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Apr/2021
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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to be here. After just refreshing myself with my own blog’s history, and thus the numerous times I ‘get...
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Apr/2021
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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to be here. After just refreshing myself with my own blog’s history, and thus the numerous times I ‘get...
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Oct/2018
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Yep, I’ve finally completed yet another transmigration. Now that this blog is fully implemented on the 000-webhost site, I’ve also finished going through the whole...
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Aug/2018
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One nice thing about the numerous blog migrations is that I’ve been doing one of my favorite things - dancing down Memory Lane, re-remembering all...
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Jan/2015
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Yep - check the dates - exactly THREE MONTHS since I last posted in my revamped, revitalized blog that I swore would get me reinvigorated...
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Oct/2014
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So, a few months ago, I thought I would jump-start getting back into this music thing by moving on many fronts - updating my websites,...
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Sep/2014
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Again, taking a nod from Leo Babauta, I’ve been streamlining my online life. From separate accounts and separate emails to separate blogs and facebook accounts...
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Sep/2014
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Since my last post I’ve finally finished migrating all of my separate musical blogs to this spot. That leaves just a couple of housecleaning details...
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Jul/2014
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Migrating my posts from my old livejournal to this one by hand has been a very positive experience for me - reliving in semi-sorta-real-time the...
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Jul/2014
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Note - this is not (just) about the song, but this blog. I’ve started reposting my old content, and I’ll be putting most of my...
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Jul/2014
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It’s new, but it’s old. Since they charge you to change names, I though I would just start a new LiveJournal for my music blog....
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Jul/2014
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After a long and uneventful absence, I am back here. I’ve said it before, many times, so you have no reason to believe this will...
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May/2014
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First, something I read recently that struck me. From Zenhabits blogger Leo Babauta (post here): Build something small - Most people fritter their time away...
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Jan/2013
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(I just need to put something here so that the by-year index shows a 2013. The reality is that I didn’t blog a single thing...
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Dec/2011
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Look at the first post of this blog, and notice that it’s almost exactly two years ago, and I was saying exactly the same thing...
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Jan/2011
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… I’d have no luck at all, or so the old song goes. Maybe no luck would be the way to go, given my experiences...
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Jan/2010
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The previous post is probably not that big a surprise to anyone, as I always said my pseudonymous musical exploits were the worst-kept secret in...
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Aug/2008
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One of the benefits of a faith-based worldview is that you are immune to evidence. No matter how unavoidable the evidence is, no matter what...
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May/2008
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That’s right. Not ‘a’ holiday. THE Holiday. But at least I’m not sick like last time. So, if anyone wonders where I am the next...
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Jun/2007
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No, not meme-tagging. I finally finished tagging all of the entries in this journal. Now you can search through the blog for all my posts...
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Apr/2007
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As I finish the mixing of the Venom Tribute tracks and dig into the mixing on Bellum Aeternum, and in talking to people in the...
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Apr/2007
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In part 1 I showed how christians use the weasel word “christian band” to try to gain legitimacy for christians being able to make ‘christian...
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Apr/2007
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In Part 1, I showed how christians try to use the weasel term ‘christian band’ to sneak into the discussion with an air of legitimacy....
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Mar/2007
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As I’ve stated before, christian ‘metal’ does not exist. It’s as oxymoronic (and just plain moronic) as ‘jumbo shrimp’ or ‘military intelligence’ or whatever other...
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Jan/2007
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I figure since I missed my xmas-time post here I might as well quote from one of my favorite holiday movies. In fact, we’ve moved...
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Dec/2006
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… and a bunch of musings about different stuff. My affinity for Dire Straits has just been fed again. I got ANOTHER great gig from...
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Oct/2006
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This is another of my Dimeadozen haul items - another bootleg of Dire Straits from the Making Movies On Location tour, this one from their...
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Sep/2006
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Dire Straits - Live in San Remo 1981 Another of the bootlegs I got off of Dimeadozen, this one from one of Dire Straits’ first...
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Sep/2006
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I’m coming up on a lot of decade anniversaries now. Ten years ago was 1996, and some big things that were happening to and around...
