Friday, May 20, 2005
A non-rant:
Well, I've got my first rant in, so now I want to write about
something little different. I was perusing through the live audio
archives at Archive.org the other
day. I'll go into more detail about that site some other time. I
had seen a listing for Hank Williams III several times and decided to
give him a listen. My first impression was that he wasn't going to be
that good and that he was riding on his family name. I don't remember
which concert I listened to first but it started out with a couple of
what I guess you could call rockabilly numbers. Hank 3 sounds eerily
like his grandad, the original Hank Williams. On a side note, Hank
Williams died at the age of 29 due to alcoholism, now that takes
dedication. The songs where mostly about drinkin', cheatin', killin'
and hell so it fit the standard of real country music accounding to
the reverend John Wheeler of Hayseed Dixie. What was really
"unique" is that his second set, the so-called "ass-jack" set was
comprised of what I guess you would call death speed metal. It was
this that has made me a true Hank Williams III fan. Now, don't go
figuring me for a death metal grungy punk yet. I'm not really a fan
of that type of music. What I enjoyed was Hank's ability to blend two
extreme types of music into one show. The man is playing the music
that he likes to play. From future blogs you will find out why this
is important to me. Until then, visit Hank Williams III's website and listen
to some of his music at Archive.org. You'll either love it
or hate it.
Something to think about:
Bioinformatics - how much information will become available (number of
genomes for unique species, proteomes, etc) in the next 10 years and
how will it be processed?
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