'There Isn't Money In Science Either'

We'll claim him as one of ours. In one of the biggest stories of the week, 25 year old Lujendra "Luju" Ojha discovered water on Mars. Clearly this guy is awesome and a genius... it should come as no surprise he's a metalhead too. In fact, he even has a metal band called Gorkha. Ojha decided to give up his dream of a music career to focus on science because he wasn't making enough money doing the metal thing. Turns out Ojha says the money sucks in science, too. Still, big congrats!

Meet the death metal rocker who discovered water on Mars http://t.co/5TyT0CUQyG pic.twitter.com/jgO83HUseO

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 2, 2015

Comments

[oper8n]

Yes, you can be intelligent and like rock. (Board certified in three specialties, listen to rock playlists frequently in operating room. )

[Him]

Nice when convenient stereotypes get shattered.

And kudos to you, oper8n, for the work you do as well. Care to share some of your favorite operating room songs? I doubt I am the only one who is interested.

[oper8n]

Bring Me to Life
Cryin' Like a Bitch
Bittersweet Memories
Bottom of a Bottle
Beautiful Tragedy
Bury Me Alive
You Shook Me All Night Long
Breaking All the Rules
Happy?
Poison
Lifeline
Never Gonna Stop
Do What You Do
Let Me Hear You Scream
Control
Rescue Me
Addicted
Unholy
Anything Goes
18 and Life (Asking Alexandria version)
Who Made Who
Sooner or Later
Striptease
Crazy Bitch (my nurse practitioner's favorite song)
Bed of Nails
I Get Off
Whiskey in the Jar (Metallica version)
Miracle Man
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor (which we never do; we're very careful moving patients)
Someone
Down With the Sickness
Living Dead Girl
So Cold
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Oh Yeah
Headstrong
Something In Your Mouth (yes, I like some Nickelback)
The Diary of Jane
Pornstar Dancing
Too Drunk...
Up All Night
Champagne
Undead
Fall Apart
Wait (Earshot, not White Lion)
Youth Gone Wild
Tattoos & Tequila
Get Stoned
Hate Me
Never Again
I Stand Alone
Snuff
Who's Going Home with You Tonight
Ten Thousand Fists
Hell Yeah
Cold
I Don't Wanna Stop
Getting Away with Murder
I Don't Want to Change the World
Stupify
Indestructible
The Way You Like It
Head Like a Hole
Polyamorous
Casual Sex
Best of You
Sex
Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
She Ain't You
So What I Lied
Control

Classic Rock List:
Do You Love Me?
American Girl
Christine Sixteen
White Room
Bohemian Rhapsody
These Eyes
You Wear It Well
Cat Scratch Fever
Just Remember I Love You
Say You Love Me
Wild World
Wang Dang
Simple Man
Gasoline Alley
Stairway to Heaven
Fat Bottomed Girls
I Know What I Want
She's So Cold
Every Picture Tells a Story
Handbags and Gladrags
Bat Out of Hell
Ain't That a Shame
Dream Police
Maggie May
Gonna Raise Hell
Rock and Roll All Nite
I Shot the Sheriff
You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth
Ridin' the Storm Out
Black Dog
Don't Let Him Go
Paradise By The Dashboard Light
Heaven Can Wait
Then She Kissed Me (KISS version)
God of Thunder
No Sugar Tonight
For Crying Out Loud
All Revved Up with Place To Go
Love Gun
Surrender
Strutter
King of the Night Time World
Crazy Train
I'll Be With You Tonight
You Are The Woman
I Drove All Night (Roy Orbison, not Cindi Lauper)
Firehouse

I asked if they would play Dr. Feelgood for me every time I walk in the room to start a case, but the nurses said no.

These are a few of my favorite things (I actually have that on my ipod, also). Every now and then I will play the 80's Hair Bands list (yes, I am aware that many do not like that categorization, but it's the name of my playlist, and I wish I had hair). If there is an upcoming concert, we will listen to whomever we are going to see. Hope you all have a great weekend. Thank you for asking; glad to share.

[Gary]

I'm coming to you for my next knee replacement oper8n!! ( had to have my 1st at 42 yeas old 7 other surgeries on it over 3 years time) At least I can headband before the anesthetist puts me under.... Lmao.And you're correct that you don't have to be a "hey dude" kinda person to like metal. (Although I was that guy in appearance growing up, I also tested out at a 136 IQ my senior year.) It surprised a whole lot of faculty that thought I was nothing but a long haired stoner. 8-p

[Metalboy!]

WOW!, Oper8n! Thanks for the great question, HIM!

Another example of Geniuses, not just "Dudes", who are into our kinda music...

Tom Scholz, lead guitaris, principal songwriter and producer for Boston who graduated from MIT and holds multiple patents on the SX-70 Poloroid Land Camera as well as being the sole inventor of the Rockman portable listening device!

[Gary]

Good call on Schulz MB.Guy basically invented his unique tone on those uber successful Boston albums. I can still remember hearing " More Than A Feeling" for the first time and immediately thinking that I had to learn to play it and duplicate the cool tone of the electric guitar that was roaring through the chorus..Went out and bought the album to do just that to find out that the entire album just kicked ass,and grabbing that tone was basically impossible with my Strat and Sunn Beta Lead Amp I was using at the time. Lol

[Him]

Thanks so much, oper8n, for the peek behind the metal (surgical) curtain! Awesome list. Very much appreciated.

And Gary and Metalboy!, you are both right: Stolz is a genius. But what happened? Starting with _Walk On_ (which I liked a lot), continuing with _Corporate America_ (which only had a few songs I could stand), and continuing on to his recent releases . . . it sounds as if robots have taken the warmth and grandeur out of Boston. It seems, if only to me, that his creative greatness has more and more turned on Stolz, to the point that he is so fixated on discrete parts that he loses the overall sound that made so many of us fans.

[Metalboy!]

Haha!!, HIM! Funny, as I was just going back over this post's comments as well as those of the following one, I was thinking what a hypocrit I am for one minuting praising, then trashing Tom Sholz.

But, you're absolutely right. Dude basically fills the void left by Zeppelin's demise... Well there's also Van Halen, but I think it really is Sholz who delivered the game changer with, as inventive as Eddie Van Halen was, the incredible reinvention of Hard Rock Guitar sound as we know it now.

[Dj]

Wow that is an amazing playlist Oper8n!!! Really cool to see some Papa Roach in there as well as a ton of classic songs everyone knows and loves.
I really hate the stereotypes metal and rock fans get on a daily basis forty five years after Sabbath invented the genre. Not all of us are guys in leather jackets, backwards Yankees hats, and a permanent Budweiser in hand, with nothing else to say other than "woah dude"
I remember in high school blowing peoples minds in government class, just because I was that kid in a Poison or Motley Crue T Shirt with long greasy hair.