Music is (Or was) about feeling, and...well, it's hard to describe. Music touches different chords in each of us, and is a personal thing. Wether you like a certain band because they get you moving, or if you like the lyrics because you can relate to them.

Music shouldn't be judged on who would be the better fuck. There's porn for that.

Oh, BTW, I'm 16, younger than you Michael_T or whoever, and I'm never going to use 'well it's geared to us, so I'll go with the rest of the people' as an excuse to wimp out.

So don't use your age as a cop-out. Because it's bull.

Oh, and one last thing. Joe Satriani for Life. No question.

Anyway, did anyone see The Tonight Show last night? Jay Leno did his sidewalk skit and showed important momemts in the 20th Century. Jay showed this woman a picture of Neil Armstrong on the Moon placing the US flag on it. The woman couldn't say when this happend (she said the year it took place was in 1869 I think), and then she said the astronaut was Louis Armstrong!!

And Justin, you still have my new Rolling Stones magazine with the Backstreet Boys on the cover (The one with them having their pants down).

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Show me the meaning of being lonely
Is this the feeling, I need to walk in
Tell me why I can't be there where you are
There's something missing in my heart

:-)

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Show me the meaning of being lonely
Is this the feeling, I need to walk in
Tell me why I can't be there where you are
There's something missing in my heart

-Backstreet Boys

This has brought two things to my attention. One, "The Statue Got Me High" is in all likelyhood the greatest song ever created in the entire history of the universe. "And though I once prefered a human being's company, it pales before the monolith that towers over me." Simply amazing. Euphoric. Self-descriptive.

The second, and more relevant thing, was that the Grammys have always been of exceedingly poor quality. This is the institution that lauded the group Jethro Tull as "year's greatest heavy metal act" in the 80's. Their lead instrument is a flute. A flute! And so I would humbly suggest that asking the Grammys to regain their musical integrity is like asking Ed Wood to return to his roots as a sensitive thinker on the subject of gender roles in society.

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Sometimes I run
Sometimes I hide
Sometimes I'm scared of you
But all I really want is to hold you tight
Treat you right, be with you day and night
Baby all I need is time

AM I REALLY THE ONLY ONE WHO FEELS THIS WAY???
(starts feeling like fox mulder)

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-You are crazy.
-I thought I was pisces.

Can I please mention "I'm only 17. I'm part of the 18-XX age group" and point out the obvious flaw in this man's reasoning? No? Okay.

Er, GO STEPS!

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"Obesity. Adiposity. Corpulence. Whatever word you use, it represents one thing: being a big fatass."

For Christmas I got 2 CD's, that famous one of Leonard Nimoy singing, and a bagpipe-and-drum one.

BOTH are better than virtually everything I hear on the radio today. Of course, I have tastes that vary somewhat from the norm, it's true.

Tori Amos needs another Grammy for "To Venus and Back."

Weird Al needs one for just being so damned funny.

I heard the Metallica CD with them backed up by a symphony orchestra, and I loved it.

And I can't get "Blue" (Da-be-dee Da-ba-die) out of my @#$*ing head. Especially after seeing the video.

And those are about the only things I've heard in the past six months that I've liked enough to have any retention of.

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Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson

I saw her here in Ottawa, at the Bluesfestival about 2 years ago and this little lady comes out on the stage, strat in hock, and she almost seems shy when greeting the audience. I thought, "Oh no.. not a flop"!!

When she started to sing in this Janis Joplin-belting-out-the-chords-like-there's-no-tomorrow type voice, she absolutley blew me away. Song after song, she impressed me more and more.

I bought her latest album... EVERY SONG IS AWESOME.

IF you like blues, get her cd.. if you don't like blues, she'll convert ya !!

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I feel more like I do now, then when I first got here!! :)

- Alshrim Dax
The Other Dax;

Like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie J. Malmsteen are all excellent artists, but really only appeal to people who like, and can appreciate guitar. They're not on the covers of magazines with their pants down, (Well, Steve Vai doesn't count), and probably will never win any mainstream awards.

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"I've never seen anything this beautiful in the entire galaxy. Alright, give me the bomb" -Ultra Magnus, Fight or Flee

The first of these I noticed was the (c)rap version of "Every Breath You Take". The first tie I heard it, I didn't notice the difference at first, and I thought "Hm... I wonder why their playing this song." Then they actually started "singing" (not that there much resembling singing in (c)rap music), and my thought was "What the **** did they do to that song?!" Then, a little while after that, I saw something on television. I don't recall exactly what it was. Some kind of footbal halftime show, or maybe the Olympics ceremonies, or some sort of show during a sports thing, I think. Anyway, it was someone singing a (c)rapped-out version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". Just like the other one, someone had stolen the music and rewritten the lyrics to be about some kind of ****ed-up ganster BS. Another similar problem is the (c)rap version of "Stand by Me". Now, I think this one has the lyrics still intact (not completely accurate, but intact), but it's still been defiled. I think there are others, but I can't think of them right now.

As you can see, I am not a fan of people screwing up perfectly good songs. :-)