Tuesday, December 30, 2025
2025-09-07-BR-HouseDivided-Set-03-005955
And yes, here's my favorite set of drumming in 2025 - the 3rd set at House Divided in Ely. The tunes are all good, mixing the new tune Evil Ways along with our standard tunes like Ready for Love, Can't Always Get, and yes, even Freebird. We played tight with the standard ones and I personally loved the way I played Evil Ways. Personally, I would have been happier if the bee 🐝 had not been near me...
00:00:00-00:07:42 Evil Ways
00:07:42-00:15:15 Mustang Sally
00:15:15-00:19:15 Great Balls of Fire
00:19:15-00:24:15 Brown-Eyed Girl
00:24:15-00:31:30 Texas Flood
00:31:30-00:37:30 Old Time R&R
00:37:30-00:59:55 Ready for Love
00:45:00-00:51:00 Can't Always Get What You Want
00:51:00-00:59:55 Freebird
00:00:00-00:07:42 Evil Ways
00:07:42-00:15:15 Mustang Sally
00:15:15-00:19:15 Great Balls of Fire
00:19:15-00:24:15 Brown-Eyed Girl
00:24:15-00:31:30 Texas Flood
00:31:30-00:37:30 Old Time R&R
00:37:30-00:59:55 Ready for Love
00:45:00-00:51:00 Can't Always Get What You Want
00:51:00-00:59:55 Freebird
2025-10-11-4MD-Set-02-DrumCam-002908
In addition to playing drums with Bad Rumor and the open mic in Door County, I also played a Halloween neighborhood Halloween party on October 11th with Kevin, Jeff, Cody, and Josh. Of the 3 sets we played, set 2 is my favorite and I am noting this gig with my Honorable Mention distinction for 2025. I enjoyed playing with these guys and I am hoping that we establish some sort of regular rehearsal schedule for 2026.
Bad-Rumor_2025-03-22-StickysCabana-Higbee-MO
Hands down, playing drums at Sticky's Cabana was a highlight of 2025... I know I was excited to play outside of Iowa and I am proud of how much I was locked in with my bandmates... and it ranks as my 4th favorite drumming in 2025.
2025-08-04-Door-County-Open-Mic
As 2025 winds down, I would propose that these 3 tunes on Monday night, August 4th at Husby's in Door County, WI, is my 5th choice for my best drumming in 2025.
2025-09-04-Sammy's Jam
https://youtu.be/2ymGcIVLsbU?si=-CoM_wdHssfHnE21
As 2025 winds down, I would propose that this set on Friday night, September 4th at Sammy's in Cedar Rapids is my 3rd choice for my best drumming in 2025.
2025-11-01-BadRumor-DannysOnDonald-Set-04
As 2025 winds down, I would propose that the 4th set on Saturday night, November 1st at Danny's on Donald in Waterloo is my 2nd choice for my best drumming in 2025.
Raw, Dec. 29, 2025
Paul Heyman says that 5 years from now, these are the WWE superstars that will be headlining WrestleMania.
Monday, December 29, 2025
Friday, December 26, 2025
CONFUSED Dem
This CONFUSED Dem Must Be Talking About Biden's COVID Lockdowns...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Astronaut
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eJJwZ_vHjhU&si=bGow58VTyKE1Trse
G Love and Special Sauce coming to the Wildwood in January 2026!
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
KISS in CR when I was 9
https://kissconcerthistory.com/1979/1979-1010.php
I didn't see this concert.
Monday, December 22, 2025
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Late
If I ever went 7 years, 8 months, 3 weeks (2821 Days) without updating my blog - as the owner of this blog http://edkeith.blogspot.com has allowed to have happen for whatever reason - I'd be ashamed. I'm speaking only about me and about this specific blog, not about Ed Keith's blog! No matter how busy I was, I would find the time to delete this blog from existence. To look at this blog on Sunday, December 21, 2025, and see that the last post I made was on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, would rub me in the wrong way. Frankly, I'd be embarrassed! That said, I wonder if my old website that I started back in 1996ish exists in some archive. I think it was a geocities site.
Saturday, December 20, 2025
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Thursday, December 18, 2025
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Monday, December 15, 2025
How True was this Article for 2025?
As I write this post on Monday, 12-16-2024, I presume that Future prhmusic will still follow the pro wrestling companies WWE and, to a much lesser extent, AEW, which is why I am future dating this post for a year from now to check in on how correct this article with predictions about who the top WWE and AEW superstars will be.
For the record, prior to posting this article, I have 787 posts tagged with "pro wrestling" and 660 posts tagged with "WWE."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10146943-early-projections-on-who-will-be-wwe-and-aews-top-stars-of-2025 - Early Projections on Who Will Be WWE and AEW's Top Stars of 2025
For the record, prior to posting this article, I have 787 posts tagged with "pro wrestling" and 660 posts tagged with "WWE."
