Kids these days.  They all oughta be penned up and made to listen    to the perfectly good harpsichord and Theremin music we had back    when I first became permanently cool.  What has precipitated this increase in musical reference?  It's possible  that I never noticed it before, but because I hang on every word youwrite,  and have known of your lack of musical interest ever since reading the  back jacket cover of NEEDS MORE WANGER, I think I would have noticed  earlier. Gee, pardon me for not wearing earplugs in the supermarket and club to avoid having to be bothered by the horrible music we're forced to listen to every time we leave the house. (Of course, earplugs hardly matter at my local club because the deafeningly loud noisemusic goes right through earplugs.  After all, earplugs reduce it by 33 decibels at most, and that stuff's gotta be at least 130 at times.) In general I hate music (with a few exceptions), but I think I'm allowed to be more annoyed by certain music, such as the 9999999th time I was immersed in Jingle Bell Rock while shopping last month, the fact that Muzak is now in an era where we'll have to listen to Roxanne another thousand times to re-create the horror of 1986 ( YOUUUUU DON'T HAVE TO PUT ONNNN THE REEEEEED LIIIIIIIGHT! ), and that my local night-time hangout is infested with DJs who think the only music worth playing is music which isn't even music and sounds like the inside of a spastic trash compactor. Normally right now I'd be getting ready to leave for that club so I could attempt to socialize under the grinding noises, but I'm feeling a little ill today, so I'm staying home and watching the overly-hyped new episode of CSI about the guy who gets shot with a silver bullet because someone thinks he's a werewolf because he has a mild case of hypertrichosis (i.e. he's got hairy arms and legs.) All the CSI dudes are weirded out by the fact that the guy has heavy body hair

   What has precipitated this increase in musical reference [by Kibo]?  It's not that he's suddenly started liking music or anything.  It's that the above involves music he -doesn't- like, which you can  do totally separate from liking ANY music at all, and it's got enough  more annoying to him that the annoyance is flowing out his fingers  into Usenet to-day.  Dave of course, if I'm wrong and he's starting a band, he'll have SO many   drummer applications... DeLaney Well, having someone who could play the drums (or even a real instrument) would give us a big edge over the Village People at The Battle Of The Identical-Looking Bands. Though it might be more interesting to do one of those retro-futuristic sci-fi bands, like if Mark Ayres were a member of Devo.  We'd all wear silver jumpsuits with giant shoulders and play the Theremin and the Moog monophonic synth and the Dingfutzer and the Blaster Beam. I was watching the pathetic old Dr. Strange TV-movie this weekend and the bootleg's case didn't say what year it was made, but I guessed 1978 or 1979 because the closest it came to having any action was that occasionally you'd hear the Blaster Beam play a riff when someone was staring woodenly at something.  I knew it had to be '78-'79 because the Blaster Beam was popularized by Star Trek: The Motion Picture for about fifteen minutes before people started saying Not that damn Blaster Beam again!  So Dr. Strange had to be done either right before or right after the much faster-paced Star Trek movie. So here's what we'll do.  We'll put on our silver jumpsuits with our homemade capes and play Plutonium Hymns on our Theremin, Moog, Dingfutzer, and Blaster Beam.  But because that would sound awful, our gimmick will be that we'll keep our electric instruments from sounding bad by playing them all unplugged.  We'd have to get the mike really close to the Theremin to pick up the sounds of hands moving through the air. [www.filmcement.com, blog entry by Warren ] - -  The Blaster Beam: The Real Orgasmatron...? -   -  Sometime in the 70's, Craig Huxley

There are two CSI plots:   He had a ____________ fetish, and that automatically led to his murder because his sexuality was different and therefore wrong, or He had a genetic ___________ condition, which makes him more interesting to dissect than someone normal.  It's a snuff freak show. Sure, but why talk up a bad one?  The plane crash episode of nip/tuck... like Dead Ringers or Riget (the original Kingdom Hospital)... I'm in my happy place now.

Dave of course, if I'm wrong and he's starting a band, he'll have SO many drummer applications... DeLaney Although I can't play the instrument, I'm in all other ways eminently qualified to be the bass p_layer_.