At last, a celebrity platitude I can get behind!

I was fortunate enough to find Led Zep III on vinyl at a thrift shop for under a dollar 15 years ago. The cover has a spinning picture that rotates under the main cover...is anyone else familiar with this version? Was it the way all the albums were originally released or was it limited? It looks great and still plays beautifully.

My friend came over this week and said, hey, every time I'm here it's LZ III you've got in the player...not I, not II, always III. Yeah, I say.. it's cus it rocks and breaks my heart simultaneously. And Gallows Pole is just brilliant!

Couldn't identify more with all of you who are feeling obsessive about the Zep! Lost my job in November and had a trippy night with LZ III shortly afterward...literally wept when I was listening to That's the Way. I feel like I've been too distracted from the essence of life and they are reminding me of what really ignites my passions. Can't get them off my stereo...actually I live in a three-story home and each floor has its own stereo and each stereo has its own stack of LZ CD's nearby...my husband is totally amused. When he and I first met I asked him what he was like as a teenager, and

the Last Picture Show (I love this movie...it's got such great melancholic, tuneful ambiance)

Ooooh, it's got to be the Physical Graffiti for me. Just rung in the new year with the first disc before midnight and the second disc after midnight.

My husband downstairs playing the new Mario game on his Wii..I better go put some tunes on!

I'll admit it was an infectious song...like in the same way that tuberculosis would be.

I should've know...that Johnny has such good taste.

III!!

Yup, the same one...but I never read anything prior to The Wild Trees.

Thinking about love and feeling grateful... and for my husband trying to learn to play "That's the Way" for me on his guitar, fumbling but beautiful.

I would have to say their music has given me such inspiration and invigoration; I've been listening to tons of jazz over the years and it was time to get my rock n' roll back on, and boy have they done that for me in spades! Their music goes straight to the center of my body and they give me this sense of magic, mystery, decadence, wonder, and dirty dirty thoughts. I feel like I've got this teenage boy living inside my 37 year-old woman-self who just wants to listen to rock music and get laid. It's a nice life!

Currently reading two books: The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley -for my fantasy quotient- and The Wild Trees by Richard Preston, a fucking fantastic book about climbing the redwoods and giant Sequoias out West and studying the tree canopy....totally captivating and informative. I'm a book addict, worked at a bookstore for ten years until November when the store closed and I became unemployed...so now I'm milking the system for all it can give me and reading everything I've stockpiled over the years. And of course enjoying copious amounts of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. Who s