Evening Richmond.
So my birthday is in like 4 hours and I am in a good mood. I made a list of cds that were recently release (within the last year or so)for a buddy of mine up in Jersey so I figured since its been a while since I've written, here, I would share that list with you.
OK so Ia put a star after everything that is imperative that you listen to. Message me if you can't find it. Just because it doesn't have a star doesn't mean don't listen to it.
ABACABB - Survivalist
Anberlin - New Surrender
As Cities Burn - Hell Or High Water*
August Burns Red - Constellations*
Bayside - Shudder
Blessthefall - Witness*
Brand New - Daisy
Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season*
Bury Your Dead - It's Nothing Personal
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
Crime In Stereo - Is Dead*
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Dance Gavin Dance - Happiness*
Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return*
A Day To Remember - Homesick*
Dethklok - The Dethalbum II
The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above and Branches Below*
Emery - ...In Shallow Seas We Sail*
Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker*
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic*
The Fall of Troy - In The Unlikely Event
Fear Before - Fear Before
Four Year Strong - Rise Or Die Trying*
Four Year Strong - Explains It All*
Gallows - Orchestra of Wolves
Haste The Day - Dreamer*
HORSE THE BAND - Desperate Living
The Human Abstract - Midheaven
IWrestledABearOnce - IWrestledABearOnce EP*
Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3*
Jeremy Enigk - OK Bear
Job For A Cowboy - Ruination*
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage 2
Mayday Parade - Anywhere But Here
MeWithoutYou - It's Crazy! It's False! It's All A Dream It's Alright*
Oh, Sleeper - Son Of The Morning*
Paramore - Brand New Eyes*
Protest The Hero - Gallop Meets The Earth*
Rx Bandits - Mandala
Set Your Goals - This Will Be The Death Of Us*
Suicide Silence - No Time To Bleed*
Taking Back Sunday - New Again*
Thrice - Beggars*
Trophy Scars - Bed Luck
TRV$DJAM - FIX YOUR FACE*
TRV$DJAM - FIX YOUR FACE VOL. 2 COACHELLA '09
Underoath - Lost In The Sounds of Separation*
Unearth - The March
Winds Of Plague - The Great Stone War*
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
Cheers
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
New Music and Condolences
Greeting from Richmond, I hope this finds you well.
New music time!
Taking Back Sunday's New Again.
I've been hearing a lot of complaints about this CD. Oh they don't sound the same because Fred isn't there any more blah blah blah shut up. Don't listen to them. If people who are true TBS fans actually listened to this album, and I mean really listen to it, they would understand that the album is about progression. Taking Back Sunday is moving in the right direction. The lyrics are classic Adam Lazzara and musically, this album is phenomenal. I do however give the most props to Matt Fazzi, the newest addition to TBS. I cannot even begin to imagine the type of pressure he must have endured joining one of the most legendary of what I like to call "Warped Tour" bands. He pulled it off. Kudos to you sir.
Moving on...
Killswitch Engage- Killswitch Engage (2)
Lucky me, I got the leaked version of the album... OK maybe not so much. Their first mistake was to release a second self titled album, that confused the crap out of me. Anyways, Howard Jones, you disappoint me. I have always held Killswitch in high regard because of The End Of Heartache being such a great record. However if they continue to release crap like this, then I might disown liking them. The only thing I can really say is that the drumming is solid through out the whole album but besides that, the vocals didn't fit in a lot of the songs, the guitars didn't fit together, and of course the bass is mastered out anyway. Save your money.
Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return
Good lord good metal is finally coming out of DC! I love Darkest Hour and this CD makes me love them more. If only other albums were this good I might actually not be as skeptical about new metal albums anymore. I've only listened to the first half of the CD since I just got it but I love it so far! I saw these guys for the first time a few months ago with As I Lay Dying, Protest The Hero and The Human Abstract and they were phenomenal. They really know how to put on a show. IF you like metal in the slightest get this album!
Rest in peace Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays. I actually liked all of you so that makes this ten times harder to accept.
New music time!
Taking Back Sunday's New Again.
I've been hearing a lot of complaints about this CD. Oh they don't sound the same because Fred isn't there any more blah blah blah shut up. Don't listen to them. If people who are true TBS fans actually listened to this album, and I mean really listen to it, they would understand that the album is about progression. Taking Back Sunday is moving in the right direction. The lyrics are classic Adam Lazzara and musically, this album is phenomenal. I do however give the most props to Matt Fazzi, the newest addition to TBS. I cannot even begin to imagine the type of pressure he must have endured joining one of the most legendary of what I like to call "Warped Tour" bands. He pulled it off. Kudos to you sir.
