So, now that we are on the cusp of another new year, I have found that most of those typical things I might resolve to (but never) do in the coming year have already been done over the last couple months. What to do? Since nobody reads anyway, nobody will care if I hijack my own blog in the hopes that it might stimulate some actual good content. It probably won't, but at least it will keep my post count ticking upward.
To that end, I resolve to post each and every weekday of 2009. However, I usually don't have anything to say, so I'm implementing one of those lame weekly list thingies. For the coming year, we will have:
- Movie Monday
- Tune Tuesday (group, album, song, or concert)
- Wildcard Wednesday (whatever I feel like typing about)
- T.V. Thursday
- Fan Boy Friday (sporting events I personally attended, watched on tv, or heard on the radio)
On each day, I will post about something related to the daily theme. It could be (and probably will be if I know myself) as simple as a one line post, but hopefully just the act of logging on everyday will start the flow of the creative juices. To that end, I might as well get started a day early...
Wildcard Wednesday, December 31 2008.... from the genre of music:
The new job blocks many fewer web sites and I am able to fire up the Sirius media player to keep me going all day. Lo and behold, on comes a song by Apocalyptica. Could it actually be the same group? Those 4 long haired cello playing Finns with a passion for metal? I was first aware of them at the start of the decade when I heard about their cd of all Metallica covers. On cello. Nice.
Their next cd (Inquisition Symphony) included a few more Metallica covers, covers of Faith No More, Sepultura, and Pantera, and a couple of originals to boot. They also improved the mix of the different "voices" which I found slightly annoying on the first disc. Two of the songs that transformed incredibly are "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and "Fade To Black", found in their original forms on (arguably) Metallica's best album, Ride The Lightning.
And with that, my foray back into the blogosphere is complete. Drop a comment if you agree or disagree with my daily topic. Each one is designed to offer a small insight into who I am as a whole. Or at least what I like, and have liked, for most of my 4 decades of life. I'd been thinking of changing the closing for the new year -- "My game may suck, but I won the Mookie. Have you?" But then I remembered that the old one was only used a few dozen times.
There go another 5 minutes of your life you're not getting back...
