Music review

Okay, now that I am back, I will try my hand at a little music review. (Yes, Jerod, two in a row...shut up!)

Yesterday, one of my current favorite bands (Skillet) released their newest album (Awake). All summer I have been anticipating this album. I started getting into Skillet last year when I heard Comatose. For those of you that really know me, you know that I love the harder stuff (but my guilty pleasures are some of the "Poppy" stuff...that is for a later post), and I found it in Skillet. "Voices in the Dark" was what got me hooked and I had to pick up the entire album (Comatose).

This summer, Skillet released a new single, "Hero". It felt like it picked up where Comatose left off. The same grinding guitars, course vocals...it had great lyrics, great message (Christ is the only true Hero that we are all looking for), a great song. Then they released single #2, "Monster". Almost better than "Hero", "Monster" was a touch harder and also with great lyrics (about the 'secret' battle with sin and the struggle to keep it hidden). Two great songs!!

Yesterday, the rest of the album came out, well, it has two really great songs...which I already have...

The rest of the album is in my opinion fluff stuff thrown together to make an official album. Don't get me wrong, there are some enjoyable songs "Awake and Alive" is a good song, but over all it wasn't what I was hoping for. It feels like they were reaching out to the angsty heartbroken teens, not so much the overweight, balding, "I still want to rock" 30-somethings (okay...38-somethings).

Having said that, the more I listen to "Awake" the more it, as an album, grows on me, it is a good one for some back ground music while I grade.

Over all, as and album, "Awake" gets a 3 out of 5 ("Hero" gets a 4.5, "Monster" gets a 4.75).

Until next time...

the Lockedawg

Spilly

I know, I have a separate "Blog" for my sports ramblings, but I am just too excited! Last night the Rox (the Colorado Rockies) just loudly announced that they are for real and the rest of the Major Leagues should take notice!

Two years ago, the "experts" would have attributed it to "Lo-Do Magic". Last year, the Rox would have lost that game. This year, they have been winning like that all year!

The Dodgers are currently in first place, but we (the Rox) have overcome an 11 game deficit to now being 3 game out of first. That is not a "magical fluke" like 2007, it is playing great baseball for the majority of the season (take out April and May)! The Dodgers started out REALLY hot and built up a great lead. We started out REALLY bad and dug a huge hole. Once we dealt with some bad locker room "ju-ju" (okay...fired Hurdle) we actually started playing some great baseball...day after day...slowly digging ourselves out of the hole we dug.

Here's to a Fun September!!! Go Rox!

Until next time...

the Lockedawg

Daily Dose of Donald

Kids!!! Way too literal!

Daily Dose of Donald

Once again, not knowing his own strength...

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the Lockedawg

Daily Dose of Donald

Not much to say about this one. The payoff is not what I expected, I thought of the tub ending up upside down on top of Donald, but this works.

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the Lockedawg

Daily Dose of Donald

Two words...Kar -- ma! Okay, I know it is one word, and I don't even believe in it (in the form that the Hindu's do), so what. It's showing that you get what you deserve! Okay is that better?! Sheech!

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the Lockedawg

Daily Dose of Donald

Here we have another example of something we see coming a mile away, yet the payoff is funny! Also, Donald's mischief is what gets him busted, my son lives by this, "I know I'm going to get busted, so I better hurry and do it already!" moto.

Until next time...

the Lockedawg