It's been another low-key day. Shift in the am then some Sgt. Pepper DLC for Rock Band; I tried them all on expert just to get up on the leaderboards (as of right now, "Fixing a Hole" (31), "She's Leaving Home" (57), "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" (9), "Within You Without You" (20), "When I'm Sixty-Four" (36), "Lovely Rita" (19), "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" (14), and "A Day in the Life" (41)) and once again remember how fond I am of the Beatles. Although I am getting the impression that John Lennon was sort of a jerk on occasion. Well, nobody's perfect.
I also got John Mayer's new cd in the mail. The first listen was a little disappointing; he was doing a good job shoehorning some blues into his songs on the last album, but he seems to have reverted to his old swoony-croony stuff. A couple more listens and I can pick out some blues, but you have to listen for it. I guess being a bazillionaire entertainer dating supermodels just doesn't make for good blues fodder. So it's okay, but a little slicker than I'd have liked.
I also also got the latest from the Foo Fighters, but it's a greatest hits album with only two new songs on it. One of them, the one that's getting a lot of airtime, sounds a whole lot like a Tom Petty song- and I'm not really all that big on Tom Petty. The other, 'Word Forward', is a good solid rock song that I like a lot, and have hollered myself hoarse on for Rock Band 2. I suppose I ought to pick up the Them Crooked Vultures cd soon too.
A cold front blew through yesterday, and I made jokes about outrunning the cold a la 'Day After Tomorrow' as we went to see '2012', which was delightfully terrible. I mean, they didn't even try to be believable at all. It was just packed full of absurd explodey goodness. I wouldn't really recommend it unless you're willing to put up with it's terribleness, but it will make excellent fodder for the Riff Trax guys.
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