1. I'm thinking about applying for another IT job, this one with the local hospitals instead of the school system. From what I hear it would be pretty similar to my current job, but should pay more, and the benefits are probably a little better. Though the paid leave situation would not be as good. But it's kind of stupid, because I've been lately thinking that what I really need to do is get my ass down to Chapel Hill and get back into grad school for library sciences, and getting a new job would kind of derail that. So, short term good, long term not so good. The other thing that might derail that is GRE's. Holy crap. The other day I looked at some sample algebra questions and I felt like a dunce. I knew it was very basic algebra, but I couldn't work my way around it to save my life. Amazing how much I've forgotten.
2. Just a little bit before I started watching Lost, my dad let me borrow season one of 24 so I could check it out. I put that disc 1 in several times but just never hit play. And then I got hooked on Lost and didn't even think about it for a while. Well, last Saturday I was craving something to watch but didn't feel like spending a lot of time with a movie, so I threw that on. Holy crap. I'm all in on this show now too. Pretty much from the moment I saw Doc Scurlock cut off a dead man's finger so he could ID him later, I was fully invested. So now I have yet another TV show I have to catch up on. AND I still have to finish Lost. Downloaded season five last weekend. And Spike is playing a lot of MMA. And I've fallen back in love with Roseanne now that TV Land is pushing it hard. AND last weekend I watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Raging Bull, and When We Were Kings, so now I'm feeling an affinity for westerns and boxing movies. There's just not enough hours in the day. To watch all this TV.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
FINALLY!
Interesting way to end my first day of vacation. Just found out that this has finally been released. About time! I've been asking for this for years. In fact I'm kind of upset I'm only finding out about this a week after it's been relased. Now if I can just see the complete series of Danger Theater released, then I can die.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Big Reveal
Last week I heard a few of the Flaming Lips songs that will be on their new album and, surprisingly enough, I am not repulsed. Definitely do not have any of the sick feelings I had when I first heard The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song and wanted to kabob all of my other Lips albums because of it. I mean, the new songs are not really great, they don't rank with the best the Lips have ever done, but definitely do not make me feel any need to make vows and curses against the band. So far. Here's what I think:
"Convinced Of The Hex": Pretty monotonous, especially the vocal. Kind of boring in the verses, but the, what I guess you would call, chorus, I can kind of get into. But I can actually get into the instrumentation of it quite a bit more.
"The Impulse": Least favorite of the three by miles. Pretty crappy actually in my opinion. Boring, BORING music and a robot-voiced vocal. Someone tell Wayne that nobody wants to hear robot voices and he is not Dennis DeYoung. A shame because it actually sounds like the melody/lyric might be something to listen to if he didn't ruin it with the effect. Something like this is bound to show up on a double album, I definitely get the feeling that the Lips are not making a double album because they're just too full of good ideas. More like they want to clean the closet of half-baked ideas like this.
"Silver Trembling Hands": This is the one that actually gives me hope. Actually almost sounds good enough to be on Zaireeka. Though maybe a Zaireeka unfortunately filtered through the band that made Yoshimi, so a little less than. But still, the vocal is good (though the lyric is meh), the music has some of that great alternating of screaming and floating that was prevalent on Zaireeka and The Soft Bulletin.
So, if this album is more 1 & 3 and not so much 2, I could actually get into it. And I think if this album redeems them a little in my eyes, maybe I'll finally go back and listen to At War With The Mystics. Knowing that they're still capable might make that album a little more palatable.
"Convinced Of The Hex": Pretty monotonous, especially the vocal. Kind of boring in the verses, but the, what I guess you would call, chorus, I can kind of get into. But I can actually get into the instrumentation of it quite a bit more.
"The Impulse": Least favorite of the three by miles. Pretty crappy actually in my opinion. Boring, BORING music and a robot-voiced vocal. Someone tell Wayne that nobody wants to hear robot voices and he is not Dennis DeYoung. A shame because it actually sounds like the melody/lyric might be something to listen to if he didn't ruin it with the effect. Something like this is bound to show up on a double album, I definitely get the feeling that the Lips are not making a double album because they're just too full of good ideas. More like they want to clean the closet of half-baked ideas like this.
"Silver Trembling Hands": This is the one that actually gives me hope. Actually almost sounds good enough to be on Zaireeka. Though maybe a Zaireeka unfortunately filtered through the band that made Yoshimi, so a little less than. But still, the vocal is good (though the lyric is meh), the music has some of that great alternating of screaming and floating that was prevalent on Zaireeka and The Soft Bulletin.
So, if this album is more 1 & 3 and not so much 2, I could actually get into it. And I think if this album redeems them a little in my eyes, maybe I'll finally go back and listen to At War With The Mystics. Knowing that they're still capable might make that album a little more palatable.
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