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February 2010 Archives
February 1, 2010
Pretty cool 2D meets 3D video, here.
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video
February 1, 2010
Tweak Bird just posted a new song to their myspace:
It sounds more relaxed than Reservations material, more in line with what's been seen of them live this last year. Still spaced the hell out, especially with the indefinable instrumental bit... oy vey. And today was Melvins' first day in the studio, in which they posted this video of their dual percussion abuse: Also, today I heard Trent Reznor's recording? Recording what, I guess we'll find out. Ditto on Parade of Storms, though I'm sure they're recording a Parade of Storms of album. And that damn TB song put me right in the mood for Ancient Age's "Angela". If she'd've listened to me, she would still be aliiiive. February 2, 2010
I tried sampling OvO in the past, likely originally having something to do with them touring with Subarachnoid Space. I've given them a few chances based on myspace/vids, but the "dark" metal hilarity factor wasn't working out for the ten seconds I was going to give it. Recently, however, I got ahold of 2008's Crocevia... The first song "Ostkreuz" reminded me of Rabbits right off, though I'm not sure if that connection is authentic because I don't own the song I was immediately reminded of. All in all, it's actually alright even though the vocals sent me into giggle fits the first time or two. The second song on the album, however, seems like it's supposed to be obnoxiously funny. "Tiki 2020" starts with a really misleading drum/guitar bit, the song switches up, and then here come the vocals... I assume that's Italian or maybe German, but from across the ocean it sounds like nonsense language a kid randomly makes up and suddenly turns into a song. For some reason, I'm reminded A LOT of the Melvins circa "If I Had An Exorcism" despite them being literally musically dissimilar. As for a closer musical relation, I'm thinking black metally sludge layered in retarded humor. I wonder if any of these songs are about prancing through the dandelions... February 2, 2010
Good low mood, sleepy (but not unconscious) drone metal here: "Guns And LSD". They seem to come across as instrumental even though they have vocals. Those of you who're into anything around the heavy Isis to SunnO))) camp will appreciate them - and if it tells you anything, which it should, they've currently listed shows with Wolves In The Throne Room and Ninth Moon Black. February 3, 2010
I can't... believe... I haven't posted this song yet. Two years, two and a half years!, and still nothing. And after listening to it eight million times, or 84 times since mid-2005 according to last.fm... 5 hours of my life, gone. "Blue Sky Mind" Naturally, of the Blue Sky Mind album that came out in 1996. It's too bad I didn't have a last.fm (or audioscrobbler as it was at the time) eight months earlier than I did, because then I might have a record of actually hearing this for the first time and be able to say something definitive like it was one of my first listened favorites, but I forget now what order these songs went in after "Electric Sleep". Yeah, it sounds like Black Sabbath. What are you going to do? Everything around here does. Odd, considering I tended to avoid Sabbathisms even when I was exposed to them growing up. Sunday is a shitty day, and even now after all of this I'm still cracking up at "serious" metal. That "then you know they'll tell you a story" line at 1:20 pleases the Gemini in me. No, the other one. Oh, and in case you haven't heard, there's a new Sheavy album out this year. Possibly even two of them... February 4, 2010
Here's that mysteriously vague thing you didn't read before because it wasn't yet a confirmed factual truth. Do you see anything familiar here?
