Divided about Division
I haven't posted a lot of personal stuff lately, mostly because I've just been too tired to put it all into words.
Anyway! :D
New computer is working very nicely and I love it muchly. Had a moment of WTF!? last night when I couldn't find a few files in iTunes that I had added. Turned out that I hadn't switched the place it looks for music files in on this one, so after I did that and moved those over it's all good. i knew I had done it... but it was on the one I returned to the store. Ooops? :D
Last week, I had an intense work+dogsitting couple of days... You see, when I have to stay over at my parents', I don't actually relax and chill out and recharge my batteries even though I'm not working in the evening or during the night, so in essence, it turns out as some kind of all-day-round being on edge kind of thing. I blame my adrenal glands. Meh. So, when I got home Thursday evening (it was Thursday evening, wasn't it?) all I could do was to curl up on the sofa and hug a pillow and try to remember how to breathe.
I was so exhausted that I couldn't even squee over Division having arrived!
Well, that, and a few other reasons.
You see, I have mixed feelings about Division. If you've followed my journal for a while, you may have noticed that I've been worried about what it was I was paying for. Just a weird kind of worry I couldn't explain or find a reason for. I read things that Ruki said on Twitter about the production, already before they had finished the songs! and I got worried.
And then I listened to it, before it reached my hands, and I found that yes, I disliked large portions of the songs. :( On several more listenings, I can say that I hate one song, Attitude, and don't particularly like one or two more (including one of the SEs), but it has become much better when I stopped including Attitude in the playlist. Much better! That song is just Ruki-goes-techno overload for me and it made me hate whatever came after it, every little electro-sound would make me twitch... I can tolerate it much more now. :)
But... I looked through the whole thing as soon as I got my hands on it. And the packaging is absolutely stunning and gorgeous. And the photography is beautiful and lovely and so so pretty!
But.
Like I've said before to a few people in private, would it have hurt him to include a few pictures of the band members?!?!?!!?! :(
Like, I think the two ladies in the photos are beautiful and it's all very cool with the symbolic stuff, but I wanted, expected, really thought and looked forward to seeing a few new pictures of the band!
I liked how in Toxic, there was a nice balance between pretty band members and pretty, artsy photos without the band. In Division, it feels ... empty without the band. I know I shouldn't have expected anything, really. But... I couldn't imagine that Ruki would totally ditch the idea of having pictures of the band in the limited ed photo book. Like, why did I actually pay so much for this without getting anything that I am actually interested in? I have no idea who these ladies are, and they don't sing any of the songs, while we don't get a single trace of the guys who actually make the music!
Ah well.
As they say on Tumblr, I have feels. A lot of them. And they are confused and mixed.
If I had known this was what the package included, I might even have bought the LE anyway, but at least then I wouldn't have this part of me that is disappointed. The album is awesome and good and pretty... but.
I have more to write about but I will go drink my coffee now and write more tomorrow or so...
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Anyway! :D
New computer is working very nicely and I love it muchly. Had a moment of WTF!? last night when I couldn't find a few files in iTunes that I had added. Turned out that I hadn't switched the place it looks for music files in on this one, so after I did that and moved those over it's all good. i knew I had done it... but it was on the one I returned to the store. Ooops? :D
Last week, I had an intense work+dogsitting couple of days... You see, when I have to stay over at my parents', I don't actually relax and chill out and recharge my batteries even though I'm not working in the evening or during the night, so in essence, it turns out as some kind of all-day-round being on edge kind of thing. I blame my adrenal glands. Meh. So, when I got home Thursday evening (it was Thursday evening, wasn't it?) all I could do was to curl up on the sofa and hug a pillow and try to remember how to breathe.
I was so exhausted that I couldn't even squee over Division having arrived!
Well, that, and a few other reasons.
You see, I have mixed feelings about Division. If you've followed my journal for a while, you may have noticed that I've been worried about what it was I was paying for. Just a weird kind of worry I couldn't explain or find a reason for. I read things that Ruki said on Twitter about the production, already before they had finished the songs! and I got worried.
And then I listened to it, before it reached my hands, and I found that yes, I disliked large portions of the songs. :( On several more listenings, I can say that I hate one song, Attitude, and don't particularly like one or two more (including one of the SEs), but it has become much better when I stopped including Attitude in the playlist. Much better! That song is just Ruki-goes-techno overload for me and it made me hate whatever came after it, every little electro-sound would make me twitch... I can tolerate it much more now. :)
But... I looked through the whole thing as soon as I got my hands on it. And the packaging is absolutely stunning and gorgeous. And the photography is beautiful and lovely and so so pretty!
But.
Like I've said before to a few people in private, would it have hurt him to include a few pictures of the band members?!?!?!!?! :(
Like, I think the two ladies in the photos are beautiful and it's all very cool with the symbolic stuff, but I wanted, expected, really thought and looked forward to seeing a few new pictures of the band!
I liked how in Toxic, there was a nice balance between pretty band members and pretty, artsy photos without the band. In Division, it feels ... empty without the band. I know I shouldn't have expected anything, really. But... I couldn't imagine that Ruki would totally ditch the idea of having pictures of the band in the limited ed photo book. Like, why did I actually pay so much for this without getting anything that I am actually interested in? I have no idea who these ladies are, and they don't sing any of the songs, while we don't get a single trace of the guys who actually make the music!
Ah well.
As they say on Tumblr, I have feels. A lot of them. And they are confused and mixed.
If I had known this was what the package included, I might even have bought the LE anyway, but at least then I wouldn't have this part of me that is disappointed. The album is awesome and good and pretty... but.
I have more to write about but I will go drink my coffee now and write more tomorrow or so...
This entry was originally posted at http://ldybastet.dreamwidth.org/593341.html.
comments there. You can comment on either site.