Overthunk

If you do, FORGET ABOUT "SMOKE ON THE WATER" and soak THIS up.

Not to be an oldster hipster, but I do seek new stuff. Occasionally, it brings me joy. Maybe it can joy you too. In ABC order: Cheeseburger So throwback and ridiculously rock star, it's delightful. It's been done, but it's still fresh. How, I don't know. Louis XIV Sex, sex, sex. Let's keep that between me and you, ok? Piebald I'm still investigating, but things look promising. Ian Moore Bluesy deliciousness. Each new song I hear, I can't believe how beautiful and heart-capturing it is. Dandelion. I think he has short hair now. Now have fun matching the pics and the descriptions! (Having said that, I still burn candles at the altars of Corgan and Reznor on alternate Thursdays.) -------- A wedding salad: lettuce alone. (Ok, maybe you've heard it. I hadn't. But it was good.)

Yeah, I'm closer to 40 than 14, but that doesn't mean I can't pretend to be in that band I always wanted to be in. And no, I can't play the guitar for real, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the tar out of this game. In fact, that's the whole POINT. The second version of this Playstation 2 diversion, called Guitar Hero as you can see here, just came out, but I'm too busy woodshedding on a borrowed version of the first one to care about that yet. At first, I sucked so thoroughly the game kicked me out of the song and the crowd booed. Yet now, I can successfully hit 80-96% of the notes on average of tunes ranging from Boston's "More Than A Feeling" to Audioslave's "Cochise." The cool thing is, songs you don't even like much and dismiss as crap, you get new respect for when you try to play them. You also learn how Nikki Sixx must have felt when his fingers and forearms ached from the amount of rockin' he was doing, but...

I'm starting a band. There have to be some other people over 30 who want to slant towards the dream as death edges ever closer.