Early this week the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced. And just for fun, like last year, I thought I'd put up a poll to see who y'all thiink are worthy. Choose as few or as many as you like; five on last year's list were selected.

Poll RnR HoF 2011 ballot*Were nominated last year ( Read more... )

the_dark_snack  and I had, overall, one of the best Fourth of July weekends we've ever had together. I had Friday through Monday off, so four days free was nice.

On Friday and Saturday we went to the "Days of the Dead" horror convention on the west side of Indy. Aside from seeing all the b-list celebrities and such, we saw a screening of the documentary "I Am ( Read more... )

Before I forget, hoping raistlyne  had a good birthday!

Now onward to a big weekend in downtown Indy. the_dark_snack  and I will be at the Independent Music and Art Festival, and will spend some time at the Talbott Street Art Fair nearby. All the fun we have at that each year, we never get to the Pride festival -- but that's part of the downtown madness as well.

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Penguicon was a week ago, but hadn't gotten around to posting about it yet.

Anyway, the_dark_snack  and I headed up on Thursday (April 28) so that we could relax and take our time. We headed on up to Lansing before turning towards Detroit so that we could go by an outlet mall (the con was at Troy, on the northside of the Detroit metro, anyway). Some flu-like ( Read more... )

The Indiana University Opera is to premiere a new opera based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Sadly, I don't think it includes this song:

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Now I wanna get in the TARDIS and ask Vincent what he thinks of it.

It's Friday!
That means yesterday was Thursday, etc.

Since the country is all on an anti-bullying kick, you think we can lay off of picking on Rebecca Black?

I could care less about her "hit" and the quality thereof. Bad songs have been composed and performed on a regular basis going back centuries to the days of minstrels. In latter days they all get ( Read more... )

Before writing my LJ Idol entry for this week, to help me focus, I looked up the lyrics of "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" from the musical "Guys and Dolls."

Though to be honest, I like Don Henley's version better (link goes to YouTube, but ignore the visuals, there's no official video I could find) with its easy reggae beat -- the stage version ( Read more... )

This song has been running thru my head lately...

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Someone needs to make a Sheen-themed video to this. The lyrics seem to fit. =)