PC Games vs Un-PC Games

  This is probably the oldest concept in the books, but to me it's something humorous I thought up.  I'm never sure if I made something up originally or if someone else did without my knowing about it.  For instance, the URL for this blog contains the word necrolepsy, which I thought I made up.  When I googled it, I found that it already exists.  Dern you young whipper snappers!  I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for these darn kids!  I shake my cane at you.
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  Anyway, my 18 year old daughter loves her PC games.  She plays them all the time.  I, on the other hand, would probably have more fun with some un-PC games.  How about, Weakest Chink or Pin the Tail on the Dumbass?  Gary Larson had some of his own in his Far Side cartoon like Tether Cat and Bobbing for Poodles.  I remember in childhood there was Smear the Queer, not to mention Cowboys and Indians.  One I didn't like was Kick Paul.  That was a popular one at my middle school.
  Oh, and by the way, I am absolutely joking about all this (except for the Kick Paul, that was for real).  I would never single out a particular group of people for ridicule or harm.  Hate crimes are nothing to joke about.  This was for entertainment purposes only.  In other words, "Don't try this at home!"  My lawyers made me say that.  They're still trying to settle out of court with the class action suit against me launched by the Japanese ham sammiches.  Their lawyer, Mr. Sosumi is relentless.  What a nightmare that's been!

B-Sides and Hidden Tracks

  Now I know both of these terms are outdated because there is no b-side of itunes and no hidden tracks for that matter.  When I was in high school, it was a hobby of mine to search for hidden tracks on CDs.  That was the band's chance to let their hair down and just be themselves.  Sometimes, it was my favorite track on the album.  I have a playlist on my MP3 player that is comprised entirely of hidden tracks.
  Bands often had a lot of fun with their hidden tracks.  Tool had some sort of poem recited at the end of their Undertow album.  Nirvana had their Endless Nameless, in which Kurt smashes his guitar audibly. Aaron of Staind performed an unnamed song at the end of their Dysfunction album which was just him and a guitar.  Before he starts the song, you can hear him set up a chair, take a drink and light up a cigarette.  At the end of MateFeedKillRepeat, Slipknot perform an unnamed live song that sounds like it was recorded in a bar or a restaurant.  Mushroomhead did a cover of Crazy by Seal on a hidden track on their album, XIII.  Strangely enough, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes also did a cover of Crazy that year.
  Speaking of Me First, here's a funny thing I noticed.  This takes some setting up.  At the end of NOFX's album, Punk In Drublic, there was a track where the singer was having trouble finding the note that starts the chorus of the song "Perfect Government".  As you may know, Fat Mike is in both NOFX and Me First.  He decided it would be funny to mock that hidden track as an intro to "Blowing In The Wind" as covered by Me First on their Blowin' In The Wind album.  It's hilarious!
  In the past, many bands would put out an album or b-sides, rarities and previously unreleased tracks.  One thing I've noticed is that that was often my favorite album of theirs.  Here's a list of what I mean:
-Pearl Jam: Lost Dogs
-Nirvana: Incesticide
-Blind Melon: Nico
-Smashing Pumpkins: Pisces Iscariot
  That's just to name a few.  I think that often, bands put out the songs that are the most polished and catchy for their albums.  It's the songs they only do live or weren't deemed to be good enough to include on an album that often show you a more personal side of them.  That's what I love about them.  I like to know that a band I admire, who has made it huge, is really just like me behind the curtains.  It makes me feel as if I can achieve my dreams.
  On a related note, just not about music, my favorite Far Side compilation is where Gary Larson reveals some of the inspirations for his cartoons, his humble beginnings, some rejected ideas, as well as some sketches that never got developed into cartoons.  It gives me a glimpse into his head.  I guess that's kinda what I'm doing with this blog.  It's as much for me as it is for anyone else.  I'm trying to get out what's in my head to attempt to make sense of my rambling thoughts.  If I can set things in order, maybe my writing can be more cohesive and concise.
  I don't even know what I'm doing on a day to day basis, but when I go back and read my blogs, I can recognize patterns in my thought processes.  I have cycles rolling around in my head, alternating between cynical, philosophical, spiritual, thoughtful, mean, happy, angry, depressed, whiny and so forth.  I'm sure you can point out which mood I've been in when I was writing which blog.  Writing really is like therapy for me. My only hope is that people out there can see a bit of themselves in my incoherent ramblings.