Friday Random Ten - The "I Am the Antithesis of a Music Snob" Edition

Paul Van Dyk - Avenue
Bing Crosby & Al Jolson - Alexander's Ragtime Band
Everclear - Here We Go Again
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
Collective Soul - Breathe
The Cranberries - Yeat's Grave
Paul Van Dyk - We Are Alive
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Pat Benatar - Fire and Ice
Concrete Blonde - I Call It Love

This isn't to say, of course, that I have no appreciation for or understanding of the arguments made in favor of music snobbery. As a former Theatre Brat, I understand that every art form must have it's gate-keepers, and I am grateful that those monitors exist, as they help prevent art from becoming nothing but an endless parade of Brittany Spears and Jerry Bruckheimer.

That being said, I cannot bring myself to be a music snob.

For me, music is not an intellectual experience. Quite the contrary. It is pure emotion and childlike naïveté and carpe diem infused bliss.

So, I thank the music snobs for aiding in the creation of a more quality-based musical universe, but I cannot join their ranks.

I simply haven't the discipline.

1,001 words . . . .

Si, se puede!

Pretty stark contrast, eh?

Friday Random Ten - The Inaugural Edition

Never one to pass up a good trend, and in honor of my finally having joined the rest of the 21st century via the very belated acquisition of an iPod nano, I bring you the inaugural edition of this blog's Friday Random Ten:

Heart - White Lightning & Wine
Sinead O'Connor - Black Boys on Mopeds
Everclear - Wonderful
Violent Femmes - Out of The Window
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
The Cranberries - Empty
Depeche Mode - Rush
The Bravery - Give In
Beth Hart - L.A. Song

Question of the day

"If a fly falls in the Holy Water is the Holy Water contaminated or the fly sacred?"
----a philosophy professor in Texas

Now give me my sticker

I just got back from my local polling place.

No, I am not going to tell you who I voted for; this is not that sort of blog (or, at least, it is not today).

I will say this much. I was surprised at the number of people I saw. Admittedly, there was no line, but that had more to do with the efficiency of the local poll workers than with anything else. There was a moderate, but steady stream the entire time I was there, and from what the poll workers told me, that is the way that it was all day.

Not the norm in Presidential primaries up here.

It's nice to matter.