Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Well, one good thing about the unseasonably cold weather (or as a couple people have put it: "Hey, it's Spring ... APRIL FOOL!") is that my car was about the same temperature as my refrigerator overnight. I was so tired after 3LF rehearsal last night that by the time I made it back to Baltimore I had completely forgotten about the 99-cent bean burrito I'd picked up at Taco Hell on my way out of College Park. And one good thing about not having been able to get to sleep yet despite having been so bloody tired is that I managed to remember the burrito sitting on the front seat of my car before the weather warmed up to the predicted afternoon high. So the burrito is breakfast (I nuked the heck out of it just in case -- call me paranoid).

Hmm. The "hot" version of the sauce from Taco Hell is more bitter than hot. Oh well.

Been looking through my milk crates full of audio cassettes lately. Found the mix tape a friend made for me back in, uh, probably 1979, as a quick introduction to this relatively-new style of music my Arlington VA friends were into, punk rock. I used to listen to this tape a lot, until it broke. It took me several years to get around to splicing it (and unfortunately cost me several seconds in the middle of a song), then I listened to it for a while until my tapes got packed up for a move and became inconvenient. So it's been a while since the last time I've heard it. It's not all that broad a sampling of punk, and it's got some non-punk mixed in (and the flip side is an E.L.O. album), so it's kind of interesting to compare it to the punk rock I was hearing a couple years later when I befriended a punk at university.

One of these days I should acquire some Tuff Darts albums.

Did early Devo count as punk, or new wave?