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Nov. 30th, 2003 12:35 pmI think I must thank ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pheloniusfriar for sharing...his PLAGUE!!!!
AAAAUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!
I might have been someone else from the office...but I can't hear (again!) out of my left ear, a decently high fever, and coughing. Also earlier in this plague I had the occasional urge to "revisit" previously enjoyed meals...luckily, I hadn't eaten in a day at that point, so I only had dry heaves.
I've been watching a lot of TV over this US Turkey Day weekend...watching in horror as the US consumerism overflowth. People being trampled for a $29 DVD player (and Walmart being generous to off to hold one for her...Tanj they should have just given her one and hope she doesn't sue them!), others comming to blows over someone trying to cut into a line, and tens of thousands streaming to the local malls for buy buy buy. They all looked like the mythical Lemmings rushing for a cliff...A cliff that I think the US, then the world economy will fall off of in a couple of years. All their saving will go away, and posessions and skills will be the only things worth exchange...dollars bills suitable for recycling into toilet paper.
I'm currently listening to an Album by Simon House of the band Hawkwind...Some great electric violin playing, but he is definitly a violin player, not a composer. He may write good songs, but the stuff that surround the tunes, the production, the composition of the songs is not impresive...they have a very limited dymanic range, and sometimes come off sounding like something you might hear on a PC game soundtrack...that means mediocure FM synthesis...now considering this album was done in 1994...that means he is probably using a Yamaha DX-7, and didn't know how to program or modify his own sounds, or use something like a chorus pedal to fatten it up...they sound very dry. The songs are not bad, in fact a few of them are outstanding...but this album suffers from poor production. In fact, I am sure that I ran the entire album through a chorus pedal, and some sort of dynamic expander, it would sound great.
And no, it is not because I can't hear out of one ear...I listened to this album a great deal before I lost the use of my left ear for hearing.
Next time I feel up to posting, I will try and review "Daze of the Underground" a Hawkwind Tribute album that includes some contributions of some Hawkwind alumni, and some excellent bands, but probably none you have heard of...
ttyl
pheloniusfriar for sharing...his PLAGUE!!!! AAAAUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!
I might have been someone else from the office...but I can't hear (again!) out of my left ear, a decently high fever, and coughing. Also earlier in this plague I had the occasional urge to "revisit" previously enjoyed meals...luckily, I hadn't eaten in a day at that point, so I only had dry heaves.
I've been watching a lot of TV over this US Turkey Day weekend...watching in horror as the US consumerism overflowth. People being trampled for a $29 DVD player (and Walmart being generous to off to hold one for her...Tanj they should have just given her one and hope she doesn't sue them!), others comming to blows over someone trying to cut into a line, and tens of thousands streaming to the local malls for buy buy buy. They all looked like the mythical Lemmings rushing for a cliff...A cliff that I think the US, then the world economy will fall off of in a couple of years. All their saving will go away, and posessions and skills will be the only things worth exchange...dollars bills suitable for recycling into toilet paper.
I'm currently listening to an Album by Simon House of the band Hawkwind...Some great electric violin playing, but he is definitly a violin player, not a composer. He may write good songs, but the stuff that surround the tunes, the production, the composition of the songs is not impresive...they have a very limited dymanic range, and sometimes come off sounding like something you might hear on a PC game soundtrack...that means mediocure FM synthesis...now considering this album was done in 1994...that means he is probably using a Yamaha DX-7, and didn't know how to program or modify his own sounds, or use something like a chorus pedal to fatten it up...they sound very dry. The songs are not bad, in fact a few of them are outstanding...but this album suffers from poor production. In fact, I am sure that I ran the entire album through a chorus pedal, and some sort of dynamic expander, it would sound great.
And no, it is not because I can't hear out of one ear...I listened to this album a great deal before I lost the use of my left ear for hearing.
Next time I feel up to posting, I will try and review "Daze of the Underground" a Hawkwind Tribute album that includes some contributions of some Hawkwind alumni, and some excellent bands, but probably none you have heard of...
ttyl
