Happy New Year

Ahhh, the Chinese New Year has arrived, the Year of the Cock no less. Last night was filled with Lion Dancers and firecrackers. It sounded a little like Bush had sent in the mighty forces of the US Marines to inavde Chinatown with all of the pops and explosions running through the night. Don't pick Chinese New Year's Eve to try and get to bed early so you can wake early in the morning. It just isn't going to happen. From 10:00 to 12:00 there was the banging of gongs and drums on our street, non-stop. Then as the clock struck midnight, the firecrackers started. The ground was covered in drifts of red paper where last week there had similar drifts of white snow.

So sit back, have a Tsing Tao and this time around, stick to your resolutions!

East-Central Alabama Bands

For anyone who is interested in seeing videos of some of the bands that are currently and have played around East-Central Alabama, check out

"BeBad Entertainment."

I have always been supportive of the ECA music scene, and I am currently working with the webmaster of that site to make available some mp3s of extinct bands from that region. If you have any files that might be of interest to BeBad, please contact them. In my opinion, some of the most unique bands have come from that region:

"ILCK3"

"The Whitey Herzogs"

"The Quadrajets"

"Baby Driver"

Toothless

"Man or Astro-man?"