And for the negative one of you that care, here's right now: Sun 16 Aqr 17'38" Sun trine my Saturn. The moon WAS conjunct my Saturn yesterday, when the biggest/most obvious leap regarding this went down. Moon's node is square my Saturn, coming up also on conjunct my South node/opposite my North node. I had my North node - north node conjunction in early 2001. Mercury was square my Saturn the other night, during the YOB show. It just came out of a retrograde cycle, between the show and now. Venus was conjunct the Sun exact at ~20 degrees Capricorn, square my Saturn. Venus trined my Saturn the day after the YOB show. Sun trined my Saturn yesterday. I've got nothing about Mars other than it's just left sextile my Mercury/Sun, but... Jupiter just trined my Moon, trined my Jupiter, and sextiled my Venus. It's in my 5th house, about to enter my 6th house. Saturn is currently conjunct my Ascendant, about to conjunct my Mars again. Pluto is currently square my Ascendant, about to conjunct my IC for the first time in my life. In other words, it's exactly opposite my Midheaven...now. Uranus is square my Neptune.... Neptune is sextile my Neptune. And the thing is, I didn't see this coming. Yeah, I thought maybe something would happen in late January but I couldn't define it, and then I just didn't want to think about it. Pluto transits really throw me off because I haven't had enough of them, and Pluto on my IC sounds to me like something parental or home related. I guess I didn't imagine that the word "local" is in my vocabulary, and that might relate to the idea of "home". I also didn't think of Saturn as it relates to my actual so-called "work" anymore, seeing as how I haven't done that in a while. But technically the blog and what I've done with it in the past IS work, even if unpaid and very personalized. Especially with the fact that I have Saturn conjunct my Ascendant IN LIBRA... the most "musical" sign of all.
You're welcome for the jargon attack. Tomorrow we'll get back to unicorns (mentally challenged) and flowers (bloody, in a landfill). Hooray! In the meantime, can I please get more than 5 hours of sleep a night now? February 5, 2010
I was wrong. [This. changes. everything.] Diesto's best song off their new album is "All Eyes Upon You". The title song is just a bit easier on the ears, easier to get into without a base. No worries, I'll change my mind again in a month. Or whatever. It doesn't matter what's "best". I just keep listening to it. Must be that long outro bit. It's weird how music changes with time even though recorded music stays the same, in present day case, forever. February 6, 2010
A few weeks ago, my pal Ren posted some Eggnogg song(s) online. Being still over-saturated, I skipped them... only to later have him post them at me instead. I gave them a shot, and sure enough, this live performance video 'did it': That's the song "Northern Lights". The songs on their 2009 album entitled III are each individually welcoming various states of doom, but this one is particularly mellow throughout. Even though it's accurate that they've been compared to Electric Wizard, it's an unfair way to approach Eggnogg as a first time listener. Despite being low and slow like said band, I think they can carve their own way with marching guitar bits like at the end of this song. You can also listen this and others on their myspace. February 6, 2010
I was trying to put together a comp of bands that have "evil" songs last year. I didn't finish it, but I kept the rough draft and consequently ended up listening to it many times since... particularly because of this song. "Evil Is" kind of reminds me of Children and, more loosely, Saviours. Early Man's toured with a bunch of different metal bands ranging from modern thrash to cheesy 80s power metal to stoner metal - from me you'll recognize Red Fang and High on Fire - so I suppose many other comparisons would make sense. Either way, give that song a listen. February 6, 2010
I don't know what the fucking deal is with the numbers, but HOLY something-or-other! LISTEN RIGHT NOW. Apparently they're touring in support of 0130 (album name) with Ninth Moon Black here soon. Nice. PS. Blackwaves. February 7, 2010
Updated to include some recent posts + more. I also updated a bunch of dead links... There were 16 of them, mainly really old ones I first had on badongo. For anyone wondering, I haven't gotten around to finishing the Sounds of Sagittarius monthly mixes yet because they take several hours each to put together. The first few months were pretty defining, however, so I don't feel too bad. That said, fuck, I accidentally deleted the ones I had, so I'll re-up those tonight. February 8, 2010
