From 9c14b06ee2e817710ede29df2af400639202a882 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: clinton Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 19:37:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Misc updates * A bit of change to the index * Make the shitty music I enjoy page slightly less shitty * Halloween 2009 was a long time ago maybe I shouldn't refer to it as the future --- Music I Enjoy.muse | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- Music.muse | 4 +--- index.muse | 25 +++++++++++++---------- 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) diff --git a/Music I Enjoy.muse b/Music I Enjoy.muse index b95fd73..5052583 100644 --- a/Music I Enjoy.muse +++ b/Music I Enjoy.muse @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ I have a [[http://www.last.fm/user/unknown_lamer/][last.fm]] account. * The Bands I Like the Most + ** Skyclad Skyclad is incredible folk metal. The first two albums (*Wayward Sons of Mother Earth* and *Burnt Offerings for the Bone Idol*) are Testament -style thrash with a bit of fiddle and keys. The third album, *Jonah's -Ark*, blunts the edge of the guitars and adds a lot more fiddle and is -really where the band goes from making good to incredible -music. +style thrash with a bit of fiddle and keys and a heavy dose of +NWOBHM. The third album, *Jonah's Ark*, blunts the edge of the guitars +and adds a lot more fiddle and is really where the band goes from +making good to incredible music. *Prince of the Poverty Line* is about as 'heavy' as the first two albums, but the the song structures are far more worked out and there @@ -35,31 +36,33 @@ version of a song from the previous album. The new material ends with the slow and intense *Badtime Story*. A couple of covers and an instrumental version of a song follow to pad the EP to album length. -*The Answer Machine?* is my favorite album in my entire collection. Most -of the songs have a fuzzy electric guitar and an acoustic guitar going -at the same time, and the album is music that I have found is -listenable to people who don't like metal. The fiddle, violin, and -piano dominate and are backed by interesting bass and just the right -amount of guitar. The album is a pseudo-concept album; each song is -about a different quest for the answer to life. +*The Answer Machine?* was once my favorite album in my entire +collection. Most of the songs have a fuzzy electric guitar and an +acoustic guitar going at the same time, and the album is music that I +have found is listenable to people who don't like metal. The fiddle, +violin, and piano dominate and are backed by interesting bass and just +the right amount of guitar. The album is a pseudo-concept album; each +song is about a different quest for the answer to life. Unfortunately, +here is also where the influence of their producer can start to be +felt--a lot of things seem to be done for the sake of *sensibility*. The last two Skyclad album with Martin Walkyier (the original singer) see a two step return to a more metal style, but this time something resembling *Powerslave* era Maiden with heavy folk overtones rather than -Testament. Both albums lack any weak songs, and have a few that are -among the best Skyclad has ever done: "Cancer of the Heart," "A Well -Beside the River," and "Vintage Whine" on *Vintage Whine*, and "The -Antibody Politic," "The Disenchanted Forest," and "Think Back and Lie -of England" on *Folkemon*. +Testament. Both albums are fairly strong, and have a few songs that +are among the best Skyclad has ever done: "Cancer of the Heart" and +"Vintage Whine" on *Vintage Whine*, and "The Antibody Politic," "The +Disenchanted Forest," and "Think Back and Lie of England" on *Folkémon*. -Alas, after *Folkemon* Martin left, and the band seems to have lost its +Alas, after *Folkémon* Martin left, and the band seems to have lost its magic. It is much like At the Gates; the core members meshed quite well together and lost some magical chemistry upon a major component -leaving. Skyclad's first album with the new singer was ok, and perhaps -the next one will be better. Sadly Martin Walkyier decided to abandon -music forever. +leaving. Skyclad's first album with the new singer was ok, and the +followup was a bit better. Unfortunately Kevin Ridley appears unable +to sing aggressively. ** Kevin Moore + Kevin Moore is the first keyboardist of Dream Theater who left after *Awake*. His work since then has surpassed the quality of everything Dream Theater has produced since then for he posesses a unique @@ -67,8 +70,9 @@ songwriting style and wonderful artistic ability. *** Chroma Key -Chroma Key is Kevin Moore's primary project. It is mostly electronic -and fairly mellow. +Chroma Key is (was?) Kevin Moore's primary project. It is mostly +electronic and fairly mellow. Secretly I like it (don't tell anyone I +listen to anything not metal). *** OSI @@ -85,3 +89,5 @@ alone, and it finds a much nicer balance between keyboard and guitar. The first OSI sounded too much like Fates Warning with more ambient keyboarding; this one has a sound of its own. My ears have heard this album many times, and will listen again many more. + +I'm not really digging *Blood* that much, but it's not bad. diff --git a/Music.muse b/Music.muse index cc2ab5b..7ca03e0 100644 --- a/Music.muse +++ b/Music.muse @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ * Recently Vacated Graves -I *sing* in [[http://zombiemetal.com][Recently Vacated Graves: True Zombie Metal]]. In theory we -have a third album in the works, and are playing a nice Halloween show -with Watain in [[http://jaxxroxx.com][Northern Virginia]]. +I *sing* in [[http://zombiemetal.com][Recently Vacated Graves: True Zombie Metal]]. * [[Music I Enjoy]] diff --git a/index.muse b/index.muse index 97b7acb..6cf5a1e 100644 --- a/index.muse +++ b/index.muse @@ -33,21 +33,25 @@ web are. * Journal -I keep a [[http://journal.unknownlamer.org/][journal]] where I used to send ideas out into the Ether before -reformulating them into coherent essays for the site sitting before -you, occasionally interspersed with commentary on my mundane daily -existence. As livejournal has sold out almost all of their former -ideals I no longer use this, but will eventually set up a weblogging -system locally. +I used to keep a [[http://journal.unknownlamer.org/][journal]] where I used to send ideas out into the Ether +before reformulating them into coherent essays for the site sitting +before you, occasionally interspersed with commentary on my mundane +daily existence. As livejournal has sold out almost all of their +former ideals I no longer use this, but might eventually set up a +weblogging system locally. [[http://unknownlamer.org/index.1999_2006.html][The Old Site]] is still available. Links to pages there will remain stable indefinitely so as to not break the Holy Command of Our Sovran -Hypertextia. +Hypertextia. Be warned I may have been a teenager when most of it was +written. * About Me / Contact I am a mild mannered hacker and metalhead. +I hack Lisp and am on the board of a [[http://hcoop.net][hosting cooperative]] that you +should join. + I welcome criticism and suggestions to improve anything I have written here. @@ -78,9 +82,10 @@ channels. =/whois= will guide you to me. ** Résumé -I am a programmer by trade, and as such have a (potentially) fancy -[[files/resume.pdf][Résumé]]. I am quite familiar with [[http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/][UnCommon Web]] and Common Lisp in -general. This, naturally, makes me unemployable. +I am a programmer by trade, and as such have a (potentially) fancy and +most certainly oudated [[files/resume.pdf][Résumé]]. I am quite familiar with [[http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/][UnCommon Web]] +and Common Lisp in general. This, naturally, makes me pretty +unemployable. ** A Picture -- 2.20.1