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Ok, now I am ordering you to click this link- it's a virus (NO IT'S NOT, you stupid person who can't take a joke).
http://sinisterscorpio.blogspot.com/
It's my girlfriend's blog. Sarah, the amazing, wonderful, beautiful, brilliant girl who has the uncanny ability to form word pictures without really thinking, the ability to retain information with vivid accuracy, and the ability to be FUCKING AWESOME without any effort.
I am endorsing this site purely because it would be my pleasure, and I love doing things for my sweetheart.
So yea, click on the link and prepare to be taken on a wild trip through the depths of your soul, possibly even to Antarcitca. Who knows.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Sigh
I am writing stuffs.
The last time I was on the computer my mum walked in and to her horror, it was 1am. So naturally she sent me to bed. Now I can only use the internet upon her approval which is very saddening considering I don't get to see my friends much and the internet is my only means of communication (that's free, bloody hell phones are expensive). So anyway. I hate computers. It took me HALF A BLOODY HOUR to get MSN up and running today, and it made me very angry. It doesn't help that a certain someone keeps using the reference "Romeo" whilst talking to my girlfriend, and the inplications are rather nasty, which makes me even madder. And the fact this somebody likes Edward Cullen beyond the point of obsession. And the fact I hate Edward Cullen. Not schoolyard bully hate, but Adolf Hitler hate. I despise this character. He sickens me. He has put some kind of trance over geeky girls across the world and made them fall in love with him- and HE'S NOT EVEN REAL. I will burn him at the stake, along with my computer- oh wait, apparently that doesn't work for vampires. How about I force him to listen to Led Zeppelin's album "Led Zeppelin II" Turned up really loud from begining to end (because vampires have such attuned hearing that they can hear all the imperfections in REAL music, thus forcing him to listen to one of the greatest albums of all time would ultimately kill him). I'm not too keen on dismantling an undead monster (dismantling.. stuff all the blood and gore. Just "dismantle" the vampire to kill him. Because, oh no, gore in the Twilight books would make 90% of its audience too scared to read on even though it's a BLOODY VAMPIRE SERIES). Anyhow, since I am aware of the fact he is fictional, I will not continue. I will instead talk about my favourite band ever- The Wiggles. Just Kidding.
One of the greatest rock bands of all time (I say "one of" because not everyone has the same tastes, and I actually do like the Beatles quite a lot, oh and the Who. Fierce contenders for the position on greatest rock band.), Led Zeppelin are simply awesome. Rather than playing the same thing over and over again as is the case with pretty much all modern bands, Zeppelin relied on their diversity to add zest to their style. Rock, blues, metal, folk/rock fusion, jazz, funk, reggae, ballad, alternative, latin, even a little country/50's rock... They played it all. And they did it well.
Stairway to Heaven, while their trademark song, can not be said to be their best. If you're not much of a fan, get a copy of Mothership. The first disc has all their best songs from their first few years whilst the second disc has most of their best songs from 1973 onwards (I say this because Houses of the Holy should not be on there, it's not a very good song by the band's standards, and All My Love would have been better if replaced with South Bound Saurez or Fool In The Rain from the same album)-- basically just listen to Mothership. Once you have a taste for their stuff, get Led Zeppelin II. Easily one of their two best albums besides IV/Zoso/sticks or whatever you want to call it since it had no official title.
I will stop now simply because this is boring me and I'm rambling (Ramble On- good song, first disc of Mothership).
Later dudes.
