Why do I so enjoy music that is sad, angry, that taps me into chaos? Why does pain make such great art? One reason I could offer why some depressing films are so good is because they are true to life. But are emotions of pain and sadness neccessary for us to live, do we need to know sadness to know what happiness is? I don't really think so, but I ( Read more... )

So I found out on Sunday that Mudhoney were playing in Brisbane on Thursday. Tickets were a bit steep, $46, but I figured it would be worth it. I reluctantly decided not to go, because transportation would have been 20-40 bucks and I didn't have anyone to go with. Then I found out Wednesday that there was a showing of a surfing film called Fair ( Read more... )

Some neato happenings have occured in the past few days. Today I bought a surfboard and returned it in the same day. I was a fool to think I could ride a 6'10 board that narrows at the top. And the waves were wretched ( Read more... )

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This is what I was refering to when I made the Iron Maiden-Young Idea connection:
http://mloverme.homedns.org:81/steve/phantom.mp3

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I was seriously considering ordering Frances the Mute from Japan (it is already released), but it would have been about $35 once shipping was added, and all the writing would be in Japanese and probably the order of songs out of wack with some tracks form Tremulant tacked on the end or something ( Read more... )

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I was writing and email to my parents and it ended up really long. Its a pretty descriptive account of my experiences, so if you have nothing better to do with your time, enjoy. The text is like this cuz I pasted from email ( Read more... )