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  Conflicting Evidence

  04.16.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  At the Strange Maps website (I just read the book, how old school of me) is this hilarious map, showing the location of all of Ludacris’ hoes, as he identifies them by area code.  Per the map, Ludacris has nary a ho in the state of Oregon; nothing in area codes 971, 541, nor 503.  However, […]

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  Treasure

  08.31.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was in San Francisco again earlier this month, on a visit with my father.  It’s easy to become attached to the city, even if you weren’t born there.  Here is a picture I took from Treasure Island: And just to the left of that: Earlier that morning we went to visit the Mission Dolores […]

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  Cold Feelings

  06.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Further to yesterday’s post, yes, every man’s death diminisheth me and I have no personal animus for the man.  But just now I finished listening to Social Distortion’s “Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell” and it occurred to me that every song on that album is filled with infinitely more energy and emotion than anything I’ve […]

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  Adieu

  06.25.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  In tenth grade, my friend Aykut and I gave a presentation on heavy metal to our French class.  I don’t recall much beyond us posing in our jeans jackets with the patches of various bands, thumbs hooked in our bullet belts, boom box playing a few select tunes.  I do remember someone asking what we thought of […]

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  Radicals co-opted

  03.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  So over the weekend I came into possession of a $15 iTunes gift card.  Browing through the offerings I looked for some of the more obscure albums I used to own but lost with most of my vinyl collection (entirely due to my own laziness).  One of them was We  Don’t Want Your Fucking War, a […]

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  Get Up On It Like This

  03.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    Lazy, yeh, but I seen it on another bloke’s blog: 1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. 3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS. IF SOMEONE SAYS ‘ARE YOU OKAY’ YOU SAY? […]

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  Quod Christi morte deletum est

  01.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tomorrow is Epiphany.  And, perhaps because I’m listening to it right now, but I just had the epiphany that my favorite song is “The 500 Club” by Steel Pole Bath Tub.

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  Aw shucks

  11.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A couple of times I have mentioned Lucinda Williams on this hyeah web log (blog). I never expected to attract her attention thereby, but now comes news that on her new album she covers AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top”. I think it’s pretty obvious Lucinda is sweet on me.

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  Corruption

  10.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Earlier this month Mrs The Fyd and I witnessed Weezer bringing the rock music. I write now not to praise Weezer, although they were most definitely praiseworthy that evening. I write to mock the second opening band, Angels & Airwaves. We arrived after the first opening act was finished, so I cannot legitimately mock them, […]

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  Next up is a Thompson Twins cover

  10.22.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Thirty years ago AC/DC used a set of bagpipes in one of their songs. That accomplished, they promptly ditched innovation with grim resolve, such that listening for the first time to their new album, Black Ice, I just now found myself asking, “Is that a freakin’slide guitar?” And answering, “Yes. Yes it is.”

G.E. Dempsey