Moving on...
Killswitch Engage- Killswitch Engage (2)
Lucky me, I got the leaked version of the album... OK maybe not so much. Their first mistake was to release a second self titled album, that confused the crap out of me. Anyways, Howard Jones, you disappoint me. I have always held Killswitch in high regard because of The End Of Heartache being such a great record. However if they continue to release crap like this, then I might disown liking them. The only thing I can really say is that the drumming is solid through out the whole album but besides that, the vocals didn't fit in a lot of the songs, the guitars didn't fit together, and of course the bass is mastered out anyway. Save your money.
Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return
Good lord good metal is finally coming out of DC! I love Darkest Hour and this CD makes me love them more. If only other albums were this good I might actually not be as skeptical about new metal albums anymore. I've only listened to the first half of the CD since I just got it but I love it so far! I saw these guys for the first time a few months ago with As I Lay Dying, Protest The Hero and The Human Abstract and they were phenomenal. They really know how to put on a show. IF you like metal in the slightest get this album!
Rest in peace Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays. I actually liked all of you so that makes this ten times harder to accept.
Friday, April 24, 2009
To the users of the world
Good Morning Richmond, I hope this finds you well.
I have been noticing a reoccurring trend in today's world which is unfortunately disturbing to me. Some call it being fake but I call it being a user. When someone only interacts with a person simply because they have something that they can use to their advantage is what I call a user.
I'm not going to preach but quit it. People don't deserve the falsehood of fake friends. In our upcoming age of revolution, trust is all we can have in our friends.
On a lighter note, New Cds!
As Cities Burn- Hell Or High Water. This CD is very good I enjoyed listening to it though I am going to say that Come Now Sleep is still preferred. It has the potential to grow on me.
mewithoutyou- It's All Crazy! It's All False! Its All A Dream It's Alright. I won't lie, its not my style. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, I just don't like the style they converted too. Its no Catch For Us The Foxes.
Protest The Hero - Fortress. I know this CD has been out for a while I just haven't had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet. This CD is the shit, I can't stop listening to it. I support Canadian Music.
I haven't found anyone else to put on my terrible people list. Let me know if you come across anything.
Until next time
Cheers
I have been noticing a reoccurring trend in today's world which is unfortunately disturbing to me. Some call it being fake but I call it being a user. When someone only interacts with a person simply because they have something that they can use to their advantage is what I call a user.
I'm not going to preach but quit it. People don't deserve the falsehood of fake friends. In our upcoming age of revolution, trust is all we can have in our friends.
On a lighter note, New Cds!
As Cities Burn- Hell Or High Water. This CD is very good I enjoyed listening to it though I am going to say that Come Now Sleep is still preferred. It has the potential to grow on me.
mewithoutyou- It's All Crazy! It's All False! Its All A Dream It's Alright. I won't lie, its not my style. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, I just don't like the style they converted too. Its no Catch For Us The Foxes.
Protest The Hero - Fortress. I know this CD has been out for a while I just haven't had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet. This CD is the shit, I can't stop listening to it. I support Canadian Music.
I haven't found anyone else to put on my terrible people list. Let me know if you come across anything.
Until next time
Cheers
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Terrible People Awards 2009 Pt. 1
Good Morning Richmond and today the rest of the country,
True I have posted within the last 5 hours but something that was relatively disturbing has been brought to my attention and thought I would make an award show out of it.
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to part one of the Terrible People Awards. Today we are honoring the Westboro Baptist Church! Now, for an atheist as myself to actually be offended by something a religious group does, it has to be high on the scale. Before I get into it, I would like to make it clear that thought I have no faith in religion, I do respect and honor those who do chose to follow and worship, no matter what or who that may be.
With a beautifully titled web page, www.godhatesfags.com, the Westboro Baptist Church, to be here on referred to as WBC, tops their URL with a header ingeniously stating "Welcome, depraved sons and daughters of Adam" above a picture of someone standing on an American flag.
Commentary: I was not born in this country. However I have spent over 95% of my life here and love and cherish my nation and all that it has given me to this point. No one has any right to disrespect a nation that gives you the freedom to have the URL godhatesfag.com, and still be allowed to remain a church.
Moving on.
Adorning the page are pictures of people holding signs with such catch phrases as "God Hates Fags", "God is America's Terror", "You're going to hell" and a child holding a sign stating "God hates the U.S.A".