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Serbi is not Doing Okay Right Now
I have written about my friend several times on this blog and labeled those posts with Serbi. And right now, I'm praying for my friend Michael Serbousek, otherwise known as Serbi, as he is fighting for his life in a U of NE hospital bed.
I can't fathom the pain in that hospital room as Sherry, his girlfriend, Steve, his brother, and his parents, Bill & Pat, wait for him to finish his war with his internal injuries after he was taken to St Luke's in Cedar Rapids, IA, by ambulance. Then, he was airlifted to the U of NE.
Obviously, my friend needs to survive this. He is stubborn and has never taken any shit from anyone so if he were not sedated, I have zero doubt he would be pissed to be in the hospital bed in that room. He'd probably be demanding everyone to stop being sad and that he doesn't have any regrets about how awesome his life has been. Sure, he's been screwed over and made poor decisions and he has paid the price for all of those mistakes.
God, he is loved by his family and he is loved by his friends - I don't want him to come see you now...
Monday, December 8, 2025
Backing Hegseth was JE Big Mistake
This article might require a subscription so here's the summary: Todd Dorman is a raging Lib who is shouting at clouds because Trump is our POTUS. He doesn't agree with any Republican about any topic.
There. You don't have to read the article.
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
D-Generation X & The Hardy Boyz vs. Rated-RKO & MNM: Raw, 2006-12-04
I remember John Morrison but not his partner or the valet...
Jeff Healey - I Think I Love You Too Much - Pori Jazz 1990
KB in Bad Rumor has suggested we do this tune before and I support that idea.
Jeff Healey - See The Light - Night Music 1988
This video is from the year I graduated from high school (1988) and I am only now, today, hearing it for the first time! Old dog, new music, I guess...
https://youtu.be/gwgOUzodS6E?si=kOz2Ob8JCU7EQbcT Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
Point Break
Point Break starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze is one of my favourite movies of all time, it's a top 5 action movie (with one of the greatest chase scenes in history) and I've seen it probably over 30 times at this point in my life. It also came out over 30 years ago so no point in breaking down what the movie is about, if you clicked this link clearly you already know and probably love the movie too.
But just recently something finally clicked about the movie, and more specifically about Bodhi (Patrick Swayze's character). And perhaps this is something that's known, since it's a 30 year old movie, or perhaps I'm just way out there with this, but let's see...
As much as I love the movie it was always a bit weird how far Bodhi went to befriend and help Johnny Utah (Reeves). He helps him fight off the guys that attack him, teaches him to surf, sets off Utah's relationship with the woman he falls in love with, and even after learning of Utah's true identity he still maintains the friendship, takes him skydiving, and once things fall apart he makes Utah tag along rather than kill him, in fact he never even has plans to kill Utah. Bodhi always puts Utah first even against the advice of his friends/partners and at his own detriment.
But I just took that as something to make the plot move forward, or we're supposed to think originally it's because Bodhi is enamoured by Utah because he was a former NCAA QB, and later just because Bodhi is a good, but erratic, dude who doesn't kill.
But then through some happenstance I stumbled into something while googling around.
At one point early on Tyler (Lori Petty) first tells Utah about Bodhi, she says "That's Bodhi....they call him the Bodhisattva. He's a modern savage, a real searcher."
For years I took it as a way to describe Bodhi as being a free spirit, all about nature, kind of a hippie. But recently I was randomly googling about Buddhism and one way or another it led me to "Bodhisattvas". And now I think we're supposed to take that line as a literal description of who Bodhi is.
"Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have put off entering paradise in order to help others attain enlightenment."
That's who Bodhi is and what his journey in the film is about. He's searching for people he can help attain enlightenment, which is his goal with Utah. He sees that in him and he shows him all the beauty and pain and joys and heartbreaks of life, he teaches him about humanity and people's natures, tells him to become his own master instead of a servant of the law of man.
"You can do what you want, and make up your own rules. Why be a servant to the law, when you can be its master?"
This eventually leads to Utah, as a literal servant of the law, catching up to Bodhi and after finally having a physical confrontation with him Utah is able to best Bodhi and put him in cuffs. Bodhi pleads with him to allow him to experience this once in a lifetime natural phenomenon, something that is bigger than the law or either of them.
And that's when Utah finally achieves enlightenment. He sees the world like Bodhi does. He uncuffs Bodhi to let him paddle out to the one thing he's truly wanted to experience in life.
Utah's final lines to Bodhi are "Vaya con dios"....Go with God. Normally a phrase only used in religious contexts.
The final shots of the film are Utah throwing away his badge, ending his time as a servant of the law, and Bodhi crashing and falling off his board into the wave, ending his time on earth as he enters paradise having helped Utah achieve enlightenment.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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