The Music Banter Members' Journals Monthly Update Thread

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

I appreciate not having spammers clog up my journal.

Yeah

I agree. I wouldn't want a flame war to erupt or for it to get filled up with snarky non sequiturs. I'm trying pretty hard to make my new one a worthwhile read.

[Trollheart]

So that was summer eh? As the kids tramp disconsolately back to school and the sun very annoyingly chooses this time to shine its hardest, (guess that's one of the few reasons to be thankful we're adults) it's time to indulge in that annual pastime, listening for the first air bombs screeching through the sky, as we hover ever closer to Halloween. And once that's done ... but let's not get ahead of ourselves, shall we?


http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...o-journal.html gets us underway with his honourable mentions for great flamenco guitar albums, with the likes of Manuel Valencia, Jeronimo Maya and Antonio Rey in evidence, then it's time to sit back and

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-oblivion.html where he's taking a satirical look at The Punisher 2099 and also giving us an insight into what's he's reading these days, which includes Captain Marvel, Suicide Squad and Red Hood and the Outlaws. Good stuff.

A man who is certainly somewhat obsessed with his health is our mate Chula Vista, and who can blame him, in fairness? Check out http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...17-2017-a.html to see how he's doing. I believe it's his first proper journal, so be kind.

Speaking of obsession, and riding around on an artist's dick! No, not Batty and Kesha: I'm referring to Frownland and Shabazz Palaces, which is about all you'll get from him if you ever have the misfortune to end up http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...wnapilago.html with him these days. What do you mean, you like them? Meh, takes all kinds, I guess.

Melanie Martinez is another of those http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...obably-dl.html according to Goofle, while

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html brings us Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Fritz Lang's classic Metropolis, given the unique innerspaceboy treatment.

Nice to see MicShazam giving this update a namecheck in his journal! This month he's checking out a rec from Anteater (where has his journal gone, eh? That's what I want to know!) in the shape of Nicky Holland, also more Cristiana Branco, some Laura Nyo and topping it off with Joan Osbourne. No, I don't think anything to do with Sharon or Ozzy! Oh yeah: Gojira and Leprous too, apparently!

It is, or was, the feast of the Assumption, apparently, and so Mord is listening to Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Seems fair. Also in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...um-musica.html you'll find Ukranian folk music, Protest (and Anti-Protest) music, Stevie Wonder, REM, Zep, Waits, good ol' Shatner (superb album!) , Dylan, Rush, and ... oh far too much to list here. Just check his journal out: you won't be disappointed.

I know OccultHawk is putting a serious amount of work into his journal, and it's probably me, but I don't quite understand it. Is it a political rant? Music linked to news stories? A cry for help? None of the above? All of the above? Whatever, it can't be denied he's really putting everything into it. I'm just not sure how to review it. Best you check it out yourselves, I guess. Here: http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...p-lighter.html

Okay, so that's the content sorted. Now for the features. First up as ever is

I'll probably get stick for this, but you know, fuck you guys. This post is so innocent, pure and heartfelt and honest that it probably makes Batty gag, but I think it's perfect, so it's getting the award. Will probably never happen again, but I'm a big softy so who knows?

Originally Posted by Kedvesem

These past two days of music listening have been perfect. Yesterday's Ukrainian folk and today's revisiting of old favorites... listening to R.E.M. while wallowing on the love hotel bed we broke the last time...


I love my life, and I love the music that fills it. Thank you, darling Sir, for the introduction to the music and for the joy your presence gives me. 💞

Okay, maybe a tiny little bit TMI there at the end, but still. Gotta consider Mord a lucky guy!

On we go then to
Funny Post

of the Month
and this month it's not just a single post, because to truly appreciate how amusing this is you have to get the overall flavour of the discussion that was going on, which took place between Occult and Batty, who kind of share the award. Don't fight, guys!

So it starts with an innocent enquiry

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Is that curfew supposed to be for kids or is Cotton Plant, AK an Orwellian dystopia?

which leads to a discussion about, of all things, the way to abbreviate a state

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

*ar

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Even Bill Clinton probably doesn't know or care how to abbreviate Arkansas.

Leading to frustration as to

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Why the **** can't I capitalize *AR ?

Allowing Batty to throw in another gem

Originally Posted by The Batlord

*-15

which Occult didn't understand at first

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I don't know what that means but if it's commentary on the ****tiness of the past few posts, I agree.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

*ar-15

Enter special guest star, Frownland, who explained the root of Occult's difficulty

Originally Posted by Frownland

The system will put posts that are in all caps into all lowercase, even if it's only one or two letters. You gotta slip a little Cyan coloured l or . in there.

