Heart & Soul

Since being in japan I've been listening to older music, mostly rap. It did its job of keeping me awake. As with all rap songs for me though, they get old very quickly. Way too catchy and unchanging in their melodies and beats. I was recently looking at my favorite rock stations from back in the states and noticed some new songs, so I downloaded them. Danko Jones was the best new band/person(not sure which) I never heard of before. What's awesome about download is that I also got to listen to previous LPs/non-singles. Blues has always caught a piece of my heart, and it was cool to listen to a new person that brought the blues with hard rock. It was sort of like new Thorogood with a cleaner voice. I also got the new Disturbed video and some new songs off their new CD. Some were good; some were ... not good. I like the music they make, although I think I'm a little biased since I tend to think bands from the Chicago area are always better than everyone else. Another half good half crappy CD is Audioslave's new one. The new single is atrocious. It's worse than 'What's my name?' by M&M. I then revived my soul: Pantera LIVE. I found some of their concerts from the early 90s and wow. My head pounded, my heartbeat fastened and I felt alive. Too bad I wasn't driving 4 beligerent punks smoking shisha in a car across 5 states at 2AM just to crash a new member conference. I did finish my one paper for school though. I also got an old Metallica concert from Woodstock '94(I think), but it was them doing 'Master of Puppets' and 'Breadfan.'

This all came to my head again because we had our end of the year banquet for work last night and I was talking with some other people from my department I haven't fully met yet. They happened to have talked with others that found out I liked hard rock. They asked where I was from and I said Wisconsin, hoping that for some reason they would have learned of the great state. He looked at me kind of funny, more clueless, and then he exclaimed 'STATIC-X!' WOW. That was definetly a first. 90% of the people in the US wouldn't even understand.

That's right, Metal connecting the world. Write that down.