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[jervo]

1.  My aunt Hope (my stepfather's sister) passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 63.   She was in great health, great spirits, and then suddenly she was in the hospital with pneumonia and meningitis; she spent 5 weeks in a medicated coma, and slowly fell apart.  Her death is as tragic as it is horrifying.  The family is in a great deal of pain

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[jervo]

My Genesis obsession has been with everything up to and including Invisible Touch (which has not aged well at all), but primarily with Selling England, Foxtrot, Trick of the Tail, and Abacab. The new remasters/remixes are out-fucking-standing - the drums in particular sound brand-new, but everything just sounds crystal clear and there's lots of stuff in the mix that I never heard before. Even the extra tracks got the remix treatment - "Happy the Man" in particular sounds fucking incredible.

[jervo]

Dude. Let me be the first to stand up for Phil Collins before he was taken over by pod people. Peter Gabriel is an impossible act to follow but Phil did it as well as anybody could, and the post-PG years aren't nearly as bleak as they're made out to be. Lamb and Selling England are classics, but Abacab, Duke and Trick of the Tail are pretty great as well. If you want to blame anybody for the direction that Genesis took, blame Tony Banks.

But above all else, Phil could play the shit out of the drums, and the remasters basically put his drums front and center, and we are all better people for it. The remastered CDs also contain DVDs that sometimes feature live footage - there's some great stuff on the Trick of the Tail DVD from the first tour after PG left (it's probably on the same tour that Seconds Out is from) and there's a fucking FANTASTIC drum duel between Phil and Bill Bruford during "I Know What I Like".

[losinginterest]

Dude, I'm so sorry to hear about your aunt. I have two aunts in their late 60s and early 70s, and I've started to worry about their health. There's no easy way to deal with something sudden like what your family went through

[jervo]

Re: Mastodon - if what you say is true, I'm probably going to stick with CTS. There's a lot of layers in CTS, anyway - it's an album that I'm going to be listening to for a long time. I know I played a Mastodon song in Rock Band and it was a little on the heavy side compared to what's on CTS

[losinginterest]

Sure, I'd love to hear that mp3.

"Colony of Birchmen" is the Mastodon tune in Rock Band 2. Probably the most straightforward and tuneful song on 'Blood Mountain'.

[nothinganything]

I'll second this; I've been meaning to get "Blood Mountain" after noticing how prog and comparatively tuneful it was.

[delphicdays]

sorry about your loss. :(

[sonicsonia]

first of all, sorry about your loss! so horrible and i can really understand why you are all in chock! so intelligible with such a development on a heathy person.

and, i really enjoy reading your journal and would miss you if you decided to close it down, but it is your choice. i am not trying to convince you in any direction :) but a question of pure curiosity: in what way do you think facebook replaces LJ? i have to say i am no fan of facebook. have an account there, but only uses it very rarely. LJ is more provoking and funny. when i open my friend list at LJ i feel creativity and get really happy. when i open my home page at facebook i first of all wonna yarn, i just hate this short statuses. tells me nothing. leaves me empty. and after that i want to throw up, coz the interface is so repulsive... or is it the other way around? i wonna throw up first and then yarn? bah! anyway, i am just curious coz i just cant see any point i facebook :)))

[jervo]

Facebook doesn't really replace LJ; it's a different animal entirely. What I like about it, I guess, is that I have a personal relationship with a lot of the people on it, whereas on LJ, I don't really know anybody. If nothing else, my using Facebook means I don't post stupid, silly stuff on my LJ anymore - I use LJ for real writing.

aunt

[anonymous]

sorry to hear about your aunt. take care

jay