Music…

Me And My Wine

High ‘N’ Dry

Def Leppard
and Words

Well I’m down in the alley of Sally and I’m feeling my way
And it’s four in the morning, I don’t have a lot I can say
I know I’m looking for some satisfaction
But there ain’t much news
Got some walking from a back reaction
I’m hanging down and loose

Me and the boys have been drinking
Feeling like this is the wrong time for thinking
All I can say is I’m doing fine with just me and my wine

Lyric excerpts from Musixmatch.


Def Leppard filled hours of my time.  I started listening to them in the 80’s before the release of Pyromania.  It started with this album, High ‘N’ Dry.  This was in the age before digital music when we still played cassettes tape.  I played this album enough times to wear it out; that’s right, with this physical media it’ll eventually fail.  The tape will either lose its fidelity or fail in some spectacular fashion.  I truly had this album committed to memory.

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Music…

Pull Me Under

Images and Words

Dream Theater
and Words

Lost in the sky
Clouds roll by and I roll with them
Arrows fly
Seas increase and then fall again

This world is spinning around me
This world is spinning without me
And every day sends future to past
Every breath leaves me one less to my last

Lyric excerpts from Musixmatch.


One of the most distinctive offices in the team belonged to Curtis.  First, the lights barely illuminated anything in this room, if they were turned on at all.  Second, about half a dozen plants thrived at different key locations in this office; it had a jungle-like ambiance.  Additionally, a set of Space Muffins MIDI drums sat on the corner opposite the desk.  Next, within arm’s reach sat a set of over-the-ears headphones and an array of Vic Firth drumsticks.  Finally, a compact stereo played music astonishingly loudly for its size and the music played from CD’s that lined each of the desk’s drawers.

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