*exits room carrying a huge amp and a bass*
The last time I was on the computer my mum walked in and to her horror, it was 1am. So naturally she sent me to bed. Now I can only use the internet upon her approval which is very saddening considering I don't get to see my friends much and the internet is my only means of communication (that's free, bloody hell phones are expensive). So anyway. I hate computers. It took me HALF A BLOODY HOUR to get MSN up and running today, and it made me very angry. It doesn't help that a certain someone keeps using the reference "Romeo" whilst talking to my girlfriend, and the inplications are rather nasty, which makes me even madder. And the fact this somebody likes Edward Cullen beyond the point of obsession. And the fact I hate Edward Cullen. Not schoolyard bully hate, but Adolf Hitler hate. I despise this character. He sickens me. He has put some kind of trance over geeky girls across the world and made them fall in love with him- and HE'S NOT EVEN REAL. I will burn him at the stake, along with my computer- oh wait, apparently that doesn't work for vampires. How about I force him to listen to Led Zeppelin's album "Led Zeppelin II" Turned up really loud from begining to end (because vampires have such attuned hearing that they can hear all the imperfections in REAL music, thus forcing him to listen to one of the greatest albums of all time would ultimately kill him). I'm not too keen on dismantling an undead monster (dismantling.. stuff all the blood and gore. Just "dismantle" the vampire to kill him. Because, oh no, gore in the Twilight books would make 90% of its audience too scared to read on even though it's a BLOODY VAMPIRE SERIES). Anyhow, since I am aware of the fact he is fictional, I will not continue. I will instead talk about my favourite band ever- The Wiggles. Just Kidding.
LED ZEPPELIN
One of the greatest rock bands of all time (I say "one of" because not everyone has the same tastes, and I actually do like the Beatles quite a lot, oh and the Who. Fierce contenders for the position on greatest rock band.), Led Zeppelin are simply awesome. Rather than playing the same thing over and over again as is the case with pretty much all modern bands, Zeppelin relied on their diversity to add zest to their style. Rock, blues, metal, folk/rock fusion, jazz, funk, reggae, ballad, alternative, latin, even a little country/50's rock... They played it all. And they did it well.
Stairway to Heaven, while their trademark song, can not be said to be their best. If you're not much of a fan, get a copy of Mothership. The first disc has all their best songs from their first few years whilst the second disc has most of their best songs from 1973 onwards (I say this because Houses of the Holy should not be on there, it's not a very good song by the band's standards, and All My Love would have been better if replaced with South Bound Saurez or Fool In The Rain from the same album)-- basically just listen to Mothership. Once you have a taste for their stuff, get Led Zeppelin II. Easily one of their two best albums besides IV/Zoso/sticks or whatever you want to call it since it had no official title.
I will stop now simply because this is boring me and I'm rambling (Ramble On- good song, first disc of Mothership).
Later dudes.
*exits room carrying a huge amp and a bass*
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Blog?
Blog.
While I'm here I'm going to bitch about racing car games that encourage bad driving. Need For Speed, for example, the game where hitting a reinforced lamp post at 200 mp/h will cause it to go flying into the air, the game where there are magical arrows ererywher, the game that ENCOURAGES dangerous driving as a FUN thing with no consequence. I mean, in real life you cannot pay to instantly get your car from the impound lot every time you are arrested flying through the streets at speeds no actual car could obtain. And there is no way in hell you could collide head on with a wall and BOUNCE OFF IT with as much damage to the car as what would happen if you dropped a rock the size of your head on it. In reality, YOU WOULD BE DEAD. They'd be literally scraping your remains from the pavement (because we all know it's not cool to wear seatbelts while racing). This sort of game gives kids the idea that when you're behind the wheel you are invincible. P platers have a higher death rate than ANY other age/ethnical/gender group on the road. If I recall correctly, those games are targeted at that age group. *sigh*. I could start on GTA and how it encourages violence (my little brother used to play it and thought that guns were cool for a while, and by cool I don't mean "heroic army man" cool like most boys think at some point in their childhood, but "gangsta kill random people" cool, which is very concerning.).
But I won't.
The End.