Commentary: Being a Jackass is genetic isn't it?
Caring on my wayward son.
Their latest blog is entitled "Bitch Burgers + Obama Fries + Slut Shakes = Stem Cell Supper For Doomed america". And at the very top of the blog in question is a link to www.priestsrapeboys.com. Besides blogs, you can view the WBC's picketing schedule. Notably, a Britney Spears concert is right on the top and it follows through picketing high schools and pretty much anywhere where there are people to throw rocks at them. Accompanying the schedule are other time passers such as press releases, audio clips, pictures and much much more.
Commentary: What is a bitch burger? Is it what getting shot at for annoying the wrong person tastes like? But yes being a jackass is indeed genetic...and hopefully in the case of WBC, sterility.
So, what can be done about America's third most entertaining group? (The first two are Scientologists and Republicans)Unfortunately due to that binding rule in the Constitution, we can only hope that this group of ignorant, and once again hopefully sterile group of hate mongers either realizes the error of their ways, dies out, or is involved in an unfortunate tractor trailer accident on the way to their annual god hates fall foliage getaway to Maine.
I do encourage anyone who reads this, which is most likely no one since I have a lurking feeling I'm doing this blog more to entertain myself than for the entertainment of others, to find a way to fight a potentially disastrous occurrence in the near future because the sad truth about this world is that when civilians disagree, they tend to kill each other.
Below are some pictures gifted to me from a contact, known today as Oprah, up at George Mason University up in Fairfax, Virginia where WBC happened to have a protest and all the rest of the pictures are from WBC's website.
I applaud George Mason's protesting of the protesters and encourage people everywhere else to follow suite in an equally peaceful way as demonstrated by the Patriots of GMU. Find their plans here at http://pride.gmu.edu/phelps.php as well as more information about yesterdays protest on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=56936904561&ref=mf
If you can't be kind at least be civil.
Cheers
Way to go Patriots
And.....yeah these guys
True I have posted within the last 5 hours but something that was relatively disturbing has been brought to my attention and thought I would make an award show out of it.
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to part one of the Terrible People Awards. Today we are honoring the Westboro Baptist Church! Now, for an atheist as myself to actually be offended by something a religious group does, it has to be high on the scale. Before I get into it, I would like to make it clear that thought I have no faith in religion, I do respect and honor those who do chose to follow and worship, no matter what or who that may be.
With a beautifully titled web page, www.godhatesfags.com, the Westboro Baptist Church, to be here on referred to as WBC, tops their URL with a header ingeniously stating "Welcome, depraved sons and daughters of Adam" above a picture of someone standing on an American flag.
Commentary: I was not born in this country. However I have spent over 95% of my life here and love and cherish my nation and all that it has given me to this point. No one has any right to disrespect a nation that gives you the freedom to have the URL godhatesfag.com, and still be allowed to remain a church.
Moving on.
Adorning the page are pictures of people holding signs with such catch phrases as "God Hates Fags", "God is America's Terror", "You're going to hell" and a child holding a sign stating "God hates the U.S.A".
Commentary: Being a Jackass is genetic isn't it?
Caring on my wayward son.
Their latest blog is entitled "Bitch Burgers + Obama Fries + Slut Shakes = Stem Cell Supper For Doomed america". And at the very top of the blog in question is a link to www.priestsrapeboys.com. Besides blogs, you can view the WBC's picketing schedule. Notably, a Britney Spears concert is right on the top and it follows through picketing high schools and pretty much anywhere where there are people to throw rocks at them. Accompanying the schedule are other time passers such as press releases, audio clips, pictures and much much more.
Commentary: What is a bitch burger? Is it what getting shot at for annoying the wrong person tastes like? But yes being a jackass is indeed genetic...and hopefully in the case of WBC, sterility.
So, what can be done about America's third most entertaining group? (The first two are Scientologists and Republicans)Unfortunately due to that binding rule in the Constitution, we can only hope that this group of ignorant, and once again hopefully sterile group of hate mongers either realizes the error of their ways, dies out, or is involved in an unfortunate tractor trailer accident on the way to their annual god hates fall foliage getaway to Maine.
I do encourage anyone who reads this, which is most likely no one since I have a lurking feeling I'm doing this blog more to entertain myself than for the entertainment of others, to find a way to fight a potentially disastrous occurrence in the near future because the sad truth about this world is that when civilians disagree, they tend to kill each other.
