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Ahhhhh, Wilco. If you haven't heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot yet, you really, really need to. It's just about the greatest album ever, after OK Computer. The album's name comes from a shortwave transmission recording from The CONET Project. There's a sound sample at the end of track 10, "Poor Places". The clip is just so great that I had to find it. After much searching, I found the entire 4-disc set of recordings available on MP3 right here.

The Yankee Hotel Foxtrot clip is just called "phonetic alphabet nato", so it took me a while to find.
So, why would I care? I spent several hours avoiding homework to find this because I was just getting bored of my old voice mail notification and needed a change. After a little cleanup, it sounds great, and colleague and co-worker alike wonder what the heck that noise is. :-)

A buddy of mine said that a band I like is selling out. I happen to still like them, but he claims that since they were signed a few years ago their music has gotten too market-friendly, whatever that is supposed to mean.

So what is selling out? Is it a bunch of guys who're tired of living out of a shitty van they bought from the drummer's parents for 9 months out of the year, then coming home to realize that they're still flat-ass broke and have to pick up the night shift at the 7-11, so they decide to make a few more "Market friendly" songs while attempting to keep the spirit of their music alive? If that's selling out, then what else? Maybe selling out is going to college and getting good grades. Maybe selling out is trading in your Doc's and hoody for loafers and business casual. Or maybe it's the quiet desperation you feel when you're a middle-aged middle-manager stuck in gridlock on your way home to your middle-income home in suburbia and you realize that you've never really accomplished anything worthwhile in your entire life... Or maybe I'm just talking out my ass.

Don't really have much to say, but I feel like writing, so I'll subject anybody who happens upon this journal with some ramblywords.

I didn't get into my English class this semester. I procrastinated too long, and by the time I finally signed up, the class was full. So it's just the advanced C++ for engineers and MIS class this semester. Don't ask me why it's programming for engineers, or why it's supposed to be so advanced. Object oriented crap with some logic concepts and we get to learn UML. Yay.
The MIS class is even more thrilling. It's mostly a rehash of intro to MS Office and basic information systems concepts. I could have, should have challenged, but it's too late now.
At this rate, I'll be roughly 300 years old by the time I graduate. With all the recent advances in medicine, I might even make it.
I guess it's not all bad. This gives me a chance to work on some more certifications. I keep planning on just going and doing my CCNA, but the local testing center shut down, and the closest one to my town is a 90 minute drive, and it's only open Mon - Fri, so it'd be a whole day lost to go do it, and it's just not that big a deal for my current job.

Good news though is that I may have a new job! I have an interview for a network security position at a mid-size research firm nearby next week. I meet the requirements, but there are a lot of other applicants trying for this job, as well. I feel good that they're at least interviewing me, though. Makes me feel like I've got a chance. Finger crossing time.

"What about you, Peter man? What would you do with a million dollars?"

"Besides two chicks at the same time?"

"Well, yeah..."

After giving much thought, I've decided that I would convince my friend Rob to come with me and become the first live-action porno band. Most pornos seem to come with cheesy 70's disco tracks, except for the ones with the word "Asian" anywhere in the title. It's easy enough to pull off oldskool 70's riffs. I'd play the guitar, Rob would play the bass, and I guess we'd have to find some nerd who plays keyboard, too.
The general premise behind a live-action porno band is simple, yet revolutionary. We are on the set while the humping is going on, and we just play whatever seems right at the time. Kind of like a Fugazi concert, except it would be all disco, and the people humping would be getting paid.
So you just keep up with the body tempo, throw in some chords, when the girl gets fifth-based or the money shot comes up, you throw in a few bendy things on the bass, and you're set!
Yeah, I know even crappy pornos are often done in multiple shots, but don't ruin my fantasy, here. Truth is, I just want to be involved with pornos really. I can't imagine being in a porno; me and my wiener are a little camera shy. Being in a live-action porno band is about the next best thing.

I wonder what my high school guidance counselor would have to say about that?