Hey there!  Looks like this thing DOES work!  And I remember how it works!

I haven't been lazy, I've been busy.  I hate journalers/bloggers/whatevers who always say how long it's been, so I'm shutting up and changing the subject.

But it has been too long, hasn't it?

I came across some old cassette tapes from my early high school years (early, because I was buying CDs by about my mid-sophomore year.  I'm not THAT old!).  I put one of my formerly favorite tapes from 1985 in, The Thompson Twins's Here's to Future Days.  Boy oh boy, did THAT suck!  Didn't hold up well over the years at all.  I was about ready to kill somebody about halfway through the second song.  It was not a treat at all.

Love is the Law was pretty good, though, with the steel drums.  Or synthesized steel drums, most likely.  There's not a single sound on that entire album that wasn't processed by 1985's most powerful computers.  Yes, that includes the vocals.

For some reason, that stupid album made me wish I still had hair to pile on top of my head and bangs to put in my eyes.

Hey, did you know I'm a pianist?  I took over 10 years of piano, just to prove to the world that I was gay as a goose.  You'd think after ten years I'd be pretty good, but I'm not. I can play Heart and Soul, The First Noel, Silent Night, The Sting, and a random blues tune.  If I were my parents, I'd be pissed at all the money they spent on that shit.

Actually, by the time I was in high school, I wasn't half bad (that means I didn't suck).  I had a really cool piano teacher by that time who's daughter was a showgirl in Vegas, and I heard rumors that her son was a showgirl in Vegas, too.  Wouldn't surprise me.  She was a cool old lady,  Very hip.  Cool red hair.  She had bad denture breath, though, and she stood behind me, so her titties pressed into my back during my entire piano lesson, which weakened my concentration to the point of distraction, and I didn't learn much from her.  I mostly spent an hour a week with old lady titties in my back.  I don't think it was a sex thing, because my sister and I discussed it once, and she did it my sister, too. 

Unless she was just really kinky and liked cheerleaders, too.  But I'm going to, for the sake of my sanity, think she didn't know it was eeking me out.

Well, I can hardly wait for the google hit for "old ladies titties pressed against my back".  I'm ending this now before I blow up google's robot with all the sick search terms.

Congratulations on your award from diarist.net. Your site really is beautiful. So well designed, and well deserved.

What do you mean _Here's To Future Days_ did not stand the test of time?! Er...wait. I just checked the track listing and I'm guessing yr kinda right there. But the previous albums still hold up! And "King For A Day" was a pretty good song.

I can't wait until bloggers are out of the mainstream Google search results.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/31070.html
You can probably Google for more information about it, but it's being called "blogger noise" in the search results. Either way, a -noblog option, or an entire separate section, like the news groups, will bring happiness to a great number of Google users. The day is coming.

--Tim

congrats on the diarist thingy! yay tim! you've hit the big time, baby!

speaking of old tapes, i just got a box with all my high school mix tapes... it was some funny stuff. i'll be posting a list soon, but i do recall i had a copy of wham's make it big. that certainly has not held up over time... heh.