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Me: “It smells like oatmeal.” (while sniffing her facemask)
Pause. Denise then looks at me weird.
Me: “Do you wear it to bed?”
Denise: “No, don’t you know anything about beauty?”
Me: “No. I was born with it.”

For a different account of this story please visit Denise’s site.

I love hearing about new bands. Who doesn’t?

It’s always great to hear about a new band. They might not be “new” but they are new to you. iTunes has really gotten a firm grasp on this. They have the “free download of the week”. It’s a way to find out about new artists. Yeah, sometimes they suck the sweat of a dead donkey’s balls but then there are times when they totally rock.

Then there are those bands that you haven’t listened to in like 10 years and you break out one of their albums and kind of “re-discover” them.

Here are a few artists and bands that I have discovered and re-discovered for myself in the last year.

*Gwen Mars – A grunge group from the 90’s. They had a song on one of my old snowboarding videos and the rest of there stuff is just sick.
*Midnight Juggernauts – Found them on the free download of the week. Some pretty good techno but not like that crappy kind of techno.
*Sunny Day Real Estate – Another grunge band from the 90’s but they ended up being one of the bands to stick around and still have good music after that all ended.
*Deftones – I haven’t listened to them in a long time and then I popped an album in when driving to Seattle. Ah, good times.
*Heavy Vegetable – Another band from a snowboarding movie. Good stuff but very weird.
*Helmet – One of the best Rock/Metal bands from the 90’s, hands down. Plus Paige Hamilton is from Southern Oregon!
*Junior Boys – I don’t know even how to classify these guys but there shit is funky, new and totally fun to groove to.
*Fischerspooner – Just great music to have fun to. They a little poppy but for some reason it’s that pop that everyone can love.
*Shiny Toy Guns – Pop with a bit of Euro/Synth stank on it. Scissor Sisters fan should check it!
*That Dog – So-Cal-chick-pop-punk. What more is there to say? Oh and they are also some of the ORIGINATORS of violins in punk and rock songs.
*Veruca Salt – 90’s-chick-grunge. “Shutterbug” and “Volcano Girls” = A punch to the face with the nicety of a female touch.

Any other bands you have found or re-discovered lately?

Blog ideas are sometimes tough to come up with.  I can sometimes spend hours and hours just trying to figure out what I should write about and what would interest you guys who come to this site to read.

Do any of you have a boss that is tough to “read”?  By that I mean you can’t tell if he/she is in a good mood or on the verge of clubbing a baby seal while filling up his H3 Hummer and then driving off to go and kill a couple or hundred spotted owls?  Yeah, well I do.

I like my boss.  He is nice.  I think a lot of people don’t give him the respect he deserves.  But there are times when I am just totally and completely amazed at his mood swings.  It’s seriously tough sometimes to tell if he is happy or just ready to snap.

I wanna get to know him and over the few years at my work I have.  But it is no where NEAR the level of friendship.  I do like how it’s a strictly “work” relationship but it feels like sometimes I am having to just search for things to say to not make it totally awkward.

A boss is someone you are suppose to feel comfortable to talk to about anything dealing with the work environment.  Someone you can confide in about things that are going on at your work.  But I feel intimidated by my boss.  I just feel that sometimes I can’t approach him cause my problem or issue is going to be something completely insignificant compared to what he is dealing with.  But that is what they are there for right?

Maybe I will just take him to Chili’s or Hooter’s like Michael Scott does.  He’s a good boss….right?