Music Snobs

First off, Happy 42nd Birthday to Mr. Trent Reznor. His birthday is the 17th and he is either in Australia or en route to Japan so I guess that rules out the surprise party here. Oh well.

I have today off since I will be working the entire flippin' weekend thanks to inventory. Have I mentioned how much I hate inventory yet?

Here are a couple of quick things:

Last week, I went into the breakroom to get a drink. Two of the folks that work in our music department were also there. The guy seems to radiate "slacker music snob." Now, I've talked to him very briefly a couple of times and he's an okay guy. Anyway, he'd brought in his "baby," a guitar his dad bought him for X-mas. The music chick starts ooing and ahhhing over it. Without prompting, he pulls out the guitar and starts playing.

In these situations, I usually react one of two ways. I either stand by somewhat impressed or I want to take the guitar and smash it like John Belushi does in Animal House. He plays for several moments, so to be silly I call out "Freebird!!!!" And, do you know what happened?

NOTHING!!! I got absolutely no damn reaction. Are these people humorless? Are they beyond a beloved Lynyrd Skynyrd reference that many concert goers and music lovers understand and enjoy? Seriously, I yelled out "Freebird" when I went and saw Sting and he was trolling for requests (he played Roxanne instead, bastard). These people have no soul.

Got an update on the UFO story from several posts ago. It happened during the day at Northwoods mall. One of our regulars says he saw two orange lights move quickly in the sky down towards the lot then they suddenly stopped, shot off in opposite directions and vanished. He says there were other people in the lot near him who saw it too. Weird.

WATCH IT:

Lost is starting to wrap up. I think Jackie and I talked about the last episode for about 30 or so minutes the other day. Is Charlie going to die tonight? And how did Ben and Rousseau (sp) hook up? Really looking forward to next weeks 2 hour ep. It better be damn good since that's all we will have till Feb. of next year!

LISTEN TO IT:

Nine Inch Nails--"The Good Soldier" Celebrate the birth of lovely Trent by enjoying this groove filled track from the latest cd.

READ IT:

Still reading Fair and Balanced My Ass and loving every second of it. I am currently on the chapter describing how John Gibson is the whitest man in America.