Caught In The Whirlwind
Posts tagged mikeportnoy.com
The Day After Is Always Fun…
Sep 18th 2007
As I thought yesterday, every muscle in my body is not very happy with me today. Getting out of bed this morning was really, really hard. My normally uncomfortable office chair was especially unbearable today. Oh well. I had planned on cleaning up around here a bit this evening, but I decided that probably wouldn't be such a good idea right away. Maybe tomorrow.
Instead I just sat around and relaxed. Watched my fish a bit. I think I've finally figured out the correct quantity of food to feed so that I'm not under feeding or over feeding them. My water has stopped being a little cloudy between water changes and the fish are swimming around happily, so that's a good thing. I was thinking about getting a slightly larger centerpiece fish to replace the two zebra danio's that I lost, but I'm not sure what I want to get. Something that hangs out near the top would be nice because it seems most of my fish prefer the bottom half of my tank. I made a slight planning error when it comes to fish types it seems.
And now, from the sad news department…one of the members of the mikeportnoy.com forums passed away today. KeithK, who fell victim to a sudden illness, was a well respected guy, never afraid to speak his mind or tell it like it was. Probably the most genuine person I've ever had contact with on the internet. I didn't know him personally beyond what I read of his posts, but he touched a lot of people and the forums are never, ever going to be the same again. He was a friend to many and was always willing to lend a hand or an ear when somebody needed to talk. Sigh.
|
Vox Hunt: Music – I Last Listened To…
Sep 10th 2007
Show us the last album you listened to.
I found a new band courtesy of the fine folks over at the Mike Portnoy Forums, again. Epica is…weird. It's got some death metal type grunting lyrics, some really, really nice female lead vocals, orchestral structures, heavy metal riffs…
A very strange combination that I'm really enjoying right now. I snapped up the album with my $44 iTunes credit that I got from converting all of the change that was laying around my apartment using one of those change sorting machines at the supermarket. No fee for turning it into iTunes credit, which I would have used anyway eventually.
QotD: My Musical Influence
Aug 8th 2007
Which friend or acquaintance most influenced your taste in music?
Submitted by Rev Stan.
To be honest, nobody really did. At least nobody that I know of.
It all started back when an internet radio station called Echo was around. This was before the days of broadband (mostly) in the dark days of the internet. Well…they were kinda like Pandora is now, where they would match up your tastes with other artists and songs that were similar. Occasionally they would throw in a random track, just in case you might like it and start you off on a completely new musical genre.
Well, one day, Echo spit out Dream Theater – Fatal Tragedy, which I liked. I downloaded it from napster (Bad!) and forgot about the band for a while. One day, a couple years later, I listened to it again and really "got" it. After that, I stumbled onto the Mike Portnoy forums and learned about all of this music that I didn't know about before from the forum-goers there. And the rest…is history.
So no one person really influenced my musical taste. It was done by group consensus.
Recent Comments