living vicariously through mail-order.

[grindmonkeh]

It seems that all I've been doing lately is working, napping, and shopping for a new cd that I can really wrap around my mind. Work has been really sparce at the University, but thankfully I have some great late night convo to thrive on as well as the IVth Dark Tower book to complete. Business at the golf course has slowed drastically although the weather has been perfect all week, but that only means that I've been getting home earlier in the evening and then tossing and turning an extra half an hour while trying to capture some sleep before midnight when it's time to go back to work.

My friend Damon ordered tickets for the two of us to the Dimmu Borgir, Nevermore, Hypocrisy, and Children of Bodom show on December 6th in St. Louis. I traded an extra copy of the Enemies of Reality special edition release to him for mine. I'm going to try to talk him into going to the Slayer, Arch Enemy, and Hatebreed show in Indianapolis this November.

new cd's:
The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
Ion Dissonance - Breathing is Irrelevant
A Life Once Lost - The Fourth Plague
Goatsblood - Drull
Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day (bleh...it was free.)
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

on order:
Hall and Oates(!) - VH1 Behind the Music collection
Morbid Angel - Heretic
Winds - Reflection of the I + Of Entity and Mind

I finally picked up Neil Gaiman's American Gods as well the other day. I'm seeing his name and face pop up a lot in the media again with a new Sandman graphic novel on the horizon.

I'm amazed that with all the useless crap I've bought lately that I could budget a hearty $600 to send to the student loan leeches. I'm trying to pay those bad bitches off as soon as I can, and their minimum monthly payment hardly wavers the balance.

Meanwhile in Gotham, Fred Durst still sucks.

Comments

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

how's the new dimmu?
i'm going to see the slayer tour in detroit next month, the DB / Nevermore tour will be here as well...i think Nov-something.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

The new Dimmu is actually pretty neat and keen. I'm not too fond of anything prior to Puriticanal Misanthropic Euphoria, but they've toned down the cheese...mainly in the fake sounding synthesized orchestration. The guitar-work and drumming is pretty nice...but if you're looking for something REALLY good along similar lines (bm), I'd suggest that you check out Enslaved - Below the Lights. Shizzles dope, yo.

What're you doing in Detroit?

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

my sister lives in d-town so i'm going to hang with her for a few days, i'm there for 3 days and 2 nights out of that there are shows i want to go to....need to pick and choose i guess.
i agree w/ you on DB, I wasn't fond of anything before PME...look forward to hearing the new stuff.
BTW - i have a small stack of slip case promo's of things i've acquired over the last few years of stuff i'm not either into or i already had...interested in it? I'll just mail it out to you if you are...i don't remember what it all is...everything from Decapitated to Iced Earth to whatever.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Sure! If you like, then I'll swap some cdr's or something for them. I'll update my trade list, or if there's anything off hand that you'd like to hear that you know I posses then let me know.

I'll mail you my addy.

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

coolio!

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Holy hell...I'm never letting my trade list get that out-dated again.

I have it updated *HERE*<----THERE!

Let me know what I left off.

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

man, i tried doing tha tonce - i have too much crap.
i should do it though....

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Puritanical too.

[ssmt.livejournal.com]

American Gods is a great book. I really enjoyed that one. Glad that the FSOL CD got there safely!

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I'm really digging disc two. Is Iseness the newest album that you would recommend?

[ssmt.livejournal.com]

I've only listened to a few tracks from The Isness, but I've enjoyed them. It's a bit different from earlier releases, but still interesting. Dead Cities and ISDN are my other two favorites from FSOL.

[chizad.livejournal.com]

If I knew who any of those bands were, I'd say I'd hafta go to that show so I can finally meet your ass. St. Louis is only like an hour and a half away.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

If you like beisbol then we could meet up for a Cardinals game sometime next season. I'd like to go to Six Flags again sometime too.

[chizad.livejournal.com]

Six Flags would prolly be outta the question, since I'm not big on roller coasters. A Cardinals game would be doable at the beginning of the season, since I'm only gonna be here in Columbia for sure through May when I graduate.