Still haven't figured out The Riddle of the Backpacks... but am getting closer.

I finally beat a game I've been trying to beat for quite awhile now. Faerie Caves II on Neopets. :D I'm such a dork nyan. *does a dance*

I need a haircut. It's getting kind of uneven. But, mostly, there's a part by my ears where the hair grows down and back into my ears. Rather bothersome nyan.

I watched a video with one of Keith Moon's last interviews. I kinda teared up when he and Pete were talkin' about what they would be doing when they were 50. I was born ten years after Keith died, but I still love all those people who came and went before me. Role models in craziness, peace, and creativity. I wish Keith were still around. John Lennon, too. It would have been interesting to see what would have changed in the music scene. Maybe "Boys Whining With Soft Cookie-Cutter Instrumental Backing" wouldn't be the dominant trend, followed by "Rapper Who Sounds the Same as Every Other Rapper" and "Very Skanky-Looking Chicks Who Sound Exactly the Same as Every Other Skanky-Looking White-girl Singer Writhing Around on a Bed."

I think it'd be good for the music industry if someone who had a deep voice and cheerful lyrics came on the scene. Or at least something other than "My girlfriend left me; I angst" or "Homies bitches rides bling bling (and one day, I swear I will track down whoever invented that phrase, and I will beat them with a sack of sweet Valencia oranges)" or "AM I NOT THE MORE WHORISHLY BEAUTIFUL THING EVER?"

I mostly blame Kurt Cobain for this trend of angsty white-boy music. Props to him: He played a decent guitar, even after frying his hand pretty bad in an accident. Actually, he was a good guitarist. But his lyrics? FULL OF SUCK AND LOSE, as far as I've heard. Sometimes I think I'm the only one who doesn't like Nirvana or any other grunge at all. It's part "I don't like their lazy, apathetic lyrics" and part "Their fans bother the hell out of me". I once had a girl (who was extremely annoying in other respects as well) tell me that Nirvana predated and was better than the Beatles. Uh-uh. Wrong. Thanks for playing. I suppose there are better bands than the Beatles (though I would defend those boys to the death), but Nirvana? Isn't one of 'em. And what is this "Nirvana came before them and they copied!" shit?! 1960 CAME BEFORE 1990. Thank you for playing. Look, I'm horrible at math, but even I know that. All right?

I'm not saying all music should be sunshine and rainbows, but really, it could focus on something other than romance or sex once in awhile. Which is why I like the Who so much. They didn't have a whole lot of lovey-dovey songs in their repertoire. (The ones I can remember include I Can't Explain, Love Ain't For Keeping, Pictures of Lily, and perhaps a few others.) But the point is, Pete and John wrote about things beyond that. They were more creative than to focus on ONE thing and rewrite it a million different times. John wrote about spiders, boogiemen (I love that song), getting piss-drunk and getting in trouble with his wife, Heaven and Hell, things like that. And Pete writes about everything and he does a great job of making songs about whatever wanders into his head. There's so much variety, and every song sounds so radically different from the other one on the album.

I wish that I had some kind of musical talent beyond mediocre harmonica-playing. If I had any kind of talent, I would bring some change pretty goddamn quick!