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"It rocked" is slang where I'm from -- just means it was a cool thing/event/place/person.  Not that it was a headbanger.  Guess I thought that part of the 'rock' definition was understood all over. E.G.  "That restaurant really rocked!"  Meaning the food/service was great, not that it was...

David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing Christmas songs -- I think "White Christmas" -- or it was possibly "Silent NIght" -- can't remember, saw a video of it a long time ago on MTV.  It rocked though.

I wonder if she tried to convert him?  ;) Giggle!

What was the song called?

Well, maybe more than one.  I went to school with a Seventh Day Adventist.  It seemed they were a very strict religion, like no dancing, no this, no that, but apparently believing in hokum predictions and giving everything away is okay, no problem. I wonder if he was embarrassed about his...

What's everybody listening to lately?  What do you like besides Maiden? Any recomendations, metal or otherwise?

Who's William Miller?

Thanks Foro for the recommendations re: Gerrard and dead can dance.  I think I will check it out, although I'm immersed in Maiden so much now I haven't been listening to much else.  Yes, that poet is completely different.  I thought that some of his work is like a ghazal, and other parts of...

I do remember them from my Goth listening days.  I didn't really seem to get into them then but I should revisit their music.  I found myself later on understanding her voice a lot better.  If you have any recommendations from their work, Foro, I'd appreciate it. This poet, Michael Earl Craig...

Ah, driving and music.  Transcendent!  Sometimes everything sucks except the opportunity to drive and blast tunes. Right now, most of my driving is to and from work.  I live in Los Angeles, not from here though originally and not staying either, but my commute is 21 miles one way (short for...

Foro's right.  Plus, whoever started this theory of 2012 used a Mayan calendar which supposedly stops on DEc. 21 . . . except it doesn't.  ONly one period ends and then the next period begins.  Of course, the Mayans are no longer around as a civilization to clarify any of that . . . their...

Well this article, which is an AP poll, may make some of you scream bloody murder!  But the poll's result was 57% of Americans in favor of taxing the rich to cover health care costs, a 5.4% surcharge.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_ ... alth_taxes

One may think this belongs in the 'now watching', but alas, a lot of people believe this will happen -- that the world will end supposedly according to the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012, that somehow this combines with a Sumerian legend of a runaway planet collidiing with earth.  (Boy...

Listen to me said the prophet!! Welcome from LA . . .  :bigsmile:

Pretty cool.  It reads like stuff from Tolkien, especially The Silmarillion -- probably because Tolkien took from Celtic and Anglo-Saxon history, language, and mythologies.  I've read a couple books about the Celts, but it would be interesting to find out more. On an aside, Lisa Gerrard is...