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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Finnish Heavy Metal Dinosaurs, Hevisaurus.

What's the word for something that is ridiculous, yet awesome, amd too busy being awesome to be worried about ridiculous? And it's not ironic, or it's so ironic it's gone through to the other side and is sincere, because sincerity when people are expecting irony is as ironic as you can get.

Like Meat Loaf's music, which is ridiculously epic, but completely sincere in being awesome. I suspect some other bands, like Dragonforce may count, it depends on how ironic you credit them as being, I guess.

While there's lots of times that looking at something that happened and saying "It won't mean a thing in a hundred years" is helpful, since it lends perspective, I'd really like to do something in my life that would mean something in a hundred years.

Apparently, I can make myself more more productive (or at least feel that way) by putting on a Pandora station full of ridiculously epic fantasy metal by Dragonforce and their ilk.

I'm not sure what that means, if anything.

Today is obviously power music day. Dinosaur Comics and Slacktivist are both about power music and/or the power of music today.

Personally, I'm a huge sucker for big epic power music, be it ballands, metal, or whatever. Including Journey. There's just something about big epic musical awesome things. Probably that they're big epic and awesome.

So today there was a song with part of the chorus, "someday we'll find out why the sky is blue."

Totally threw me off. Because, dude, seriously? We KNOW why the sky is blue. We've known for years. It's one of the basic facts explained in kids encyclopedias. So why's it still getting thrown around like that?

I give you, Trans Siberian Orchestra and choreographed lights.



The same guy also did Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) the year before.

I just got back from seeing Jonathan Coulton (his site was down during the show, but seems to be up now) with Paul and Storm at the Birchmere in Arlington.

It was fucking AWESOME. Paul & Storm, it turns out, are two of the dudes who used to be in Da Vinci's Notebook, which I didn't know. They were funny and awesome, and Jonathan Coulton was fucking awesome, and also funny. They packed the place, which was over 400 people, and there were two standing ovations and an encore of two songs.

Some highlights.
- The Birchmere is a really cool venue, and decorated all sorts of interestingly.
- Meeting up with kjatar, and his friend and friend's girlfriend, whose names I have shamefully forgotten. kjatar looks a little like Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2. Not how I expected for someone I've known online for an absurd amount of time. Also, they helped by saving us good seats.
- Paul and Storm singing their song "Opening Band" and getting to the line of not having panties thrown at them. Three sets were subsequently thrown on stage.
- One of which was a pair of men's briefs.
- One of the others of which was a minuscule thong, which Paul called an eyepatch, and said he'd have worn as an eyepatch, but his wife wouldn't have approved.
- Paul and Storm's audience participation pirate song, and the varieties of "ARRR!"s involved from the audience.
- A wiseass in the audience (not me) called out "Freebird!" and Paul and Storm played it, with a few modifications, and the audience waved their cell phones since only like two guys had lighters.
- Apparently many people in the front had coordinated to bring plush octopi and monkeys (and a jellyfish and a toucan?) to which they'd pinned $1 bills, or notes.
- One of the notes was a guy asking him to play a bachelor party in Vegas, in exchange for a room and travel fare and such.
- This led to a comment about Neil Diamond already turning the bachelor party down, which led to a really awesome singalong of "Sweet Caroline" with no preparation.
- The audience response part of "Re: Your Brains".
- Getting my CDs signed by Jonathan Coulton, who seems to be a really nice dude, and was willing to talk to a big line of fans and sign all sorts of things even though it meant he didn't get out till midnight, and overall seems a really cool dude.
- The Awesome.

More details later. Sleep now. Also later, picture.

Anybody have any good suggestions for music like from Firefly? Because the music in Firefly was awesome. The music in Serenity wasn't bad, but it wasn't the same kind of awesome mix of cowboy/asian/middle eastern/etc music that Firefly had. There's the soundtrack, but that's only one disc. And it's not nearly enough if for background music if I end up running a Firefly/Serenity RPG, really. I have a little bit of international music that might suffice, but I need more. Suggestions, anyone?

Also, Steven Brust is apparently writing/has written a licensed book set in the Firefly universe. I'm excited!

I totally need to name my chapters after rock songs.

In no particular order and off the top of my head, It's the End of the World as We Know It and Rock and Roll Dreams Come True have to be used. I guess naming chapters might come easier after I write them. But I'm open to suggestions for good names!

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