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07-05-2015, 09:11 PM | #721 (permalink) | ||
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I should the differences between Green Arrow and Black Canary would be rather obvious.
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07-12-2015, 02:50 PM | #722 (permalink) | ||
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The Music Banter Members Journals Weekly Update Thread, week-ending July 12 2015
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. Quote:
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 Quote:
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!
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07-12-2015, 06:09 PM | #724 (permalink) |
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So noted. Anyone else who for whatever reason would prefer me not to feature their journal let me know, and if it comes up i will then indeed roll again.
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07-12-2015, 06:15 PM | #725 (permalink) | |
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I'd prefer your to roll again if you get Ki's journal.
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07-19-2015, 04:17 PM | #727 (permalink) | |
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The Music Banter Members Journals Update Thread: Week ending July 19 2015
Seems everyone has chosen this week to return to writing in their journals! We have no less than three members coming back into the fold, and we welcome them all. Read more below. A double from the insectivore to get us underway this week, as Anteater continues http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...r-journal.html along with his partner in crime Unknown Soldier, and this week they're looking at Kansas and Styx. Speaking of Styx, very bad continuity joke but, you know, the ancient Greek river of the dead? No? Well, anyway, Ant is sailing this particular ship solo as he embarks on another leg of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ravaganza.html, which this week has taken him to the Virgin Islands, and as a consequence he's sharing music by Player, Chicago, Marc Jordan and Bobby Caldwell. The Review Randomizer has become just the Randomizer, for those who wish to know, and down in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...continuum.html Aux-in is listening to Pierce Fulton, Ziggy, Andy Moor and Gareth Emery, who I think may be a favourite of the lovely Vanilla. Not quite sure about that. Must admit, I listened to the Andy Moor track and it was not at all bad. Too busy to hear the whole thing but what I heard I didn't hate. http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ic-banter.html speaks for itself really. In the wake of Manowar week, deciding we had not had enough True Metal, The Batlord decided to catalogue their entire discography. For hardened metal heads and fans of cheesy metal only! Albums like Into Glory Ride, Battle Hymns and Hail to England all get the Batty treatment, as well as some singles and EPs and all his reviews from the aforementioned Manowar week. With more to come. You have been warned! http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-journal.html is back, but not with part two of Drones by Muse, not yet. This week he's doing album spotlights, with Thom Yorke, The Oh Sees and Philip Selway. There's a whole lot going on down at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html, with his review of Bioshock Infinite, Trove, screenshots galore (well, three) as well as a tribute to the late CEO of Nintendo, and probably a lot more too. Check it out! Not only that, but LiL is back from whatever strange alternate dimension she's been exploring for the last while, and finishing off her review of Sparks's Kimono my house in the return of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...de-sparks.html. Gonna have to make the time to read http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...im-leavin.html as it looks to be really interesting. But I'm way busy at the moment. You don't have that excuse (as nobody is busy except me) so head on down and read all about his travels. Hey, maybe he'll even write you a poem! After three months away Plankton is back to sling some more out of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...um-bucket.html, with more of his life story soundtracked by Stevie Ray, Public Enemy and Snap? Things are finally moving on the Marillion discography down at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html as we finish off the Fish era with Clutching at Straws and move into the Steve Hogarth years with Holidays in Eden, Afraid of Sunlight and This Strange Engine. There's a return of two of my older journals, as one of the http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ver-heard.html turns out to be Catherine Wheel's Chrome, and then the long-not-at-all-missed http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...m-reviews.html takes a butcher's at The Ladybug Transistor. Yeah. Oh and http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html has Alestorm and No-Man, and we begin yet another discography, this time of Steve Earle. My album reviews now include ratings, “Love or Hate?” style. Fate's Warning and Manilla Road are two of the albums featured for 1985 in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html and finally, Violet is back to give us the review Chasoco has yet to complete (), yes it's Drones again, this time in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-endeavor.html. I think we all know what the is going to be this week. Suck it, as he'd say, losers! Quote:
well, nobody even comes close to Ki this week, with all the entries he's made in his journal, so it's another one for your virtual mantlepiece, man! And that's it for this week. Time has caught me up again, and I'm late posting this. Till next week, Toodles!
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07-19-2015, 08:36 PM | #729 (permalink) |
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oops! Thanks for the heads-up. I can't edit already posted material, but I'll bear it in mind for the future. Also, apologies to Chascoso....
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07-19-2015, 08:37 PM | #730 (permalink) | |
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An excellent choice for Post of the Week.
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