A music post. My flavor of the moment recently has involved a bit of cello rock.

Apocalyptica is a Finnish band that started out as a cello quartet performing Metallica covers several years ago. Benjamin and I thought it was a geekishly cool idea, but their rendition of 'Unforgiven' was really the only one that caught my ear. Recently, I ( Read more... )

All of these I've done before. But all of them are worth doing again, so here we are. ^_^

Stolen from jibii
( In My Pants meme )

Threads elsewhere have got me ruminating on diversity in fandom and solidarity as fannish people despite that diversity. Which prompts me to go ahead and move on a music post I've been idly composing of late. I am forever applying my fandom experience to music that I hear, testing for echoes of familiarity in the lyrics, the notes, the overall ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember about three years back, I was befuddled and irked over a couple of Depeche Mode CDs that had gone missing from my library. While the Personal Jesus single eventually turned up, my copy of Violator is still MIA. That particular disc had great sentimental value attached, having been Benjamin's before he died, but I've ( Read more... )

I picked up the soundtracks to Pirates 2 & 3 over the holidays, because despite their over-the-top moments here and there the PotC movies resonate with me on all sorts of levels that I feel more than I can verbalize, and the music is part of that and helps evoke that sense of...joy. Enjoyment. Liking-ness, excitement? *waves hands* Vocab seems ( Read more... )

Album Review
Tarja Turunen - ( My Winter Storm )

...Yeah, it's about two months overdue. Not that anyone was actually waiting for my opinion. ^_^;

( Album Review: Nightwish - Dark Passion Play )

I had promised to upload this CD for my brother this weekend, and had mentioned it to at least one of you out there, and for all I know there's more of y'all who might like it, so. Here 'tis.

David Arkenstone - Ocean DreamsIt's a...a mood-setting, meditative sort of CD, composed of varying bits of tranquil-minded music over a soft soundscape of ( Read more... )

So. Fic deadline met, though not as timely as I'd have liked. The fic is still in the polishing process, despite its entry. It was more about setting and meeting a goal, though, than any real hope of placing or prize-winning. So I'm...half-satisfied? I drafted it, sure, which is technically 'finished' according to some, but...it's still not ( Read more... )

So I'm apparently a bit behind on news, but they've hired a new singer and have a new album slated for 9/28 release. I look forward to seeing how it's turned out. In the meantime, there's a single out called Amaranth. I found the video on YouTube.

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Also. You did not see me and I was not here. *resolutely returns to fic-attempting and does not ( Read more... )