SemiConscious Dot Org

First order of business: a quick recap of last weekend’s trip to the Sasquatch Festival. To be blunt, it was a giant, steaming pile of suck. The reasons are many: the fact that I managed to forget my sleeping bag and ticket; the four hour wait in line to get into the campground, only to find they had jacked up the prices on us even though we had a reservation; drunken idiot children who tried to climb into our tents because they were too shitfaced to realize they weren’t at their own campsite; near-100 degree temperatures the day of the show that turned it from a concert into a Darwinian struggle for survival; subpar performances by many of the acts (take a bow, Wilco); campground bathrooms and showers that were smeared in shit, piss, and various (thankfully) unidentifiable bodily fluids by aforementioned drunken idiots, thus rendering them unusable; and the sanctimonious lecture by the campground owner upon our departure about how he hoped our campsite was clean, which prompted a deadpan “Shut up” response from me as I peeled out of the parking lot.

Whew, that’s better. Glad to get that off my chest.

Anyhoo, we have a far more pressing issue to address in this post: blog memes. Specifically, I’ve been tagged by Brenda Hough. And when Brenda Hough tells you to do something, boy, you’d better snap to it. She may be closer to achieving the Buddha Nature than anyone I know, but I wouldn’t want to get on her bad side. She’d kill ya just as soon as look at ya.

To the questions, then:

Total volume of music files on my computer: 24.2GB (I’ve only ripped a small portion of my cd collection so far, but now that I have a 160GB external drive to play with, that number will rise swiftly)

Last CD I Bought Was: Aha Shake Heartbreak by Kings of Leon

Song playing now: “Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore” by The Mars Volta

5 Songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:

• “Summertime Rolls” by Jane’s Addiction
• “Redemption Song” by Bob Marley
• “Dry The Rain” by The Beta Band
• “Maggot Brain” by Funkadelic
• “Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead

First concert I ever attended: Ronnie James muthafuckin’ Dio. Yeah, you heard me. It was 1985, I was 14, and that shit blew my friggin’ mind. Dude had a ten-foot tall crystal ball onstage showing creepy videos, robot knights shooting laser beams out of their swords, the requisite flames and explosions, and even a fire-breathing dragon. Sure, the music was terrible, but I loved it at the time, and to this day, I have never had more fun at a show than I did at that one. (And to think, at that age I hadn’t even discovered the wonders of hallucinagenic drugs yet.)

And now, to tag someone else. But who? Most of the people I know who have blogs have already been tagged; I was one of the last. I don’t seem to remember MP or Tracey or Luke posting anything like this, though, so they’re up. And as for the blogless among you, drop your musical choices in the comments.