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Children of the Sun
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I'm still alive.
I'm posting this to remove the old journal from 2007.
Everyone still alive?
I'm posting this to remove the old journal from 2007.
Everyone still alive?
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Like everything else she and her group has done, it's marvelous and beautiful.
Her concert was also marvelous; my mother and I had a lot of fun. It was my first real concert, and the seats were not bad, although I really couldn't see it all well because of my eyes (as they are getting progressively worse, and my glasses are so old it's starting to get all blurry through them).
I have another vehicular nightmare to tell. This story tells the tale of, of an old woman and a young man, and their trials through the hell that is Nashville Tennessee. We managed to get to Nashville fine, but there was one particular exit we could not find, thus, we spent well over an hour circling around I-24 East, looking for exit 211A (which, we found out Mapquest invented it seems). On top of that, we were in rush hour traffic.
She had the idea to call Stephen (my boyfriend) and he helped us by suggesting since we were in Nashville, to get off of the gorram interstate. Thus, we found the Rymen Auditorium quickly soon after only to realize we where an hour early anyway, which was nice.
Mom tried talking to me about a 'drinking problem' which I do not have. And obviously to make up for it, we both had a glass of wine before the concert (and I had a pretzel). I also bought a tour T-shirt and some posters.
Now, the best part was after, when we drove around for about 2 hours looking for a hotel room that was open after midnight. We had gone to IHOP for an extremely late dinner, and now were exhausted. So we drove down the interstate, pulling into an exit about every 2 miles to see what vacancies there were. And then I proclaimed that my new personal Hell would be ... to be damned to drive the dark and lonely interstate and never find an open hotel, for all eternity.
When we finally got a room, we then needed a corkscrew for the wine bottle; when we found out the gas station didn't have one, we went to Walmart. Mom made a funny comment like "I can't believe I'm walking around at 2 in the morning, 59 year old woman, looking for a corkscrew" and being tired and giddy, I was laughing stupidly at that. She was still "flabbergasted" that I would even fathom the idea of flipping a U-turn on a four-lane bridge, when we missed one of the many exits we missed, or stopping and backing up on the interstate (my mentality was 'fuck em to those behind us, they can pass, that's what the other lane is for, I don't wanna miss every gorram exit).
Two more glasses of wine, got some writing done. And now I have a new car (Buick Regal Custom). It's silver, with like velvet red interior, it's kinda neat.
Her concert was also marvelous; my mother and I had a lot of fun. It was my first real concert, and the seats were not bad, although I really couldn't see it all well because of my eyes (as they are getting progressively worse, and my glasses are so old it's starting to get all blurry through them).
I have another vehicular nightmare to tell. This story tells the tale of, of an old woman and a young man, and their trials through the hell that is Nashville Tennessee. We managed to get to Nashville fine, but there was one particular exit we could not find, thus, we spent well over an hour circling around I-24 East, looking for exit 211A (which, we found out Mapquest invented it seems). On top of that, we were in rush hour traffic.
She had the idea to call Stephen (my boyfriend) and he helped us by suggesting since we were in Nashville, to get off of the gorram interstate. Thus, we found the Rymen Auditorium quickly soon after only to realize we where an hour early anyway, which was nice.
Mom tried talking to me about a 'drinking problem' which I do not have. And obviously to make up for it, we both had a glass of wine before the concert (and I had a pretzel). I also bought a tour T-shirt and some posters.
Now, the best part was after, when we drove around for about 2 hours looking for a hotel room that was open after midnight. We had gone to IHOP for an extremely late dinner, and now were exhausted. So we drove down the interstate, pulling into an exit about every 2 miles to see what vacancies there were. And then I proclaimed that my new personal Hell would be ... to be damned to drive the dark and lonely interstate and never find an open hotel, for all eternity.
When we finally got a room, we then needed a corkscrew for the wine bottle; when we found out the gas station didn't have one, we went to Walmart. Mom made a funny comment like "I can't believe I'm walking around at 2 in the morning, 59 year old woman, looking for a corkscrew" and being tired and giddy, I was laughing stupidly at that. She was still "flabbergasted" that I would even fathom the idea of flipping a U-turn on a four-lane bridge, when we missed one of the many exits we missed, or stopping and backing up on the interstate (my mentality was 'fuck em to those behind us, they can pass, that's what the other lane is for, I don't wanna miss every gorram exit).
Two more glasses of wine, got some writing done. And now I have a new car (Buick Regal Custom). It's silver, with like velvet red interior, it's kinda neat.
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Update # 20, count: 645
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T-Bone Walker (Electric blues)
The Complete Imperial Recordings (1991)**
Roger Waters – In the Flesh – Live DVD (2000)**
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Okay, finally, I got a full-fledged blues album. I love it, it's so beautiful, this "Godfather of Electric Blues" make me smile.
When Stephen gave me this DVD when he walked through the door, I mistook it for The Wall Live in Berlin for some idiotic reason. This has some fucking awesome versions of some great Pink Floyd songs (like Dogs and Welcome to the Machine) but the part of Shine on you Diamond that I saw was kinda disappointing. Mainly that the guitarist doesn't excecute or hold his bends as nicely as David Gilmour does.
