I’ll never be a rock star, its not my personality. Not that I couldn’t out-drink some of them, because I could, but isn’t it about the music first?…

Some people will see this as crazy, but I have five hundred dollars invested in my guitar pedal board, and I have made $120. I write it off personally as a recreational expense, and most of it was bought on credit, but for all of it, I would physically challenge you for, if you were trying to steal it, which is why I’m glad I don’t live in Toledo anymore.

If I’ve learned one or two or many things about the American Mid-West, its that they don’t like to spend any money. And thats totally respectable considering how many people fucked up with their mortgages, we rode that one out. So we get to say all the cliche things about all those ‘Wall Street Cats’. ROFL

But what I want my life to be is dream spending whenever possible, tonight for example, I’m going to order an effect for my guitar setup. I don’t really know how I’m gonna pay for it, but I will figure it out. It might be a total waste, but its like buying anything you only need to buy once, you never know when you will need it.

This will be the most self-indulgent blog post of this blog, and that’s saying something. I know nobody’s been reading, but seriously, who the fuck would care about me ordering an effect pedal, its a boss CS-3, but nobody knows what that is, so this is still my online diary. I hope you start yours soon, I gonna listen to John Mayer now.

I hate March Madness.

But I completely love that Colin Cowherd has decided to do a 64 band rock bracket this year along side that tournament. I did this with my family a few years ago, it was a great conversation/argumentation starter.

This was my only thought for the blog so far, other than to correct him, because he said something to the effect of ‘velvet underground and radiohead don’t count because the critics loved them, but nobody bought any of their albums.’ And, although it helps his argument, I will note that the spell check this site uses did not recognize Radiohead.

Until I capitalized it, then it did. Which works to my advantage because not only are ‘OK Computer’, and ‘The Bends’, 2 of the top 5 albums of the 90’s, but they also sold millions of records, and were very popular, despite their total refusal to produce anything a non-music-lover would want to hear.

Seriously, they played ‘Karma Police’ on Letterman, and even he was like, who the fuck booked this? Radiohead are an amazing band, each member is completely talented at what they do, and if you listen to music for something other than to pass the time in your car, or to put a smile on your face, you most likely love them.

But I finally got a chance to see their Haiti charity performance on video this week, and for FUCKS sake, why didn’t they have professionals record it? I know there were mistakes, and the video was great by the indie people that did it, but the setlist was amazing. Although since they appear to be totally anti-retail, no surprise.

We’ll all be dead by the time Radiohead gets the praise they already deserve, but when scholars look back at the 90’s and 00’s, and see that this was like Beethoven and Bach getting together to record a few albums, and they also gave the bird to the music industry, wearing a Radiohead T-shirt will be much more badass. Even more than Pink Floyd now.