Track 2: 25 or 6 to 4

Why hello fictional audience,
I know you have been eagerly awaiting my second post for some time now, and for that delay I surely do apologize. You may have thought I was a one-hit wonder, never to produce another worthy song or album. Not Me.


I'm in the 14th week of student teaching, which really means I'm in the 17th week since I started so early with marching band camp. I've interviewed at two places for jobs over the upcoming winter and both are exciting blah blah blah...


So that should be enough about real life stuff, now on to my real dilemma. Muisc. When I started this blog I had the aspirations to get back to listen to music.
But I haven't, and it sucks. The only music I seem to listen to nowadays is 6-12th graders playing badly on instruments.
At the Variety Show (at the high school where I am student teaching) I played in a faculty rock band. We played "Over You" by Chris Daughtry. 'Nough said. That is bad enough, but add to it the fact that I haven't had a working ipod in a year. I was on the verge of stabbing my radio with a screwdriver, but luckily a nano has floated my way. (...and by floated I mean that my sister bought a new one so I got hers as a
hand-me-down. How depressing...)
Anyways, I'm loading it up as we speak. Still haven't decided what album will get the honor.


Quickly, a word about the post title. Well, you can probably figure it out but it's my second post so i wanted to pick a track from a second album. Something about "Wanting just to stay awake, Wondering how much I can take" really spoke to me...


Lastly, Kim and I had the pleasure of seeing my friend Justin's Band play last Saturday. Since Justin is the only confirmed reader of this blog I felt his performance was worth noting. He was great----------------------------------------------->
but what struck me as odd was the reaction of the crowd to their song selection. I would say most of the crowd was a few years older than me, 30 at most. Anyway, they were playing mostly mid-90's rock. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Weezer, etc.
I just thought "wow, this music is becoming this generation's classic rock".
It was just weird to see everybody rockin' out to The Offspring.


Extra points if you know the title of Chicago's second album, on which 25 or 6 to 4 appears...
Does this mean 80's music will be considered oldies?
~BOC

Track 1: I Just Wasn't Made For These Times

Hello All,
I just started the second side to Van Morrison's "Astral Week". Its great, and I love the listening rooms in the library. Today I chose three quality albums: the aforementioned "Astral Week", "Pet Sounds" (Beach Boys), and "Plastic Ono Band" (Lennon). Anyways, I decided that if I was not going to do work, I might as well talk to myself in here.

There is something so perfect and wonderful about the Vinyl LP, I feel I'm connected with the past while I listen to it. The imperfect crackle, the manual start, its all just so rustic and beautiful.

I find that when I read others' blogs that long paragraphs are too much for the common person to read, therefore I like to keep my comments brief so that they are easier to read, no?

I also think these little two sentence paragraphs gives off the sense of stream of consciousness in a reverse sort of way, similar to the way that Mike Downey writes in the Trib, with his stupid lists of twelve things. It looks like he came up with the crap about ten minutes before deadline. Speaking of poor writing, don't even get me started on the Daily Illini writing staff, what a waste.

I guess that's what intrigues me most about the blog process, I can come off very high and mighty, becuase there is no rebutle to my thoughts here, maybe that's why I never liked Charlie that much. My only real contact to him was reading his seven page blogs about what was wrong with the world, and how he deserves better, blah, blah, blah

The last few times that I've been in here, I've picked albums with forward momentum, albums that needed to be listened to in whole, and its great, especially in "Pet Sounds". Brian Wilson said that he heard "Rubber Soul" and felt it was a challenge, that he needed to outdo The Beatles to create the best album ever. And even though he was just one man up against the three-headed monster of Lennon, McCartney, and Martin, he did a pretty damn good job. The whole album flowed incredibly well, and many times I was distracted from my work to listen, which is always a bonus.

Question, does anyone actually listen to entire albums other than me?
Extra Credit if you can tell me what album my post title comes from....(Hint, I just listened to it)

Fuck talking about my day, nobody wants to read that shit

Back to marking up scores, bear with me as I attempt to join the blogosphere...
~BOC