The Complete Imperial Recordings (1991)**
Roger Waters – In the Flesh – Live DVD (2000)**
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Okay, finally, I got a full-fledged blues album. I love it, it's so beautiful, this "Godfather of Electric Blues" make me smile.
When Stephen gave me this DVD when he walked through the door, I mistook it for The Wall Live in Berlin for some idiotic reason. This has some fucking awesome versions of some great Pink Floyd songs (like Dogs and Welcome to the Machine) but the part of Shine on you Diamond that I saw was kinda disappointing. Mainly that the guitarist doesn't excecute or hold his bends as nicely as David Gilmour does.
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update # 19, count: 644
1 min read
I should have had at least 1000 long ago, I just get distracted by misery too often.
Sufjan Stevens (art rock/folk) counted
Illinoise (2005)*
Styx (Progressive/arena rock)
The Grand Illusion (1977)** counted
I didn't get around to listening to Styx until I heard "Come Sail Away" on the radio a few times, I love the part with the synths and stuff. It reminds me of the kinda stuff Queen tried to do, but Styx is actually good and not irritating bullshit glam-rock.
I haven't listened to Sufjan enough to get a feel for his music. "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." is a gorgeous song though. He does this kinda experimental acoustic rock stuff.
Sufjan Stevens (art rock/folk) counted
Illinoise (2005)*
Styx (Progressive/arena rock)
The Grand Illusion (1977)** counted
I didn't get around to listening to Styx until I heard "Come Sail Away" on the radio a few times, I love the part with the synths and stuff. It reminds me of the kinda stuff Queen tried to do, but Styx is actually good and not irritating bullshit glam-rock.
I haven't listened to Sufjan enough to get a feel for his music. "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." is a gorgeous song though. He does this kinda experimental acoustic rock stuff.
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update # 16, count: 638
5 min read
Harold Budd (ambient/minimalist)
--Lovely Thunder (1986)* counted
--The White Arcades (1988)* counted
Dead Can Dance
--Spiritchaser (1996)** counted
Brian Eno
--My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, w/ David Byrne (1981)* counted
Yay, more updates. I've been wanting something new for too damn long.
>>>First, I'm very very happy to finally have some of Harold Budd's solo stuff. With his collab with Brian Eno on "Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirrors" I could only see good things in his style. It is pretty similar to Ambient 2, but Budd's solo stuff is noticably different than Eno's (if only for the lack of echoing piano arpegios).
He uses more synthy strings and a new-age sound and less of the electronic-sounding synths (again, more of an Eno thing). And from what I've noticed so far, it's a bit less experimental. Seems like Budd had all his ideas set when he did these two. To be honest, I find that kinda sound to be a little bland and boring (compared to Eno's ability to add new and intelligent sounds every minute or so, seamlessly and beautifully, which keeps each of his songs from being dull or lifeless like New-Age tends to be). But it's still damn good.
I'm mostly pleased to have this 'cos I'm getting restless for some new sleeping music. I've played Ambients 1, 2 and 4 over and over for over a year now, this will be an excellent addition.
>>>It took me a good second listen to really understand DCD's Spiritchaser. For one thing, I'm used to that medieval/gothic sound of stuff like "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun", "Aion" and "Serpent's Egg". So going into this African/Aboriginal sound that they did on Spiritchaser was just really weird (almost as weird as Stabbing Westward's sound transition from "Darkest Days" to "self-titled" or Theatre of Tragedy's "Aégis" to "Musique [but in the latter's case, Musique is pretty terrible, even if it's electro-metal]).
But for me, Spiritchaser really speaks openly now, in a way. I can appreciate each instrument and sound, each landscape. "Song of the Stars" is fascinatingly creepy, and some of the weird 'wah-wah' sounds you hear at the beginning of "Nierika" and "The Snake and the Moon" are awesome. Plus, Brendan Perry is actually doing a lot more of that kinda chanting Lisa Gerard does most of the time she sings. "Snake and the Moon" is a really great song that incorporates a nice groove, very 'spiritual dance around the fire while under the influence of peyote' kinda feel. I recommend this to anyone with a half-decent taste/appreciation in music.
This kinda music is why I can't listen to 90% of modern music, especially rock. It doesn't have any 'soul', nothing interesting or new going on, it leaves so much to be desired. It's not intelligent or beautiful in any way. But it might just be me, 'cos DCD's music speaks to me on levels that not even Pink Floyd, Agalloch, Nick Drake or Rush have even come close to. If I was a spiritual person, maybe it would have some kinda significance. I just consider music the highest, most sophisticated form of art.
>>>Now for this Brian Eno thing. These artists (Eno, Bud, Jon Hassell) like to work together a lot. I've never heard of David Byrne, but he seems to have influenced Eno to make some pretty weird electronica. I've heard many reviews on "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" mentioning Moby, that this probably influenced him a lot or some such.
