I have a new personal hero.
His name is Claudio Sanchez. He is the front man for Coheed and Cambria.
For those not in the know, this is why he is awesome:
He wrote an epic sci-fi story. Not sure exactly what it's about, but it involves parallel worlds or multiple realities or something, and includes characters named Claudio and The Writer. It's got the epic sci-fi-ness down, as well as, it seems, all kinds of meta-textual nonsense as well. That's the impression I have of the story, anyhow. Haven't really read it yet.
Which brings us to our next point. Claudio is working with a bunch of guys to produce this story of his in a series of comic books. Due to various production difficulties, I don't think the entire story is out there, yet, but rest assured that, once I learn that it is, I am totally purchasing it so I may know it inside and out.
In the meantime, I have the music of Coheed and Cambria, which, as a lot of you have heard the band are already aware, is this epic sci-fi story of Claudio's told through music. I've known this for a while, but listening to things a bit closer now, I'm starting to see how the bits and pieces fit together a little better, and now the full awesomeness of this feat has dawned on me.
Basically, in summary:
He's written an epic sci-fi, seemingly meta-textual story.
He's producing comics to tell this story.
He's got a band and an entire discography to tell this story as well.
Basically, he's done just about every major creative endeavor I've ever wanted to do. It's more than a little inspiring for me.
And, since I keep finding myself stuck in various ruts, I've been listening to Volumes I and II of Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV almost non-stop for weeks. And yes, in that time, I've gone from "none of the band's other stuff has really jumped out at me yet" to "Oh my god, this man is my new god."
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And now, to end this post on an amusing anecdote:
I bought Volumes I and II of Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV and ripped them. (The torrent versions I downloaded were botched for various reasons: skipping, censoring, missing entire instrumental tracks.) After ripping them, I tried moving some of the files from where they ripped into the mess of the rest of my collection. Wasn't working. In fact, I couldn't really do anything with the file, even delete it.
Finally, I read the error message Windows kept giving me. Something about the file name being too long. I've got Media Player set up to create the mp3 files with the album name, the track number, the artist, then the song name.
And for some reason I can't quite imagine, Windows just doesn't like the file name "Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1- From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness-14-The Willing Well III- Apollo II- The Telling Truth.mp3."
But then I re-ripped those tracks, and everything is peachy now. Woo~.
For those not in the know, this is why he is awesome:
He wrote an epic sci-fi story. Not sure exactly what it's about, but it involves parallel worlds or multiple realities or something, and includes characters named Claudio and The Writer. It's got the epic sci-fi-ness down, as well as, it seems, all kinds of meta-textual nonsense as well. That's the impression I have of the story, anyhow. Haven't really read it yet.
Which brings us to our next point. Claudio is working with a bunch of guys to produce this story of his in a series of comic books. Due to various production difficulties, I don't think the entire story is out there, yet, but rest assured that, once I learn that it is, I am totally purchasing it so I may know it inside and out.
In the meantime, I have the music of Coheed and Cambria, which, as a lot of you have heard the band are already aware, is this epic sci-fi story of Claudio's told through music. I've known this for a while, but listening to things a bit closer now, I'm starting to see how the bits and pieces fit together a little better, and now the full awesomeness of this feat has dawned on me.
Basically, in summary:
He's written an epic sci-fi, seemingly meta-textual story.
He's producing comics to tell this story.
He's got a band and an entire discography to tell this story as well.
Basically, he's done just about every major creative endeavor I've ever wanted to do. It's more than a little inspiring for me.
And, since I keep finding myself stuck in various ruts, I've been listening to Volumes I and II of Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV almost non-stop for weeks. And yes, in that time, I've gone from "none of the band's other stuff has really jumped out at me yet" to "Oh my god, this man is my new god."
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And now, to end this post on an amusing anecdote:
I bought Volumes I and II of Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV and ripped them. (The torrent versions I downloaded were botched for various reasons: skipping, censoring, missing entire instrumental tracks.) After ripping them, I tried moving some of the files from where they ripped into the mess of the rest of my collection. Wasn't working. In fact, I couldn't really do anything with the file, even delete it.
Finally, I read the error message Windows kept giving me. Something about the file name being too long. I've got Media Player set up to create the mp3 files with the album name, the track number, the artist, then the song name.
And for some reason I can't quite imagine, Windows just doesn't like the file name "Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1- From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness-14-The Willing Well III- Apollo II- The Telling Truth.mp3."
But then I re-ripped those tracks, and everything is peachy now. Woo~.