Delusions of Grandeur

So I have a plan.

Given my inaptitude for the postin', and my way distinct lack of time, I've decided to bite off more than I can chew.

So let's talk rock. And, uh, some other stuff too. But probably mainly rock. We'll see, won't we? Here's the deal:

I'ma go one by one through les artistes in my iPod. Which by current iTunes standards means that the number bands are at the end, with !!! bringing up the rear. It also means that Andrew Bird is under A and not B. Thankfully, The Clash are under C and not T, but DJ Shadow is under D and not S. So the D's will be fun. It ALSO means that if I get a new album by a band that I already passed, I'll probably throw it in there next or something.

Every so often, but hopefully like once a week, I'm gonna listen to and post a post about one of these bands. The next one on the list. Sometimes it might be more than one band or more than one post in a week, because maybe I don't want to listen to Reel Big Fish for seven days. Sometimes it'll be out of order, because maybe I was jonesin' for some Le Tigre even though I was only on the Ds. And sometimes I'll miss a week. You're just gonna have to deal with that shit. But I'll try to do one band per week.

Sometimes I'll fully rip off freedarko and whip up awesome diagrams to help explain what I'm saying. They'll look like this:

Sometimes, I'll use google image search and find awesome and appropriate pictures to put up, like this:

Most of these won't be my pictures.

And if anyone can walk me through how to do it, I'll rip off every music blog ever and post occasional MP3s.

It's gonna be awesome. And what makes it awesomer:

After I post about a band, you're gonna leave comments about why they're your favorite band ever and you were so stoked you got to see them that one time at the forum and oh em gee they are so sexieeeeeeeeee!!!!!1

OR! You'll comment about how everything I say is wrong and Deerhoof would totally be huge without Pizzicato 5 and Steve Albini wouldn't know a good guitar sound if it bit him in the ass and System of a Down is way underrated and The Beatles sucked and this is why.

Deal? Deal.

There's a lot of shit on my iPod. Some 60 gigs worth, apparently. One thing that I'm looking forward to about this is listening to all the stuff I've gotten from people and never heard. There are also plenty of albums and bands that I gave a once-over to but never got into very deeply or put enough effort into to let define themselves. So some stuff will be new to me as well. Yay!

In closing, my initial question to you, the reader: do you want me to cover bands I was in? There's no way I could be objective, obviously, and I'm proud of even the really bad stuff I've been involved with. But are you interested, or does that push the blog over the edge from pointlessly wanky to disgustingly super-wanky? I will take a silence on this issue as a "no, let's don't talk about that stuff."

FIRST FIVE!
AC/DC
Activities of Dust
Aesop Rock
Afro-Cabbie
Aix Em Klemm

sheeeeit.