Pearl Jam’s premiere in MySpace screams sellout but, hey, if none of the bands I adore sell out, I wouldn’t have heard of them.

Evenflow… thoughts arrive like butterflies.
He don’t know… so he chases them away.

The baby on the Nirvana Nevermind album cover is cashing in on his fame.

He got paid $1,000 to re-enact the famous pool pose. He says he also gets paid to hang out and allegedly, he’s in talks for a possible movie role.

The original shoot cost $200 and he  was naked.  This one cost $1,000 and he’s not naked.  Also, do you think it’s the same pool?  Because I don’t think so.

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

A funny thing happened to me last night. As I was going home at around 7:30pm, I put the car radio on and switched to NU 107. (I was all alone, by the way.)

I heard a familiar heavy metal mellow intro. By “familiar”, I mean I know the song is a heavy metal one but I don’t necessarily know the title of the song. I thought, “Hmmm, new band. Feels like they know what they are doing though.”

“Wow, I really like the guitar riffs on this one. ” I said to myself. The distorted guitars chugging away was very “clean”.  The voice was very powerful – suits a heavy metal band (some metal bands have weird-voiced vocalists). Read more »

August 3, 1963

I recently purchased a Michael Jackson concert DVD. I know he’s yesterday’s news but I have always been in awe of his performance since I was a child.

Through the years, my musical inclination changed from folk to hip-hop to heavy metal (and all genres of rock) and back to folk to hip-hop and to any good music, but my admiration of Michael Jackson’s music (or performance) never dwindled. He may be the king of pop but he should be on a genre of his own. You can’t categorize Michael Jackson. He’s like the exception to a rule. Well, in my book at least.

By the way, when the time comes and you appreciate any genre of music, it means you are getting old. I’m still a die-hard Metallica fan but I have “softened up” to appreciate music by Josh Groban(!), Black Eyed Peas, Usher, etc. Read more »