Living in the Limelight

I think I have blogged a blog already about our neighbor who likes to play his electric guitar really loud at night. He lives in the top of a duplex that is across the street and one over, so kinda diagonally across from us. I have seen him a couple times, a non-descript dude about 30 maybe, I can never tell how old people are. Anyway, last night he was at it again. It was after 10pm on a Sunday night, so he thought that would be the perfect time to favor the neighborhood with a little Red Barchetta. The dude, who we call "Alex" for obvious reasons*, only seems to know Rush songs. After Red Barchetta, he decided to work on the solo from Limelight. Over and over again. If you know Rush guitar solos, you know there is a lot of annoying arpeggiated beedooloo beedooloo beedooloo followed by some WEEEEEEer WEEEEEEer. Most of the time, it was just loud enough to be annoying (I need pretty much complete silence to go to sleep), but every now and then, he'd crank it up so that by the time it reached my bedroom, it was about the volume normal people turn their TVs to. This went on until at least 11:00.

Now, I liked Rush when I was 15, but you sort of have to wonder about a grown-up man who lives alone and plays only Rush songs very loudly every night. Don't you? I have these mental images of the guy hanging around up there wearing a purple hooded cape, arranging and re-arranging his little pewter mystical creature action figures, or sorting his Magic - The Gathering cards, or trying to summon something or other using spells from a book on the dark arts that he got down at Half Price. I guess it is possible that he is in a Rush cover band and needs to practice. But I don't think so. I hope he isn't a seriel killer.

Oh well, maybe if we get lucky, tonight he'll work on The Trees. There is unrest in the forest, indeed.

*Alex Lifeson is the guitar guy from Rush, for those of you who were never dorks.