Found in the special and limited editions. Well worth the extra cost, especially for this one line:
“Dear Penis, give my butt a sign”
– Simone Simons
Clever girl…
life ends at 27
Found in the special and limited editions. Well worth the extra cost, especially for this one line:
“Dear Penis, give my butt a sign”
– Simone Simons
Clever girl…
Just pulled an all night, and then in the morning I threw on the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s, and somehow additional dimensions in the music which I have never noticed before just leapt out of the speakers and blasted right through my consciousness.
Its an album I listen to a lot, and so I thought I knew it, but apparently I don’t know it at all. Perhaps I should try some Jimi next time.
The first quarter of 2008 isn’t over yet and already two men who shaped my world have passed on.
To use what is by now a cliché, Gary Gygax failed his last saving throw on the 4th of March. Thanks Gary, for all the hours of imagination, joy and friendship your creation brought me and countless other geeks across the multiverse. I will never forget the days of “Traps? Pfft! I boot the door down.”. The Order of the Stick put it more eloquently then I ever could, so the strip shall have to speak for me.
Jeff Healey was a giant of music, and it is criminal that he is not held in higher regard by the general public. Few knew that his real love was for old American jazz or that he played the trumpet and clarinet expertly. Here he is at his incendiary best absolutely ripping it up on the title track from his debut album “See The Light” with a little help from Dr. John, Marcus Miller and Omar Hakim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBCJ68mC4c
Trent Reznor has done it: a double album of new instrumental music available as a high quality, DRM-free download, very reasonably priced 2 CD set (US$10) or either one of a pair of luxurious deluxe packages. I’ll be grabbing the 2 CD set myself (yes I’m cheap).
In the mean time you can check out Ghost I, which is available for free (TPB torrent link, as the NIN server seem to be having problems dealing with the digg hordes).
Or perhaps it was actually NHibernate at fault. I was trying to set up a many-to-many relationship with attributes on the association table and the ActiveRecord CreateSchema call just kept complaining that my assocation table already exists and cannot be created again.
After an hour or so of head-scratching, turns out the error only occurs when I use GUIDs as the primary key in the association table. Switching to good old “int” solved everything. I wonder if that has been fixed in the trunk, I should go code spelunking.
An even more unusual intrument than Charlie Hunter’s 8-string is Pat Metheny’s Pikasso guitar. Here he is doing his live impression of an orchestra playing a solo piece titled Into The Dream before breaking out the band for Have You Heard, equally stunning.
A stunning take on Hendrix’s classic If 6 Was 9 by Garage A Trois, featuring drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist Skerik and guitarist Charlie Hunter playing his 8-string Novax guitar. Skerik’s solo is smokin’.
In that order, I think.
Good, not great.
These albums are not bad. They just fall short of my admittedly high expectations.
Not even “so bad, its good”, just mediocre.
I’m a huge Devin Townsend fan and the song that made me an instant convert was Touching Tongues, from Vai’s Sex & Religion. Here’s a wonderful live performance from 1993.