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So where the hell have I been?

It’s a long story.  If I had to pin it down to one event out of many, I’d chalk it up to the new job.   Sucked the life outta me.  

A lot has changed in the past few months.  To top it all off, my ‘67 Impala has really died on me this time.  Nothing that can’t be fixed, but I’ve had to handle other issues first.  If I don’t get that thing into the shop for restoration, I’m going to go outside someday and find a heap of rust with a radio antenna sticking out of it.  That’ll be my car.

Meantime, I drive something more practical and sensible and dull during my 3 hour round-trip commute.  To compensate, I play the radio loud.  Real loud.  What?  I said LOUD.

I listen to just about anything, but for my money it’s alternative rock that suits the work week.   While listening to something weird and way too loud one fine day a week ago, I heard something weirder than usual.  It was like if you took the theme song from a spaghetti western and mixed in the theme music from a cheesy, B-movie space epic, you’d get this.  I thought to myself, “What the @#$% is this?”   Then I turned it up.  Then I turned it up some more. 

In one of my earliest posts here, I talked about the things I listen to while writing. I usually put a favorite song on “repeat” and just let it loop while I hammer away. 

I think this tune is gonna come in handy in the near future.  Just bought the CD last weekend.  The band, aptly named, is “Muse.”   If you like angsty techno-rock, check out the first vid-song at the top right of the page.  Stick around for the chorus.

http://www.youtube.com/user/muse?ob=1