I think only US people can see this, but it'll probably show up on another site eventually... so, it's "Mind Eraser" by TCV when they were on Saturday Night Live, so you know. In any case, I got over my irritation long enough to watch this, and while I am, a commercial for the Shake Weight comes on on the tv behind the computer screen. Giggle fit. That's exactly what I was thinking. Also, how come there's no real footage of the other guitarist on stage? and, LOL to the fact that the promo of TCV/Ashton's spot is sponsored by toilet paper on hulu. February 8, 2010
Another update: I just added some code to the blog to randomly generate ridiculous things for my visitors to ponder over, assuming they scroll all of the way to the bottom of the page. If you refresh the page, it should change to something else. If you've been around, you've seen some of them before. February 9, 2010
Someone's been doing some leakin', and thus the album has arrived to the internet. It's actually late considering some in Europe already should have had this, but all the same... White Hills just released their self-titled album. Not very creative of them, but I'd put my name on this if I were them, too. It's wonderful. If you have 13 brain minutes to spare, check out the song "Let The Right One In". I can't help but notice the similarity of this name to a recently popularized Swedish vampire movie. The lost, droney bullshit you'll find in the song fits the movie style as well. Maybe it's a coincidence, but I doubt it. By the way, if you can tolerate this song, go listen to Headdress. February 11, 2010
Look what I "found" today, kids. An honest to goodness MSN blog article about a local band. If you read the whole thing, you get treated. February 12, 2010
Dear White Mice, My neighbors are big fans of 90s rock. I generally wouldn't mind occasionally running into this music, even invading my sleeping and working space, but in the morning - barely hours after I've fallen asleep - every day for the last three days? No fucking thanks. My previous neighbors didn't understand that when I turned on Superjudge as loud as it would go and left the room for an hour that I wanted them to turn their fucking music down. I think it was a cultural difference. I did, however, enjoy the idea of my ignorant former neighbors having to endure my favorite Black Elk songs. I think my newer neighbors might understand that crazy, chaotic, intense music played at volumes far beyond necessary might mean I'm sick of listening to Hootie & The Blowfish when I'm trying to fucking sleep. And using said description to brainstorm a possible band I could throw on the stereo, I immediately thought of you and Ganjahovahdose. Unfortunately, I do not own a high quality CD version of this album, and I'm not sure a mix CD is going to be nearly as effective as one made legal. I suppose that's entirely my fault for being both horribly distracted and broke. All the same, I think they're getting "The Narcomacauleakcolicost" for dinner tonight. Love, saturnine PS. Narcomacauleekalcoholicost? PPS. lol, just read your about.com page: Pros February 13, 2010
I watched Such Hawks Such Hounds, finally, for the first time last night. It was mainly just like a refresher course... not much I didn't "know" short of the details I wouldn't care to remember to begin with... but I did laugh a bit in memory of the first time I heard Sleep. I wrote about it. Here you go! last night, i think i found the most extreme genre-specific song, ever. An hour later: the song finally ended. that was... just, i don't know if i can ever do that again. I did it again. This was almost a year later: i loaded up all of my newly downloaded music by itself and have been trying to listen to that, get into it, let it sink in instead of avoiding it in favor of what's been traveled. i keep returning to a band called sleep, particularly an album/songs called jerusalem. thus far i've gotten through part 5 and 6 okay... i really like part 6. it's kind of repetitive, but no more so than ambient dance/trance music. it's not the heaviest stuff, but it's definitely quite heavy, low, very bassy. the vocals are stupid, but i guess they work. i bet this would be awesome live with that constant rolling hum. i think it's strange how this band snuck up on me. Yep...
