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a flicker... a shimmer
Thanks to Flickr providing some embeddable slideshow code, I can begin to display a slideshow of my example photography work in the Photos page. Check it. HorrorMerch http://www.horrormerch.com  I need me some of this. Mountain Horror Once upon a time I decided to make some of the darkest, most desolate low-key lo-fi black metal I could muster. I wrote a few songs and called it Mountain Horror. It did not last and the songs fell to the wayside. The idea slept, frozen in the grimmest ice of a dark glacier in the blackened back of my head. Today, it has emerged, more depraved and desolate than ever. Thing is, I don't need another band. I am in Psychotic Assault/Violent Decay (or whatever the name is now) with Rob and I have Torrents of Death. Perhaps those songs would work in Torrents of Death? There is no set sub-genre really; it is just metal. I just may do that. I just may... go listen to some Gallhammer and DarkThrone. Draining The Mental Bladder Today, I'm going to go over a couple of things that piss me off. I'm having a pretty good day, so call this the force of habit, if you must. These aren't major acts of war; they are just a pair of minor annoyances. Let's hear it for loudly voicing minor issues! Before I begin, I would like to preface this with a disclaimer. I am aware that I probably should not be supporting major corporations. I can sustain myself happily on the local economy. Still, there are a few items I enjoy, despite the forthcoming complaints. What the frakk is up with soda bottle cap promotions these days? Remember the elder days of these "1-in-6 wins a free soda" promotions? You opened the soda, read the cap and it said flat out "sorry..." or "winner...". Now, you see a string of alphanumeric characters. This means you get to go to the company's bloated, short-attention-span-oriented website, register for an account (giving up personal information) and then punch in your code to see if you won or not. Chances are, you did not. DunkinDonuts is including an alphanumeric code in their Bases Loaded promotion this summer as well. This is incredibly annoying to the point that I now ignore most of these. If I win something, I should know right away. It was not a flawed system. It is everywhere. It is shit. This summer, Pepsi did a promotion with Amazon.com called PepsiStuff wherein buying a bottle of soda gave you Pepsi Points towards Amazon's MP3 store. When this promotion was first released, it was likened to the same promotion Apple did with its iTunes store offering free songs. A significantly good portion of the time, this elder promotion would in fact give you a full song. Now, with this current promotion, you average 1 point per soda. How much is a song? Most are 5 points. 5 sodas per song for someone who has cut back his soda intake immensely is just frakked up and not worth it. Frak you, Pepsi. In retrospect, putting any worth on these types of promotions is a very unfulfilling practice. One should expect wholly to be thoroughly frakked from behind when participating. I'll stick to water, tea, coffee, whiskey, beer, Reeds and juice. Frak the rest. Deathcore Is Impotent I'm so tired of this deathcore bullshit. Every band and their groupies want to be deathcore and completely avoid the innovation and originality brought forth by the earlier death metal movement. Single-chord 'breakdowns' were fun that time Pantera did it. Since then, its been the same mindless copying over and over again. Why bother trying to write something of your own when you can just imitate everyone else and draw a crowd? (We all know how much the herd loves impotent songwriting.) This could be why I've grown so sick of the local scene. Bands who actually have their own sound are few and far between. I have better things to spend my money on than another cover band relabeling songs as their own. Poison Apple  It seems Apple has finally felt a little of the heat over their annoying push of their horrible browser Safari through their Apple Software Update [>link]. This likely accounts for some of their web browser market share gain on Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Anyone using iTunes not paying attention to the update cycle would inadvertently install Safari. Today, I am greeted with a new update screen as I update iTunes to 7.7.1, as seen here: http://tinyurl.com/69rkdf. Safari is placed into a separate box labeled "New Software." Still, it is checked by default and would provide the same result as the previous scenario. Apple never ceases to amaze me with their arrogance.In other news, it's nice to see that some of George Carlin's ashes were spread in nearby Lake Spofford: http://tinyurl.com/56ac2n |
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