So Mafia$oft has this new music player out called Zune. It's been out for a couple weeks now. Sales are in the toilet and the reviews are horrible. Speaking of toilets, the reason for this post: a clever, if somewhat immature, site I came across: The Shitbrick™

The mailman was good to me today...

Here we have a handful of CDs, most back-catalog, collection-filling stuff, but one by a band that I've never even heard but that Jeff was really talking up, so I thought I'd take a chance.

Rush Presto (1989) and Counterparts (1993)
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses (1993) and October Rust (1996)
Dragonforce Inhuman Rampage (2006)

Things that have been happening in the last while...

My grandmother died a couple weeks ago. Yeah, that sucks. We were fairly close. She lived her last couple years in pretty rough shape, with emphysema and such...at least she's not suffering anymore.

I got New Stuff! a new L-shaped desk, one of the metal-frame-with-glass-top deals. I dig it. Then I ordered a 20" widescreen LCD from (gasp!) Dell, which came on Friday. I really dig that. :)

Musically:

I picked up a guitar last week and actually played for the first time in a month or so. My get-up-and-go factor was a backing that was posted by one of the guys on Cyberjammin...here's what came out of it: "Jammin' With Jose" I added guitars and keyboards.

I've been invited to contribute a guitar solo to a song for the annual CJ holiday collection. I worked extensively on that on Monday. Unfortunately, that month of not playing softened my fingers enough to the point that I shredded a fingertip, so there won't be any playing until that heals.

SGNR posted another interesting backing on CJ the other day and I felt compelled to do something with it. Based on the tone of the backing and my injured state, I decided to lay down some synth lead. It's a bit sloppy in places and there's one really sour pitch bend (should have bent a semitone up, but I bent a whole tone) but I think it came out alright: SGNR's "Ode To No One In Particular"

I guess that's all for now. :)

Tomorrow (well, today) is Election Day. I know I'll take a few minutes out of my day to go and do my part. Left or right, Republican or Democrat, I hope more people get out from in front of their TV and exercise their rights as US citizens to take part in the democratic process (provided they're educated enough to do so properly, but that's a rant for another day).

GET OUT AND VOTE ALREADY!!!