As 2009 draws to a close, I've been thinking about how to summarize the year and use that as a source for one last blog post here before getting into 2010 and the insanity next year promises to bring (along with lots of good stuff, don't get me wrong). So while I was sitting in the office waiting for the mail to get delivered so I could make one last run to the bank, I sat down to start collecting my thoughts for the end-of-year summary post.

Then I got distracted.

The kind of distracted you get when you're totally unfocussed and stream of consciousness takes over and you just let yourself wander. At one point in my mental walkabout, the term "patient zero" popped into mind (no, I don't recall the specific trigger for that though, it was just there). Curious about a number of possible meanings for the term "patient zero" I popped on over to Google to continue letting my mental fingers to the walking. From a Wikipedia page on "Index Case" I saw that there was a band named "Index Case" and wandered over to that link. That ultimately got me thinking that there might be a band named Patient Zero, and found that one, too. Then I decided to do the annual self-Google, only this time I Googled my old band name, not my own name.

For those who don't know, I had a band in college (let's not talk about how many years ago that was) called Green Chili Burp and the Aftertaste. The very brief history of the band (the full history in painful detail can be found on the "official" web site) is that we spent a lot of time practicing, developed a good bed of material, had one public performance, and then pretty much everyone involved in the band moved away. Before letting them escape for good, though, I managed to book time in a studio and the album Sacrificing Toasters to Alien Poets was born.

This was the first time in a long time I'd Googled "Green Chili Burp and the Aftertaste" and I was really surprised at the really large number of results I got back. Most were from music sites, as a few years ago I set up the album for digital distribution through iTunes and other online music resellers, and those links have really propagated. The one that really surprised me was the reference on Amazon.com.

I wasn't surprised that the album and the individual tracks were available for purchase at Amazon.com (OK, yeah, I was, but not terribly since I'd gone through page after page of seeing download links for the tracks on other music sites). But the link that really surprised me was when I searched on Green Chili Burp and the Aftertaste in the Amazon search field. Down at the bottom of the list was a link for the album, Sacrificing Toasters to Alien Poets.

Only the link was labeled:

Sacrificing Toasters to Alien Poets [Explicit]

That just struck me as really, really funny, since the album isn't "explicit" at all. In fact, the title track is instrumental, which got me wondering if you can label an all-instrumental album as "explicit" or not.

And that, dear readers, is when I decided to chuck the idea of a 2009 summary post and share the giggle I got out of finding the Green Chili album somehow got labeled as "explicit" by Amazon.com. So now you know. And I'm still chuckling about it.