The Shred Room or The In-Betweeners Club

Right now I'm just about to get out of school and I'm doing my thesis piece (I'm a film student). I've applied to the camera union and worked on several music videos and concerts, so I'm looking to become a camera man and director. My hero is Stanley Kubrick, he's a guy who did just that. I know that director is a bit of a stereotypical goal, but right now I think I'm doing damn good. I wrote a script with all my writing prowess (which I keep up through reviews at PA)  and had a director friend look over it and give his critique, he says if done right it could be Toronto-film-fest material. Toronto is where a lot of films immediately die, but I could always submit it elsewhere if it's good enough. I've pulled in all my favors from other people I've worked with and i have a volunteer crew of 13 people ready to shoot, and a cast of 4 deadly, upcoming actors from the Vancouver scene. The interviews are a more evil part of my plan, I've been contacting the artists to see if I can use some of their music in my films to make for some very excellent soundtracks .

here's hoping! I'll probably spam PA with the video when it's done in mid December. Hopefully there will be some prog on it.

So far, so good.  This is a first listen for me too.  This came up first alphabetically on the iPod before the Karmakanic album. 

All 3 of those are on disc 2, so it sounds like I have them to look forward to.  I'm only on Angeliqua right now, so I am only 3 songs in.  A little guitar riff on here that is very Zeppelin-esque.

I loved The Ladder, so I'm probably going to like Don't Give Up On Love.  The voice on Here I Am reminds me a bit of Geoff Tate of Queensryche.

I was listening to The Scarecrow from Avantasia the other day for the first time, and on the one song I thought, man this guy sounds alot like Alice Cooper.  So I happened to check the song lineup, and sure enough it was Alice Cooper.  I always think it is kind of funny when I recognize a voice like that. 

Edited by rushfan4 - November 28 2008 at 12:52

I see that you are playing The Ladder now.  I remember when that came out I was so excited about a new Yes album.  It must have been around the time that I first got an internet connection, because I remember going to the Yes website, where they had one of the songs streaming. I think that it was Lightning Strikes, but it might have been The Ladder. It played on loop, so I must have heard it 10 or 15 times in a row and I thought it was pretty awesome.  I'm probably confusing my memories a bit, but I seem to remember that I was also listening to a Stanley Cup finals game on the internet at the time too.  It was a fairly famous game, because it was the one that the Dallas Stars won in over time on the puck that Brett Hull kicked in to win.

That would have probably been the week that I was taking final exams just before graduating.  The Detroit Pistons made the NBA finals for the first time that year, but they lost to the Lakers.  We had our graduation ceremony in the Silverdome, where the Pistons played at that time, and they were practicing on the other side of the curtain from where we were having our ceremony.  After the ceremony we were able to go over and watch them practice.  At my graduation party we were all gathered in my family room watching them play the Lakers in the finals.  I think that they ended up losing that game on their way to losing the series.  But they did win the next two years.

I made it to Journey's Friend.  My first thought was that Ian Gillan had entered the proceedings, but I can see the Brian Johnson reference too.

I'm a sports junkie, but mostly from the couch these days.  Baseball is the only organized sport that I played, but we were always playing baseball, football, basketball, or street hockey every day after school and all days on the weekends and during the summer.  I was a pretty good player amongst my friends, but I sucked when I got with other groups.