This Post is Blather

I was rewatch­ing This is Spinal Tap for the first time in about a decade last evening, and this time around I kept think­ing, “Elec­tric Six total­ly reminds me of these guys.” The whole movie took on a new light for me, con­sid­er­ing the fact that I was 14 when I last saw it, had­n’t been to a con­cert since The Beach Boys four or five years before that, was just begin­ning to lis­ten to rock oth­er than stuff from the six­ties, and basi­cal­ly just was­n’t self-aware enough to appre­ci­ate strange­ness.

Some­where along the line I caught up with most folks and what a glo­ri­ous day it was when I could men­tion a band to my bud­dy Phil that he had­n’t heard of before. I’ve still got gap­ing-goatse cul­ture gaps, but I’m at least savvy enough to fake it when I have to.