While I'm here I'm going to bitch about racing car games that encourage bad driving. Need For Speed, for example, the game where hitting a reinforced lamp post at 200 mp/h will cause it to go flying into the air, the game where there are magical arrows ererywher, the game that ENCOURAGES dangerous driving as a FUN thing with no consequence. I mean, in real life you cannot pay to instantly get your car from the impound lot every time you are arrested flying through the streets at speeds no actual car could obtain. And there is no way in hell you could collide head on with a wall and BOUNCE OFF IT with as much damage to the car as what would happen if you dropped a rock the size of your head on it. In reality, YOU WOULD BE DEAD. They'd be literally scraping your remains from the pavement (because we all know it's not cool to wear seatbelts while racing). This sort of game gives kids the idea that when you're behind the wheel you are invincible. P platers have a higher death rate than ANY other age/ethnical/gender group on the road. If I recall correctly, those games are targeted at that age group. *sigh*. I could start on GTA and how it encourages violence (my little brother used to play it and thought that guns were cool for a while, and by cool I don't mean "heroic army man" cool like most boys think at some point in their childhood, but "gangsta kill random people" cool, which is very concerning.).
But I won't.
The End.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Warning for below post
As a precaution to the following blog, my kudos goes out to those few artists who can turn words into images... My girlfriend, for one. Cold Chisel's Jimmy Barnes, who has immortalised images of the Aussie life in his lyrics... Even to a degree, Pink Floyd, whose lyrics were pretty lame at most times but did create some vivid images in a few of their songs (Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb). The lyrics I am talking about in this next post refers to modern rap, hip hop, and even (sadly) some metal and rock bands who think that their lyrics have meaning. The bands who think that whingeing about the world will help to fix it. And also top 40 shit. Enjoy, please don't kill me.
To music...
Now, when people talk about music, the first thing 90% of the population thinks about is the lyrics... Nowadays, apparently how good a song is depends upon its lyrics. If the song is not "meaningful" (whatever the fuck that means) then it's not worth listening to. Modern bands seem more focused on the lyrics than playing their damn instruments, and this infuriates me.
Pink Floyd's song, Cluster One (from the album The Division Bell), starts off as a long fade-in of synth, a calm flowing river of emotion... The guitar comes swiftly in from the blurred sky and snatches you from the endless flow, pulling you higher and higher, as you watch the endless river become smaller and smaller... The darkness of the world around you is overwhelming, yet soothing, entrancing... The grand piano creeps into your attention and delivers a spine-tingling upward reach, from low to high, before delivering its slow melody, dancing in and out of the flying guitar... The soft drums come in to start a rythm, to rouse the soul from it's stupor... As the rythm and beat slowly increases, the river below still flowing, you a) realise I'm a crackpot and b) realise that THERE ARE NO VOCALS IN THIS SONG. Yet, it has attained perfection. It has taken the listener on a journey to the depths of their soul, to a place they never knew existed. Sure, you can't headbang to it, you can't dance to it... But it has delivered a stronger message than any huge egotistical (or not even that) band's lyrics ever will.
Led Zeppelin's song Bron-Yr-Aur (from the album Physical Graffiti), I credit for being a song that brings out intense emotion in me. It is nothing but an acoustic guitar with a bit of echo effect added to it, yet it takes a swirling trip through.. well, I don't really know. It's a love song; a song of tragedy; a song of yearning; a song without lyrics. Yes, another song that in today's age fails because there isn't some guy singing about how much the world sucks in it. It is really up to the listener what the song is about, the only one who knows what it truly is about is Jimmy Page, the one who wrote and played it. He expressed his emotion and it has been crystallized in eternity, in the souls of devoted Zeppelin fans such as myself. No meaningful lyrics. Just MUSIC.
