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We had an indoor dance party yesterday, just to get up and get moving. Holy hells, am I out of shape. It was a little embarrassing, actually, and yet I did manage to make it through the disc I made, even if I was severely flagging at the end.

Going to make another attempt tomorrow, with the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1, because it is, indeed, an Awesome Mix. I think it's going to be good for all of us, moving forward. Too much time in front of screens is not the best thing I'm teaching my kid. Plus, you don't need special equipment for a dance party: a little space, good music, and a willingness to move.

So I was listening to the Faint, changing over a shelf on the games shelving that had Emma's blood soaked into the wood and cleaning up the pictures (a number of them had blood spatters on the glass), when the assholes down stairs decided to crank Counting Crows. Okay, they were listening to that garbage first, but I didn't want to, and I didn't want to wait for them to finish (which makes no difference anyway...they always inevitably play something - usually the Counting Crows - just loud enough to interfere whenever I or fuzzpsych use the cd player).

I had put on the latest Faint cd, "Wet From Birth", which runs just under 35 minutes.

Soon enough, it turns into a pissing contest. In all honesty, you could still hold a conversation at the loudest volume that I had it at (hey, what can I say? It's a good stereo). So right near the end of track 9, they crank it so loud that the cd skips 30 seconds into track 10 (there are only 10 tracks - quality over quantity). So I shut it off and waited, toying with the idea of blowing a very nice pair of speakers with Merzbow's "Venerology" on repeat.

When the volume went down downstairs, I replayed the last two tracks. Half-way through track 10, the volume came back up downstairs, but not loud enough to make the cd skip, which is good, because Merzbow can easily be replaced by a killing blow from an oosik.