you better believe it.

what is it about rock music.

Last night I managed to sneak my way into the last half of the Mars Volta concert at The Legendary Roy Wilkins auditorium. The last time I was at that venue was nearly three years ago at a Mars Volta concert. As I watched the band I couldn't help but think about how much my life has been shaped by my "rock" experiences. I can remember a sunny mid-summer day many years ago when we played at the Mankato VFW hall with a scrappy bunch of wide-eyed twenty somethings from El Paso, TX named At The Drive-In. As Todd, Judd, Sally and I watched as they pounded out their set, I think we both were amazed at the skill, and heart the band played with. The kind of reckless abandon that one rarely witnesses. As I watched the Mars Volta tear through their set last night with all the skill of any 70's prog band, or for that matter any classically trained studio musician, I wanted to be back in our attic at 2024 Dupont talking to Cedric and Omar. The people I saw on the stage last night were only figments of what once was. I can't help but wonder what experiences had brought them to the place that they are now. The music has pretty much escaped all genre boundaries at this point. I kept thinking I was watching a rock opera written by a secret society of punk rock kids. Are they self-aware of how ridiculous they are? How did they get so tight and so proficient? What drugs did they do that I didn't or wouldn't? Amanda kept saying that it felt like we were on an acid trip and couldn't decide it was good or bad. I felt the same. I couldn't watch the whole thing. It was sensory overload. I loved every second of it, but hated it at the same time.

Is this for real?

The Internet = Ford Model T

Get into The Grid. When do I get to drive my "light cycle".

Get Fit

LOTO happy hour is getting ridiculous

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Hot Cops

Are those French Cops wearing Rollerblades? As long as the perpetrators stay off grass and gravel it's a brilliant policing revolution. At least they remembered the helmet as well as the elbow and knee pads. Safety first.

40 Years Later.

Dr. Moreau I Presume?

"Eventually, scientists hope to grow such embryos for six days, and then extract stem cells from them. The researchers insisted the embryos would never be implanted into a woman and that the only reason they used cow eggs was due to the scarcity of human eggs." Love it.

The Double Life

"It appears david lee roth and leona helmsley had a love child." -Peter T. Hooper

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