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nostalgia
February 13, 2010
I like how I can call me fucking around on the internet, if it's musically related, "research". I was doing "research" last night and randomly found this song as someone's live show video. I looked up the song and ended up doing some mass downloading all because I needed to find it as an mp3. In any case, it sounds...really...good. It feels fairly typically thrash but, you know, modernized for the kids who don' growed up on the em teevees. And fucking catchy as shit lyrics. I like the way the singer's voice is [produced] here, too. You'll find this on their self-titled 2005 EP. You'll also enjoy how the second song sounds like Black Sabbath after the first sounds like Metallica. Here's the vid (and check out the rest of that user's videos while you're at it): February 15, 2010
Nineteen years tonight. At around 8pm February 15th 1991, I became a resident of Oregon. The first year was the hardest on a practical level, but the subsequent years were hardest emotionally. I did not want to be here. I wanted to go home, and be at home, or at least HAVE a fucking home. I kept saying I'd go back when I was 16. As soon as I could drive a car, as soon as I was 16, I would drive back. Unfortunately, by that point, I'd realized me driving or even having money at all was unrealistic. I had to find another way. After a series of shitty years when I was a teenager, I finally found a way back when I was 19. It turned out to be a bad decision. There were things I didn't realize were going to happen if I tried to escape the beast. So I had to come back... At 20 I finally found a fucking for-real job, and soon discovered that just because you have a proper job and work all of the fucking time doesn't mean you actually have, yourself, any money. I couldn't even live on my own terms, nevermind go anywhere. Then again, at least, now, I was eating. I remember the slow entry into not caring anymore where I was. I remember one day driving with my mom across town when I was an older teenager when I thought Oregon was "okay", something that hadn't exactly happened before. It's always looked like a shithole. I saw hatred. I dreamed about running through the forest south and haunted houses. It's never been okay, until suddenly it was. I remember when my cat died, how I felt like I lost my only friend. We were always going to move out and it'd just be me and her, and we never got that far. I don't feel that way about the other one. I remember feeling sick about being planted in one spot when registering for college. Three more years of the beast. I remember when I started to get interested in local music, and wondering how I'd feel if I had to give that up in a move. And then wondering, where did we go wrong? Is it really music that's going to plant me? I can't possibly care that much... And now I'm wondering how 19 years have gone by. Over two thirds of my life. I've been here longer than any place. Technically, I'm an "Oregonian". Technically, this is my home even though it still doesn't feel authentic and I long lost my "home" connection to where I was born. Next year, I'll have been here 70% of my life. I wonder if that's just what I have to deal with, or I'm still in for getting the fuck out. What would 1% be like, elsewhere? Will I ever travel? Will I ever have a job that affords me the time, space, and financial breathing room to do so? Everything, now, is indefinable. In the meantime, I'm stuck here for another year. ~ Pluto's exact conjunct my 4th house cusp/IC 2am February 17th. It's the first hit in my life, and not the last as to be expected with any Pluto transit. Pluto conjunction IC Mid January 2010 until mid November 2011: This is a time of great change in your personal and family life and a time of great inner psychological change. The effects of this influence can vary greatly, but it is always a very important one. On the psychological level, you may encounter certain psychological effects from your past - your childhood and early home life, your relationship with your parents, your hometown or even something from the more distant past of your family or heredity. Psychologists know that the experiences of early life have a strong conditioning affect upon adult behavior, and it is essential to understand the psychological mechanisms created by this experience in order to free yourself from neurotic problems that arise in adulthood. During this period you can gain such understanding, because the forces within you are much more powerful and near the surface, where they can be observed in action. On a less profound level, this influence can signify that your personal life will go through great changes as certain things pass away and new things come into existence. Obviously this happens all the time, but the changes are much more dramatic now. There may be great changes within your family, such as divorce, a major change of residence or the need for major repairs on a building, to name a few of the changes signified by this influence. The main point is that at some level your personal and domestic life needs to be overhauled so that it can be reconstructed along new lines. Often you need to be liberated from the past, not only at the psychological level but in your everyday practical life as well. This is the time to build a new order in your personal life. However, people often attempt to resist such change, with unpleasant results. The energies merely build up to such a point that they are released through a dramatic or unfortunate incident, such as the breakup of a marriage, sudden damage to property or the like. And resisting the energies of change is a waste of an opportunity to totally regenerate your life from its very roots.
Categories:
dedications
February 17, 2010
Remember my posts on Fall Into Darkness (PDX music festival where I first heard Red Fang)? The booker/promoter/putter-onner has the facebook disease. Become a fan.
