For my first post, I can’t go wrong with music.

My birthday was last week, and my Mom and Dad gave me a Barnes & Noble gift card.  So today I hopped on their site (Barnes & Noble’s, not Mom and Dad’s — the latter don’t have a site yet, at least not that I know of) and ordered two Airbourne CDs and one from the old days, Uriah Heep’s Demons and Wizards.

I like to keep up with at least some new music, so my pop culture references aren’t all hopelessly out of date.  (Movies are a lost cause — my favorite quotes coming from Monty Python and Better Off Dead puts me right out when I talk to colleagues born after 1970 — which is, increasingly, most of them.)  So Airbourne is a score — one of the discs I’ve got on its way came out mere weeks ago!  The only problem is that almost nobody listens to the kinds of music I like, so my references to Disturbed and Muse don’t get me very far culturally.

Uriah Heep is just re-upping on the stuff I grew up with.  (No, I’m not quite old enough for them — lots of my early music came from my brother John, who’s, like, 20 or 30 years older than I am.)  I listened to Demons and Wizards on vinyl endlessly back in the day.  Here’s the band, in all their glory.  (I didn’t realize until I found this video that John actually sang for UH.  At least, I’m pretty sure that’s his ‘stache and shirt — but I don’t recall the ‘fro or the suit.)

One of the beauties of Uriah Heep is they give me an opportunity to show off and pretend I know a damn thing about fine literature — all because I’m somehow aware that the band’s name is a character in David Copperfield.