SR IV: This is the end, my only friend, the end.

You know, Pekka, I was thinking about you earlier today. At the Finnish Embassy here in DC there is an exhibition called MyHelsinki, about the experiences of a group of 12 Washingtonians in your capital city. I think Micky and I will go to see it before the end of the month, even if it is bound to make me sad... I haven't been back to Finland in exactly 7 years, and I doubt I ever will. It's a long story, and I don't want to bore you with it, though.

I'm so sorry for what happened in your school, Dan... It must be really traumatic. I remember when the V-Tech shooting happened two years ago, and Chris (GoldenSpiral) was a student there.. We were all so worried about him.

On a lighter note, Micky and I already have tickets for the Decemberists' gig on June 8. We might go and catch Opeth later in May, and then there's Yes and Asia on July 23 at the National Harbour, and ProgNation on Aug 1... Lots of great stuff!

birdwithteeth11 wrote: Epignosis wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Epignosis wrote: I'm listening to Itsy's big sig. Great stuff. I listened to that the other day and I was relatively unimpressed. It was decent. Nothing more, nothing less. It was better at first, but the music became monotonous towards the last 5 tracks or so. Says the guy who had the strangest conversion toward Animal Planet Collective I've ever seen. Devil's Advocate: Alex did say that The Hazards of Love was "just pop music" for the most part. *Goes back to studying*

I said it was pop music and not art music.

i.e. It's more comparable to pop music than something like Coltrane. Which is entirely true. I also said it was mostly too simplistic for my tastes in a way that kept it from being mindblowing.

Padraic wrote: I'm happy to not be hunting too much for new stuff right now.  There's so much I have that hasn't been played that much.  And almost all of it is incredibly awesome.

Yeah, I definitely understand that; I've been in a similar boat mostly.

I really don't want to study for this stupid Law final. I made the studyguide, but that's it.

Epignosis wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Epignosis wrote: I'm listening to Itsy's big sig. Great stuff. I listened to that the other day and I was relatively unimpressed. It was decent. Nothing more, nothing less. It was better at first, but the music became monotonous towards the last 5 tracks or so. Says the guy who had the strangest conversion toward Animal Planet Collective I've ever seen.

I told you; I was sick and had a headache before my first listen of that album, and I honestly didn't give it a fair try--which is why I was determined to hear it again.

I actually was really excited about hearing Hazards of Love after hearing "Hazards of Love 2" on Dan's radio show. It was good, but that's it. I don't have a desire to listen to it again for a while (unlike Animal Collective, where the next day all I could think about was hearing it again), but hopefully it'll grow on me when I do hear it for the second time.

Now that school's ALMOST out (just one more exam tomorrow), I've been starting to compose a bit more too--got a completely new song in the works and I'm pretty excited about it.

David's coming over after our exam tomorrow; hopefully we'll get some more stuff out of it.

Padraic wrote: ^^  That's my impression of the Crane Wife to date.  Good, but nothing I can get that excited about. In other news, Area still rules.

I'll listen to the Crane Wife soon enough. That's exactly how I felt about Hazards though.

And it's funny you mention Area. I haven't listened to them in a little while and I just now put on Maledetti for my first listen. Great album so far.

Epignosis wrote: I'm listening to Itsy's big sig. Great stuff.

I listened to that the other day and I was relatively unimpressed.

It was decent. Nothing more, nothing less. It was better at first, but the music became monotonous towards the last 5 tracks or so.

Edited by MovingPictures07 - May 07 2009 at 13:45

Epignosis wrote: moreitsythanyou wrote: Epignosis wrote: I'm listening to Itsy's big sig. Great stuff. I still haven't bought it. There are just no CD stores around here (in walking distance at least) Then why is it in your sig so big?  I got mine at Target. Had the wife pick it up when she went to get God knows what. And let me tell you, it's excellent.  Almost as good, if not as good, as The Crane Wife.

It's been there since they released the cover