Time for another update, and since I can't think of anything clcver to introduce this one, nor come up with any theme, what say we just get on with and then then we can all get back to our lives? Deal?
Anteater gets us going, but not onboard his Yacht Rock, um, yacht, this time. No, at last someone has done it, and if it was going to be anyone it would be him, with help from Toto-journal-partner Unknown Soldier.
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...r-journal.html needs no explanation, and kicks off with “The best of 75-77” with this week Starcastle's
Fountains of light.
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...continuum.html continues with Zeds Dead (didn't even know he was alive!)
while contractual obligations between he and Pet_Sounds mean that
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...lks-about.html this week listening to ... Billy Joel. But, not Billy Joel. Um, you ever heard of Atilla? No, not the Hun! The band! No? Me neither. But Batty reviews it here in exchange for Pet_Sounds promising to review an album for Manowar week
which he has yet to do!
and
Exo decides to review his best albums of 2015 so far in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-musings.html : sure what better place to do that? Included are Mount Eerie, Creepoid, Courtney Barnett, Earl Sweatshirt and more.
While
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...63-2015-a.html reaches 2011, where we hear from Poor Lily, Death Grips, Kendrick Lamar and Danny Brown, among others.
More of
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...es-patrol.html, with a visit from the Secretary of Defence! No, really! And whatever you do, do
not call
Fiddler “Drill Sergeant!”
So what's happening in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html this week? Well, a dissertation on piracy for one thing. Also more James Joyce and “Great Music no-one is looking for”. Check it out!
Down in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html he's finally finished
Outlast, and is about to take on
Nuclear Throne! That's him gone for another few weeks then...
Read all about
Mondo's travels on the way to Reno in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...im-leavin.html as his odyssey gets going
and don't forget to read the latest chapter in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...rgy-story.html while you're at it; up to chapter seventeen now, which is so big it's in two parts.
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...listening.html sees our favourite guitar god and newest mod deploring the state of the music industry in terms of bands being hung out to dry by record labels and producers, with some personal experience to go with that.
Finally back in some sort of action, I have the third Marillion album,
Misplaced Childhood, reviewed as part of the Marillion discography in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html, while perhaps appropriately, given my change of avatar today, there's more Futurama in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html, with the story of Hercules playing out in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...gy-legend.html. A few reviews in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html with Sleep Thieves, The Lord Weird Slough Feg and Prefab Sprout.
Unknown Soldier is as ever
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html as he heads nearer to the top ten for 1985 with Agent Steel and Lizzy Borden.
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...tasy-epic.html seems to have descended into some sort of drug-fuelled madness, but I'm sure it will all work out in the end.
To be fair, there are quite a few, again, this week, posts that could have been chosen for my
I considered efforts from Fiddler, Anteater, Innerspaceboy and Plankton, but in the end I had to go for this, if for no other reason than hopefully it encourages Mondo to keep writing and keep us updated on his travels.
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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle
Haven't wrote anything down for the rest of that week but I'll go for a synopsis.
June 28 - July 8
Pretty much more general chillin. Drank my weight in hard cider most of the time up until the fourth. I hung out with some other friends and stayed there during this time, different from the pals I met up with first. Two of them, a couple, were having a lot of problems at the time, dealing with finding new places to live as well as some serious quarreling between the two. I witnessed completely unrestrained emotional outbreaks from both of them. They would be moving, each to a different place nearby, both in California. Even more squabbling ensued from others, all brought about by similar means. Moving out, moving in. The couple left on Monday morning.
Friends and family came together for the Fourth of July. Drank a semi-heavy amount and enjoyed some fantastic dinner. Some music that usually tickles my emotions came on, made me think about what I was doing here, and in general. I can never seem to know. I left the area we were hanging out to be alone for a minute, and began crying, just a tad. That passed soon enough.
No one seems to be functioning right right now. Everyone is fighting with everyone else. A very conflict filled week. I stayed at another friends house these last two nights, and he and his roommate had more loud arguments, to be followed by more screaming and crying. Still, it all passes. I think I'm leaving soon, well, tomorrow most definitely, but had also considered going later today. It's Four o'clock and heavy rain though. I'd already told the people I was with today I'd be leaving on the bus and they dropped me off there. It's not too interesting to hear about me hanging out, but I guarantee the real experience will start within twent-four hours.
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Now I'd like to try something a little different, something I'm going to call
I know I had “Classic Journals I have read” before, but this is going to concentrate on the VERY FIRST post in a journal, and then trace its evolution (or devolution) to see if the journal lived up to the promise of its first post, deviated wildly from it, faded away a short time (or a long time) later, or went on to become the journal the author had hoped and intended it to be when he or she wrote the opening post.
I'm including every single journal ever started here, right back as far as I can go, and am using a random number generator to decide who gets featured, so it could be yours, or it could be a journal that only started a few weeks ago, or indeed a journal that has been going for years. It could even be a journal by someone who has left us, or started new journals. It could be a journal long given up by its author and left to moulder in the lower pages, forgotten and unloved. We'll see.
If your idea didn't work out, and you're still around and reading this, don't take offence. I know how hard it is to make a journal work --- we all do --- and it's nothing more than gentle fun if yours didn't fulfil the promise you had hoped it would, with perhaps even a gentle nudge to, you know, maybe take another shot at it?
So, who's first on the examination table then?
Well: there are sixteen pages of journal entries, with twenty per page (leaving out the stickies at the top) so that makes ... um .. um .. times ten, carry the five, add three .... six thousand four hundred journals! Oh, wait, no that's not right. Perhaps I need to call in a scientist to help me.
Okay so that's
320 journals. So into my Random Number Generator go 1 to 320, hit the button and we get...
62.
That means it's none of the current journals, though not too far back. Let's see, three pages and we find...
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ouse-v-ii.html
Well, this is interesting! I know this journal was going for some time before Bulldog left us, came back, left us and is, I think, still here? So what was the opening post? On August 1 2010 Bulldog wrote
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Originally Posted by Bulldog
So, as the more eagle-eyed among you may have noticed by my depleted post count, I've gone and deleted my old journal. Several reasons for this;
1) I thought the last one had gone a bit stale, so I figured a fresh start was on the cards.
2) I fancied doing a much more organised, album-centric one, which wouldn't really have fitted in the old thread.
3) I wanted to start another epic album thread without the confines of a particular discography or genre.
4) I was bored.
Also, for added zaniness, I'm gonna go allmusic on everyone and use a pretty star system to rate things like below;
^ Put simply, anything I put 3 1/2+ stars after gets my official stamp of recommendation, while any other ratings just equate to some random musing or other. In other words, some of these albums may be amazing, some not so great, some you might despise. Either way, I'm gonna update this twice a week. I don't mind helping anyone particularly interested out with finding links either.
So then, read or don't... |
As I don't know his journal that well, I'm going to hold off judgement, as it were, till next week and spend the coming week browsing through his entries. I'll give you my conclusions next week. Bet ye can hardly wait, eh?
And so we come to the end of another update. If you want more of the same, you know what to do and where to be!
Till then,
Toodles!