A Deserved Grammy Win

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https://youtu.be/QziielUsiO4

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https://youtu.be/V462IsOV3js

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These are the lyrics: 

Look beyond the Earth, heading set for the stars
Interplanetary, some are near, some are far
Terraform a new world, survival for mankind
Options but a few, we are running out of time

Should you climb aboard
A voyage, the first of its kind
Ready to explore
All that you've known left behind

Our Holy Grail now redefined
Our purpose, a thread
Weaving through time
Now with the means to expand
Life beyond here, digital man

Alien, changed forever
New found world in the stars

Understand the meaning
Certain we'll extend the scale of consciousness
Woman, child and man
Multi planet species out amongst the stars
Not stuck in and around who and what we are

Time to climb aboard
Countdown to takeoff on time
Systems are online (five, four, three, two)
Farewell to all humankind (one)

Our Holy Grail clearly defined
Our purpose, a thread
Weaving through time
Now with the means to expand
Life beyond here
Digital man

Alien, changed forever
New found world, here we are

Our Holy Grail clearly defined
Our purpose a thread
Weaving through time
Now with the means to expand

Our Holy Grail
Read between the lines
One purpose, one thread
Weaving through time
Now with the means to expand

I am the alien
Out here in the stars
We'll search 'til we find
No matter how far
A far better world
For all human race
And beyond

Awards

The Grammys Mean Nothing

From 2017 Grammy Nominations: Metallica Not Metal?:

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Metallica, the band who have the word “metal” in their name, surprisingly did not appear among any of the 2017 nominees for Best Metal Performance.

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Editor's Note: Senior vice president of awards at the Recording Academy, Bill Freimuth explained in an article that was published later in the day how Metallica being in the Rock category for the Grammy's is a good thing: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/grammy_awards_rep_why_we_nominated_metallica_in_best_rock_song_category.html , which is an interesting twist on the situation. The title of this post was not changed after learning Freimuth's opinion.

White PVC Pipes Point Up and other Observations

It turns out that while Megan and I were at 11 AM Mass yesterday, our furnace guy, Doug, came over. Apparently, turning the PVC pipe to let the water drain was incorrect. He cleaned a part and, ever since, the furnace has purred like a stroked cat.

Another observation I have is the 2014 edition of the Grammy's was on last night. Metallica played "One" with a Chinese pianist. I posted on Facebook:

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Divided. Glad to hear metal on network TV, but not sold on playing "One" *again. So what if it is the 25th anniversary of playing it. I wonder how many people think that is their only good song? So many great songs they could have selected.

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Judge for yourself.

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Editor's Note - the video in question was removed from youtube.com so it is no longer available for your viewing pleasure.

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In other news, the CD reconversion continues. I have finished Spindle #9 and will begin Spindle #10 tonight. School was cancelled today because of the cold temperature and so that means I should be able to watch WWE Raw tonight. Alex's basketball game at Cedar Rapids Washington was postponed because the Cedar Rapids Community School District does not have school either. That translates into digging into Spindle #10. I ran the DOS batch file this morning and my count is 15394 File(s). I copied a large number of data CDs to my external hard drive and finished the "secret project". I am now making a copy of the "secret project" files so that I can integrate an additional 2250 File(s) files into the music_shell folder. I had previously kept the files not integrated because I didn't want to not be able to quickly locate the "secret project" files. The secret project is being integrated into the "reconversion" sub-folder but it's kind of misleading. These are CDs that were never previously in my collection.

Basketball & Grammy's

Alex had a basketball game in Mount Pleasant on Saturday. He left his jersey in the locker room. Karen and I drove down yesterday - 104 miles roundtrip - to pick it up. He had a game last night, Iowa City West was defeated in the freshman game, but victorious in the 5th quarter. Alex had a couple of nice rebounds and played well. I was happy for him.

On Sunday, January 26, 2014, Metallica is returning to the Grammy's, an awards show they have not performed on since 1989, when they performed "One" and then lost the Grammy for Best Metal Band to Jethro Tull. It was such a big deal because, frankly, the fact that Metallica had created a video for "One" was controversial. Fans wanted Metallica to remain their secret, for some reason. Then, performing on the Grammy's happened and everyone went nuts.

For me, I had not really started my love affair with Lars in January 1989. It took seeing them 6 months later in June 1989 at the Five Seasons Center before I really got into them. I think. Maybe I got into them prior to that. I kind of remember having a poster of them in my dorm room from the first day of school. Now I want to go look through my photo albums and see if I can find a picture.

In 2014, they are again going to play "One" but this time with a violist named Lang Lang. Guitarist Kirk Hammett has been quoted as saying the version of the song they are rehearsing is going to be "insane." Here's to hoping it is as awesome as the way they played the song in 1989!