Seriously, in MY opinion, any band who sings about fixing the world is doing NOTHING to ACTUALLY help the world. Music is a language, people. You can't fix the economy by playing loud music on wall street and holding up all the workers there. It just doesn't work. As much as I hate the system we use, the world NEEDS wall street until we can find a better way of managing our money. Playing music is not going to rouse our government into action to stop world hunger, war, fighting, whatever the shit. If politicians WANTED to help the nations under their control, they would have done so a long time ago. Music is not going to make them do anything. Sure, people will be able to relate to the singer's whingeing complaint about how much the world sucks, but essentially it ain't gonna do anything to help the world. AT ALL. *sigh*
Another thing about music nowadays is top 40 shit. All it is is what the audience wants to hear. No talent involved in making top 40 music. Just make a song that has repetitive lyrics about the same old thing (girls, love, love, girls, love, love etc), give it some trippy sound effects, make it sound "emotional" (today, adding a string section to ANY song makes it sound emotional) and you're away. But then, it doesn't even have to have emotion. "Shake It" by Metro Station *shudders* for instance, the only appeal of the song is that the guys who wrote it are metros and apparently (most) girls like that. Oh and it also has a strong beat, people like that too. Loud rythmic noise, no breaks in the sound (because that involves brain activity), and lotsa sound effects.
*sigh* Basically, my point is that people don't seem to appreciate music any more. Back in the days of the cavemen, music was made by instruments to make people feel good, and to express the way they felt. This continued to be the thing until around 1980, when music started to become boring and repetitive. Today, find a new band that DOESN'T have a song about how much their life sucks or how much the world sucks, and you're incredibly lucky. And I am well aware that bands such as AC/DC sang pretty much exclusively about women and getting wasted, and essentially all their songs sound the same, BUT THEY KNEW HOW TO PLAY!!! The riffs they came up with, you gotta admit while repetitive as all hell, had a degree of awesomeness to them. Modern bands have a thing for playing the same chord over and over, plastering it with lyrics and vocals to cover up the fact they can't play (Fall Out Boy for instance).
I will stop now for I am likely to die the next time anyone who reads this confronts me. It is likely that I have offended everyone. But back to the second and third paragraph, think about it. It's about the music, the way the sound makes you feel, the intricacy of such talented artists of sound. Not "good" lyrics and repetition. Sure, it makes many people feel good, and I am not saying songs should not have lyrics. I am simply saying that people today would rather listen to music that has "meaningful" lyrics and lots of loud noise and sound effects than anything... *sigh* I'll stop now.
I don't think I even proved my point, since I can't recall what it is anymore.
Meh.
Pink Floyd's song, Cluster One (from the album The Division Bell), starts off as a long fade-in of synth, a calm flowing river of emotion... The guitar comes swiftly in from the blurred sky and snatches you from the endless flow, pulling you higher and higher, as you watch the endless river become smaller and smaller... The darkness of the world around you is overwhelming, yet soothing, entrancing... The grand piano creeps into your attention and delivers a spine-tingling upward reach, from low to high, before delivering its slow melody, dancing in and out of the flying guitar... The soft drums come in to start a rythm, to rouse the soul from it's stupor... As the rythm and beat slowly increases, the river below still flowing, you a) realise I'm a crackpot and b) realise that THERE ARE NO VOCALS IN THIS SONG. Yet, it has attained perfection. It has taken the listener on a journey to the depths of their soul, to a place they never knew existed. Sure, you can't headbang to it, you can't dance to it... But it has delivered a stronger message than any huge egotistical (or not even that) band's lyrics ever will.
Led Zeppelin's song Bron-Yr-Aur (from the album Physical Graffiti), I credit for being a song that brings out intense emotion in me. It is nothing but an acoustic guitar with a bit of echo effect added to it, yet it takes a swirling trip through.. well, I don't really know. It's a love song; a song of tragedy; a song of yearning; a song without lyrics. Yes, another song that in today's age fails because there isn't some guy singing about how much the world sucks in it. It is really up to the listener what the song is about, the only one who knows what it truly is about is Jimmy Page, the one who wrote and played it. He expressed his emotion and it has been crystallized in eternity, in the souls of devoted Zeppelin fans such as myself. No meaningful lyrics. Just MUSIC.
