Saturday, May 28, 2005
Random Meaningless Top 10 List, Volume 1
Memes run the gamut of everything from retarded "What ______ Are You?" tests to the awesome "Friday Top 10/20" that this blog has indulged in a coupla times. However, my mp3 hard drive being inoperative at the timew being, I have had to forgo this, much to the dismay of no one in particular. Therefore, I have arrived at the deision to outstretch my worthless opinions in the form of meaningless lists for "teh Fridays". (Yes, I know it's Saturday, shut up I'm late.) Hopefully, people will comment on such things and possibly post thier own versions of my meaningless lists on thier blogs/poopjournals/myspaces/etch it into thier forearms/etc.
Also hopefully, I'll actually keep up with such things, as I am not known to do much of anything on time.
Top 10 Working Male Rock Vocalists
(meaning vocalists of rock bands that are singing right now. No, right NOW. Were this a list of greatest rock vocalists ever, it would be much more predictable)
10. DEVIN TOWNSEND, Strapping Young Lad/Devin Townsend Band. The man is quite literally insane. His vocal style reflects that perfectly; look him up sometime.
9. LAJON WHITHERSPOON, Sevendust. The band may suck, but Lajon sings with more soul in his voice than all his contemporaries combined.
8. PETER STEELE, Type O Negative. One of the most recognizable voices in metal.
7. CEDRIC BIXLER ZAVALA, The Mars Volta. Yes, I am biased. Fuck you, he's fucking good.
6. DAMON ALBARN, Blur/Gorillaz. British rockers who hit falsettos are awesome.
5. BONO, U2. I really hate to admit it, since I don't really like them, but the man can SING.
4. THOM YORKE, Radiohead. Duh.
3. CHRIS CORNELL, Audioslave/ex-Soundgarden. Criminally underrated (and presently somewhat underutilized in Audioslave) vocalist, one of the best from the early 90's.
2. MIKE PATTON, ex-Faith No More/Fantomas/Tomahawk/a dozen others. The man can make his voice do anything.
1. MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN, Tool/A Perfect Circle. I swear, the musical note hasn't been written that he can't hit. This is a Robert Plant-during-Led Zeppelin II kind of awesome.
So there you go. Yes, I did throw it together in a matter of 15 minutes, so take them wth a grain of salt. Also, don't expect all those explanations all the time, since that took the longest to do, and I don't always have that kind of time.
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Memes run the gamut of everything from retarded "What ______ Are You?" tests to the awesome "Friday Top 10/20" that this blog has indulged in a coupla times. However, my mp3 hard drive being inoperative at the timew being, I have had to forgo this, much to the dismay of no one in particular. Therefore, I have arrived at the deision to outstretch my worthless opinions in the form of meaningless lists for "teh Fridays". (Yes, I know it's Saturday, shut up I'm late.) Hopefully, people will comment on such things and possibly post thier own versions of my meaningless lists on thier blogs/poopjournals/myspaces/etch it into thier forearms/etc.
Also hopefully, I'll actually keep up with such things, as I am not known to do much of anything on time.
Top 10 Working Male Rock Vocalists
(meaning vocalists of rock bands that are singing right now. No, right NOW. Were this a list of greatest rock vocalists ever, it would be much more predictable)
10. DEVIN TOWNSEND, Strapping Young Lad/Devin Townsend Band. The man is quite literally insane. His vocal style reflects that perfectly; look him up sometime.
9. LAJON WHITHERSPOON, Sevendust. The band may suck, but Lajon sings with more soul in his voice than all his contemporaries combined.
8. PETER STEELE, Type O Negative. One of the most recognizable voices in metal.
7. CEDRIC BIXLER ZAVALA, The Mars Volta. Yes, I am biased. Fuck you, he's fucking good.
6. DAMON ALBARN, Blur/Gorillaz. British rockers who hit falsettos are awesome.
5. BONO, U2. I really hate to admit it, since I don't really like them, but the man can SING.
4. THOM YORKE, Radiohead. Duh.
3. CHRIS CORNELL, Audioslave/ex-Soundgarden. Criminally underrated (and presently somewhat underutilized in Audioslave) vocalist, one of the best from the early 90's.
2. MIKE PATTON, ex-Faith No More/Fantomas/Tomahawk/a dozen others. The man can make his voice do anything.
1. MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN, Tool/A Perfect Circle. I swear, the musical note hasn't been written that he can't hit. This is a Robert Plant-during-Led Zeppelin II kind of awesome.
