First things first: Rhea's mom is home from the hospital and
recovering according to prognosis. You
wouldn't call her comfortable by any stretch of the word's meaning; even with
the surgery, she's still got a fair amount of pain ahead of her,
unfortunately. Still, it's far better to
be uncomfortable at home with family and familiar surroundings around you than
it is to feel that way and be an
island in the stream on a hospital bed.
Her most common complaint?
"I just don't know where to put myself." That probably sums it up better than any of
my writerly musings can.
Meta-blogging: so, yeah, obviously some heavy family stuff
going on. As a result, my new
mid-week/weekend schedule for new posts didn't quite launch as projected. With everything normalizing, I should be back
on track with it going forward: figure two new posts every week, one each by
Wednesday and Sunday. This doesn't preclude
there being more than two posts in a week, but there will be a minimum of two
going forward from here.
Last piece of random-ness: the tune that's been kicking my
ass all afternoon. Although they never
made nearly as much of a commercial stir here in the States as they did in other parts of the world, Irish punk-metal trio Therapy? remain one of my favorite
musical exports of the '90s. Today, they
posted to YouTube (embedded below) a video for "Living in the Shadow of
the Terrible Thing", the first single from their forthcoming album A Brief Crack of Light, due February
6th. It's very strong stuff: a veritable
clinic in how deft use of space and an inventive, way above average rhythm section
can make your punk-metal band that much different than all other punk-metal bands. Admittedly, this is from the end of my
listening spectrum that probably makes Rhea wish that I liked glam metal way
more than I do - sorry about that, darlin' - but some of the rest of you might
really dig this.
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