new house
basically all moved in. i still need to buy sheets for my bed but I'm completely broke.
this weekend was alright. i watched videodrome with my roommate marguerite on saturday night and went to omotesando hills(the new ando tadeo building/mall in omotesando) and, although the interior was pretty cool, it was so crowded and expensive(the cheapest thing there is apparently 20 dollar ice cream) that I'm not in any hurry to return. Went to an emerging photographers show in a gallery nearby and, although I though some of it was interesting, I was more impressed with the show that was at the nc museum of art a few months back. then I went to a little cafe and had the korean version of okonomiyaki. very tasty.
my japanese is still getting better. I've decided to start on kanji. it's actually really cool, because if you learn the meaning of the kanji, you can figure what a lot of words mean even if you don't really know how to pronounce them.
my neighborhood is a lot cooler than chuorinkan. we have a part and lots of little narrow streets with old houses and families. tokyo is only a 10 minute local train ride, so it's nice to be a little closer. I'm yearning to explore, but I'm currently severely limited by the fact that I still haven't received the deposit from my last real estate company.
been listening to a lot of nevermind lately. as cliched as it is to repeat, it's a good fucking record.
i started listening to more metal, at the recommendation of skirko. at the gates and emporer. jury's still out on the former. i also downloaded remission. i think i might like it better than leviathan - the production is a little more raw. this is not to say that leviathan isn't a badass record. i also recently got into the fugazi record, "the argument", which I didn't really like upon first listen my senior year in college. dunno why now.
still working on the band. writing a lot more.
i'm going to finish the fiction I'm currently reading so I can start on a political economy binge. anyone wanna start a reading group?
gonzaimon
posted by margnwalkr2000 @ 8:46 PM
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with both leviathan, and with old Integrity albums (most notably Humanity is the Devil), it sounds like the guitarists get their massive crunch sound by running their guitars really hot onto the tape. when they play normal its prob around 0, but when they palm mute it must jump to like +2 or +3 and it totally saturates the tape. you can't do this digital, really. but it's such a part of that sound. AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAHA!
fuck At the Gates. I really recommend "The Sound of Perserverance" album by Death, though. By no means "perfect" or some such, but it definitely holds together and there's some sick goddamn metal-breakdowns too.
"anyone wanna start a chaos riot?"
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