Hey all back for the weekly update and i;m back at school after break. I have some stuff to cover this weeek, but not much. First off i do want to say that there will be a section on music again in this week's post, so if you skip that section usually, you've been notified.
The "Intro" Section:
While i actually have a sticky this week to go off of, i dont have much to put here. so onto the main section.
The "MEat and Potatoes" Section:
So the reaminder of my week off for spring break was fun. had a doctor appointment, and then finished up my work and then hung otu with 2 friends who were in DC to visit. i ended up flying back here to schooll instead of driving which kinda stunk, btu it was fine. Anyway, i get back onto campus on sunday and chill otu cause i had gotten my hw for monday and tuesday done already. In retrospect, i coulda done a little work for my philosophy class in sofaras editing a paper for it, but i'll just work on that over the next 2 ngihts and such.
Monday was pretty aweseom cause my only class, the aforementioned philosophy one, got cancelled. Though the prof assigned a 90 page play to read, so thats what i spent the majority of my day doing, breaking the play into chunks and reading it. Tuesday was low key actually for a busy day, again i could've worked on the paper, but for some reason i went lazy and only worked on stuff for my psych class. The aforementioend 90 ages assignment actually reminded me of the main gripe ive had with some of my classes this semester. Most of the profs this semester i have have seemed unawware of when other profs are piling on the work. This usually is not exacerbated by it being a busy time for students, but still. i find it anoying when two profs in dramatically different departments assign a lot of writng/ reading to be done in the same short period of time.
look at that, alreasdy covered two point on my sticky note. Anyway onto the music update. So this past monday i donwloaded the new Gorillaz and Demon Hunter albums. We'll start of with the gorillaz one. I'll spare you guys the details of both groups. the gorillaz album is good, and is a step up from the previous record, which was released back in '03 or '04, btu i get the feeling it wasnt worht the 5 year wait. ITs a good album dont get me wrong but its a lot more synth based than rock drums and guitar based, and the actual vocals from the guy who does the voices for the animated singers in Gorillaz are pretty much absent for teh first half of the album. Plus its 17-18 tracks. It feels more like it coulda been better as a double album, each with 9 tracks, one more focused on collaborations with other artists and the other more focused on actual vocals from the guy who does the voices. I give it a 7.5/10.
To the Demon hunter album, which is an entirely different story. As you knwo if you followed my facebook last month, i love the current single off the album. Demon hunter is a hardcore Christian metal band, btu they're not overly Christian in their lyrics and they very talented lyrcially and musically. While theyve had their fair share of lineup changes, theyre still very good. anyway the album prior to this latest one was very solid and showed flashes of them getting heavier. That's just what this most recent album, called "The world is a thorn" is. ITs heavier, more "unclean" (to use the PC term) vocals, and is more brutal sounding both with the insturments and lyrics. I was actually blown away by some of the drum work on this album. The album starts off with a slower intro to the first song, but then kicks it in and does nto let up fully until the end fo the album. Even the slower, mor ballad-y songs on the record are more mid-tempo then power-ballady. in short, i am seriously digginthe album, and its a blast to work out to. plus they got the former lead singer of one of my other favorite metal bands, Scar Symmetry, to appear on the 9th track "Just breathe" which is one of my favorites on the album, because its hard, catchy and fast.
music geekness otu of the way. i just want to say one last thing and its more of a brief comment than anything. I'm amused byt the fact that the computer Services people at my school upgrade us to a student portal service last year (because it is apparently easier to administrate, even though its very flawed as a system in terms of its user-friendliness) and that they upgraded the email server to this awesome things called Zimbra ( which is almost exactly a MS outlook clone), yet they havent done anything about us students havign to re register on the wired connections everytime we come back onto campus after a break or whatever. you think they'd look into that.
So, if you all comment on this, i wanna hear your take on that last paragraph, as well as anything else you want to comment on or think i should put in this blog. I will put a heads up out there, that the update day for this may change as half my classes have major thigns due on/around the 15th. I'm thinking about moving the updates to Fridays or Monday AM.
well, til next post, hope you all have a good one.
--ZB (Zack B)
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