HOLY DIVER
I bought the Dio album yesterday and I have to say it’s AWESOME. I think I’ve listened to it, like, four times already. I even skipped my last class today so I could come home and listen to it again. I cranked up the stereo in my room so the walls vibrated, then I shut the blinds and turned on my black light so I could get into it better.
Then my sister got home and yelled at me to turn it down. I don’t know where she gets off. I worked hard all last summer to buy my stereo, so if I want to play it loud, I’m going to play it loud. But she kept banging on my door and totally ruining my ability to appreciate it. When the first side was over I decided to ride my bike over to where that hot girl from my English class lives. Or at least that’s where I think she lives. I was riding my bike over there last week and I saw here there on that street. I don’t think she saw me.
Before I went over there, I wet my hair down so that I could blow it dry and maybe feather it a little bit, just in case I ran into her again. But when I got over to what I think is her house, all I saw was a bunch of guys from the city packing up their stuff. It looked like they had just finished re-doing the sidewalk or something. I decided to ride down to the Stop and Go to see if they had New Coke yet. They didn’t.
I circled back past that house again on my way home, just in case she was outside. No luck. There was nobody there at all. So I grabbed a stick and wrote “Dio” in the sidewalk. That way some small part of me was still there. Then I rode back home to listen to side two. At full volume.
As an update to last week’s post, Tom Scholz called out Mike Huckabee for using “More Than a Feeling” while campaigning.
“Your campaign’s use of More Than a Feeling, coupled with the
representation of one of your supporters as a member “of BOSTON” clearly
implies that the band BOSTON, and specifically one of its members, has
endorsed your candidacy, neither of which is true.
I wrote and arranged More Than a Feeling, engineered and produced the
recording, and actually played all the guitars on that BOSTON hit as well
as most of BOSTON’s songs, not the person holding a guitar in your
promotion who identified himself as being “of BOSTON.” Your claim that this
was “the guy who originally did it” is a bit mystifying since he never
played on that recording, nor has he been “of BOSTON” since he left my band
over a quarter century ago, after performing with us for only three years.
BOSTON has never endorsed a political candidate, and with all due
respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite
of most everything BOSTON stands for. In fact, although I’m impressed you
learned my bass guitar part on More Than a Feeling, I am an Obama
supporter.”
Translation: This dude who supports you is not in Boston; I am Boston and that guy is not me. Boston doesn’t endorse candidates. I endorse Obama.
You’d think a guy who went to MIT would be better with the transitive property.
Whenever I see somebody type things out in all caps it always, always, always reminds me of the long, rambling letter that we received when I worked at a movie theater. The man who wrote it was looking for employment, but was obviously not playing with a full deck. Throughout the letter, he described many of his upstanding qualities, periodically capitalizing entire words or phrases for no apparent reason. LOOKS GOOD IN CLOTHES. He mentioned how good he looked in clothes–sometimes in third person, sometimes in first person–several times throughout the letter. Coincidentally, Tom Scholz also looks good in clothes.
No amount of feeding flowers to a deer is going to change my mind. I still hate Boston.
As an update to last week’s post, Tom Scholz called out Mike Huckabee for using “More Than a Feeling” while campaigning.
No amount of feeding flowers to a deer is going to change my mind. I still hate Boston.
When we give a shaggy dog award this year, I’ll remember this when my ballot arrives in the mail.
All Praise and Glory to Dio
Death and Pestilence to Boston.
Oh who, and what the hell is that photo all about!? I demand context!
Dude, I told you what it was about. Actually, I have no idea. I saw it on the ground one day and made up the backstory for it.
No, not the Dio one, the deer picture!!!
I hate to do this, but can anyone do a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon thing to link Dio with Boston?
Because Dio was in Sabbath, that automatically makes him one degree away from pretty much every band that has ever played. Yet I don’t know if there is a Boston connection in there.
Being kind of a karmic balance/yin yang kind of dude, it would seem that some part of Boston must lie inside Dio, and vice versa, or the whole cosmos would be totally fucked up.
But what is really more fucked up is that no candidate is using Dio for his/her campaign stops. Whoever that is, I automatically vote for them, even if they propose something completely insane and unworkable like universal health care.
Yeah I’d have to agree that short of a triple headed Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito Cerberus running for president that eats children and kittens then shits them onto his supporters at rallys before devouring them as well, any person who pumps DIO as his campaign song gets my vote.
I’m not sure what the deer picture is all about. I found it on the Boston website. It might have something to do with being a vegan. I guess he’s trying to show you that by not eating the deer. Or maybe the deer is the vegan, since it’s the one eating the flowers. It’s pretty confusing to me.
By the way, good luck not stabbing yourself in the ears when looking at that website. It’s got possibly the most annoying Flash effects I’ve ever seen on a website.
I hear that if you feed deer enough flowers, they learn to trust you and that makes them much easier to catch and eat.
OK here are the facts
The photographer is a wedding photographer in Key West
That’s Tom and his wife Kim in Key West.
which can lead to only one conclusion:
Tom is taking part in an ancient ritual whereupon his wife was offered to the forest creatures as a blood sacrifice the god Baal!
I nailed it, didn’t I?
Six Degrees:
Boston>Gary Pihl (guitar) >Sammy Hagar>Montrose>Denny Carmassi (drummer)>Whitesnake>Vivian Campbell (guitar)>Dio>Sabbath
six degrees!! wow!!
if that kid with feathered hair wants to travel through time and space, he can join me for the Sabbath Judas Sabbath show next month which I have as an important calendar item.
I don’t know about the kid with the feathered hair, but I’m in for the Sabbath Judas Sabbath.
Boston rocks!!!!!!!!
I’m not so sure about the band.
Mike Hunt