Grunge is back!
Or, perhaps better stated, Grunge Is Not Dead.
For the record, I used that word (grunge) while grinding my teeth. I generally dislike it, and use it more to describe a time period and geographic rock movement (RE: Seattle) than I do an actual musical genre. If Alice in Chains became popular 3 years earlier before the mainstream media coined that term they would have been a metal group. If Nirvana became popular two years earlier we’d refer to them as a punk group. If Pearl Jam became popular earlier we’d be talking about their similarity with The Who and a splash of Neil Young rather than lumping them in with Nirvana. Grunge was always a media buzz-word to create hype about the Seattle movement.
(That’s not to take anything away from what grew up out of the underground Seattle scene at that time, I just don’t consider it a musical genre).
That being said, those bands comprise some of my absolute favorite, and certainly my favorite “contemporary” (can they even be called that anymore?!) music.
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Pearl Jam – Backspacer
Every three or four years Pearl Jam releases an album, an event that usually triggers a fair amount of nostalgia for me. Pearl Jam was pretty much the band that got me into music when I was an impressionable ten year old (ironically) first finding out what I liked and didn’t like. I was in the 5th grade (I believe) in 1992 when I first heard Ten and was immediately hooked. This is what music was supposed to sound like to me, and I’ve been a fan ever since. I recall buying Ten, Vs., Vitalogy and Yield when they came out (for some reason skipping No Code), taking me right through high school.
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Phillies begin title defense
Originally posted at baseball.realgm.com
The real season starts now.
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Loyal to a fault
Originally posted at baseball.realgm.com.
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Why Michael Vick Still makes me sick
As I was sitting there watching Donovan McNabb wince from the pain of a broken rib, the thought of being the starting quarterback should McNabb be out an extended period of time came to me. It doesn’t seem McNabb should be out long enough for this to become a reality (yet), and Vick isn’t even eligible to play until week 3. In all likelihood he is probably even longer away from being in football shape to be effective. Still, it got me to thinking: am I at the point yet where I can cheer for Michael Vick?
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Trapped girls call for help on facebook
The Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) in Adelaide says it is worrying that two girls lost in a stormwater drain raised the alert on a social networking site rather than ringing triple-0.
The 10- and 12-year-old girls updated a Facebook status to say they were lost in a drain on Honeypot Road at Hackham in Adelaide’s southern suburbs on Sunday night
Of course, had this been posted on twitter, it would probably be something like:
No commentsHelp!! I’m stuck in a drain. Hurt badly. I think my leg is broken. I’m not sure how much longer I can stay down here. You can find me at