Happy Labor Day!

We're going to be out of town this week, celebrating the 90th birthday of my grandma on my dad's side.

I hope everybody has a nice Labor Day weekend, and we'll have a tune for you belatedly next week. We travel on Monday of next week, so you'll likely have it some time on Tuesday.

Until then,
The Educated Fool

Selling Our Old Friend -- 1991 VW Jetta GL, Wolfsburg Edition, 5-Speed Manual

Hey, everybody, we're selling our car! I've posted several photos here of it.

Interested? Go to my profile page and email me!

Video Tune of the Week for 08/03/09 -- Coheed and Cambria, The Suffering

I'm posting a video. Yay. It's of a band that I actually dig, although I'm NOT really into the dude's voice. And they're a little too emo for me. But I like their sound by and large. I've got this CD, and it's a decent listen throughout.

Coheed and Cambria is a "concept band", as opposed to a concept album. Each CD tells its part of the story that the band itself is telling through its music. I haven't gotten into the story up to this point and I've not had the time.

Okay, here it is. Until next week,
The Educated Fool

Video Tune of the Week for 07/27/09 -- King's X, Dogman

This'll be a quicky (man, I'm getting tired of not having much time to write -- looking forward to a life if I can find one in the next few months).

I found this video of King's X on YouTube -- a performance on the Jon Stewart Show. I didn't know they had made it big enough to make these sort of appearances. They've always struggled, regardless of their talent and their first six albums' label (Atlantic).

This made-for-TV recording blows, by the way. King's X has a truly bigger-than-life sound in person. I can't even hear Jerry Gaskill's (drummer) voice.

Dogman grooves big time. The whole album. It introduced a sound for them that was pretty new, including a much dirtier distortion sound.

Okay, I'm off for now. Until next week,
The Educated Fool