Before I get to this week's update, I'd just like to reiterate what I said above. This goes way beyond music and into a very dark and uncomfortable place, none of which I intend to discuss without her permission out here in the open, but due to the nature of the event I won't be featuring Junkyard Donner's update to
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-tripping.html this week. However I do strongly encourage you all to read what she has written and then, if you feel as anyone who reads such a thing should, send Stephanie your support in whatever way you feel best suits. I'm sure she would appreciate it. That's all I will say on the matter, and hope I'm not overstepping my bounds.
As to the other journals, well
Anteater is looking at a strange movie directed by Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...n-dollars.html while
doggedly refusing to give in to the general slump in activity around these here parts,
Ki has several updates to
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html, with a rant about cover versions of classic songs, a look into the future and another song that's stuck in his head. Good man, Ki! There's only a few of us left, it would seem...
... literally. I'm up next, and with Metal Month in full swing some of my other journals have perforce (it's an old word, meaning "as a result" or "unavoidably due to this") suffered, though I've done what I can to keep them from falling off the front page. Plenty to get excited about in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html of course, with reviews of albums by, among others, Sepultura, Morbid Angel, Kreator, Entombed, In Flames and Doomsword. Also new albums from Stratovarius and Orphaned Land, as well as the continuing ABC of Heavy Metal, the Metal that Made Me and more, including links back to some old metal reviews I did way back when. Still lots to come of course.
The other journal I've been keeping up to date is my TV one, and in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html you'll find the final episode in season one of Spooks, with the same due early next week for The New Statesman, and that promised return of Supernatural as it heads into season two. I've also reviewed by first album in my new journal,
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...m-reviews.html, so swing by and see how wrong I got it. And did I get it wrong, let me tell you!
Valiantly bringing up the rear as ever is
Unknown Soldier, who despite some caustic comments in my main journal is still The Man, and stuck deep in 1978, where he's reviewing albums by Van Halen and Rainbow.
And so we finish up another weekly update. Beginning to turn very much into a case of "the usual suspects" these days! Oh well, as I said (and keep telling myself) maybe the dark winter nights drawing in will encourage more people to write. Or perhaps not. Either way, whatever happens, I'll be here to report it.
Till next week
Toodles!