“Another suburban family morning, Grandmother screaming at the wall…”
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Last night was rather quiet, which was a decidedly pleasant change of pace from the way the day started. After getting home and winding down a bit, I headed back out to pick up my copy of Iron Man. While at Best Buy, I noticed that they had a few DVDs that I was interested in marked down, so I picked them up.
We didn’t have our Scion game so after returning home, I logged into City of Heroes for a bit. I was asked to join a mid-30s level group as a sidekick and we took on the Circle of Thorns. I cut my gaming a little short, as SaraRules stopped by for a while. After she left, I logged back in and ran a couple of Ouroboros missions. After that, I read Watchmen until I fell asleep.
Stray Toasters
- Rush has a song called Nobody’s Hero. If you “mis-listen” to the song, it almost sounds like they are singing “Nobody Zero,” which strikes me as a great name for a street-level, Batman-like hero. Well, maybe more like Kick-Ass or Twilight Guardian or some other non-powered, average Joe who decides to fight evil. But, it’s also got me wondering: What other song lyrics lend themselves to being turned into possible superhero names?
- On last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, Josette Sheeran was one of the guests. She is the Executive Director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme. After discussing the WFP’s mission, Dave posted a URI for donations: http://www.wfp.org/lateshow/
- While watching for SaraRules to drive past – and watching the traffic along this section of 215 – three parts of the media-cloud in my head all came together:
- Ants Marching, by The Dave Matthews Band
Driving along this highway
All these cars and up on the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged,
No time to exchange when
All the little ants are marching
Red and black antennae waving- Synchronicity II, by The Police
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race- The theme from Speed Racer (the 60’s cartoon, not the recent movie)
He’s off and flying as he guns the car around the track
He’s jamming down the pedal like he’s never coming back
Adventure’s waiting just aheeeeeeeeaaaaad
- And since this is now stuck in my head, I’m going to inflict this on share this with you:
- From NPR Music: Mambo! Afro-Cuban Takes on Jazz Classics
- Do you has?!
Back to it.
Namaste.
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October 1st, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Y’know, Rush has been my favorite band for almost 30 years now, so when someone mentions “Nobody’s Hero” in the same breath with my Twilight Guardian, you know I’m stoked (I had a similar experience recently on ebay when someone was selling a copy of “Signals” and in the description said that “Digital Man” and “Analog Kid” were the inspiration for the father/son team in “Troy Hickman’s Common Grounds”).
The chills I get when I hear “Nobody’s Hero” are similar to the ones I feel when I hear Geddy sing “The pilot of Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave” or “somewhere out of a memory, of lighted streets on quiet nights” or any line of “Red Barchetta” or…
I’m going to go now. If I start talking about Rush, we’re going to be here a while.
Troy