I’m a music lover. As a kid, I dabbled at enough instruments to know that the only one I could claim even a moderate skill with was my voice, but even so, music remained central to my life. And it didn’t stop with my teenage years; whether it was Duran Duran or The Monkees, the Rat Pack or the Goliards, Paul Winter or Saint-Saëns, I have always ( Read more... )

It's a good thing I'm not brain damaged from lack of oxygen ( Read more... )

This song. I honestly didn't know what to make of it at my first listen. I loved the opening, immediately. It made me feel like I was standing in front of a dark stage and they were going to come out in the very next second -- that big feeling, you know? The one where you want to hold your breath and scream all at once, and you can't do both (laws ( Read more... )

I love that moment when I hear a new MCR song for the first time; there's this disconnect where it sounds like nothing I've ever heard before, it's strange and wonderful and I have to hold my breath for a moment, like I just jumped into the deep end ( Read more... )

When I woke up this morning, I was facing a closing shift at the store. Ugh. Not happy about that, was reluctant and resentful since I was previously supposed to have the day off. Then I got a call changing my schedule again, thus: a reprieve ( Read more... )

It seems I don't have one for technicolor futuristic synth-happy party music. :D

Of course, this is totally from way, way, WAY out of left field. Who could have guessed? We were all thinking of our boys in black, thinking Mad Max and Bladerunner, and instead they've been making something bright, something Fifth Element ( Read more... )

Admittedly, trying to figure out what all the hints and clues mean (or even if they are hints and clues!) is a ton of fun, and I love the idea that they've created this elaborate puzzle to get us psyched up for the album, but what is really engaging my imagination is this world they're creating via their tweets ( Read more... )

Omg people, we are the craziest fanbase, I swear! :D

All this storytelling from the twitter characters, and cryptic webpages, and speculation and theorizing and truly amazing smart work being done with decoding and programming by fans with way more math skills than I (check out the comments of this altpress article to see what I mean!)-- I love it ( Read more... )

Last night I went online as soon as I got home from work (Thanks to a heads-up from fuschia!) and that was it. Didn't get anything else done. Just listened to static and heartbeats and poked around on mysterious new twitter accounts and grinned loopily at the computer screen and when I did finally manage to drag myself off to bed, went to sleep with "A ( Read more... )

My own independent involuntary psyching up to the new album continues. Over the last couple of days I've downloaded two more covers (which I know have been floating around the cybersphere for quite awhile but have largely eluded my awareness) and am now in happy little fangirl heaven, with "Under Pressure" and "Jack the Ripper" playing on repeat. ( Read more... )