Seriously, in MY opinion, any band who sings about fixing the world is doing NOTHING to ACTUALLY help the world. Music is a language, people. You can't fix the economy by playing loud music on wall street and holding up all the workers there. It just doesn't work. As much as I hate the system we use, the world NEEDS wall street until we can find a better way of managing our money. Playing music is not going to rouse our government into action to stop world hunger, war, fighting, whatever the shit. If politicians WANTED to help the nations under their control, they would have done so a long time ago. Music is not going to make them do anything. Sure, people will be able to relate to the singer's whingeing complaint about how much the world sucks, but essentially it ain't gonna do anything to help the world. AT ALL. *sigh*
Another thing about music nowadays is top 40 shit. All it is is what the audience wants to hear. No talent involved in making top 40 music. Just make a song that has repetitive lyrics about the same old thing (girls, love, love, girls, love, love etc), give it some trippy sound effects, make it sound "emotional" (today, adding a string section to ANY song makes it sound emotional) and you're away. But then, it doesn't even have to have emotion. "Shake It" by Metro Station *shudders* for instance, the only appeal of the song is that the guys who wrote it are metros and apparently (most) girls like that. Oh and it also has a strong beat, people like that too. Loud rythmic noise, no breaks in the sound (because that involves brain activity), and lotsa sound effects.
*sigh* Basically, my point is that people don't seem to appreciate music any more. Back in the days of the cavemen, music was made by instruments to make people feel good, and to express the way they felt. This continued to be the thing until around 1980, when music started to become boring and repetitive. Today, find a new band that DOESN'T have a song about how much their life sucks or how much the world sucks, and you're incredibly lucky. And I am well aware that bands such as AC/DC sang pretty much exclusively about women and getting wasted, and essentially all their songs sound the same, BUT THEY KNEW HOW TO PLAY!!! The riffs they came up with, you gotta admit while repetitive as all hell, had a degree of awesomeness to them. Modern bands have a thing for playing the same chord over and over, plastering it with lyrics and vocals to cover up the fact they can't play (Fall Out Boy for instance).
I will stop now for I am likely to die the next time anyone who reads this confronts me. It is likely that I have offended everyone. But back to the second and third paragraph, think about it. It's about the music, the way the sound makes you feel, the intricacy of such talented artists of sound. Not "good" lyrics and repetition. Sure, it makes many people feel good, and I am not saying songs should not have lyrics. I am simply saying that people today would rather listen to music that has "meaningful" lyrics and lots of loud noise and sound effects than anything... *sigh* I'll stop now.
I don't think I even proved my point, since I can't recall what it is anymore.
Meh.
Awesomeness and freedom (and also Dora the f***ing explorer)
I am here today to talk about.... The backspace button on my keyboard. LOL. Not really.
Anyhow, yesterday I had the priveledge of going to Midland with my bestie and hanging out there. We spent the majority of the time window shopping, since everything was either stupid or too expensive. Anyhow, I managed to FINALLY get a copy of Faith No More's "King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime" album and "Led Zeppelin II", so now I have something DIFFERENT to listen to, at least until I learn every song on the album on my bass and get sick of them. Speaking of Bass... I went into Cashie's (don't even think about calling me a cheapo, there's some great stuff in Cashie's) and found THE MOST AWESOME ACOUSTIC BASS GUITAR EVER, which I promptly picked up and started playing. I did this for about ten minutes while my friend impatiently paced around waiting for me to stop, before we left to meet up with his mum. We ended up going back, and well.. I now have the thing on layby. Hahaha.
It's a Monterey( http://www.montereyguitars.com/home.html ) electric-acoustic (that is, it's acoustic with a sound box and lead plug for playing with an amp) and even comes with a hard case (BONUS!!!) so as you can imagine, I'm pretty hyped about it. Once I've paid it off, I will be... complete. Mwahaha. Now I just have to get my muso mates together and get a jam session started so we can try form a band- that would be sweet considering we all have a certain degree of experience and ability (by certain I mean a lot) so we'd function well as a band, at least I'm hoping so.
