There was just a HUGE crack of thunder right outside my window. It shook everything in my room. I shit you not. o_O

It was funny, though. I was absorbed in reading someone's account of a Who concert and was jarred out of it only by that crack of thunder. *snicker*

On a totally random note: I wish I could write songs. I've got a bunch of stuff I'd like to say, but as soon as I grab a pencil and paper, I can't write it down in a coherent manner.

Maybe I'll start an improvisational band? That'd be pretty cool. Add an air of mystery and WTF to the scene. Much of "rock" these days is so scripted and boring and serious. It's all guys who sound like chicks droning on about how much they wish they were dead or how much they want a girlfriend but are afraid of rejection. It's all basically the same song, repeated over and over with different singers and titles.

Someone needs to bring back cheerful--or at least Not Completely Whiny and Angsty--music, dammit! And bring back stuff with great guitar and cooperation between the instruments! Most of what you hear on the radio is overpowered by the droning bore of the lead singer, with overpowering drums. I LOVE drum solos and sounds--shit, I spent several minutes last night rewatching that clip of Keith doing that solo with the fish-drums--but please, folks, don't make that the entire basis of your career: DRUM. DRONE. DRUM. DRONE. Give it a rest!

It used to be you could tell the singers in different bands apart. Roger Daltrey--distinctive voice. Pete Townshend--distinctive voice. Freddie Mercury--distinctive voice. George Harrison--distinctive voice. Janis Joplin--distinctive voice. They all had their own sounds, too.

These days, I couldn't tell you who's who or what.

BRING BACK CREATIVITY DAMMIT!