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Sep/2006
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Dire Straits - Live in Chester, May 1978 This is one of the boots I grabbed off of Dimeadozen a few weeks ago. It’s a...
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Aug/2006
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DIRE STRAITS I feel like a kid on Christmas Morning again. If you’ve been following this blog or my musical exploits for any amount of...
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May/2006
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Things are great, mostly, but with a few shitty things. Our new son was born last week. Despite the thread title, he’s actually letting us...
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Dec/2005
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I was in the process of finally getting Crimson Frost updated and put into UHR’s website when I realized just how shitty it looked. And...
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Dec/2005
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It was exactly seven years ago today that I saw Death for the last time. Little did I know it would be the last time...
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Nov/2005
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##Show Review: Hellgoat, Quinta Essentia, Eyes of Ligeia (Hellgoat CD Release Party) Masquerade (Hell), Atlanta GA, Nov. 17, 2005 It was a pleasant convergence of...
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Nov/2005
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Still taking it in and formulating thoughts for a full review, which will come later. The show I’m referring to, of course, was last night’s...
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Nov/2005
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I guess something a bit more informational than historical is long overdue, because I’ve been getting no comments on anything. Odd, since I thought these...
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Oct/2005
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Back when I was a kid, first getting into music, I must have been 10 or 11 before I decided it was something I actually...
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Sep/2005
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For a change, vacation was disaster-free. A good time was had by all, we stayed as long as we planned, and our house didn’t leak....
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Sep/2005
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And after one week, how much of my list did I get done? updating the ADR webstore with about a month’s worth of new shit...
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Aug/2005
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… but it’s hard to take one step when you’ve still got 4,999,999 to go after that. It gets so big one says ‘why bother?...
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Jul/2005
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Just added some functionality when I saw how much crap I’ve put into my Live Journal here. I’ve started using the “Memories” function to highlight...
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Jul/2005
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SHOW REPORT: Judas Priest/Queensryche, Lakewood Ampitheater, Atlanta, GA, June 21, 2005 When we heard that this show was coming to Atlanta, Toby and I both...
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Jul/2005
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Down the drain, when you’re sick. PSA: If you get pink eye, TAKE DECONGESTANTS. See, there are these ducts that connect your eye sockets to...
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Jun/2005
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Pink eye sucks. At least I didn’t get it before the Priest show. Which, by the way, I have NOT forgotten about (how could I!?)…...
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Jun/2005
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Bar none. I thought KISS knew how to do an arena show… Even my memory of Judas Priest on the Painkiller tour doesn’t come close...
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May/2005
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12 days?!?! How do I let these go on so long without updates? Oh yeah - too many bands, labels, work projects, and mountains of...
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May/2005
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(Previously titled “Fuck e-[B]ay”) Goddamn idiot put up a laptop for auction. I won it. Then he tells me he listed the wrong item and...
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Apr/2005
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Everyone does it. Everyone KNOWS everyone does it. Yet everyone has to pretend like nobody does it, and woe befall he who lets himself get...
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Apr/2005
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He, of course, being the infamous JASON GORTICIAN, the man of a thousand screen names. I just happened to catch him on AIM last night...
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Mar/2005
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Damn - nearly 3 weeks since the last entry, which was just a placeholder anyway. Sorry, but between slow progress on working fronts and being...
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Jan/2005
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Lately a few people have been asking me for lyrics to Rampage’s songs. Normally, to me anyway, I don’t feel like I have to know...
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Dec/2004
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Everyone else’s material contributions to my own self-gratification: MUSIC: Black Sabbath The Black Box MOVIES: Black Sabbath Never Say Die (live Hammersmith 1978) Shooting War...
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Dec/2004
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(This was when many friends had a laundry list of questions they posted to their blog and answered, the usual kind of ‘get to know...
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Oct/2004
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Why blog if I never put anything in? I dunno. What makes it worse is that sometimes I think these kinds of things are too...
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Oct/2004
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Damn, every time I want to write in here it’s too late to put anything coherent together. Ah well. Listen to Rampage here: http://www.audiostreet.net/thetruerampage/ (Again,...
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Oct/2004
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(Housekeeping note - since I’m consolidating several blogs into my current one, I’m going back and reposting most of my old items just so it’s...