To bring you breaking news.
New song, “Tenebrous Ephemeral Amnesia” has been unleashed over at chaotimusic.com
Go get it. It has lots o bass. The bass is the main instrument in this tune as it were. It also has lots of big words, which will make you smarter.
And now back to the cryptic blog posts (the clue for today is ziltoidian heartburn).
Defiant Helmsman: Main power’s off-line. We’ve lost shields. Our weapons are gone.
Worf: Perhaps today is a good day to die. Prepare for ramming speed!
It is here. It is good. It has already been used and defiled.
This here is a very short video using it (but first not for comparison)
I also got the new album by Arch Enemy. Also good. My first Scandinavian metal…. Fuck Yeah.
So, my sister is getting married at some point (hence she moved out and I now have a proper bed). Anyway, something to do with a change in ownership at the planned venue has meant that there has been some plan changing (not for me obviously, I’m sure I can turn up and be completely bored anywhere). So, she was here and made a comment about me getting married, and I laughed as usual.
Well, not exactly as usual, her follow up comment about how it might actually happen shows she isn’t a reader of this blog, is anybody? maybe no one does :-( Anyway, I doubt church will be where I’d “find someone” and…. obviously there is that other thing that also made it funny.
So, between the other thing and my sister the whole weeding and relationships thing has been on my mind. Rather than actually doing serious pondering and/or writing something thought provoking I’ll just leave you with this video. Because slash is badass….
Firstly, Coma White. I used to listen to this song all the time back in the day (when all my music was MP3 and mostly obtained from people at lans like gibstock)
Secondly, Heart-Shaped Glasses, from his latest album. Mainly because it stars a different girlfriend of his.
The truth is that there is no manson in my current collection :(
So, I got up this morning had my usual breakfast, and then sat down to watch the tv. Watched the latest episode of American Chopper, which is becoming a virtually paint by numbers show. Every episode seems almost interchangeable, with only the “design” of the bike changing – and that only changes within a few strict parameters.
After that I watched “Me and You and Everyone We Know” a nice weird indie romantic dramedy. My kind of film, which means that most people will find it filled with weird characters they don’t understand. I myself am a weird character that no one understands, so I love films like this. About halfway through I got all creatively inspired…. and wrote a poem, and if you haven’t already read it, then you weren’t the target audience and you don’t get to read it (not until my autobiography anyway).
Once the movie had finished, I was still feeling creative, so I went and picked up the plywood pos. That it is over there on the right. It is named the plywood pos because it is actually a big slab of plywood. It was made in vietnam, and it was my first guitar. The strings are old and rusty, but I still love to play it. It makes me want to go and by something similar, but better.
Anyway, I started jamming over this weird progression I’ve been working on for the past week or 2…. and before you know it I’ve written and recorded a six minute instrumental song. All the guitar parts were played on the plywood pos, with some bass from my red spector, and drums, piano and cowbell from the macbook.
Lots of lead guitar, and the song itself is more “rock” than metal…. something kind of like Joe Satriani when he’s in a bluesy mood. Of course with it being lots of clean guitar chords and piano, there is an obvious congregational influence, but with all the firey lead guitar it definately ended up somewhere I really liked.
Of course, y’all are wondering when you can hear it, and y’all are feeling denied about not getting to read my poetic brilliance, or maybe not all of you ;-). Well…. it will be chaotimusic.com #014 and #009 was released this past sunday. So that’d be the 27th of October….
Oh well, patience is a virtue.
Today:
The vote is in. The beard is staying, and I won’t be going with the crowd and tweaking it dimebag style (like say scott ian of anthrax or mike portnoy of dream theater have been sporting) as it is a “perfect colour as it is”.
Which makes me happy.
Happy is a weird state to be in. It is so foreign to me that I don’t even recognise it. In fact I felt weird all day. Kind of torpid. It was like my mind was in some kind of infinite loop or something. I kind of imagine a computer sitting there going “does not compute” because the data it was receiving was outside of the permitted set. It was expecting “bitter, blue, cheerless, dejected”…. and the new reality of my circumstances doesn’t allow such emotions to dominate.
Or something. I don’t know. Maybe it was just a chemical imbalance. Or just that it was cold and wet. Or maybe being alone in my room all week is getting to me and something in my brain was craving human social contact that isn’t just blog posts and sms. Maybe I just need a hug and a chocolate brownie.
I’m still not feeling “right”, but it’ll be okay, I bought a new microphone over the interwebitubes – it’ll help with making more songs for people to “LOVE”….
