Complex Numbers

I'm Off!

... but you already knew that.

Specifically, I'm off to the BEACH for a couple days. Kirstin's birthday and all that. I'm not sure what the weather is going to do, but I need a weekend away, even if it rains.

Sunday night we're going to a Meat Loaf concert in DC. I've always wanted to see him in concert. Everyone around me hates Meat Loaf, and they do their best to make me feel like a dork for liking his music. Even my wife was like, "I'm only going because I want to see YOU have a good time. He sucks." (Actually, she's going because I threatened to take another woman.)

But I'm not caving in. Meat Loaf rocks. Oh, sure, he's not Bruce Springsteen, but then again, who is? And if everyone hates him so much, how come Bat Out Of Hell continues to sell 200,000 copies per year, making it one of the best selling albums of all time?

Sure, Steinman lyrics are overblown and melodramatic. My wife loved Phantom of the Opera, so what's the problem here?

The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling
Way down in the valley tonight
Theres a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
And a blade shining oh so bright
Theres evil in the air and theres thunder in the sky
And a killers on the bloodshot streets
And down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising
Oh I swear I saw a young boy
Down in the gutter
He was starting to foam in the heat
-Meat Loaf,
Bat out of Hell