The only problem we will have is our influences- the guitarist and drummer that I have lined up are both very much into heavy metal and modern rock, namely Bullet For My Valentine and Dream Theater (to name a very few), whereas the keyboardist I have lined up is into a lot of older popular music and the same sort of rock that I like... Then there's me, the bassist, who has Floyd/Zeppelin fingers and loves the sound of hard blues and acoustic melodies that metal doesn't really seem to understand (Metallica did a cover of Zeppelin's song "Tangerine", which is ridiculous considering it's ACOUSTIC and they did it as an all electric... very sad.)... Anyway, enough about my griping.
The point is...
Stay out of my Ice Cream, it's not yours.
I'd better go before I spontaneously combust.
BYEEEEEEE!!!
Anyhow, yesterday I had the priveledge of going to Midland with my bestie and hanging out there. We spent the majority of the time window shopping, since everything was either stupid or too expensive. Anyhow, I managed to FINALLY get a copy of Faith No More's "King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime" album and "Led Zeppelin II", so now I have something DIFFERENT to listen to, at least until I learn every song on the album on my bass and get sick of them. Speaking of Bass... I went into Cashie's (don't even think about calling me a cheapo, there's some great stuff in Cashie's) and found THE MOST AWESOME ACOUSTIC BASS GUITAR EVER, which I promptly picked up and started playing. I did this for about ten minutes while my friend impatiently paced around waiting for me to stop, before we left to meet up with his mum. We ended up going back, and well.. I now have the thing on layby. Hahaha.
It's a Monterey( http://www.montereyguitars.com/home.html ) electric-acoustic (that is, it's acoustic with a sound box and lead plug for playing with an amp) and even comes with a hard case (BONUS!!!) so as you can imagine, I'm pretty hyped about it. Once I've paid it off, I will be... complete. Mwahaha. Now I just have to get my muso mates together and get a jam session started so we can try form a band- that would be sweet considering we all have a certain degree of experience and ability (by certain I mean a lot) so we'd function well as a band, at least I'm hoping so.
The only problem we will have is our influences- the guitarist and drummer that I have lined up are both very much into heavy metal and modern rock, namely Bullet For My Valentine and Dream Theater (to name a very few), whereas the keyboardist I have lined up is into a lot of older popular music and the same sort of rock that I like... Then there's me, the bassist, who has Floyd/Zeppelin fingers and loves the sound of hard blues and acoustic melodies that metal doesn't really seem to understand (Metallica did a cover of Zeppelin's song "Tangerine", which is ridiculous considering it's ACOUSTIC and they did it as an all electric... very sad.)... Anyway, enough about my griping.
The point is...
Stay out of my Ice Cream, it's not yours.
I'd better go before I spontaneously combust.
BYEEEEEEE!!!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Sleep, coffee, Hoose and Rain
Yea... that's pretty much all I'll be rambling about this time. What little sleep I had last night isn't doing much to keep me awake, the coffees I have consumed aren't helping either. I must've slept in a bad position or something because I just feel so bloody sleepy... All this chocolate can't help either. I came down from my sugar high and crashed like a 747 full of fattys, so now I'm wishing I could just sleep... Why does not the FSM have mercy on my soul... WHY?!?!
Anywho, Hoose is awesome. Scroll to the bottom of my blog and you'll see a sweet pic of him. I laugh EVERY time I see it, I just can't help it. He's so funny.
And... rain. It's raining right now. Sweet, peaceful rain. Rain that is most likely going to stay until late October like it did last year, sadly enough. I hate the rain once it's been around that long. But stuill. Rain. Hoose. All good.
Byes people. I'm too weary to type any more.
Anywho, Hoose is awesome. Scroll to the bottom of my blog and you'll see a sweet pic of him. I laugh EVERY time I see it, I just can't help it. He's so funny.
And... rain. It's raining right now. Sweet, peaceful rain. Rain that is most likely going to stay until late October like it did last year, sadly enough. I hate the rain once it's been around that long. But stuill. Rain. Hoose. All good.
Byes people. I'm too weary to type any more.
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