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Top albums 2012
Jodis - Black CurtainJodis is a project featuring Aaron Turner (ISIS, Old Man Gloom, Mammifer etc) and two other Hydra Head regulars - James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida. Unlike the first Jodis album, which was excellent, but somewhat uneven in terms of flow, Black Curtain feels like a journey from a beginning to an end, with a ( Read more... ) -
Zanthus’ most underrated ‘90s (or close enough) blackmetal’ish albums
saithkar did a little thing about uderrated/overlooked '90s blackmetal recently, and it inspired me to writing about the albums I find terrible overlooked. 2 of the releases he wrote about appear here as well, and for good reason ( Read more... ) -
2011: best, good and total misses: Full version
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Why “we” are all wrong
There is a simple concept that so much of our social, political and economic systems sit focussed around - growth. We require constant growth in the economy, to drive constant growth in employment, constant growth in profits, constant increases in wages. Constant growth, is logarithmic. This is the problem, this is why we are all wrong ( Read more... ) -
Fu<+ton.
*my apologies for any spelling or structural errors: I wrote this in a generally blind rage, and didn't spell or quality check it! Plus i'm fairly drunk on Cragganmore Whisky ( Read more... ) -
the pressure of teh Failz.
I was halfway through writing about the sorry state of Australian politics when I realised that, a) you only get to see 1 page of your friends stuff on LJ on free accounts now (FAIL!) - seriously? Fuuuuck, and b) I am about 5 weeks behind in my coursework on 1 unit, and nearly as far behind on another, and assignments and exams are looming large, ( Read more... ) -
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I finally made a Flickr.
Added latest trip. Rest will be added working backwards as I get around to it between work and assignments. Will get the HQ wedding ones up too etc.
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It lives
I may not be doing Behind The Mirror from way up here, but my cohort Renfield did finally get around to doing a show abour ritual (prinicpally the darker, and that concerned with death) as part one of what will eventually be 3 shows we had planned ( Read more... ) -
Soccer / Hijab
Yep. This here is one of dem serious posts. Rare as they may be, when they involve anything outside of music, I do think about other things. I think I probably don't write about other things (aside from my general woe is me *headpalm*) simply because I work with people who are of sufficient intellect that I can vent and rave and have a good old ( Read more... ) -
R.I.P. Peter Steele. Dead at 48.
Peter Steele died during the week. Normally I don't really find myself particularly mourning public figures etc. I can acknowledge others finding it sad, but never feel any such emotion myself. I did with Peter Steele ( Read more... )