Blog Number 326

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Wow!  Two blogs in two days!  What am I thinking?

Recently my son purchased his first CD.  Now he has other CDs that he has from birthdays or Christmas or whatever but this is the first CD he ever purchased with his own money.  There are some teenagers that come to his Sunday school class and do a short praise and worship and one of the songs has a catchy chorus that basically says, "Life is good.  Eternal life is better" (repeat ad nauseum).  Anyway, after having heard him sing those 7 words over and over (and over) and over again (his sister usually chimes in as well), we discovered that it was actually a real song (and had other words).  The song is by a band called Stellar Kart and so we set out to find the CD that it came from.  Turns out they just released their 3rd CD but this song came off of their 1st one.  We found the CD at the local bookstore for $11 (with tax) but since he only gets $6 / week he asked if I could find it cheaper.  I searched and eventually found a seller on eBay that only wanted $8.25 for it.  Actually it was only $1 (with $7.25 shipping) so I bought it and we waited.  It took almost 2 weeks to arrive but when it did he was pumped.

I made a copy for my car as I was sure he would want to discuss my thoughts on the album.  Of the 11 songs, only 2 are better than average but I would like to call your attention to one song in particular.  That is their truly forgettable cover of "Livin' On A Prayer" (originally by Bon Jovi).  Wow, really hard to listen to all the way through.  They do OK on the chorus but the verses are a little rough (the lead singer does not have that great of a voice).  To be fair, they are not on a big label and this was their first CD so I am sure the budget was low.  My son is already decided to save his money for their other 2 CDs so for the sake of my ears I hope they got better.  If you head over to the Pure Volume site, they do have "Finish Last" off of their first CD so check it out.

I just finished a book (not any that were listed on my recent blog) called "A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama And Why He Can't Win" by Shelby Steele.  It is just over 100 pages but it was an interesting insight from an author who (like Obama) has one white parent and one black parent.  The books talks about many of the inner struggles Obama must be going through not only during this election season but for his entire adult life.  Anyway, it is probably worth a read if you can find it at the library.

Well, it is time to head to the front room and finish up the 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean movie that we did not get to finish this afternoon before church time.  I offer no promises as to the date of the next blog.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon