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Archive for January, 2007

Songs You Should Know #10: Watchtower - Fall of Reason

Posted: Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 @ 9:51 pm in Music | No Comments »

There is not much to say here. There has never been another band to concentrate that much energy and complexity. You might have to hear the song a few times before it will begin to mill into your brain without a chance of ever coming out again.

Posted: Sunday, January 28th, 2007 @ 6:13 pm in General | No Comments »

Thought I’d install a plugin that randomizes the tagline (which is non-existing now) of my blog. Found two, but none works
So, no stupid randomized tagline fun yet…

Songs You Should Know #9: Threshold - Phenomenon

Posted: Sunday, January 28th, 2007 @ 6:11 pm in Music | No Comments »

There aren’t many bands that manage to have a truly distinct sound, stay true to their sound and yet somehow manage to evolve ceaselessly. Threshold is such a band. A progressive metal band from Great Britain, thus adapting the typical style of prog that is played there, but stripping away the laziness and pretentiousness that […]

Lorlor

Posted: Saturday, January 27th, 2007 @ 2:36 pm in Fun | No Comments »

At Pictaps you can create your own stick figure and he will dance for you See my own Lorlor hitting it:

Posted: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 @ 9:36 pm in General, Music | No Comments »

Not much to talk about today, but it snowed today, and I feel the need to note, that the first really low temperatures of this winter came one and a half month late.
I also got a book with the 500 best Rock and Metal albums, and am busy scouring sites for cheap buys off the […]

Posted: Sunday, January 21st, 2007 @ 10:59 pm in Music | No Comments »

Now it would only be interesting to know why “Obsession” from the new Space Odyssey album sounds like a copy of “Anno Mundi” from the TYR album by Black Sabbath?

Doctor Snuggles

Posted: Saturday, January 20th, 2007 @ 12:47 pm in Fun, Movies | 1 Comment »

YouTube is a never-ending source of memories. Finding old cartoons I liked as a child provides lots of fun. I loved “Doctor Snuggles” as a child, though my memories are that it is a really strange series. I found 5 minutes of one episode on YouTube, and was really suprised to find out that, in […]

The Top 10 Albums of 2006

Posted: Friday, January 19th, 2007 @ 7:25 pm in Music | No Comments »

Now, finally, the second iteration of my top albums for 2006. I remembered more albums and shifted the places a bit. So now here are my top 10 for 2006. I will only comment on the new entries. Positions that shifted are due to rethinking or inserting other entries.

Storm

Posted: Thursday, January 18th, 2007 @ 9:02 pm in General, Music | No Comments »

While one of the worst winter storms of the last 10 years blows over our roofs, it’s time for an appropriate playlist:

Posted: Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 @ 8:23 pm in Music | No Comments »

On the Redemption website, you can already hear the excellent new song “The Suffocating Silence” of this Progressive Metal outfit.