So there you go. Yes, I did throw it together in a matter of 15 minutes, so take them wth a grain of salt. Also, don't expect all those explanations all the time, since that took the longest to do, and I don't always have that kind of time.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
The Most Awesome News Since Awesome Came To Awesome Town
From BLABBERMOUTH.NET:
One of the most-talented guitarists I've ever heard and one of the weirdest vocalists working today TOGETHER? Hot diggety-motherfucking-damn!
Of course, second place for awesomeness has to be THIS and THIS.
Why is everything rocking so hard this year?? Is everyone just struggling to break the funk of being mired in a second Bush Administration? Seriously, between the kickass albums, movies, and video games coming out in the remaining 7 months of 2005, you'd think we were in an American pop-culture rennaissance. I mean, it's not just ME, is it?
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From BLABBERMOUTH.NET:
SYSTEM OF A DOWN Frontman Collaborating With Ex-GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist - May 21, 2005
According to RollingStone.com, SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian has been working on a CD for Buckethead, the masked, experimental funk guitarist best known for playing in the doomed incarnation of GUNS N' ROSES. Buckethead sent Serj a handful of instrumentals, which Serj has fleshed out with a variety of different vocalists, including the poet Saul Williams and a female neighbor who sings opera. No further information is currently available."
One of the most-talented guitarists I've ever heard and one of the weirdest vocalists working today TOGETHER? Hot diggety-motherfucking-damn!
Of course, second place for awesomeness has to be THIS and THIS.
Why is everything rocking so hard this year?? Is everyone just struggling to break the funk of being mired in a second Bush Administration? Seriously, between the kickass albums, movies, and video games coming out in the remaining 7 months of 2005, you'd think we were in an American pop-culture rennaissance. I mean, it's not just ME, is it?
Friday, May 20, 2005
I Like Metal
From my good buddy Kevin:
This is the situation: theres a beautiful princess trapped in a castle watched by a dragon. Heres the end of the story with different styles of metalheads as knights.
POWER METAL:
The protagonist arrives riding a white unicorn, escapes from the dragon, saves the princess and makes love to her in an enchanted forest.
THRASH METAL:
The protagonist arrives, fights the dragon, saves the princess and fucks her.
HEAVY METAL:
The protagonist arrives on a harley, kills the dragon, drinks a few
beers and fucks the princess.
PROGRESIVE METAL:
The protagonist arrives with a guitar and plays a solo of 26 minutes. The dragon kills himself out of boredom. The protagonist arrives to the princess bedroom, plays another solo with all the techniques and tunes he learned in the last year of the conservatory. The princess escapes looking for the ”HEAVY METAL” protagonist.
FOLK METAL:
The protagonist arrives with some friends playing acordions, violins, flutes and many more weird instruments, the dragon falls sleep (because of all the dancing). Then everyone leaves....without the princess.
VIKING METAL:
The protagonist arrives in a ship, kills the dragon with his mighty axe, skins the dragon and eats it, rapes the princess to death, steals her belongings and burns the castle before leaving.
DEATH METAL:
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon, fucks the princess and kills her, then leaves.
BLACK METAL:
The protagonist arrives at midnight, kills the dragon and impales it in front of the castle. Then he sodomises the princess, drinks her blood in a ritual before killing her. Then he impales the princess next to the dragon.
GORE METAL:
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon and spreads his guts in front of the castle, fucks the princess and kills her. Then he fucks the dead body again, slashes her belly and eats her guts. Then he fucks the carcass for the third time, burns the corpse and fucks it for the last time.
DOOM METAL:
The protagonist arrives, sees the size of the dragon and thinks he could never beat him, then he gets depressed and commits suicide. The dragon eats his body and the princess as dessert. Thats the end of the sad story.
GLAM METAL:
The protagonist arrives, the dragon laughs at the guys appearance and lets him enter. He steals the princess make-up and tries to paint the castle in a beautiful pink color.
NU METAL:
The protagonist arrives in a run-down Honda Civic and attempts to fight the dragon but he burns to death when his moronic baggy clothes catch fire
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From my good buddy Kevin:
This is the situation: theres a beautiful princess trapped in a castle watched by a dragon. Heres the end of the story with different styles of metalheads as knights.
POWER METAL:
The protagonist arrives riding a white unicorn, escapes from the dragon, saves the princess and makes love to her in an enchanted forest.
THRASH METAL:
The protagonist arrives, fights the dragon, saves the princess and fucks her.
HEAVY METAL:
The protagonist arrives on a harley, kills the dragon, drinks a few
beers and fucks the princess.