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portland
February 18, 2010
Dopes To Infinity "Look To Your Orb For The Warning" This song reminds me of the time in my life between 2002 and 2004. Astrology junkie times. I remember getting one of these Dopes songs stuck in my head on a long drive once in 2002, when I didn't have any music. Might be one of the causes for my brain infection. This was also on The Matrix soundtrack in 1999... I got that the day I saw the movie in the theater at Clackamas Town Center, before I saw the movie itself. My friend was doing it, I had the money, and it was already established that half of the artists on the album were good to me. I haven't listened to it in ages... and upon grabbing the album just now, I see that Ministry's on it. No wonder I knew who they were when I finally came around to listen to them. Durr. "Wake Up" by Rage... I listened to that eight hundred times when I first had this CD. I remember making fun of him. It was the "EUGH!" bit at 3:30 that got me laughing. Holy shit is this a painful listen today. Stupid album reminds me of my ex(s), now. I did a quick check of an old email account earlier and noticed I had a photo in there from one of them (though I couldn't tell which one til I checked). Fucking old. I don't even remember the context of getting it. Might not have been one. But jesus, man, get a room with yourself. You mistook me for some lady who has a delusion. I already burned your wicked garden. Now I'm distracted by STP. Fucking hell. What is this, my high school reunion? Fucking Monster Magnet. February 19, 2010
"RA" by Seven That Spells. The first time I heard this song I was immediately reminded of the MYST soundtrack. It sounds like when you're "exploring" some creepy bedroom, particularly in the bit that doesn't contain any drums. Short of my associations, this is really good. I wouldn't have been particularly receptive to it right when this album came out but it sounds great now. If only for this song, a hundred and one stars out of five. February 19, 2010
When you know your new album is mediocre enough to appeal to the majority and you should reconsider the artistic quality of your band: MTV asks you to host Headbanger's Ball.
Note: this joke will serve as my "first time's the worst time" review. February 20, 2010
Droids Attack is a stoner / sludge / hard rock kind of thing. They have a new album, out now, called Must Destroy. You can find it streaming: here.
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2010
February 24, 2010
Methinks I found the reason for the title of that song in Gojira's last album... http://www.vbs.tv/watch/toxic/toxic-garbage-island-1-of-3 I wasn't even looking. February 26, 2010
This song is pretty easy to like... Apparently they will live to kill again. Get it from the 2010 album Horse. Yes, they're trying not to be searchable on the internet. Nevertheless, you can find that song in their site's sidebar. February 26, 2010
Dragontears. The first time I saw this band's name, I assumed they'd be some mediocre metal band, probably sounding like a whinier Opeth. Instead, upon pressing play, I heard psych rock in the vein of Hawkwind and Monster Magnet. Surprise surprise. Most of 2000 Micrograms From Home sounds pretty mellow, but "Borderline" is upbeat and drives the revival 60s/70s psych rock sound home with that echoed synth. I'm thinking other songs on the album are better, but this is a fine place to start. Check them out, maaaaan. February 28, 2010
I don't generally write about people in a positive light because that seems to draw me more negative attention than pointless bitching, hate, and sarcasm ever have... but here we go. We met because of the Swamp, as far as origin of location. We actually met because I was broke and lacking any real form of transportation so when Witchcraft came to town, I skipped them, and later when I read his review on the very show I missed on the Swamp I was compelled to say thanks. Normally I wouldn't have said anything, but I liked his ability to express himself and tell the story minus the usual pretentious jackoffery that comes with professional reviews. Fucking reviews... At this point in my life, I'd recently quit my job and begun the new phase of my life - music bloggin'. I'd been stressed out pretty much nonstop for the last couple of years and ultimately decided that I needed to just quit what I was doing. I gradually then suddenly dropped everything I didn't like. I registered for school. I had time between quitting and the start of school, and music had grown a larger aspect of my life in the last couple of years, so I began the blog as a temporary time filling project. Only a little time passed between the start of the blog and my thank-you comment so that he became my first official "reader". We obviously had Witchcraft in common, and it was