My Single Mom Life

Seriously, I'm hoping for a decent night tonight, wish I had one of those memory foam mattress pads or something.
After two days of laying on hard testing beds at the hospital, my back is spent!
It is so freaking stiff!

Anyway, the teens and I have been playing some Guitar Hero III tonight, and I noticed something.
There's no AC/DC and no Zeppelin.
What's up with that?
Two bands who had two of the greatest guitar players ever, and they are not in this game?
Crazy!
We heard a rumor there will be custom download song expansion packs with some tracks by at least AC/DC, and even some Queen.
That will be awesome.
We also read that there will be a Flyleaf song.
I don't know about that.
As long as it's not Cassie, I guess it will be ok.
I do not like the video I saw for that song, it is not the real video the band made, it is a user created video.
You can watch at your own risk.
But I warn you, it is graphic, it is footage from the Columbine massacre, put to the song by Flyleaf as they wrote it for the girl who supposedly said that she believed in God.
Ya know, I don't like Flyleaf anyway.
They came on the scene hiding the fact that they are a Christian band, and then used this girls tragic death, "to honor the people who stand up for God."
It annoys the crap outta me when bands hide that they are a Christian band.
If they are so damn proud of being Christian, just tell the people buying the music right from the get go.
Don't hide it in the liner notes, don't sneak stuff into the lyrics and dress all goth or do screamo so people can't understand the lyrics you're screeching out in God's name.

We actually had a conversation on the local forums about this the other day, how some bands hide it and don't tell the music listeners that they are Christian.
I just don't get the point of hiding something that they claim is such a huge part of their lives, the inspiration for their music, their saving grace, the reason they won a Grammy or MTV award ya know?
There are a lot of bands out there right now with a huge following and a lot of their fans have no idea they are Christian.
Like who?
Let me give you a small list.
Flyleaf of course, Norma Jean, As I lay Dying, Demon Hunter, August Burns Red, The Devil wears Prada, Maylene and the sons of disaster, Sinai Beach, Zao and Pillar.

Now I'm not saying these bands aren't good, they are, they have some great talent, but a lot of them hid the fact they are Christian. They play metal, death metal, screamo, and hardcore.
They have names that conjure up other imagery, they write most of their lyrics with no mention, they then have a song or two on each CD that is so clearly Christian, but it's never the songs that get released and played on the radio. The very songs that get kids to go buy the CD are not the Christian songs. It's the mainstream, played 20 times a day stuff, that gets kids to shell out money on the CDs.
Then they listen to the whole thing and realize they were duped.

Now Stryper, they came out, were right upfront and totally honest about it.

You knew immediately they were a Christian band. All their albums had religious names, bible verses, crosses in the design. Their latest CD is titled Reborn, so yeah, 100% honest about who and what they are.
I can appreciate that. At least I know if I see a Stryper CD in the store, I know exactly what I might be buying.
I know what you're thinking, Kat bought a Stryper CD?!
Well not a CD, but I did have a cassette tape of their very first album, and I even saw their very first tour right from the front row.
I have the pick and the bible they handed me, still.
Crazy huh?
I was 17, and that was the summer I saw every single band that toured the entire New England area.
I saw shows at the very tip of northern Maine, all the way down to Massachusetts.
All totaled, I saw 157 concerts from late April through the end of September.
I saw approximately 120 different bands, some of them more than once obviously.
That summer was the Aerosmith Permanent Vacation tour, and I saw them 7 times, Metallica 17 times, Stryper once, (hee hee) and countless others like Megadeath, Ozzy, and Queensryche.
Probably one of the best summers of my life.
I worked at the arcade just to have concert ticket money.
That was also long before ticketmaster started screwing people on prices.
No show was ever more than $17.50.
Yup, a single paycheck could pay for at least 8 shows, and some t-shirts.

Wow, I totally went off on that one eh?
Oh well, later days!