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Beer Bloggers Conference 2010 Virtual Colorado Beer Tasting.

So, the first ever Beer Bloggers Conference is leading up the first ever Virtual Colorado Beer Tasting.  Here’s what they have to say about it:

The tasting will take place Thursday, September 9th, at 7:30 PM Mountain Standard Time. Beer drinkers, beer bloggers, and beer journalists across the continent are invited to purchase your favorite Colorado beers, crack them open all at the same time, and then write, blog, Facebook, and Tweet about them.

So that’s what this is.  My choice:  Left Hand‘s Oktoberfest, a Marzen Lager.  Here’s a picture:

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Faith No More’s Introduce Yourself Through Beer

If it’s a sunny, Summer day and I’m driving and I have the windows down and I’m moderately pissed off that I’m driving and I don’t want to be pissed off that I’m driving, I listen to one album—Introduce Yourself by Faith No More.

This is the album before the album with the song that has the video that ends with the flopping fish (Epic). This is before Mike Patton, before Faith No More experiments with hints of country (great stuff), does music for Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (the better B&T movie). This is the time when I spend countless hours watching MTV videos (when they still played videos) and we know all the songs and are influenced and corrupted while we lie on the floor in a daze or rock out and smack each other in the face with pillows on the couch.

The year is 1987. That whole rock rap thing hasn’t really taken off yet. The music world doesn’t have Rage Against the Machine, 311, or Kid Rock (though, Beastie Boys have released License to Ill). With the rock airwaves dominated by cheesy, hair bands, we’re waiting for the Pixies and Nirvana and all that Seattle stuff. But there’s no reason to wait for that. We already have Faith No More.