So the big A just asked me to play a gig with his band. The same that did a magnificent rendering of Tenacious D’s Tribute? It’s been too long since I got to rock out (on real instruments, thank you Guitar Hero) and I’m totally pumped.
Got 3 days to learn some power metal and classic rock songs:
Dream Theater - Scene Two: Part I. Overture 1928
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Mr. Big - To Be With You
Sonata Arctica - The Wind Beneath My Wings
I’ve always felt my relationship with metal to be something of an uncomfortable truce. I love the batshit crazy riffs — the strings on the Sonata Arctica cover are surprisingly catchy — but the whole sound tends to be formulaic and overdone.
Overture is going to be wizard though.
Best countdown ever, watching ATC with C.
Obligatory introspective later — Russ is supposed to pick me up for GUITARRRRRR HERO
HULLO 2009 HERE’S TO NOT JACKING ME BIG TIME
edit: listening to the album and 4207 gets worse with every new recording :< the earliest one I stole off myspace is pure wizard (was it on their self-titled?), then there’s one which I labelled as album but it sounds more than just a different mix — and it has the now quintessential one-two breakdown which I dare say was the tipping point where I fell in love with their sound, and in that tiny, tiny space where the guitars suddenly disappear and everyone cries out I can’t remember who I am or what we’re shouting for but it feels like everything is going to be alright –
and now this one just sounds like they were trying too hard to get the song “right” and forgot to kick ass.
where is russy poo
So on Cher’s suggestion we trooped off to the deep dark recesses of Suntec and caught The Spirit. I think I was there for two things — Frank Miller and Samuel L Jackson. It turns out Samuel L Jackson was acting all crazy, and Frank Miller was totally batshit loco. Don’t go in there expecting Sin City. If you haven’t watched Sin City, rent it and forget about The Spirit. If you have watched Sin City, maybe you could watch, like, Bolt, in 3D, instead of this tedious, campy piece of crap. It got a little better when I decided to just have a laugh and take it on the same level as Snakes on a Plane, but meh.
Me and Russ watched Cicakman. It was exactly the lame low-budget comedy superhero movie I expected. I had fun.
Pride and Glory’s pretty decent if you like dreary cop family dramas about honour and loyalty and duty and pride and glory. It was probably a bit touching too but we were busy eating ROAST DUCK PIZZA yes we brought a whole pizza box in. At Timbre the bartender requested our IDs and asked another guy if ‘88 was ok. Duuuuude.
- Link your Visual Bookshelf Facebook account to an external LivingSocial: Books account (relevant Visual Bookshelf FAQ entry)
- From your LivingSocial.com account, choose Manage, and look for the Export to CSV link near the bottom of the page. (VB FAQ)
- Replace all instances of
^.+?","([\dX]{10}).+$ with \1 using TextWrangler/other text editor with grep(-like) find and replace
- Copy resulting list of ISBNs into Readernaut
- Feel good about having a Readernaut account in the first place
N.B. I have no 13-digit ISBNs in my reading list so it’s really not my problem.