're going to war!!

you knew they'd only sit and wait for so long before they pulled something like this. glasnost my ass!!

those commie bastards have fired the first shot. give back the ring and we'll only blow up st. petersburg, you drunken swine.

good stuff! 6/20 edition...

...and all is well. so things are still rolling. we've gone over the 20-hit mark (well, including double posts and other minutiae, but who's splitting hairs?), and what makes me so excited about the potential of this question is you really can't argue it. of course, rush doesn't seem to be a popular choice, but dammit, this is america. canadian bands need to be represented here as well! and, as always, keep the ideas rolling. keep us fresh, tell us your feelings on good music - keep discourse alive!

keep it coming, kids, we're officially crossing blogs! check out my friend erin's blog, which is moving officially into the "desert island" realm. and keep the ROCK LIST going below...

mahalo!

forget the desert island, this is for ALL the marbles.

since i love music so much, i'm constantly bringing up the classic bar conversation, "if you were stranded on a desert island and could bring five CDs with you to listen to, what would they be?". it always brings interesting people to the table, and there's constant debate over the choices (even if it is purely personal, and bound to change by the number of drinks you've consumed).

well, i'm sending the question to the masses, but with one giant caveat: i want to know the five greatest ROCK albums of all time. by rock i mean you can include seattle, include the early 80's punk scene, add the british invasions of both the '60s and '80s. add metal, add the rock/rap shit if you think it belongs.

to light this candle, here's what post and i came up with today while we were supposed to be working (note: this is in no particular order, which is kind of a cop out):

rush - moving pictures
led zeppelin - III
the beatles - abbey road
the jimi hendrix experience - axis: bold as love
guns n' roses - appetite for destruction

now go squabble! this list is going to be decimated, as it should, but that's why it was posted: for dialogue on great music. voice your opinion, this is america, dammit!

TWO WEEKS... addendum

...yesterday, at approximately 12:15pm, the sun returned, and suddenly everything has life again. there's something to this, i tell you. now that the sun's back (and yeah, that means bugs, but i'll take 'em), people's outlook has shifted from internal to external, and there's sharing going on again, and folks are de-cocooning. it's a beautiful sight.

mahalo.

TWO WEEKS...

...since we've seen the sun up here in the Valley. we're all on suicide watch. 24-hour monitoring, because anyone's a candidate to pull the trigger. so i'll use this as a valve, to let off some pressure, and it's nice, because i really don't give a shit if anyone sees this, because this is just great self-therapy. get what you want out, and if someone sees it, and agrees, disagrees, is apathetic to it, whatever, i can walk away feeling like i've left whatever i was feeling behind.

however, there's nothing you can do for your psyche when you haven't seen the sun in 14 or so days. and an hour here and there just doesn't do anything but whet the appetite. i've heard some people are content with going to the tanning both so they can "feel like they've been in the sun"; apparently, that helps. well, have fun there without me (apologies to a friend who told me it's helpful, but i'll stay out in the clouds letting my skin turn the color of paste rather than get in one of those fucking pods).

this has all been like some great purging — when the weather breaks, and everything's back to "normal", we'll go on like nothing happened, but look around here: people have been affected by this. see if people don't react more sharply than they normally would... push a button and see if someone doesn't lash out.

i don't know. but i do know i'd sure like to wear sunglasses again.