Big Songs For Little Attention Spans



Sorry to go on about music all the time, but I think this is worth pointing out to the world in gerneral - a compilation of 100 songs to fit onto a normal 80 minute CD. It's actually pretty good: obviously mainly punky stuff as these type of songs lend themselves to the sub one minute track length quite well, a few joke songs, and a few surprises. And it has my favourite Lolita Storm song ever: Hot Lips, Wet Pants - marvellous...

If I was the sort of person to download albums off P2P networks weeks before they are officially released, I'd probably avoid the 'new' (I use the term loosely) Prodigy album - unless the thought of listening to a dozen different versions of 'Smack my Bitch Up' gets you all warm and tingly.



However I'd probably be nurturing the leaked Interpol album until the time came to buy a proper copy, as it's a bit good - apparently.

I don't normally have much time for personality quizzes, they are a bit lazy when it comes to coming up with content for your website, but this one made me chuckle.



"You are an SEDF--Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an evil genius. You are extremely focused and difficult to distract from your tasks. With luck, you have learned to channel your energies into improving your intellect, rather than destroying the weak and unsuspecting."



"Your friends may find you remote and a hard nut to crack. Few of your peers know you very well--even those you have known a long time--because you have expert control of the face you put forth to the world. You prefer to observe, calculate, discern and decide. Your decisions are final, and your desire to be right is impenetrable."



"You are not to be messed with. You may explode."



...mwah mwah mwaaah!

Fairly standard pictures from last night

I impressed myself yesterday with my ability to read a book in about an hour, and it wasn't a comic book! Although admitedly it wasn't exactly long: The Coma by Alex Garland, it's an interesting little short story about someone trying to wake up out of a Coma - I think it would make a very good film if Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind hadn't been made already.

Run for the hills! The geeks are starting to arm themselves!

Math Hardcore...



The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine Sampler

If you are aware of the website Epitonic.com you may be familiar with the term Math Rock, I'd put the Dillinger Escape Plan into this category except for the fact that they are much too loud and angry to be just called rock, so I'm calling it Math Hardcore. Incredibly complicated and intricate music performed using a fairly traditional bass/drums/guitars/vocal set up, I might get the album, but I'm not sure if I'm up to the task of keeping up with a band like this over a full length album - we shall see.