just cuz you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you

Rob Lamothe, Above the Wing Is Heaven

This dude was in a one-near-hit-wonder band called Riverdogs many, many years ago. (Check out "Toy Soldier," which was that near-hit, but there are some really good songs on their self-titled album, including "Baby Blue" & "Big House.")

I bought their album because Viv Campbell was on guitar. (For those who care, he had been Dio's wunderkind prior, & later he joined & remains with Def Leppard. He has not played on any good Leppard records--just the we-need-more-12-year-old-girls-to-listen albums, but he has monster chops & is a darn good vocalist, too.)

Anyway, I checked out some youtube clips of Lamothe's solo stuff--mainly melodic mellow acoustic pop--& saw that this album had a cover of paranoid.

So I bought it (yep--bought it) that day.

& yes, that was a slow acoustic take on the Sabbath classic "Paranoid."

Highly recommended.

Juniors:
Swift & more Swift.

Today you re-opened the books & chose a passage that struck you in some way.

Really good stuff, as usual: the kings of Brobdingnag & Luggnagg, history &  politics all around, a tad of scatological humor, & jsut some darn good writing.

Bring in your "A Voyage to Laputa, etc." notes tomorrow, & read up through Part 4, chapter 3 by Thursday.


Sophomores:
A whole lot of notes on the TV.

Formal writing

(NO 1st or 2nd, NO contractions, YES to literary present & MLA formats)

The OWL, at Purdue

Incorporating quotations

Weaving said quotations

Argument

A "debatable" thesis

Collected the unit 3 definitions, & tomorrow you will submit your 1st drafts of writings about "The Bet."

I'm expecting good stuff, so let's do this.

be cool . . .