Saturday, April 30, 2005
A four foot tall fortune-teller escapes from a maximum security prison. The next day, the local paper proclaims:
'SMALL MEDUIM AT LARGE'
'SMALL MEDUIM AT LARGE'
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Lost And Found
In case anyone cares, I have Mudvayne's recently released album, 'Lost And Found'.
On the plus side, it sounds like a Mudvayne album, which is a good thing. Their bassist still tends towards playing lead, kickarse rhythm guitarist, trippy-sounding clean vocals and demonic growling. Oh, and a psychotic drummer that rarely keeps to a metronomic beat.
Unfortunately, it also adheres to the Mudvayne trademarks of manic-depressive, 'why me?' lyrics.
They've made this one sound more like The End Of All Things To Come than L.D. 50, despite promises that it draws from both albums equally. Not that I'm complaining. The musical complexity is even more accentuated now, kinda like a much more melodic, rhythmic Meshuggah. You know, like if Meshuggah wrote music that actually WORKED 90% of the time. As much as I like Meshuggah, that's quite a novel concept.
Some of the songs are pretty shocking, though. Choices is just awful. The vocals are damned painful to listen to on that track. It seems if you want an example of the limits of Chad's vocal talent, you need not look past this song. And Determined seems to be a gap-filler. Kinda punchy and aggressive, theoretically a great start to the album, but it's quite a simple song, most notably in the lyrics.
Oh, well. Despite the lyrics and those two or thre awful songs, and the fact that it sounds an awful lot like TEOATTC, I'm still listening to it.
Ooh. Also got my paws on Dream Theater's 1994 release 'Awake'. It rocks. That is all.
Now, if more than one reader of this blog got anything out of this post, I will be stunned.
On the plus side, it sounds like a Mudvayne album, which is a good thing. Their bassist still tends towards playing lead, kickarse rhythm guitarist, trippy-sounding clean vocals and demonic growling. Oh, and a psychotic drummer that rarely keeps to a metronomic beat.
Unfortunately, it also adheres to the Mudvayne trademarks of manic-depressive, 'why me?' lyrics.
They've made this one sound more like The End Of All Things To Come than L.D. 50, despite promises that it draws from both albums equally. Not that I'm complaining. The musical complexity is even more accentuated now, kinda like a much more melodic, rhythmic Meshuggah. You know, like if Meshuggah wrote music that actually WORKED 90% of the time. As much as I like Meshuggah, that's quite a novel concept.
Some of the songs are pretty shocking, though. Choices is just awful. The vocals are damned painful to listen to on that track. It seems if you want an example of the limits of Chad's vocal talent, you need not look past this song. And Determined seems to be a gap-filler. Kinda punchy and aggressive, theoretically a great start to the album, but it's quite a simple song, most notably in the lyrics.
Oh, well. Despite the lyrics and those two or thre awful songs, and the fact that it sounds an awful lot like TEOATTC, I'm still listening to it.
Ooh. Also got my paws on Dream Theater's 1994 release 'Awake'. It rocks. That is all.
Now, if more than one reader of this blog got anything out of this post, I will be stunned.
DON'T PANIC
Catherine and I spontaneously decided to see The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy today, just because it happened to be showing and we were in the city at the time. This is the part where I tell you good readers what I thought.
First off, let me say that I liked it overall. One cool thing about it was the main characters all pretty much looked like I thought they would. Except Zaphod (when you see him, you'll know what I mean). But that's a given, what with how they handled the two-heads thing. It looked a little clumsy, but then, so does a head stuck on a guy's shoulder. His lines were hilarious, though. He reminded me of a hyperactive bender. Who's not a robot.
An interesting point: While I thought Marvin's voice was perfect, I thought he looked a little odd (even though he had a pretty damn good facial expression for a robot). Catherine, on the other hand, thought he was designed perfectly, but his voice was a little off.
The voiceover commentary explaining things in the film (as it happened in the book...you know, describing things like the Babel fish and the Vogons) worked surprisingly well. Even though I mostly knew what lines were coming up (and if you've read the book, so will you), it was still hilarious anyway, since they used accompanying visual aids for the explanations, which breathed new life into what would otherwise be the same old jokes.
It was good stuff. No major complaints from me.
First off, let me say that I liked it overall. One cool thing about it was the main characters all pretty much looked like I thought they would. Except Zaphod (when you see him, you'll know what I mean). But that's a given, what with how they handled the two-heads thing. It looked a little clumsy, but then, so does a head stuck on a guy's shoulder. His lines were hilarious, though. He reminded me of a hyperactive bender. Who's not a robot.
An interesting point: While I thought Marvin's voice was perfect, I thought he looked a little odd (even though he had a pretty damn good facial expression for a robot). Catherine, on the other hand, thought he was designed perfectly, but his voice was a little off.
The voiceover commentary explaining things in the film (as it happened in the book...you know, describing things like the Babel fish and the Vogons) worked surprisingly well. Even though I mostly knew what lines were coming up (and if you've read the book, so will you), it was still hilarious anyway, since they used accompanying visual aids for the explanations, which breathed new life into what would otherwise be the same old jokes.
It was good stuff. No major complaints from me.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Train Ticket Update
The ticket count has increased to 155. Christop asked me what I'm going to do with them again, and I still have no answer. He suggested that I stick them on my wall, which is a pretty cool idea, but I'm thinking bigger. MUCH bigger. And he made the same suggestion earlier anyway, so he gave me another, brand-new suggestion.
'Ride 155 trains'
Sounds like fun.
But I don't think I'll be doing anything constructive with them, because I no longer control the Train Tickets...The Train Tickets control ME!!!
'Ride 155 trains'
Sounds like fun.
But I don't think I'll be doing anything constructive with them, because I no longer control the Train Tickets...The Train Tickets control ME!!!
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
1000 Sheep-Monkeys
Here's a classic I've heard recently, bearning in mind, this person is NOT catholic or religious in any way, and is not married:
'Is it a sin to have an abortion?'
Yes, it is. It is also a sin to:
a) have sex out of marriage, as you did and
b) to have a baby out of wedlock, which you might do,
c) use contraception, which you obviously did not.
So either way, you've already scored one point, and now you have to decide where to allocate the other. Unless you want to get married. Ha.
But in my opinion, it certainy SHOULD be a sin for people like you to breed at all. But hey, it seems with those regulations in place regarding birth-control (or lack thereof), the catholic church always was, and always will be intent on breeding idiots. Probably easier to control a population like that.
'Is it a sin to have an abortion?'
Yes, it is. It is also a sin to:
a) have sex out of marriage, as you did and
b) to have a baby out of wedlock, which you might do,
c) use contraception, which you obviously did not.
So either way, you've already scored one point, and now you have to decide where to allocate the other. Unless you want to get married. Ha.
But in my opinion, it certainy SHOULD be a sin for people like you to breed at all. But hey, it seems with those regulations in place regarding birth-control (or lack thereof), the catholic church always was, and always will be intent on breeding idiots. Probably easier to control a population like that.
