Hrm

Making progress. The neti pot helped a lot for the nose/head, but the cold has dropped down into my chest. I feel like I've been wheezing like a squeeky toy at certain points throughout the day.

Been researching a bunch of hardcore metal bands for work over the past few work days. Kind of bizzare because it is so far outside of the realm of music I would listen too, and honestly I don't think I've made it through a single song (the research doesn't require listening to the songs, just to find out who is in the bands and what they play.) 2 things that stood out for me during the process:

1. I kept seeing something called "straight edge" and finally had to look it up on wikipedia. It's a lifestyle within the hardcore punk movement where the people don't drink, do drugs or anything to poison the body. Kind of amazing because the outsider stereotyping them would probably assume they were into all sorts of bad stuff. Plus a lot the bands really seemed to be intent on delivering messages about justice and uncovering corruption. Just goes to show you can't judge a book by it's cover and it takes all sorts to make a world!

2. I was shocked, shocked at the complete lack of information on some of these band's pages. Some of them didn't have any sort of bio, some didn't list the band members, and some that did list the band members didn't say what their roles were. Maybe I've just read too many music marketing sites or blogs, but really, some of it seems like common sense. This is not to say that I have all my ducks in a row in relation to the things I've learned, but I don't really have a product, nor am I touring, and these bands were. Well, the ones still in existence.

That was the other thing, a lot of the bands seemed to be broken up already. I imagine it would take A LOT of energy and devotion to maintain something that high energy and demanding. Plus I imagine people with that much emotion exploding out of them would have to like each other A LOT to hang out with each other long term too right?

Better get to bed so I have a chance at doing my radio show tomorrow.