Sunshine... it's been ages.

This might convince me to attend the Sasquatch! music Festival this year. It may have rained at times, but the sun was brilliantly radiant last year.


... but WHY are Kings of Leon headlining the first day??! Last year: R.E.M., the Cure, and the Flaming Lips headlined each day, respectively. Each was expected to deliver, and they did.

At least Nine Inch Nails will co-headline the 2nd day this year, along with reformed Jane's Addiction (NINJA!). I don't have any interest in JA, but NIN will implode the Gorge.

Aside from them, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Silversun Pickups, Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, Explosions in the Sky, of Montreal... too many to missout on.

Below is a sample of what NIN will deliver.

It has been too long...
Kelsey mentioned LJ a few weeks ago, and I decided to consider LJing again.
Perhaps LJ can provide a haven -- away from the ubiquitous Facebook.

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool...just type it in man!



*Note: Some may not recognize these songs, but I'll post this regardless.



Opening Credits:
John Coltrane - Countdown

Waking Up:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rich

First Day At School:
A Perfect Circle - Brena

Falling In Love:
Isis – Dulcinea

Losing Virginity:
Billy Joel – Allentown

Fight Song:
Chemical Brothers – Orange Wedge

Breaking Up:
Squarepusher – Theme From Sprite

Prom:
Sigur Ros - Glósóli

Life:
Thom Yorke – Black Swan

Mental Breakdown:
Placebo – Summer’s Gone

Driving:
Four Tet - High Fives

Flashback:
Amon Tobin – Easy Muffin

Getting Back Together:
Radiohead – Lucky (Live at Glastonbury 2003)

Wedding:
REM - Leave

Birth of Child:
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - An Arc of Doves

Final Battle:
Tool - Lateralus (happens to be the song they close a set with)

Death Scene:
Portishead – Cowboys

Funeral Song:
Smashing Pumpkins - Soma

End Credits:
Boards of Canada – Farewell Fire (whoa!! The last song on the album too)

Rolling in the mud is not the best way to get clean.

So I've been thinking about going to the Coachella festival in California next year at the beginning of May. What's great about the year coming up is there is a website where people can vote for what bands they want to see there.

The site is here if you want to vote:
www.myspace.com/coachella

It's under the "Who do you want to see in 2007?" on the right side.

So far, I see many votes for: Portishead, Placebo, Chemical Brothers and Smashing Pumpkins. The mention of these bands makes me more than stoked/excited/beyond saying OMFG!!

And... is there anyone also interested in going next year? Bands that have played before are listed on the link above, in case you're curious.



~SPIRAL OUT!

Gets yours here: http://bbs.thedarkrealm.net/apps/interestscollage/index.asp

( My Interests Collage! )

There hasn't really been that much recent music that has "wowed" me in a while.

But that all changed when I heard Broken Social Scene. I don't know, maybe it's the fact that they're a 12 piece band, and there's so much going on at once that your brain is comfortably massaged while engaging in listening to BSS.

I REALLY want to go see them later this month, but it's on a Tuesday, in which I have school. So attendance isn't possible, unfortunately.

The Darkest Star by Depeche Mode is quite great too. To others, it might simply generate a "meh" kind of response, but it's a song that I've listened to three times in one day. I honestly cannot remember the last time I listened to the same song that frequently.

Tool will perform August 22nd in Vancouver at GM Place. Here's some images of the what it will look like that night:

Waking up at 5:15am to get ready for school is actually not that bad, once your circadian rhythms shift to the correct time frame.

I FINALLY (after so long) received my "N", another step in the direction of independence.

The albums 10000 Days and Stadium Arcadium have been taking turns in my cd player, allowing no room for competition. I can definitely hear the Meshuggah influence in Tool's 10000 Days.

RHCP and The Mars Volta on Sept.14 @ GM Place. I would go just for RHCP, but with the addition of The Mars Volta, the event will be well worth the ~$80 ticket price (after service charge and such).

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I could go on and on about how amazing the show was, but see for yourself on a sample video from their last tour, which is quite similar to how the concert looked last night:

http://www.uva.co.uk/index.php/2002/12/06/this-is-a-test-of-the-work-section/

Even though Tool's new release '10000 days' has been leaked, I'm not going to experience it until it is officially released May 2nd.

After waiting 4 years (for some people, 5 years) for the album, I can wait another week and a half for it.