Well, it's a big departure from the ambient stuff Eno normally does on his own. This sound is hard to describe, it has some hip-hop elements, some very mellow rock-ish elements, world-fushion, but is all uniformly polished with this distorted electronica sound. I kinda reminds me of the Masterpiece "Fourth World, vol. 1: Possible Musics" by Jon Hassel/Brian eno. Congas, strange instrumentation. All in all, it's very veeery deep, dense stuff... and is still basically minimalistic. One song in particular "Regiment" souns like world alt-rock, like the kinda obscure pop-rock band from Afghanistan or some place like that.
One thing is weird though, the copy I got from wherever (isohunt or mininova maybe) has a bunch of additional tracks. And this track line up is completely different than any release of this album I've seen. But it really don't matter I guess, it's not like a concept album that needs to be in a certain order (DSotM or The Wall).
Even with all that, I still badly want Chris Squire's only solo work (that I'm aware of) "Fish out of Water" and ANYTHING by Jon Hassell, the man's a musical genius.
I didn't write as much as I probably should, but I didn't want to bore any of you with my oh-so important updates. These reviews are more fun to me than drawing or writing, so I always look forward to getting new musics ^^
--Lovely Thunder (1986)* counted
--The White Arcades (1988)* counted
Dead Can Dance
--Spiritchaser (1996)** counted
Brian Eno
--My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, w/ David Byrne (1981)* counted
Yay, more updates. I've been wanting something new for too damn long.
>>>First, I'm very very happy to finally have some of Harold Budd's solo stuff. With his collab with Brian Eno on "Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirrors" I could only see good things in his style. It is pretty similar to Ambient 2, but Budd's solo stuff is noticably different than Eno's (if only for the lack of echoing piano arpegios).
He uses more synthy strings and a new-age sound and less of the electronic-sounding synths (again, more of an Eno thing). And from what I've noticed so far, it's a bit less experimental. Seems like Budd had all his ideas set when he did these two. To be honest, I find that kinda sound to be a little bland and boring (compared to Eno's ability to add new and intelligent sounds every minute or so, seamlessly and beautifully, which keeps each of his songs from being dull or lifeless like New-Age tends to be). But it's still damn good.
I'm mostly pleased to have this 'cos I'm getting restless for some new sleeping music. I've played Ambients 1, 2 and 4 over and over for over a year now, this will be an excellent addition.
>>>It took me a good second listen to really understand DCD's Spiritchaser. For one thing, I'm used to that medieval/gothic sound of stuff like "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun", "Aion" and "Serpent's Egg". So going into this African/Aboriginal sound that they did on Spiritchaser was just really weird (almost as weird as Stabbing Westward's sound transition from "Darkest Days" to "self-titled" or Theatre of Tragedy's "Aégis" to "Musique [but in the latter's case, Musique is pretty terrible, even if it's electro-metal]).
But for me, Spiritchaser really speaks openly now, in a way. I can appreciate each instrument and sound, each landscape. "Song of the Stars" is fascinatingly creepy, and some of the weird 'wah-wah' sounds you hear at the beginning of "Nierika" and "The Snake and the Moon" are awesome. Plus, Brendan Perry is actually doing a lot more of that kinda chanting Lisa Gerard does most of the time she sings. "Snake and the Moon" is a really great song that incorporates a nice groove, very 'spiritual dance around the fire while under the influence of peyote' kinda feel. I recommend this to anyone with a half-decent taste/appreciation in music.
This kinda music is why I can't listen to 90% of modern music, especially rock. It doesn't have any 'soul', nothing interesting or new going on, it leaves so much to be desired. It's not intelligent or beautiful in any way. But it might just be me, 'cos DCD's music speaks to me on levels that not even Pink Floyd, Agalloch, Nick Drake or Rush have even come close to. If I was a spiritual person, maybe it would have some kinda significance. I just consider music the highest, most sophisticated form of art.
>>>Now for this Brian Eno thing. These artists (Eno, Bud, Jon Hassell) like to work together a lot. I've never heard of David Byrne, but he seems to have influenced Eno to make some pretty weird electronica. I've heard many reviews on "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" mentioning Moby, that this probably influenced him a lot or some such.
Well, it's a big departure from the ambient stuff Eno normally does on his own. This sound is hard to describe, it has some hip-hop elements, some very mellow rock-ish elements, world-fushion, but is all uniformly polished with this distorted electronica sound. I kinda reminds me of the Masterpiece "Fourth World, vol. 1: Possible Musics" by Jon Hassel/Brian eno. Congas, strange instrumentation. All in all, it's very veeery deep, dense stuff... and is still basically minimalistic. One song in particular "Regiment" souns like world alt-rock, like the kinda obscure pop-rock band from Afghanistan or some place like that.
One thing is weird though, the copy I got from wherever (isohunt or mininova maybe) has a bunch of additional tracks. And this track line up is completely different than any release of this album I've seen. But it really don't matter I guess, it's not like a concept album that needs to be in a certain order (DSotM or The Wall).
Even with all that, I still badly want Chris Squire's only solo work (that I'm aware of) "Fish out of Water" and ANYTHING by Jon Hassell, the man's a musical genius.
I didn't write as much as I probably should, but I didn't want to bore any of you with my oh-so important updates. These reviews are more fun to me than drawing or writing, so I always look forward to getting new musics ^^
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