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The Educated Fool Now on Blogger!

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:48:31 -0600

The Educated Fool and his cohorts have all moved to Blogger. Please check out my new blog!

We'll still be keeping up with our Vox neighbors and maintaining our Vox blogs to do so.

Also, our online business is finally complete!

Looking forward to seeing ALL of you over at bustawindow.com and at Blogger!

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Last Video Tune -- Accept, Balls to the Wall

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:06:35 -0600

This will very likely be the last video or tune I post on this blog. Yup, we're moving to WordPress. Finally.

However, we WILL be keeping our Vox accounts so that we can communicate with everybody! Plus, we'll be placing a final post on all of our Vox blogs, pointing to our new ones. That way, you'll always be able to find us. So don't panic!

We're under the gun. I underestimated how long this final phase of completing bustawindow.com 2.0 would take. We'll be roughly four days behind schedule by the time we finally get the site up on the Internet.

Needless to say, this fabulous tune describes my current feelings to perfection! Heather actually gave me an early Christmas present, that being the album by Accept of the same name of this tune.

Incredibly pleasing is this album! It sounds a lot more like Judas Priest than I would have first thought. I also see a lot of Spinal Tap in this video! Heather says that Udo, the lead singer, looks like the Keebler elf to her. Have fun, and have a good holiday, everybody!

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Video Tune of the Week - Dream Theater, Constant Motion

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:06:15 -0600

I've not the time I'd like to have for this first Dream Theater post of my entire blog. I don't know what's the matter with me. I'm not even sure I've posted much Iron Maiden. These being two of my top three bands, that's pretty lame.

Anyway, Dream Theater IS (not "are", as so many like to say) the tops in progressive metal, aka "prog rock". Each member is a master of his instrument, including the lead vocalist. They are all classically trained, and most of them now teach others.

I've seen these boys numerous times and own all of their recordings short of the most recent. This tune is off of that album we don't have. They're starting to look pretty old, but they still kick butt. Enjoy!

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Video Tune of the Week -- Dirty Vegas, Days Go By

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:15:43 -0600

I'm no big fan of this group, but I think this video is pretty cool.

We just recorded the first episode of the No Pane Radio podcast this evening. We're still on schedule, but just barely. Mental exhaustion is worse the physical tiredness. You can sleep off the physical side of it, but the mental part takes far more time.

Cheers, everybody.

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Cat and a Printer

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:44:28 -0600

This reminds me of the cat I once had, Dustball. She was chubby like this and with really "buggy" eyes that stayed the same way all the time, just like this cat appears to have. She would also thwack her paw really hard and fast at anything in the color black (especially black straps of any kind).

My Mum sent this to me, so thanks, Mum!

Cat and a Printer

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Video Tunes of the Week

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:50:55 -0600

Hey, everybody. Heather and I have determined that we think we can finish our business website by December 15 or thereabouts. As a result, the next 30 days are going to be hell as we complete this baby on a very, very tight schedule (and still try to get some sleep!).

So, I won't have a lot of time for the Tune of the Week. But, I will post a video each Monday, albeit without a whole lot of personal notes.

I like this band, introduced to me by Soup. Enjoy!

Freya - The Sword

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A Video -- The Everyothers

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:27:41 -0600

Anybody else like this band?

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Takin' a Day off

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:10:41 -0600

Hey, folks, I hope you all got out there and voted. We had to go as far as the first floor of our building to do so and waited in a line of two people in front of us, so we had it real hard. Don't give me those sob stories of three-hour waits in the rain after a half-hour drive in rush hour! We had it worser than you! Much worser!

Yeah, so, I'm taking Monday off to recuperate. We've been working too many hours, and I had a near mental collapse this evening.

New tune next Monday. Until then...thanks for voting!

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Get Out There And Vote!

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:43:25 -0600

Hey, people! As you all know, unless you've been living in a cave for the last six months, tomorrow is election day. Heather actually heard a moron bragging this morning about how she wasn't going to vote tomorrow!

Don't be a moron! Get out there and vote! It's your right!

And be glad you don't live in Australia, where it's the law that you vote (unless, err, you do, and then be glad you live in Australia because you've got lots of land, kangaroos, AC/DC, Airbourne, lots of cool pubs, and good people like this good friend of ours).

Election 2008

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Monty Colvin's Blog and Podcast

nobody@vox.com(The Educated Fool) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:55:37 -0500

Takin' a break this week from the weekly tune.

For those of you who like Galactic Cowboys or King's X, this should be of interest to you.

Monty Colvin, the bass player, backup singer, and regular songwriter for GC who went solo around 2000, has a new website and blog. His new stuff is more of a pop rock nature than GC, and I'm not that excited about it. But I enjoy reading his thoughts on the past, Metallica's newest CD, the music industry in general, and whatnot. Occasionally he goes off on politics, and I choose to largely ignore these particular posts. Even when I was a political conservative, I've never understood what Christianity (GC was a band of Christians that, at the time, refused to label themselves "Christian") has to do with eschewing socialism.

Colvin also has a podcast which is mostly for the purpose of reviewing rock concerts he's been to and for his thoughts in general.

The coolest part of the site, though, is his art, which I like tremendously. I wasn't aware that GC's art was all done by him. It was something that made the band extremely unique in my mind. In the same way, Voivod's drummer does all of their art, and it creates a similar feeling each time you hold one of their albums in your hands.

Galactic Cowboys Artwork from Monty Colvin

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