Allowing him to really expound on what he thought of that!

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Why don't one of you bitches adjust the board so it's such a ****ing Nazi?

And as a bonus, the discussion having turned into one about who owns Music Banter, Occult came back with this superb zinger to close one of the most entertaining exchanges I've heard in a while.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

So if this journal gets good enough they can spam everyone who clicks it with adware spyware viagra dick stretchers

Got it!

I better get cracking

That's the spirit, Occult! Keep reachin' for those stars!

As he won

last month, despite the fact that he has put in, as I believe the kids say these days, a shit ton of work into his journal, I couldn't choose Occult again this month, and in fairness it would have been criminal to ignore the Herculean effort of Mord, and so his journal gets the award this month. Well done, that man!

But Occult ain't done yet! Introducing a new section here, and I'm calling it

Why? Don't you know what a weaver bird is? No, not one of those!

All right, I guess it's an Irish thing. A weaver bird is, or was, someone who annoyed other motorists by constantly switching lanes, back again, off again - basically, weaving through traffic and causing a nuisance as well as being liable to cause an accident. So, the Weaver Bird Award goes to the journal which goes the most off its original topic. And given the exchange above, that's again Occult's. So well done man. And get back on track.

That's it for this month then: see ya in October!
Toodles!

[Trollheart]

I suppose you all thought I'd be too busy listening to every album released this year to be able to devote time to this update huh?
You're right: I am.
But here it is anyway.

Not a huge amount of updates to be sure, but we kick off with
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ite-about.html where the Battish one is writing about Sacred Reich, Anthrax and of course Slayer in an article he calls Mid-tempo Thrash Bangerz and then eliciting our adulation in Sieg Heil Batlordia, with the tale of how even Hitler found him awesome when he found himself in Nazi Germany. Boo! Bring back The Return of the Kings of Metal, say I! Still, at least he's trying.

Not sure if Chula Vista is going to be continuing updating http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...17-2017-a.html as he seems to be levelling out, healthwise now, but if not, well I guess that's good news?

Florence and the Machine feature in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...obably-dl.html

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html becomes Sounds from outer space this month as innerspaceboy considers the merits of the Voyager Golden Record, a replica of the one that went scooting around the cosmos on the original Voyager mission (no Slayer I fear Batty). Oh, and there's also a Soviet silent movie and he asks the question What Does Your Soul Look Like? Deep, man, deep. Well worth a read.

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ong-picks.html this month include a detailed discography of Japanese, um ... band Dir En Grey, as well as Kobra and the Lotus, Arch Enemy and Tori Amos

while the http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...um-musica.html is packed with content this month, including Anais Mitchell's interpretation of the Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (also called Don't Look Behind You! ), as well as Waits, Angels and Airwaves , Ayreon, Baez, Beck and literally a whole heap more.

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...dern-rock.html has Garmana, Girls At Our Best! And See Through Dresses. Not literally; don't get excited there.

Speaking of putting in a shitload of work, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...p-lighter.html sees Occulthawk looking into drone ambient, 2008 and interviewing Frownland. I enjoyed that last one; you should try to make it a feature, maybe hit up Plankton next? Anyway, well done, both of you. (Good way of ensuring you get your posts approved immediately, man!) As usual, there is way too much in this journal to list it all, so just dive in. You might drown, but dammit, it's a good way to go!

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ck-garage.html for TWO YEARS, Oriphiel has finally escaped and returns with a great horror story in the leadup to Halloween.

Appropriately, finally, in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-sound.html, Zero is celebrating his ten year anniversary. Congrats, man!

And now for the awards. You know this month it was hard. I have to give

to innerspaceboy for his labour of love on the Voyager Golden Record three-post extravaganza. Really interesting, detailed, well researched (as ever) and entertaining and informative.


Seems like you guys are taking turns winning this award: last month it was Mord, the previous month Occult. This month, I could not decide between Mord's trojan work on his journal and Occult's sterling input into his, so I'm awarding it to you both. You can work out between you how to share it: maybe Occult can have it Monday to Thursday and Mord the weekend and Friday? Hopefully no fights break out!

Oh, and before we go, we can't forget our Ori, who after two years is

suitably with a horror story. Anyone got a double-barrelled sawn-off?

That's it then for another month. See you after Halloween!

Toodles!