PROGRESIVE METAL:
The protagonist arrives with a guitar and plays a solo of 26 minutes. The dragon kills himself out of boredom. The protagonist arrives to the princess bedroom, plays another solo with all the techniques and tunes he learned in the last year of the conservatory. The princess escapes looking for the ”HEAVY METAL” protagonist.
FOLK METAL:
The protagonist arrives with some friends playing acordions, violins, flutes and many more weird instruments, the dragon falls sleep (because of all the dancing). Then everyone leaves....without the princess.
VIKING METAL:
The protagonist arrives in a ship, kills the dragon with his mighty axe, skins the dragon and eats it, rapes the princess to death, steals her belongings and burns the castle before leaving.
DEATH METAL:
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon, fucks the princess and kills her, then leaves.
BLACK METAL:
The protagonist arrives at midnight, kills the dragon and impales it in front of the castle. Then he sodomises the princess, drinks her blood in a ritual before killing her. Then he impales the princess next to the dragon.
GORE METAL:
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon and spreads his guts in front of the castle, fucks the princess and kills her. Then he fucks the dead body again, slashes her belly and eats her guts. Then he fucks the carcass for the third time, burns the corpse and fucks it for the last time.
DOOM METAL:
The protagonist arrives, sees the size of the dragon and thinks he could never beat him, then he gets depressed and commits suicide. The dragon eats his body and the princess as dessert. Thats the end of the sad story.
GLAM METAL:
The protagonist arrives, the dragon laughs at the guys appearance and lets him enter. He steals the princess make-up and tries to paint the castle in a beautiful pink color.
NU METAL:
The protagonist arrives in a run-down Honda Civic and attempts to fight the dragon but he burns to death when his moronic baggy clothes catch fire
Thursday, May 19, 2005
I Really AM Evil Brian
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
A Thousand Apologies
I understand posting here has been sparse. Things have been moving at the speed of light in the life of Evil Brian. Let's rundown some things:
The biggest and most important update is that I've gotten a big fat promotion at my shitty box-humping job at FedEx Ground. Soon, I'll get to SUPERVISE people humping boxes. On SALARY. With BENEFITS and paid VACATION. So, I've been quite busy attending various interviews and training exercises. For the first time in my sad existence, I'm about to become financially stable, and it feels pretty damn good. Eventually, I'll be attending a 2-week training session in Pittsburgh, and a 3-week training session in either Marietta, Georgia (boo!) or Chicago (yay!). Oh, it shall be sweet.
Also, I've been pumping my Evil brain full of all things Star Wars in anticipation for Thursday. Unfortunately, since this promotion was sprung upon me, I am required to train my box-humping replacement all this week, necessitating me being in work at 2:30 AM on May 19; thereby eliminating my midnight showing of Episode III. However, I will be more than early enough to get in line to pick up the regular showing tickets in the morning. At least two pairs of such. So, while I'll be missing the geektacular first showings, I'll certainly be drowning myself in Episode III goodness.
My external hard drive MusicBank has been failing lately, and I'm gonna have to wait until I can really afford a replacement. A better one, that doesn't die. I also hope I'm not going to permanently lose my well over 65 gigabytes of mp3s.
Oh, and I think it would take a miracle for me to dislike it, from all indications.
Other than those things, I've been immersed in new music and DVDs.
Oh yeah, and I got drunk enough this weekend to fall down a flight of stairs. And then had to call out sick from work due to a hangover. Call out of work at midnight the NEXT NIGHT. Good times.
So that's what's been up with Evil Brian lately. Sorry again for the lack of posting, I will TRY to post more often.
I'll see you all at Utapau.
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I understand posting here has been sparse. Things have been moving at the speed of light in the life of Evil Brian. Let's rundown some things:
The biggest and most important update is that I've gotten a big fat promotion at my shitty box-humping job at FedEx Ground. Soon, I'll get to SUPERVISE people humping boxes. On SALARY. With BENEFITS and paid VACATION. So, I've been quite busy attending various interviews and training exercises. For the first time in my sad existence, I'm about to become financially stable, and it feels pretty damn good. Eventually, I'll be attending a 2-week training session in Pittsburgh, and a 3-week training session in either Marietta, Georgia (boo!) or Chicago (yay!). Oh, it shall be sweet.
Also, I've been pumping my Evil brain full of all things Star Wars in anticipation for Thursday. Unfortunately, since this promotion was sprung upon me, I am required to train my box-humping replacement all this week, necessitating me being in work at 2:30 AM on May 19; thereby eliminating my midnight showing of Episode III. However, I will be more than early enough to get in line to pick up the regular showing tickets in the morning. At least two pairs of such. So, while I'll be missing the geektacular first showings, I'll certainly be drowning myself in Episode III goodness.
