I learned fairly recently that Nightwish and Anette parted ways in October. Which is too bad, but c'est la vie and all that. Nightwish isn't hiring a replacement right away, probably won't even start looking (based on a November interview) until sometime next year. In the meantime, they've brought in Dutch singer Floor Jansen to finish out their ( Read more... )

Have had this song on loop the past three or four days. Somehow this seemed worth posting about at 3am. In looking up the YouTube link to do so, I discovered that Nightwish--who would probably qualify as my favorite band if I had to pick--has crafted a version of this song, which they included as a b-side to the single they released last March ( Read more... )

Somehow I missed the release of Nightwish's latest album Imaginaerum in November, but remembered that it had been forthcoming and picked it up a couple of months ago. As I understand it, the band has made or is working on a movie by the same name meant as a companion piece to the album, or vice-versa. Or something. I have yet to investigate that ( Read more... )

So I've been meaning to pimp this band for over a year now, but it's been a pretty busy year between one thing and another and the pimpage has never happened. Recently I've found myself on something of a kick with them again, so I figured: High time I made it happen.

( Music Pimping: Poets of the Fall )

Ack. I composed most of this a couple-few months back when the album came out and I had it on repeat, but never quite got around to finishing and posting it. It's ended up less a proper review and more a rambling of my impressions.

( Album Review - A Thousand Suns )

- Watched Coraline last night. Charmingly creepy. ^_ ( Read more... )

Because I couldn't resist slipping in a request on Xpyne's version of the meme:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character (from one of my usual fandoms) of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. If you absolutely can't write ( Read more... )

Swiped from zalia, who gave me ' T '

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

1. Thinkin' 'Bout Lifting You, by Moby vs. Londonbeat. Mashup of Londonbeat's 'Thinkin' About You' (which I utterly loved back ( Read more... )

Redoubt is still rumbling in the background of my day-to-day, apparently unable to decide if it's going to blow or not. Boss out of town this weekend means that I'll be on volcano-watch duty. If it blows, I get to come in and ensure that all the servers etc etc are shut down, properly covered, the works. And boot them back up once an all-clear ( Read more... )

For the hell of it. Though it was meant to be in time for Halloween. I built me a goth playlist last December or so; there've been a few things added to it recently that have me revisiting it. Is good stuff. These are highlights. Check it out if you like. ^_^

There are some of these that I'm pretty sure I've pimped before, but memory and ( Read more... )