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I mixed my second RPM song tonight. I liked it a lot more before I realized that the guitar part was stolen from Tanya Donelly’s song “The River” from the absolutely Earth shatteringly brilliant Throwing Muses album House Tornado. I feel like a tool now.

Rock Star

I just received an email from hearthis.at basically telling me that I am a freakin’ Rock Star:

#4

Critical Mass
in Rock

Congratulations Robert,

Critical Mass is #4 of the weekly Rock ranking:

#1 Mouse and the Traps – Maid Of Sugar, Maid Of Spice by On The Flip-Side
#2 The Wig – Crackin’ Up by On The Flip-Side
#3 Mouse and the Traps – I Am The One by On The Flip-Side
#4 Critical Mass by Robert
#5 The Esquires – These Are The Tender Years by On The Flip-Side
#6 The Outcasts – 1523 Blair by On The Flip-Side
#7 The Outcasts – Smokestack Lightning by On The Flip-Side
#8 Dj MasterBeat VS The Mastermixers -the AC/DC megamix by DeeJay MasterBeat
#9 wreally wrongkey queen by Des Harmonic
#10 The Esquires – Judgement Day by On The Flip-Side

Listen online: https://hearthis.at/?type=trending&category=rock

Wishing you a nice weekend!

Benedikt Groß
hearthis.at

So how about that, huh? You didn’t realize you were dealing with a giant of the German Rock World, did you!  Me and the Hoff, just owning all of Germany!

Granted, seeing as seven of the top 10 spots are from the same band, that might tell you more about rock music on hearthis.at than seeing a doofus like me on their weekly chart.  Maybe I should check out On The Flip-Side.

Do you think this is just a way for the site to sucker people into using up my 5000 plays so that I will have to either pay up or stop uploading files?  Could be.

Long Week

You know, between vacation time, sick time, and holidays, this week is the first full five day week I’ve worked in a long time. It seems like the longest week ever. Good thing there’s a three day weekend coming up, eh? Two full five day weeks in a row? Whew, dodged that bullet. That was a close one!

Liar

Earlier today I put a post on the RPM Challenge website saying that I’d given up on trying to use a real amplifier when recording guitar parts. As is often the case, as soon as I told myself I wasn’t going to do it anymore, I went and did it. I just recorded guitars using my old amp. Granted, it’s a terrible song… but still.

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New Tallest Building?

While we were in New York my beloved, beautiful, angel, brilliant wife read a news article about new skyscrapers. It said that there were going to be two new buildings in Manhattan that would be taller than the Empire State Building. I thought it was referring to the future. Apparently, that future is now.

Earlier today I read this New York Times article about an ugly new slim jim of a skyscraper that is already not only taller than the Empire State Building, but it’s taller than the Freedom Tower sans antenna.

That’s when I realized, that I’d already noticed this new building.

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It’s that ugly eyesore towering over everything else in the picture. While on top of the Empire State Building I thought it looked taller, but couldn’t say for sure. Maybe my eyes were being tricked, or maybe they were just frozen. I’m also pretty sure I had not noticed it the last few times we were up high in New York.

So there you have it. That skinny, ugly, wisp of an anorexic looking building is the new 2nd tallest skyscraper in New York.