Blog Lexicon

People

Amy - my sister, who is responsible for my love of old Queen

Dad - not a huge musical influence, but I do occasionally post examples of "Dad music" (see below)

Glenn Case, Niveous, William, Tuuur, Woordenaar - other song-a-day bloggers, whom I sometimes reference directly

Rabid Garfunkel - Pat, my best friend from college/occasional musical collaborator

Rex - my brother, who is responsible for many of my lifetime's musical choices

Terms

cow-orker - It's an alternate term for co-worker.  I stole this from Dilbert author Scott Adams.

Dad music - artists my father liked when I was much younger, and didn't appreciate until much later in life

Funky Friday - Sometimes I post funk tunes on Fridays.  I stole the idea from Pat.  See also LATFAP.

LATFAP - a term used to describe my Love of All Things Funky And Percussive

sheet - used in place of "s**t", in the name of uniqueness as well as family-friendliness

singwriter - used in place of "singer/songwriter", a term I can't stand

singwritarist - used in place of "singer/songwriter/guitarist"

Recurring topics

classic rock radio - Sometimes I will post a song from a prototypical 70s band that often gets played on "classic rock radio", such as Led Zeppelin, Kansas or Boston.  My recurring point is that I can still enjoy such music because I don't let classic rock radio ruin it for me.

Def Leppard - Probably my least favorite band of all time.  I don't care how popular they were.  They sucked astronomically hard and always did.  Every once in a blue moon I will say as much.

enemas and bondage - As a result of this post, this site sometimes gets hits as a result of Google searches having to do with enemas and/or bondage.  Yes, it's very unlikely that those searchers find what they are looking for here, but God bless 'em anyway.  It's pretty much the only traffic I get.

Marquee/Home Premiere Cinema - If I recall correctly, Marquee was a low-rent premium cable channel we had around 1979 or so, and Home Premiere Cinema was the cable subscription service that featured it.  On a given day it would run two or three B- or C-grade films repeatedly.  But in between films they would play music videos, and that's how I first discovered a few of my posted favorites.

MTV - Sure it's a steaming crapfest now, but hey, I'm in my 40s after all and MTV was a huge musical influence, and I often cite it as such.

prog - Or "progressive rock", it's that genre of music played by very adept musicians (bands like Yes, King Crimson and Genesis) and largely considered inaccessible, especially by music critics.  I don't like music critics, nor do I like the notion that rock music and virtuosity can't co-exist.  This topic seems to come up a lot.

smooth jazz - Um, yeah, like Kenny G and such, that junk you often hear in doctor's offices.  It gets called "smooth jazz" a lot, although it's really neither smooth nor jazzy.  I'm am not a fan of that stuff and often say so.

XM satellite radio - I used to post songs constantly after hearing them for the first time on an XM channel, usually Music Lab (prog), Fred (80s alternative), Fungus (punk/ska) or Beyond Jazz (modern jazz).  Now the service is called SiriusXM, all of those channels are gone and their genre-specific replacements are all subpar, and I'm not discovering cool new stuff so much anymore.