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5 Things About Red Dead Redemption
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Healed!
I'm finally healed! Hoping to make a run to Hodges for tactical gear, play in the dirt, and possibly get back to babbling about music no one else remembers! Hooray!
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Alternative Wednesday ... sorta
Sadly I've jacked my hand up again. This makes typing rather on the difficult side, so I'm having to take a week off the regular write ups. As a consolation prize, I'll let Whiskeytown play a song for you.
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Alternative Wednesday!
Today's Alternative Wednesday is going to be a little different. Then again, aren't they all? Rather than focusing on an artist, I'd like to focus on a decade or at least the popular opinion of the music of one.
One of the more common beliefs is that the 1970s were a musical wasteland. You had arena rock, disco, and nothing else. At least ( Read more... ) -
Alternative Wednesday!
In 1993, I was a regular at Heroes for Hire. It's gone now, a victim of the 90's comic book boom and bust, but during it's time it was my second home. We were a blue collar bunch except for one guy. Never before have I ever met someone more obsessed with himself and the toys that daddy's money could buy; leather jackets, convertibles, and bag ( Read more... ) -
Alternative Wednesday!
At first I wasn't going to talk about them. Everyone else has, so I felt like I didn't have anything new to add to the discussion. Then I realized that Alternative Wednesday isn't only about exposing people to new bands, it's about MY experiences with these bands, MY moment of discovery and falling in love with some element of some song or band ( Read more... ) -
Alternative Wednesday!
One of the things that makes alt rock so enjoyable to me is that unlike many other genres, it just doesn't feel mined out. Growing up surrounded by classic rock, much of that genre feels more like sonic wallpaper than music I can actually enjoy and actively listen to. With 90's alternative rock though, I'm constantly finding new artists, new ( Read more... ) -
Alternative Wednesday!
There's a part of me that will always feel sympathy for my father. Not having a lot of people to talk music with, he got stuck with hearing each new discovery of mine and trying his utmost not to be negative. Not only did he suffer through the intro to Nirvana's Territorial Pissings, but he was made to suffer the techno introduction to the ( Read more... )
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