Today is Overclocked Remix 15th anniversary!

I'm not actually sure how I first heard about OCRemix. I know I was in university when I started listening to it, and I'm almost positive that my acquaintance with them began with sephimb telling me about "Terra in Black," which is still one of the best mixes on the site over a decade later:

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Checking back through my archives, it doesn't look like I've told this story. I was listening to Raindancer by Erutan (or katethegreat19, which is the name I originally found her by on OC ReMix, though the fantastic The Rose General) and the lyrics reminded me of the last enkai we went to with softlykarou's co-workers ( Read more... )

Yesterday, softlykarou and I went to the Distant Worlds concert in the Chicago Symphony Center. It opened with a performance of "Hymn of the Fayth" with soloists and a full choir, and they had me hooked from the beginning ( Read more... )

I just got back from tonight's concert at the Vic Theatre. The last time I saw VNV Nation was almost nine years ago. I actually have a blog post about it, though in the classic fashion of my much earlier posts it mostly takes the form of long-form rambling about my daily life. On the other hand, it's nice that I still have it. That's why I keep ( Read more... )

Specifically, at this symphony:

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Nightwish is performing at House of Blues at the end of the month.

softlykarou is working that weekend and would hate me forever if I went without her...but how long is forever, really? :-p

So, I just read an article in Science News about how, in some cases, obesity may be contagious. Apparently, there's a certain virus which can convert stem cells into fat cells. In the experiment they did, 30 percent of obese test subjects showed antibodies related to the virus. Apparently, though, the virus is only contagious for a few weeks ( Read more... )

...for their first-ever US tour.

And it is going to ROCK.

7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at the House of Blues in Chicago, if anyone else wants to go.

So, while Ultimate yesterday was awesome, my muscles today are doing a fabulous job of telling me that I shouldn't have played it. At length, and with some vigor. While I'm more in shape than I was (I didn't get excessively tired during the game, and I didn't need a break, or even really to sit down, after it was done), I'm not as in shape as I ( Read more... )

So, I've gotten pretty used to handling the phone calls from work. Even though it's technically one of my duties to answer the phone, I've always considered it a distraction from my real work (read: writing). I've finally gotten used to people calling in to ask information that would be easily available if they'd just open one of our papers for ( Read more... )