Below are some pictures gifted to me from a contact, known today as Oprah, up at George Mason University up in Fairfax, Virginia where WBC happened to have a protest and all the rest of the pictures are from WBC's website.
I applaud George Mason's protesting of the protesters and encourage people everywhere else to follow suite in an equally peaceful way as demonstrated by the Patriots of GMU. Find their plans here at http://pride.gmu.edu/phelps.php as well as more information about yesterdays protest on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=56936904561&ref=mf
If you can't be kind at least be civil.
Cheers
Way to go Patriots
And.....yeah these guys
Monday, March 30, 2009
Unfortunate happenings in the land of Richmond
Good evening.
As a student at Virginia Commonwealth University and a fan of the VCU Basketball team, I would like to take a moment to express my feeling about the current situation that the team is going through. If you haven't heard already, the Ram's coach Anthony Grant has chosen to move on and coach a new team, Alabama. Understandably, he was offered of 2 million dollars to move but I thought that any coach of an already winning team would have a closer relationship with the players that he worked so hard to lead to victory.
One should not dwell on the past however. Looking forward, my hope for the Rams is that assistant coach Tony Pujols will be made head coach. Having 3 years experience with the Rams, and having spoken with him several times, I believe he has what it takes to successfully coach the Rams to a continued victorious career. Even without Maynor leading the team on the court, I still have confidence that VCU will continue their success.
Moving on, The NFL posted their tentative pre-season schedule, and as a devout Pittsburgh Steelers fan, I figured I would let you know what their schedule is.
August 13th 2009: Steelers V.S. Cardinals (This game has already been selected to be on ESPN)
TBA Steelers V.S. Redskins
August 29th 2009: Steelers V.S. Bills
TBA Steelers V.S. Panthers
I am pretty stoked for the upcoming season. After review, much love to the Miami Dolphins, they have an extremely tough schedule this year.
I only have the Red Wings left as a hope for a championship since my basketball and baseball teams suck.
Oh well, All the best
Cheers
As a student at Virginia Commonwealth University and a fan of the VCU Basketball team, I would like to take a moment to express my feeling about the current situation that the team is going through. If you haven't heard already, the Ram's coach Anthony Grant has chosen to move on and coach a new team, Alabama. Understandably, he was offered of 2 million dollars to move but I thought that any coach of an already winning team would have a closer relationship with the players that he worked so hard to lead to victory.
One should not dwell on the past however. Looking forward, my hope for the Rams is that assistant coach Tony Pujols will be made head coach. Having 3 years experience with the Rams, and having spoken with him several times, I believe he has what it takes to successfully coach the Rams to a continued victorious career. Even without Maynor leading the team on the court, I still have confidence that VCU will continue their success.
Moving on, The NFL posted their tentative pre-season schedule, and as a devout Pittsburgh Steelers fan, I figured I would let you know what their schedule is.
August 13th 2009: Steelers V.S. Cardinals (This game has already been selected to be on ESPN)
TBA Steelers V.S. Redskins
August 29th 2009: Steelers V.S. Bills
TBA Steelers V.S. Panthers
I am pretty stoked for the upcoming season. After review, much love to the Miami Dolphins, they have an extremely tough schedule this year.
I only have the Red Wings left as a hope for a championship since my basketball and baseball teams suck.
Oh well, All the best
Cheers
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Words of wisdom from an ill-tempered Asian
Good evening to you and greetings from Richmond.
On a positive note, I would like to state how nice it was outside today.
Now to start from the end of my day to the beginning because I keeps it real.
Upon my return from a diner I frequent, I figured that being a descent human being should have taught one how to "suck up". The waitress at the diner was to put it bluntly unattractive, both physically and mentally. The only time she showed an ounce of humanity was when she came scuttling up to my table to inform me that the diner was out of lettuce and there for my Greek salad was not going to be ready in the time that I would be there and to beg me not to be mad at her. This information also adding on to the 20 minutes it took for my friends and I to be noticed that we were waiting for drinks and a menu, and that she had somewhat of a fit when we asked for a few more minutes to decide on our food.
Now I know that the old rule "Don't fuck with the people who handle your food". However, when dealing with people who will be deciding how much money you take home with you at the end of the night, I do feel it appropriate to at the very least not be a bitch...or be extremely hot and showing off major quantities of cleavage to ease the pain of the terrible service.
Acoustic guitars, slurpies, and throwing a football in the park on a nice day is awesome.
