Thursday, September 18, 2008

Romeo's Dead, Sweetheart.

Nestled away
In foreign arms
Counting the sins
When he is gone.
Drinking away your God's law
Not even He can forgive anymore

And I can taste the world on your lips
I can feel the sweat sink into your skin
You are like a church, anyone can come in
Oh, baby, you make it too easy to sin.

You're looking out for some new flesh
To spread your curse until there's nothing left
So here's to you in your short dress
Buy everyone a drink until they're impressed.

And I can taste the world on your lips
I can feel the sweat sink into your skin
You are like a church, anyone can come in
Oh, baby, you make it too easy to sin.

You'll see me Sunday, coming from the shadows
By the time it's over, you'll be hanging from the gallows
Who would've thought you could ever make me hurt less?
You look so pretty in your brand new necklace.

You'll see me Sunday, coming from the shadows
By the time it's over, you'll be hanging from the gallows
Who would've thought you could ever make me hurt less?
You look so pretty in your brand new necklace.

In your necklace.

MIDI sucks, man.

How am I gonna pass this class?

I am, at this very moment, not paying attention to the quiz review in MIDI lecture. It's so dry. At least there's not much information for the whole class, so the teacher, who is living in the feel-good era of the 70s, lets us go home after we take the quizzes. As a matter of fact, I could probably go home right now and study the textbook to learn everything thus far in about thirty five minutes. Which I'm gonna need to do. Because I find it near impossible to pay any attention to this lecture.

There goes my 3.5.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Daryl Palumbo.

Landon told me to update my blog. So I am.

I started to write this whole convoluted and self righteous blog about how I want to be a millionaire, but I blew it out my ass instead. I would rather talk about Daryl Palumbo. Dude is a freaking genius. Lead vocalist for Glassjaw, Head Automatica, and House of Blow, and suffers from Crohn's disease. He is the definition of vocalist. The versatility is undeniable, the control is incredible. 

When I first listened to Worship and Tribute, Glassjaw's second major album, I thought there were points in which Daryl's voice was put through some sort of processor, to make his voice's pitch bend a little, maybe even speed up. However, after listening quite closely for some time, I came to realize that Daryl was the one causing his voice to fluctuate in that manner. Glassjaw's first major album, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence, was an extremely influential album in the Genres of Hardcore, Metal, and Post-Hardcore.

And we all know Beating Heart Baby. Classic Head Automatica.

Moreover, it was House of Blow that threw me for a loop. Daryl's vocals are over an almost Hip Hop type beat. Although I was only able to find one song, it had a very interesting sound. 

Feel free to listen to the playlist, I put songs up from all three bands.

Freakin' Daryl. God, I'm Jealous.