apparent we also shared common favoritism of bands like Electric Wizard and Monster Magnet, among many others. At that time, band connections were very rare for me as I'd just dropped a sea of Sublime and hardcore rap and "I don't like metal" and part-time music listeners from my sphere. My closest musical ally at this point was some Mike Patton-loving mongoloid I wasn't even really talking to any more. I tried to talk to people a few times on musical forums, but - unsurprisingly - stoner rock tends to attract potheads, and the ones of whom I spoke to probably shouldn't have graduated high school nevermind been allowed near a computer without a license... Immediately, from Zilla, I noticed BRAINS. There was spelling - proper, adequate, real English spelling. And there was grammar. Did you know that there are people in the US of A able to write proper fucking grammar? I didn't. I always feel like an asshole because I want people to type at me like they're writing a book, not a bad fucking haiku, because I don't speak txt or l337 or drunken gibberish. I don't need capital letters or even proper punctuation most of the time, but can we all please just proofread once in a damn while? Alas, I'd found one of the rare people capable of the spelling and grammar my English-teacher-in-a-former-lifetime self had been lacking so long. Naturally, this human being with their spelling and Monster Magnet existing on my Earth made me go "yay!" a few times. Even better, we seemed to be on a similar, slightly angsty wavelength, with a similar current state of life, and (gasp) we even lived near enough each other. That had certainly never happened before. Enter long, drawn out, heart-wrenching story here about how that has seriously never happened before. I've met a hundred interesting people online before, and not a single one of them lived anywhere near me nor did I have any access to in "real life". I would call it a vice. I decided early on that I was going to meet this new person. I wasn't sure how yet, but it was clear music was to be involved. Sure enough, some months later, I heard a mutual favorite band was coming to Plotland... I was a little bit nervous/excited in the weeks leading up to the show, still not entirely sure it was going to happen at all even though I had ticket in hand. I was worried I'd back out, since I do that when I get nervous. Then I was worried he would, and I'd either have wasted time or have to go through the whole process of nervousness again. The day arrived, and like I'd imagined I'd be I was almost sick. I didn't eat enough. I left for the show a little later than usual as padding, hoping I'd arrive and he'd already be there because waiting just makes these things worse. By the time I finally got to the venue, noticed no one of any remote familiarity and sat down to make myself stand out, I had had so many adrenaline rushes that day that I'd approached the beginnings of a dead brain. I was texting my niece, who'd suddenly decided three days AFTER I'd originally texted her to tell me some ridiculous sob story about why she'd not replied three days ago, when a face who looked familiar in some faraway mental land kind of way walked by. I got a knowing look, but I don't process these things fast and certainly not on a nervous dead brain, so I wasn't really sure until he had fully walked away. By that point I had another bullshit text... I decided I'd get up and find him again in a bit, not exactly confident in my ability to just walk up to people I wasn't sure they were who I thought they were... As I replied to my text, he simply sat down next to me and said hi. Well that saved me a fucking year of "do I get up or was that really him or where did he go and errrgh?!" I was really surprised at how well just text translated into real life interaction. The questions I knew existed via words alone were, for the most part, answered. Despite being pretty nervous and then pretty quiet (is this really news...), and maybe the environment not being the best choice for talking and/or being heard, the whole situation went well. I'd always thought that since I was cursed to befriend foreigners, my first meeting of a 'net person would go horribly awry, but it actually didn't... And then I came home and wrote two pages on my cyberhearts for sHitty music, misspelling "Automaton" as "automation" because for all the brains I need, I lost mine in the Prozac Wars. Life has long since taken hold of communication between me and Zilla, causing it to be what the natives call "intermittent". Nevertheless, as my first proper blog reader and first internet-meets-real life acquaintance slash friend, I have to say I'm really grateful to have met and know him, and hope to continue as much for some time yet. His song (nah, I didn't try very hard on this one):
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