welcome to the beginning, the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning, and the end of the welcome... to the anniversary countdown marathon! in just a few days from now is the second anniversary of 25 things, and i have asked some friends to help write some lists to celebrate the time.

maybe that was a bad idea.

within ten minutes of the invite, joe sent me a list. it's down yonder. i don't exactly get what it's about... but he said that i had free reign to mock him, so... WHO IS THIS RUSH GUY ANYWAY? DOESN'T HE HAVE A POLITICAL RADIO SHOW OR SOMETHING? MAN, JOE'S FREAKIN' ADDICTED!!!

25 reasons joe likes rush
by joe

1. Neil Peart’s amazing drumming abilities
2. Alex Lifeson’s sweet guitar riffs
3. Geddy Lee’s rockin’ bass
4. Geddy Lee’s oddly high vocal range.
5. So few people know of them.
6. Matt Zurcher’s disgust at Geddy Lee’s oddly high vocal range.
7. Mixed time signatures!
8. Neil Peart’s sci-fi and scientific and fantastical writing style.
9. Compare Peart with Rush’s old drummer, John Rutsey.
10. Laugh at titles like “By-Tor and the Snow Dog”
11. Neil Peart’s drumset at one point in his career circled all the way around him.
12. Neil Peart has 5 cowbells.
13. Compare their music style in the 70s to the 80s to the 90s to today.
14. Compare their hair style in the 70s to the 80s to the 90s to today.
15. Trying to complete my collection to answer a friend’s challege.
16. Think of what the album titles could possibly mean (Roll The Bones, Test For Echo, Moving Pictures (not films – actually moving pictures in frames), Signals, etc.)
17. Instrumental might.
18. Weird sound effects!
19. They have an album called Caress of Steel. How cool is that?
20. The world will most likely end in 2112, or at least transcend into a new level of existence.
21. Shakespeare and Ayn Rand references! ("All the World's A Stage" album, "The Trees")
22. Classic novel references! (Tom Sawyer)
23. Did I mention Peart has 5 cowbells?24. They have a song about trees.
25. “Xanadu” = Joe waving his arms like a manical orchestra director.

questions? comments? insults? lists or ideas for lists? no really, who is rush? send them all to twentyfivethings@hotmail.com!  ¶ 11:18 PM