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On the subject of Gorod, I decided to check them out today. I got hold of their latest album and I have to say that it was rather underwhelming. It had good moments but the whole thing just felt so inconsistent - there were some brilliantly creative riffs and polished musicianship followed up by what I would call generic tech-death fare. It's not a horrible album by any means; but I just can't see what all the hype about them is. I wonder if their earlier work is better.

Ah, car accidents. How fun. I've been in about three or four myself and as a result of the whiplash, my left shoulder is buggered. Good to hear you got out without anything serious.

Envy is awesome. Anata's The Infernal Depths of Hatred. I don't listen to metal much anymore. When I do, I make sure that it's good stuff.

*shels' album Sea of the Dying Dhow. *shels = post-metal gods

My Bloody Valentine - Cupid Come Isn't Anything deserves as much recognition as Loveless gets. I used to rate Loveless as the best thing that MBV ever put out but my opinion has taken a 360 on it recently. Isn't Anything is comforting, relaxing music at its finest. You Made Me Realise is my favourite MBV release, though.

I refuse to believe that two weeks of occasionally playing videogames has made my eyesight worse. I was already fairly short-sighted to begin with, but it wasn't really detrimental enough to warrant everyday glasses use. However, now I'm starting to suffer some nasty headaches from reading text, watching TV, and from my monitor. My stepdad and I were supposed to go in together to get our eyes checked but him having work has delayed it somewhat; and my current glasses are completely off the mark. Apart from that, I've had quite a nice day. Went out to band practice earlier so I'm in quite a pleasant mood right now. Oh, and ironically my eyesight has worsened since I switched over to an LCD monitor. When I had my CRT, I was 20/20. Weird.

Ever since I was stung as a kid, I've had this really nasty fear of wasps and bees. I can feel the panic starting to set in if I know there is one in my house, and God help me if one happens to come into the room I'm in at the time. I have to make a big effort not to dive out of the way if one happens to come near me when I'm outside. Yeah. Panic attacks over wasps and bees. Apart from that, I don't really have anything that frightens me - apart from the dark. It's a similar feeling to the wasps/bees; but it's something so much more common. I'm not even sure why being in the dark makes me panic so much.

There are a few I would call "unknown" on here, but there's a lot of stuff that is pretty well-known. Your average person just wouldn't listen to it.

You can relate to a lesbian song? :P Saxon's Ann Marie Nah it's misinterpreted that way. It's not about lesbians - it's from a male perspective. Why he got Yuki to sing it is beyond me. Nick Drake - Road

Asobi Seksu - Goodbye Often misinterpreted as a lesbian song but if I'm not wrong, the band's guitarist James Hanna writes their English lyrics and Yuki sings them. She made me open up my eyes until I finally looked around me when I heard her soft reply. I can't pretend to try; I'll do anything if just to make her stay. Maybe a little cheesy, but I can relate to it in a way.

Words can't really describe how lame I feel posting here. That wasn't directed at anyone. I do feel I should be maybe a little less secretive sometimes, though. Today was spent mostly sleeping. Woke up at about 12, cleaned up my bedroom a bit and basically played videogames until I decided to go to the gym at 7:45pm. I played a little of Shadow of the Colossus earlier. Holy [bleep]damn that is a beautiful game - I hadn't played it for a while, so it was quite overwhelming. If you haven't played it I strongly recommend that you do so. Yeah. All of my days are this uneventful.

?????? - nakano kill you Perfect for when I feel a little troubled.

Ride - Vapour Trail Nowhere is a beautiful album.

Oh wow that is just... horrible. I've never even listened to Avenged Sevenfold. Been looking for a reason to avoid them completely and I've finally found one.

THIS. This quote sums up 99% of my days. Add videogames and music and that's me exactly. I don't know about you guys but I'm quite content with doing just that. I've been going onto the internet straight after school until I go to bed, which is pretty late. I've been doing this since high school, the only time I don't do it is when someone asks me to do something with them. I don't really mind it. Sometimes I wish I had more social hobbies though. I guess it's just the way my personality is - introverted and eccentric. I'm one of those people who is quite secretive when it comes to their hobbies also.

THIS. This quote sums up 99% of my days. Add videogames and music and that's me exactly. On the note of Internet friends: I've never actually met any of mine. ;o Would like to meet one or two though.

It's not like I see the point in going (much) younger if you're over the age of consent in my country, anyway. I just didn't think it was that strange due to a couple of people I know doing that. Point taken, proven wrong, moving on.

I'm pretty happy today seeing as my new mouse came. Razer Diamondback 3G - a big step up from all my other mice. I'm so happy that I took a picture of it (next to my older mice): God [bleep]ing damn I love wasting money on peripherals.

Boris' Soundtrack From Film "Mabuta no Ura". You know what? I lied when I said Rainbow was my favourite Boris release. This is. An unconventional favourite and one that gets a lot of unfounded hate from fans of Boris, but it's a very relaxing ambient album.

How is that album? I don't remember if you've said anything about it or not. Porcupine Tree's Deadwing. Probably the most anthemic and memorable of Porcupine Tree's discography, and also my favourite album from their metal-influenced period.

:o I never would have thought of you as a KC fan. What's your favourite album? You guys got me into KC. I have to be original and say In The Court of the Crimson King, because it's the first one I ever heard. Just sounds like it would go great with some sort of sweeping Greek epic plus spaceman kind of movie. If I ever make a movie (a serious thought of mine), I would so most def use KC. Plus I've never been too impressed with Pink Floyd. I mean, my favorite song is "Wish You Were Here". Real Floydians would [bleep] kill me. Most KC fans kill me because I like their 1980s sound most. Discipline is a [bleep]ing great album and if you don't have it, I recommend picking it up as soon as you can. It's very rare for every song on an album to stick with me. It's considerably more relaxed and mellow than their earlier albums and they've lost the jazz fusion, which is why I love it so much.

Props for Sigur Rós and Arcade Fire. :thumbup: Porcupine Tree's Signify. The transitional album between their older sound laden with psychedelic, Pink Floyd, and krautrock influences to their mid-period acoustic rock sound. The weakest of the three albums (the others being Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun) but it has such beautiful tracks as Sleep of No Dreaming, Waiting Phase One, and Every Home Is Wired.

:o I never would have thought of you as a KC fan. What's your favourite album?

How do you know what they intended to do? Musically they seem to want to fuse alt. rock/alt. metal with progressive rock. Whilst they handle the first part quite well, their 'progression' seems muddled in its execution. 10,000 Days did seem to be an improvement here, but I think they definitely need to either refine the prog or just drop it outright. Instead of sounding intriguing, it sounds as if they're noodling around on their instruments and not really sure as to where to really go with their music. As I've stressed in many posts: there's not much good in using technical proficiency as a selling point when a band's song structure is messy. Just my two on Tool and the like.

Congratulations to all, but as said, in particular to Racheya and Lateralus as they never cease to impress me with the quality of their contributions to TIF.