local musician gets hitched, ruins life

Just kidding, of course.
Congrats to Brandon and Lauren!
Should we all comment in the traditional married guy manner with lots of 'warnings' and disastrous predictions?

missed live performance you'll never see

I was recently listening to a CD of 'rare' live tracks of a now defunct band (Jellyfish) and thinking how sad it will be to never see them play a live show... then that made me think of other bands I'll never get to see play live, like: Alice in Chains with Staley would be one. Morphine is another dead singer band that i'll never get to see either which is a shame cause the ultra-low sax playing might have sounded amazing live cranked so loud. (youtube audio stinks!)

so, are there any performers that you wish you could have seen play live, but most likely will not ever be able to now (for whatever reason?) I'm not really looking for bands that were fairly impossible for you to see like the Beatles (since they quit playing live before some of us were born) but more the bands that you should have seen but never did and now it's too late.

the 51st grammy awards

this years grammy awards: what did you think about this years show, winners, and performances?

Maybe there's a particular album, or song that....

...reminds you of some horrible chain of events, or completely misguided decision some time in the past?

Personally, the more I try to rid myself of the abomination called "Recovery Room Commercial v7.8", starring Nathan, John, Larry, and myself, the more it comes out and haunts me.

Example: Today, in my errand-running activities (The bank, and a Goodwill store) I heard the radio version of the commercial a total of THREE times! Twice at Goodwill, once at the bank.

Example 2: After being convinced the abomination had crawled into a hole and died, finally, I was reminded by FOUR people in one day of window cleaning that they had seen the commercial within the last week or so, and they just thought it was fantastic.

Perhaps there's a similar case out there, where you hear a song/album, and think, "Man, whatever it is I'm remembering was dumb at the time!"

In my case. Thursday's album : Full Collapse was the first album I ever had in my first car. Man I hate that car. Love the album. But honestly, should have gone with the '72 Volare! The Nissan was a pit.

What about y'all?

does rock make you ugly?

or is it that rock just allows the ugly to succeed? (see possible evidence in pic below)
although i'm not sure if eddie van halen was even decent-looking in his prime, i can easily say that he is far from it now if this pic from 2006 is allowed into evidence!
fortunately, more recent pics show a bit of improvement from his 'meth-mouth' look of 2006. i especially enjoyed some of the defensive comments from people on the blog.... wow those are some die-hard fans!