Now here is a list of CD's that I've been listening to lately and you should too if you haven't all ready.
Northstar - Pollyanna
Saves the Day - In Reverie (If you haven't listened to this by now you have no taste in music)
Cassino - Broken Parachutes
August Burns Red - Lost Messengers
T.I. - Paper Trail (T.I. is awesome. I don't particularly like rap now a days. T.I. is the exception.)
Rx Bandits - ...And The Battle Begun
Boston - Boston (You can never go wrong with the classics)
ABACABB - Survivalist (If you can figure out where the band name came from without looking it up, thumbs up)
Ace Enders and A Million Different People - When I Hit The Ground
Dance Gavin Dance - Dance Gavin Dance (The album actually makes sense which is sad but its still great)
Different Topic
John McCain's daughter Meghan looks foxy on Larry king live. I am in no way, shape or form a republican...or in that case politically diverse in any way besides the fact that I hate politicians, but I don't have to like them to appreciate a fine piece like that. Mmmmm
Different Topic, Back to the music
So two bands of equal influence, Blink 182 and Green Day are coming out with albums supposedly around the same time. But Green Day's only good CD was Dookie so who cares about them. As one of my favorite albums of all time is Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, closely following In Through The Out Door by Led Zeppelin and Shadows Are Security by As I Lay Dying ( Don't judge me) I'm more excited about Blink's album than Green Day's. It also may be in spite of my roomate's almost weird devotion to them.
Unfortunately the frequency of insomnia with me occurs more than I would like, but that's all I have to say for now.
Until next time,
Cheers
On a positive note, I would like to state how nice it was outside today.
Now to start from the end of my day to the beginning because I keeps it real.
Upon my return from a diner I frequent, I figured that being a descent human being should have taught one how to "suck up". The waitress at the diner was to put it bluntly unattractive, both physically and mentally. The only time she showed an ounce of humanity was when she came scuttling up to my table to inform me that the diner was out of lettuce and there for my Greek salad was not going to be ready in the time that I would be there and to beg me not to be mad at her. This information also adding on to the 20 minutes it took for my friends and I to be noticed that we were waiting for drinks and a menu, and that she had somewhat of a fit when we asked for a few more minutes to decide on our food.
Now I know that the old rule "Don't fuck with the people who handle your food". However, when dealing with people who will be deciding how much money you take home with you at the end of the night, I do feel it appropriate to at the very least not be a bitch...or be extremely hot and showing off major quantities of cleavage to ease the pain of the terrible service.
Acoustic guitars, slurpies, and throwing a football in the park on a nice day is awesome.
Now here is a list of CD's that I've been listening to lately and you should too if you haven't all ready.
Northstar - Pollyanna
Saves the Day - In Reverie (If you haven't listened to this by now you have no taste in music)
Cassino - Broken Parachutes
August Burns Red - Lost Messengers
T.I. - Paper Trail (T.I. is awesome. I don't particularly like rap now a days. T.I. is the exception.)
Rx Bandits - ...And The Battle Begun
Boston - Boston (You can never go wrong with the classics)
ABACABB - Survivalist (If you can figure out where the band name came from without looking it up, thumbs up)
Ace Enders and A Million Different People - When I Hit The Ground
Dance Gavin Dance - Dance Gavin Dance (The album actually makes sense which is sad but its still great)
Different Topic
John McCain's daughter Meghan looks foxy on Larry king live. I am in no way, shape or form a republican...or in that case politically diverse in any way besides the fact that I hate politicians, but I don't have to like them to appreciate a fine piece like that. Mmmmm
Different Topic, Back to the music
So two bands of equal influence, Blink 182 and Green Day are coming out with albums supposedly around the same time. But Green Day's only good CD was Dookie so who cares about them. As one of my favorite albums of all time is Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, closely following In Through The Out Door by Led Zeppelin and Shadows Are Security by As I Lay Dying ( Don't judge me) I'm more excited about Blink's album than Green Day's. It also may be in spite of my roomate's almost weird devotion to them.
Unfortunately the frequency of insomnia with me occurs more than I would like, but that's all I have to say for now.
Until next time,
Cheers
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
How it works
Well, I've decided that I'm probably the last person between the ages of 18-25 that doesn't have a blog so I figured that I should start one. So here is how I will operate. I'll post whatever I feel like whenever I feel like it. As an insomniac it will most likely be at night and I will generally bitch about music, politics and tv since that's pretty much all that I pay attention to.
Cheers
Cheers
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