I never got around to posting anything yesterday not because I was busy, but just…well, because. For the most part very little of note actually happened.
Today has been much the same. I’ve mostly busied myself with some hard drive hygiene, backing up files I want to keep and deleting files I don’t in an effort to free up some space…so that I can fill it all up again and start the cycle over.
If I were still gainfully employed, I would simply buy some more hard drives, or maybe one of those Windows Home Server systems and some more hard drives, but I’m not, so it’s onto DVDs and CDs (or into binary nothingness) for the files cluttering up the drives I do have.
I’ve also done a bit of work on yet another picture that is now fairly close to being finished, but I haven’t felt terribly motivated about it.
Two entertaining things did happen yesterday when I went downstairs and turned on the TV. I was flipping idly through the channels and ended up in the 600s, which are the digital music channels. I was checking out the MTV2 Headbanger’s Ball music channel when the song Holy Diver by Dio came on.
I found this hilarious because a) it was Dio and b) when we spoke on the phone a bit ago, Kevin and I actually talked about Dio, and specifically the song Holy Diver.
(I know that most of you won’t understand why, but seriously, Dio and particularly Dio performing Holy Diver, is just inherently hilarious. Kevin, I’m sure, gets it.)
The next little moment of joy came when I changed to the generic Metal channel.
Back when they were still cool and were busy making good music rather than suing people for stealing it, Metallica had recorded a few strictly instrumental songs, my favorite of which is Orion.
It took a couple of seconds for my brain to wrap itself around the information it was being presented, but I soon realized that the Metal channel was playing a cover of Orion – performed Flamenco style.
This is obviously one of the most awesome things ever.
It was recorded by a Mexican acoustic/folk duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela.
Flamenco Metallica is possibly even more awesome than Metallica played on cellos (By a group from Helsinki, Finland, called Apocalyptica), though I’m not sure I’m willing to go quite that far (Mostly because Apocalyptica covered so many Metallica songs, as well as songs by several other metal bands. My favorite non-Metallica cover by Apocalyptica? Faith No More’s song From Out of Nowhere. For Whom the Bell Tolls is my favorite Metallica cover.)
Again, you have to know the song – and have a particular sense of humor, I think – to appreciate why this is awesome, but take my word for it. The only thing that could make it more awesome would be for it to be performed by Charo.
(And Kevin, you need to find a copy of it; you’ll dig it, I think.)
Anyway, that pretty much brings you up to speed on what’s been going on since my last update. I know you were dying to find out.
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