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01/20/02

current bgm: 1999/Cowtown -They Might Be Giants

Well, I'm happy.

Yesterday I finally went through the network connection my brother and I have connecting our computers and took all the mp3s from his computer and put it onto mind.

I have five words for you:

Welcome. To. War. Owns. Me.

It's the opening to Warcraft III and I absolutely love it. My only complain is that it's too short. It has a nice, subtle, quiet beginning, then halfway through goes into a beautiful crescendo which ends soon after it begins. It's somewhere between 2-3 minutes long. Not long enough for me, I'll say.

But, asides from that: I got TMBG mp3s! I mean, /all/ the ones John and John put up on their ML or whatever it was my brother was subscribed to. I have over 600 megs of mp3s, near 300 songs, and ten minutes short of 11 hours of wonderful They Might Be Giants goodness.

Hey, I may be a TMBG whore, but I know my music.

The reason why I love their music so much isn't because they have humerous songs. Well, it is partially, but it's not the complete reason. Their songs can be so down right stupid that you can't help but to laugh at them ("somebody took my eye"), they can be light-hearted ("meet james ensor"), serious ("sapphire bullets"/"ana ng") and they have such a wide variety of styles. They can do swing ("too cool girls with velcro horns"), bad white rap ("wicked little critter"), mainstream pop ("too + 3 r one" *cackles*), they can do rock, ballads, alternative, even something with a bit of salsa-ish undertone to it. Just about the only thing right now I can't think that they've done is death metal. Which I'm really happy for.

But it isn't just for the fact that they do so many different styles that I like it. It's also the fact that they can do that variety /well/ that I really enjoy. I have a rather broad taste in music and I like listening to different things. Which, of course, they deliver. In fact, they are in my top three all-time favorite bands of all time. The first band being Blue Oyster Cult, with TMBG barely beating back L'Arc~en~Ciel. Of course, ironically enough, my all-time favorite song of all time isn't done by any of the three. It is, in fact, Cannon in D by Pachelbell, but I digress.

In other news, yesterday it snowed over here. The first snow of the season. Before yesterday, the closest thing we had to snow since /last/ January was bad slush. Which I call bad because it was more water than it was anything substantial. And it wasn't snow that gave it form because when it wasn't raining, it wasn't snowing, it was /hailing/. Yeah. And I had to work that day, go me.

Steph and Matt are going back up to New Jersey today. It's the second time they've come down to visit us this year. Well, the last time was actually in December, but still... I'm going to miss them. I don't know if I'll ever see them again. Unless, of course, I go to another Otakon or Shoujocon.

Anyway, remember when I first started this journal up? I was talking about Temple Studios and Blood of Onyx? Well, I finally finished the poster that I agreed to do for them. It's colored in and I used a different coloring style than I normally use. In fact, I used the tutorial that Ian uses in Mac Hall and changed it around a bit because I use a different program than he does. There's some things that he does that I really like *incoperates it into her own technique* Anyway, here's the picture.

Blood of Onyx Colored

Oh! I forgot to add the link to Temple Studios last time! This is their current webpage: Original Comic Art Club. Which reminds me, I have to call up Patrick so I can give him the disc...

Anime/Manga of the moment: Naruto/Cowboy Bebop
Game of the moment: Final Fantasy IV
Character of the moment: Spike/Ed and Ein [Cowboy Bebop]
Couple of the moment: Quick/Shadow [Rock Man]
BGM of the moment:Ana Ng -They Might Be Giants