My external hard drive MusicBank has been failing lately, and I'm gonna have to wait until I can really afford a replacement. A better one, that doesn't die. I also hope I'm not going to permanently lose my well over 65 gigabytes of mp3s.
Oh, and I think it would take a miracle for me to dislike it, from all indications.
Other than those things, I've been immersed in new music and DVDs.
Oh yeah, and I got drunk enough this weekend to fall down a flight of stairs. And then had to call out sick from work due to a hangover. Call out of work at midnight the NEXT NIGHT. Good times.
So that's what's been up with Evil Brian lately. Sorry again for the lack of posting, I will TRY to post more often.
I'll see you all at Utapau.
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Word Up To Ya Momma
So another Mother's Day has descended upon us and, thus, another chance for me to flex my culinary muscles (some of my least-flexed muscles). Tonight's dinner shall consist of the following:
Olive oil & Rosemary bread with Garden Vegetable spread
Spinach salad with Honey Dijon dressing & baby tomatoes
Eggplant Pasta Parmesan with tri-color Rotini
Mango and Raspberry sorbet with brandied Blackberries flambe
That's right, don't fuck with my mad cooking skills, or I will set you on fire.
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"Yeah this one right here goes out to all the baby's mamas, mamas...
Mama's mamas, baby's mama's mamas..."
So another Mother's Day has descended upon us and, thus, another chance for me to flex my culinary muscles (some of my least-flexed muscles). Tonight's dinner shall consist of the following:
Olive oil & Rosemary bread with Garden Vegetable spread
Spinach salad with Honey Dijon dressing & baby tomatoes
Eggplant Pasta Parmesan with tri-color Rotini
Mango and Raspberry sorbet with brandied Blackberries flambe
That's right, don't fuck with my mad cooking skills, or I will set you on fire.
Friday, May 06, 2005
Resurrected
Well, after a CRAZY-ASS weekend (that started on Friday, hence the lack of a playlist), and a busy-as-shit week, I return with some music sweetness.
1. Tiger Army - Atomatic (3:16)
2. Weezer - Surf Wax America (Live) (4:01)
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Gonna Leave You (2:50)
4. faith no more - digging the grave (3:05)
5. Donnas - Donnas - You Wanna Get Me High (2:54)
6. Beck - Girl
7. Metallica - Battery (10:05)
8. Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:08)
9. Dilated Peoples - DJ Babu In Deep Concentration (5:16)
10. dashboard confessional - Turpentine Chaser (3:46)
11. Modest Mouse - Dance Hall (2:57)
12. Jet - Last Chance (1:53)
13. Fountains of Wayne - The Man in the Santa Suit (3:03)
14. Sparta - Air (3:57)
15. Black Eyed Peas - Hands Up (3:35)
16. Marilyn Manson - Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar - Wormboy (3:56)
17. Type O Negative - 12 Black Rainbows (5:10)
18. The Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect (3:23)
19. Sigur Ros - Untitled (1:47)
20. Motion City Soundtrack - Motion City Soundtrack - I Am The Movie - my favorite accident (3:20)
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Well, after a CRAZY-ASS weekend (that started on Friday, hence the lack of a playlist), and a busy-as-shit week, I return with some music sweetness.
1. Tiger Army - Atomatic (3:16)
2. Weezer - Surf Wax America (Live) (4:01)
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Gonna Leave You (2:50)
4. faith no more - digging the grave (3:05)
5. Donnas - Donnas - You Wanna Get Me High (2:54)
6. Beck - Girl
7. Metallica - Battery (10:05)
8. Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:08)
9. Dilated Peoples - DJ Babu In Deep Concentration (5:16)
10. dashboard confessional - Turpentine Chaser (3:46)
11. Modest Mouse - Dance Hall (2:57)
12. Jet - Last Chance (1:53)
13. Fountains of Wayne - The Man in the Santa Suit (3:03)
14. Sparta - Air (3:57)
15. Black Eyed Peas - Hands Up (3:35)
16. Marilyn Manson - Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar - Wormboy (3:56)
17. Type O Negative - 12 Black Rainbows (5:10)
18. The Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect (3:23)
19. Sigur Ros - Untitled (1:47)
20. Motion City Soundtrack - Motion City Soundtrack - I Am The Movie - my favorite accident (3:20)
