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"The Carpet Crawlers" Iron Maiden -- Powerslave

"Skating Away On the Thin Ice of a New Day" Metallica -- . . . And Justice For All

What else can be said about this man? A true great who improved everything he was involved with. Hilarious. The hits keep on coming.

On a related binging note, I see Netflix is doing a Breaking Bad-style final fourth season of OZARK, divided into two seven-episode halves. Bold prediction time: Ruth kills everyone.

I enjoy hulu way more than Netflix. Hulu doesn't have the edge on original content though. I think Netflix has them beat there. But hulu wins everywhere else. Their depth of selection is better and has more variety. They also have current shows up the day after they air on tv. I spend most of my stream watching time on hulu. I got Hulu through the Disney+ deal, but the commercials annoy the hell out of me. Too used to watching Netflix, I suppose. I know there's a more expensive level I could look into; is that one commercial free? After I tried to watch an episode of Fargo (great show!) on Hulu and dealt with 30 minutes of commercials and 45 minutes of program, I was out.

I think it was Ford Galaxy who called that "necroposting"!

Can you think of a song that was playing at the moment its message seemed perfect? After my 50th birthday recently, I was thinking about my 21st -- I drank 21 B-52 shots (Grand Marnier, Kahlua, Bailey's), and was truly legless. The next day, I had to be at work at 5:30 am and that day was assigned to the kitchen at the resort where I worked. My first task? Helping to prep lunch by opening gallon cans of spaghetti sauce. You can imagine my state. At that moment, looking for a distraction, I turned on the radio and Molly Hatchet's "Flirting With Disaster" came on. Exactly right. After my first date with my future wife, a redhead, the first song I heard was Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl." What you got?

I remember that song. I don't recall it sounding anything like Sabbath though. I thought the singer sounded like Ozzy, and it had a certain fuzzy tone I always associated with Sabbath. I don't know if I'd have made that link today, as I've listened to a lot more Sabbath in the last twenty years, but that was my initial thought, and it's stuck with me.

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Because it just played on my iTunes "shuffle" setting, I thought of Helmet. They had one radio hit, the Sabbath-esque "Unsung," but have an album called Unsung: The Best of Helmet 1991-1997. Actually, since I haven't listened to any other tracks from that album, I suppose it's possible it's really just a single!

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So, you're saying that it's possible for two things to be true at the same time? Mind. Blown. Plato would disagree, but he's dead, so . . . .

LPs for the cover art, CDs for the convenience. I'll go digital if the file is something lossless, but what I really can't stand are tinny little .mp3 files. The stuff I get from iTunes is strictly for passing fancies.

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I don't want to tread on SOCN's turf, but I facepalmed hard when I heard that protesters in San Francisco (I think) had torn down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant. I'm generally sympathetic to the removal of Confederate statues, but this is literally the guy who ground the Confederacy into the dust! WTF? I can hear the mob now -- "It's an old guy with a beard! He probably owned slaves! Bring it down!" History, people! Know it.

As Seinfeld once said, "People! They're the worst."