I spent the day listening to the NIN Victoria HD rip. Very impressive stuff, and I’ve almost got the fan-made 2 DVD Sacramento video. I’ve seen some of the guy’s work on youtube, while the editing isn’t great, the film quality is magnificent!
Just watched the vast majority of Elizabeth. I can’t seem to sit still long enough to enjoy any movie anymore, even a damn excelent one as this! It may not be totally factual, but it was just magnificent. The score too brought out some old Mozart, which got me listening to classical a bit again. So glad I managed to find both of E. S. Posthumus‘ albums! Their stuff is amazing modern classics, and ha been used in tongs of TV shows and movies! Very much worth a listen.
I’m sure the bigs news today has been Obama’s Inauguration, but really, I have nothing to say about that. I’m excited, I’m glad, but it explains itself. Now we sit back and find out just how much of that was true. (Albeit, I beleive almost all of it was.)
Around here, things have been very odd. I tried to get some decent pictures of thee crazy fog we’ve had for almost two weeks, but no luck. Each night it seems to get thicker, to the point that it becomes almost Silent Hill-eque. My crazy co-worker, (the partner-in-crime on the desk wrapping), wants to make a Pyramid Head costume and wander around with an air raid siren blaring. I’d love to help, but the fog will (hoepfully) be gone before this can come to fruition.
I finally found out what “The Gift” from NIN was. 405 gigabyes of raw unedited footages, torrented and hosted for editing and fan-made DVD creation!
They included data from three shows, Sacramento, Portland and …. Victoria! I do not have the ability to edit, but I am anxiously awaiting the many DVDs and videos that will come. I ranted and raved about the Lights in the Sky concert when I saw it, and it truly is an experience that deserves a recording to immortalize it in the digital era of cheap pop music. I am vastly excited, and knowing how the fans are, I’m sure at least one DVD will be made!
Made some good use of my guitar yesterday, and got my D&D 3.0 books too! Woo hoo! Now to just read them again and set something playable up.
Jammed with a relative of mine yesterday. Was quite amusic because he owns a 5-string cut-away bass, so it was almost like playing a low-tone string-missing guitar. The sound was great and applied amazingly to my crappy multi-effect pedal. BEst part was, is he tuned the bassed to Standard E tuning, from lw to high, so the note progression worked the same as a stanard guitar aswell. Made for some nifty and easy to match riffs, and I even tried some soloing and lead playing over a few neat basslines. Spent a good four hours playing, including an hour or more on the bass, and damn my fingers went numb after that. Music is a hobby I am willing to suffer for.
Props to anyone who knows what the title of this post is a reference to.
Well I think I’ll have to thank Steven for updating my blog’s databse. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while, and I got like three or four revisions behind. Thanks Steve!
Guitar Legends Magazine put out a special edition this month dedicated to Metallica. Despite the pricey $10 price tag, I picked it up. I enjoy reading guitar magazines, because I do play, and when they devote an entire magazine to a band I like alot, it’s an instant must-have for me. Last time I found one of these was when Revolver devoted an entire issue to Tool. Best magazine I ever purchased.
That and I got me a “hard” hot-pink guitar pick. Nothing like thrashing out some metal with a hot-pink pick! Woo hoo!
Two days, ten hours of travelling, two months of planning and nearly $250 cost to myself, this concert was probably the most complicated and difficult one I have been to. And it was worth every moment of waiting and every penny spent.
I know you are supposted to nurture your children and let them grow and choose who they want to be, give them space to grow their own opinions and tastes. But, I still die a little inside everytime I hear or see my daughters rocking out to Avril Lavine.
I’m sure if you happened on any of the correct news sites, or radio stations, you’ll already know about this, but….Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright passed away last week. Pink Floyd was a monumental band that has inspired countless others for generations.
To honour him I suggest cranking The Great Gig in the Sky followed by a brief moment of silence…and alot of acid.
An amazing a beautifuly tragic song. Runs along the lines of Roger Water’s When the Tigers Broke Free and Four Minutes, from The Wall and Radio KAOS respectively. Damn, if those two were able to collaborate, I’d swear they could create the greatest cross-genre operatic musical tragedy in existence.
Behind the more is an attempted SeeqPod embeded link to the song. Lemme know if it works.
