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Hooray for Spring

Is everyone enjoying March 19th so far? It’s the last day of winter and Mother Nature is proving it. Snow. Lots of snow. It’s still falling too. Hooray. Tomorrow is the first day of Spring. We are going to celebrate by shoveling.

All and all this has been a mild winter. The first snow storm actually happened in the Fall, so that doesn’t count. We didn’t really have to deal with any snowy weather until February. While the over all season hasn’t been too bad, February and March have sucked.

March 2013, in like a lion and out like a bigger, angrier lion.

Mother Nature Continues to be a Big Fat Jerk

What the hell is this?

Spring officially begins at some point on Wednesday.  The day after tomorrow.  How is Mother Nature (the jerk) honoring this change of season?

By dumping 3-5 freakin’ inches of snow on us overnight tonight?  Oh, screw you!

On an only slightly related note, is there anything lamer than weather.com’s gimmick of naming winter storms?  Come on, you idiots, snow storms are not deserving of names.  They are little piddly things compared to tropical storms.  Get over yourselves.  It’ll be hurricane season soon enough and then you twerps can have your named storms again.

Urgh.

Spring had better get its springy ass here quick.

Musical Flashbacks

The re-recording of old songs continued this weekend.  There was a slight twist on the process though.  This time, the songs date back to…

The 1980’s!

Queue the horror movie music and the gallons of hairspray complete with ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbons.

One of the two songs in progress is actually the first song I ever wrote (co-wrote, actually) that was finished.  I had written, or co-written riffs that were glued together and jammed on without ever getting  a melody or lyrics or any kind of real structure.  This particular song contains my first attempt at lyrics and melody although in the end some one else came up with a better melody.  I have a GarageBand file with drums, bass, and a simple keyboard.  I was going to record the vocals this morning before work, but yeah right.  Maybe tomorrow.  The second song is on my iPad and is just drums and bass parts for the song’s A, B, and C sections without any arrangement.  Still, it’s in process.

What I should be doing is finishing some of those still unfinished ideas that are clogging up my MacBook, but no… I’m time traveling to the 80’s.  You got a problem with that?  You wanna make something of it?

Prime Meridian Revisited

Former Genesis lead guitarist Steve Hackett has twice released albums called Genesis Revisited which include newly recorded versions of old Genesis songs.  I figure if it’s good enough for Steve then it’s good enough for me.

I have two newly recorded Prime Meridian songs that I could use for Prime Meridian Revisited, if I ever wanted to do one of those, you know?

Dead Sheep is my white suburban pretentious college student attempt at analyzing the inner city gang situation of the early 90’s.  I wholeheartedly apologize for my younger self.  Really.

Overexposed was co-written by me and Mike the Bass Player.  The lyrics are about how freakin’ sick we all were of seeing OJ Simpson’s face on the television.  I still wanna puke a little just thinking of all the media coverage.

Maybe I’ll start on a Tempest Fero Revisited too.  That’ll be good for a laugh.

Comcast Weirdness

It’s so strange.

Comcast gave us a 9:00-1:00 window for their installation today.  The guy showed up at a few minutes after 9:00 and was done and gone before 10:00.

We have nothing to bitch about.  Isn’t that weird?  This is a new experience for me.

ISP Tennis

When I first moved in with Jen she was a Comcast customer. When we rented our first place together, chez duplex, Comcast did something stupid by us and we dumped them for Verizon. After a while Verizon did something stupid by us and we dumped them for Comcast. When we bought the new house Comcast did something stupid by us and we switched to Verizon. Two weeks ago Verizon did something stupid by us and today we switch to Comcast.

It’s like a long, slow tennis volley. It’s almost like neither player really wants to win at all.

What the Hell is That?

The wife and I have a date planned tonight.  We don’t have actual plans beyond planning to go out.  I got home from work first, changed out of my too big work shoes which are probably responsible for the agony that has returned to my right foot, opened up iTunes and airplay’d Tommy through the television’s sound system, sat down and let the cat start crawling me like a sherpa climbing Everest.

I happend to look toward the front door.

I happened to see out of the little window.

I happened to see the street light outside.

I happened to see that the street light was lighting up falling snow.

What the hell is that?  Snow?  But it can’t snow!  It’s date night and Spring is just a few days away!

Who Am I

I’ve been listening to Pete Townshend’s memoir in the car during my commutes.  I got through the release of A Quick One this morning.  That made me want to watch this.

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.  Rumor has it that the movie was shelved for almost 20 years because of the way The Who’s performance  completely destroyed the Stones’.

I believe it.