I don't think I've every felt this undervalued...

Omnipresent Perception

I have no idea when I got into technical death metal. I think I would resort a lot of it to discovering Obscura a few years back. I think what I like the most about it is the dominant presence of the bass. These bands usually have EXTREMELY talented bass players and this band Beyond Creation is no exception. Don't get me wrong, every technical death metal has incredibly great musicians all around, but the genre glorifies bassists. The song embedded below, "Omnipresent Perception" has an amazing bass solo. The solos are great, the riffs are great and the vocals are great. I have no idea how this band slipped from my vision, but I found them and here they are now :D I love metal

1-3-5

Today I watched Mean Girls. It's been a while since I've last watched and boy a lot of things in the movie I don't recall at all. All those scenes where people start acting like animals seemed brand new to me. Other scenes I recalled completely. I can totally understand why people really love the movie and can quote it like nothing. Hey I do the same exact thing with Red vs Blue. Somehow I didn't remember the character Kevin Gnapoor. I always latch on to comic relief characters but somehow I didn't even recall him being in the movie. Point is, he's a great comic relief because his stuff is more abnormal. With Tina Fey writing the script, most scenes were made to be laughable and Kevin's character exists to remind you of the more realistic characters you would find at a high school that are just so weird they make you laugh. So I definitely liked that. Overall, good movie. Jazz approved.

Genre Purgatory

Coheed and Cambria is one of those bands I claim myself to be a fan of although I've only heard one cd, but dammit that one cd is good. I bought Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness in 2005 when I was just beginning 8th grade. At the time they had just released "The Suffering," which was pretty much their big break into mainstream stardom. I thought it was a great song (and still do) so I bought the cd along with RoadRunner Records' RoadRunner United. Whats kinda funny about this band is that a lot of people find them to heavy and guitary for mainstream rock, but not heavy enough for metal, so they're basically stuck in a musical purgatory. Yesterday I posted the song "The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End," which I would easily consider my favorite song off the album. It has the right mix of everything that makes them a good band and has some of their more metaly stuff in it too. So I'm just going to post all my favorite songs off the album cause I can :)

Besides, I only hope you know that I love you

Feed little maggot off the Westside of your sin
Run little maggot 'till they learn of what you did

All Of Your Hopes And Dreams, Never Meant Shit

I'm a complete letdown. Today I discovered that I didn't actually graduate from college. It's such a depressing and disappointing feeling. I thought I worked hard enough to achieve glory but low and behold, I let myself and everyone around me down :/ I didn't do my math right and discovered that I finished my spring semester with 119 units. You want to know how many are needed to graduate? 120. Fuck me. I feel incredibly stupid inside. All this hard work just to have made such a simple mistake. How I'm going to resolve this, I really don't know, but god damn is it heart breaking and heart wrenching to know that I'm completely at fault for all of this. I'm sorry for letting you down everyone, I really am. I patiently waited week after week after week in hopes of seeing my degree arrive and proudly framing it on the wall. NOPE. Not today...not fucking today...

Without a doubt, probably the best thing that could've happened to me was to have been rejected from grad school. I can't even imagine having to have sent a letter saying sorry.

I feel like shit.

Embrace Your Comforting Company

The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
Everything is burning because

Tonight the south is on fire!
The south is on fire.

due to your ban of federal funding, science cannot save you

Ed Gein is one of those bands I don't give enough credit for influencing my love of all things metal. I saw their music video for "Bastard" one day on Music On Demand at my mom's friend's house and it just made me want to break shit. This is back in 2005. (Leviathan came out in 2004 and both The Fury of Our Maker's Hand and O' God, the Aftermath came out in 2005 for reference) This was pretty much when I knew heavy metal was my genre and fully embraced it. Ed Gein, this one is for you!

Slip Away

My dog Scruffy ran away on 4th of July and it truly tears my insides out. I made the mistake of not putting her away in my garage before the fireworks hit and realized the damage was done when it was too late. She's wondered off several times but this is the first time she's never come home. I fucked up so bad.

The Bizkit

Limp Bizkit was one of those nu-metal bands that arose in that whole late 90s early 2000s along with Coal Chamber, Papa Roach, Korn, etc. Their last album that was still worth listening to, was Results May Vary, and it has a handful of good songs (by my standards because I'm pretty sure they're pretty bad to most people). Their single "Eat You Alive" runs the fine line of just plain stupid and super catchy. It easily has some of the worst lyrics included in any of their songs "No doubt that I'd love to sniff on them panties now" to some great stuff "I'm sorry, so sorry, Your beauty is so vain, It drives me, yes it drives me, Absolutely insane." Watch at your own risk I guess.

Bastard A.I.

I love Mario Kart 8. It's really fun and silly to play. The customization in picking your vehicle, wheels and parachute is awesome and just straight out dorky. I just barely unlocked a pirate ship and I can't decided if that's my favorite vehicle or if it's the teddy bear.

Another cool feature is that you can have different wheels, some huge and some really small. It makes both your character and vehicle look really funny.

The one thing that annoys me is that the A.I. is competitive as %#@! in the hardest mode 150cc. Obviously this makes sense, I just get annoyed cause everyone tries to win and it creates this barrage of attacks you need to be on the lookout for. Regardless, it's loads of fun and I'm going to just keep playing and hopefully improve so that I can beat those suckers!