Ok so I borrowed a My Chemical Romance CD from my nephew, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. Goth Melodic Punk. I like one song, The End, but not enough to put it in regular rotation. I'll listen to it some more; it's pretty much like AFI... I'm Not Okay is sounding okay too. I'm trying.

I went to Virgin on the Square and bought Classical Music and looked at the Top 40 rack. Gwen Stefani. Eminem. (I know them. They're old as hell guys!) My Chemical Romance. Death Cab For Cutie. JoJo. A few others I don' remember. I'm testing the waters a little. The punk these days has these kids voices in front, it weirds me out. Back in the day being a punk meant being real masculine and sort of "i've seen it all before" instead of young.

I've got to listen to something new is part of it. I swooned over a classical import I picked up last night; Beaux Arts Trio Schubert Piano Trios on Philips. I usually don't buy Philips but this was a great find. Is My Chemical Romance for teenage girls or boys? I'm guessing girls, but I can't figure any of this out. It's like Goth Green Day.

Green Day was a trip when they came out with their first big LP in like 96. I didn't like American Idiot. I saw their bio book at the store and they've got their eyes all modified to make them look kind of ghoulish... fun stuff. I remember on their second record Billy Jo did a video with a cracked tooth, because he managed to get in a fistfight before they started shooting the video. If you look real close, I'm sure youtube has it, you can see that the tooth is cracked. Really. I would not tell a lie.

As far as the new Eminem, last I recalled, Detroit Sound was in 4/4. The bumps are so unpredictable it's like listening to Anti-Pop Consortium. Maybe they just didn't sync the tracks right. Awful. That guy used to be able to write a hit. If that's a hit, then I need to buy my way into a studio, because I could do three of those a day. No problem, 6 out of sync tracks and I'm making bank.

I'm working on Death Cab For Cutie now. Okay this stuff kind of makes sense. It sounds too much like the Beatles or Guided By Voices, but if I ate an adavan and drank a Smirnoff Ice or two to this I would be very tripped out.

I'm sure you guys still smoke weed too. Do you still do gross things on the athletic and band buses, or are you too afraid to catch hepa C? People my age are deathly afraid of disease. I know a bunch of people 23 or 24 years old with hepa C and livers going to the toilet.

See in my day, lol, we'd put on Nirvana if the guys picked, or Lords of Acid if the chicks picked, plus some Led Zeppelin and AC/DC and the like, and the guys drank Heineken because we didn't know it sucked, and we drank dilute vodka and got stoned when we were being real bad, and that was sort of the party.

This isn't anything like what we listened to. I imagine it's good on muscle relaxers. But it sounds kind of good. Just a little Beatles-esque. Agh, I'm enjoying emo. Oh well.

Well I'm beginning to ramble. I'm going out with the family tonight, probably to Chinese, and then I may grab a six or twelve pack of something tasty after I'm done with that. Have I posted drunk here? It's a treat not to be missed. I only drink beer when I'm either bored or in a bad mood, but tonight I'm drinking because I'm in a good mood. And yes I'm an alcoholic. Life is great.