Many people are grabbing a hold of the leaked version, but I prefer to have the album art and liner notes in hand when I experience the album in its entirety; no computer glitches or anything else to disrupt the holy moment.

The phone will be unplugged, the door will be closed, and I will embrace what I have awaited for so long.

The only way out is through

" There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."


- Carl Jung

Everything is connected.

I'm planning on taking a flight from Canada (Vancouver) down to LA and then somehow make my way to see Massive Attack and several other acts at the Coachella festival.

Does ANYONE have any advice for how to get between LA and Coachella ??

For anyone who replies, I am most thankful!

I accidentally got a large amount of hydrochloric acid all over my hands today in a lab at UCFV. Luckily, the acid was only there for ~10 seconds and was rinsed off my hands soon afterwards. It wasn't that high of concentration to cause major harm either, otherwise I would have had to wear latex gloves.

However, to this moment (8 hours later) I still have a sense of paranoia blanketing me since I keep thinking of the possibility of developing a disorder of some sort that would end my life much sooner than it should. The worry would only make things worse, so it's best to forget this whole ordeal and have some green tea.

Bands and Songs

5 absolute favourite bands (in no particular order):
1: Massive Attack
2: Tool
3: Radiohead
4: Smashing Pumpkins
5: REM

5 singers that have an amazing voice
1: Thom Yorke
2: Chris Cornell (in Soundgarden)
3: Maynard Keenan
4: Devin Townsend
5: Billy Corgan

5 bands that have beautiful/meaningful lyrics
1: Tool
2: Smashing Pumpkins
3: REM ( many of their songs can be interpreted in a few different ways)
4: Led Zeppelin
5: Nine Inch Nails

3 songs that remind you of the person you love/have a crush on
1: Faye Wong - Eyes on Me
2: A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
3: Zero 7 - Passing By

3 songs that you can listen to on repeat for hours
1: Radiohead - How to disappear completely
2: Unkle - Rabbit in Your Headlights
3: Amon Tobin - el wraith

5 bands you would give anything to see live
1: Tool (their backdrops, visuals and ambient experimentation live b/w songs are why they're #1 on my list)
2: Squarepusher
3: Rush (Smashing Pumpkins would be here if they reunited)


what you listen to (band or specific song/album) when you're...
...happy?: REM - I'm Gonna DJ
...depressed?: Nine Inch Nails or The Wall
...pissed off?: Meshuggah
...getting ready for a date?: Chemical Brothers
...getting ready for bed?: Brian Eno (ambient works, primarily the Music for Airports album)

3 songs that make you cry
1: Jean Sibelius - Finlandia
2: Radiohead - Karma Police
3: Joe Hisaishi - Adagio of Life and Death

3 songs that cheer you up no matter what
1: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Get on Top
2: REM - Everybody Hurts
3: Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA(the song "Today" is actually about suicide, FYI)

3 songs that remind you of the past
1: Big Wreck - That Song
2: Smashing Pumpkins - Soot and Stars (most would choose 1979 if they included SP in this category)
3: Oasis - Don't look back in anger

3 songs that have amazingly beautiful lyrics

1: Massive Attack - What your soul sings
2: Massive Attack - Teardrop
3: REM - Nightswimming (lots of imagery, very vivid)

Thomas Jenkinson holds the belief that the machines used to make music hold just as much influence on the users as the users do themselves, and that humans do not control these machines independently; we hold the same mutual creative capacity as them. He says that the restraints musical instruments held in the past were quintessential to music composition and that the insignificance of modern classical music, as a result of new technology, exposes this point. This, he says, is why machines themselves now contribute so much influence to musical composition.

In his view, our common delusion that only we humans are the sole cause of the creative process results with the machine resisting the composer's will, hindering the process of creation. When the machine is unable to collaborate, it works against its user. In his view, the violent domination of machines produce "artifacts of human stupidity, not art." He says this originates from our ideal to control everything, even the prevention of death. This desire to be "controllers" works against us in every instance it can be found. The artists become frustrated that their machine will not cooperate, and this, as Squarepusher claims, is the reason why so many artists have died young, gone insane or committed suicide.

Artists try to represent themselves in their music in an attempt to live after death. As modern music incorporates technology more and more, Jenkinson observes that musicians are the first group of creative society to represent themselves with machines. Our desire to be superior to machines combined with the reality that we are not creates the jealousy of machines; they become the greatest objects of desire.