CDL School: Day 2

Monday I started CDL classes with Tri-C (Cuyahoga Community College), the real name of the school is the RTI or Regional Transportation Institute, sounds fancy don't it? It is sorta fancy: Big red trucks, instructors with 3 millions road miles, big screen LCD monitors, LOTS of videos - heh. My primary instructor used to drive the double Decker buses in London...and he drove HazMat Tank here in the USA. Today the class 'next to mine' (they are a couple few weeks ahead of us) went to test for CDL today and ... whadayya know .. they ALL failed!!!! Yep, they all failed. And in fact, two of the three of them didn't even make it off the skill's pad for the OTR section of the test. Sigh. I have heard my instructor say they are hoping that MY class will be the first to have all the students pass the CDL tests the FIRST time we try, ok, whatever. I have never even been IN a truck before...ever. But I am feeling confident.....my first few days in the Big Red Truck (with a ten speed manual transmission) will be telling. More later...oh, my site is back up, steve2.net..ok bye.

"Paul's Boutique" - Beastie Boys 1988-89

Wow, I guess I am a little slow, I took me all these years to really tune into this album. Only recently have I had an understanding of what it means to use samples in the making of an acoustic artwork. Anyhow I am listening to it now, over and over again, in an effort to really get at the artistry of this fine piece of werk.

Here is a lyrical analysis with sample notes:
http://beastieboysannotated.com/paul.htm#HighPlainsDrifter

Here is the Wicki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%27s_Boutique