Sorry to completely ignore the substance of your post; it’s late and, even if I plan on getting high and staying up a couple hours listening to music to “Air Disasters”. Have you seen that show? It’s got like 20 seasons and they play it all the time on the Smithsonian Channel.

This is AWESOME:

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This is from the same band that did “This Corrosion” (the Jim-Steinman-penned song whose video Joe said would make an awesome movie, hell, I’ll just put it after, but I’m not necessarily presenting it to you.) Holy goths with drum machines (it has a name: Doktor Avalanche. I guess it’s an official member of the band? They haven’t released any new music since the early ’90s in protest of their record company. They still write and perform music, but they’re strictly a live act. Thanx wikii!). How do you book Petra for your music video? Were they bigger in Britain or something?

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Apparently you could say “bitch” on the air in 1975. Killer song.

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Is this power-pop (crunchy guitar riffs, anthemic chorus, pounding drums, a bit minor-key though)? Maybe Burks would know better. Hell of a song though. I’ve never gotten into that genre, though I’ve got too much going on at the moment to take a deep dive, but it seems it’d be given to Nuggets-esque treasure troves of obscure singles. I have Cheap Trick as my only paradigm – never heard the Raspberries and I’m not sure I can name another power-pop band.

I’ve done a lot of listening to Nuggets 2 lately. The Brazilian top 100 has stalled and I may as well just listen to individual albums. I guess alphabetical order is good enough. I’m probably done with jazz I like it, and when I like it I really like it, but I just don’t love it and I’ve never quite grokked the publishing being so rock-like (with albums, songs etc.) yet be a totally different kind of music. I’m sick of bop and post-bop and really if 2000 years from now all the jazz extant is the catalogues of Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, that’d be all right. I’m done with serious listening to classical outside of what I like but it’s still a part of my life and I’ll always love it on some level (I had a Trung-like phase in my early to mid 20s when I listened exclusively to classical and opera and read lots of books about music. Even if I didn’t automatically add ten hexadecimal points to works because they’re inherently greater, knowing more about music is invaluable when you quit piano lessons in the fourth grade – my legit biggest regret; my parents should have made me – and never took up an instrument.)

I don’t know if I’ll ever listen to a complete opera again. I certainly intend to.

Welcome to middle age, I guess. My birthday was Monday. Only one year until 40 (which is fine; I’ll feel exactly the same.)