With today being my thirty-fifth birthday, I decided to rummage through the crap in my basement to see what I've collected over the years. I got to the musical collection. I reached in the box and pulled out a Ministry cd, The Land Of Rape And Honey. It was a cassette tape when I first got it as an angry youth during my freshman year of college. But my lousy walkman way back when tore the tape up. So I later got the cd. I can't understand why I ever put this album in a carboard box in the basement. On my way back from work earlier, I popped the cd into the car stereo and blasted the opening track, "Stigmata". I love the intensity. I love the memories of pissing off my loser roommate in my dorm.
For the drive to work tomorrow I think I'm taking Slayer's Reign In Blood and Pantera's Cowboys From Hell. That last one could be in remembrance of Dimebag, even though he was still "Diamond" back then.