Time To Celebrate The Ending Of 2013 And The Beginning Of 2014... Pt. I of II (Possibly, III) · 10:38am Jan 1st, 2014
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Oh yeah, I just make random numbers when I'm dreaming. Yes its....odd. In terms, but look at it as something like walking in a park because you are just gazing away and dreaming about your future. This is my way of dreaming, just plucking in random numbers.
If I ever make an ambient album like "The Seer" or "Soundtracks for the Blind" by the Swans. I will make it with long songs, I mean long songs. Very long sometimes clocking in at 20:00 - 70:00 minutes long. Just straight drone and ambient with harmonics, fiddles, bag pipes, bass guitars, drums, guitars, trombones and many numerous items colliding together to form some epic masterpiece. I was always craving that long, sludge, dark, muddled, somber path that I only ever found through Mad Season and somewhat Alice In Chains because I was always hesitant and very stubborn with my music on how far I can take it. But this guy Dark Avengers showed me the path of light and now I have him to thank for making me find that magnificent consistent sound of noise that bleeds terror and distraught. Though the Burning World doesn't necessarily bring that inner strickened primal form of anger that craves insanity like Cop or Children Of God. I'm referencing to the Swans so sorry if you don't get the terms like Children Of God. To be honest the Burning World only played itself fully once. I never bothered after that because the sound is so different but a few gems I like and loved were God Damn the Sun and Saved. I Can't Find My Home and Let It Come Down were good also, even See No More. But the album itself doesn't cut it for me.
Now that I'm done talking about the Swans I'm going to be talking about other things.
2013 brought out some damn good music and some nasty music. Lets take a look:
Trivium's Vengeance Falls was an atrocious pile of shit. Nah, man. I kid. It wasn't my favorite by far, so a pile of shit does have to cling on just because that album doesn't have that thrash metal sound like their previous releases. It gets a 7/10. My favorite songs were Brave This Storm, At The End Of This War, Strife, Vengeance Falls and To Believe. I'm going to be honest that I can give intellectual reviews if I so choose, but I don't want to add additional words than I already need to. If you think its an excuse I'll give you a snippet of something I would usually discuss for an album. The production by Colin Richardson wasn't bad if you like the sound but there is no dynamic range real or perceived. Even the more relaxed songs have no more than -4dB RMS. The loudness war is perhaps one of the most agonizing things in music in recent years. I initially loved Death Magnetic by Metallica when it came out because it helped me go through emotional difficulty back in 2008 when I was 11 at the time. But fast forward five years later and I honestly don't like the sound anymore. I can listen to the songs and I'm fine with that aspect in mind, but the production is the vital point in the whole loudness war shindig since the mid-2000's. Search up the loudness war if you don't grasp the meaning.
Stone Sour's House Of Gold & Bones Pt. II. This album disappointed me and I'm gravely annoyed by how Pt. I reeled me in as a fan a year earlier to only let the second part plunder me back into the drawing boards for new music to indulge. Stone Sour, I will never have that appreciation for you unlike like Slipknot. As biased as that sounds, its true. Frick off Stone Sour, I pirated all your albums and only Pt. I gave me the satisfaction while Audio Secrecy had some moments, I won't lie. But overall - nothing. Just nothing and I don't want to really get into this band anymore. For all of you that reads this and only likes that mainstream music, this band is pure mainstream with some pop musical highlights so go for it. I'm done with them. 5/10.
Sevendust's Black Out The Sun. The album honestly gave me goosebumps but when it finally came out I just didn't care enough to listen to it fully. To date I only like their Alpha record and a couple songs off of two other albums. 6.5/10.
Avenged Sevenfold's Hail To The King was solid in what they were going for just like the other bands were but this in particular was good. The band set out for what they wanted and I'm proud. I love how Trivium went to find their sound but I don't see myself enjoying their music after The Crusade and Shogun. I only got into Avenged Sevenfold because I looked up on information that pertained Machine Head's vocalist Robb Flynn bashing Avenged Sevenfold's new release as a covers album. 7/10.
Phil Anselmo and the Illegals Walk Through Exits Only. This release in particular brought some raised eyebrows and I didn't like it all that much because it sounded longer than the minutes each song was provided with. Only about roughly two weeks ago I finally found love for this record and now I can honestly say that I understand where Phil Anselmo was going with this release and I'm one step with him all the way. 9/10.
Alice In Chains' The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here. Finally the release I wanted to get done and over with the most. This release was accomplished and it done justice to my ears. I liked it but I noticed how in gear they are starting to sound with Jerry Cantrell's full direction and leadership. He had it always but Layne threw his two cents worth and they were into drugs during the nineties. The songs are good but I can see how people seem to think its becoming repetitive with Jerry's writing and I can honestly feel that. The songs itself are great, fine. But your not supposed to make an album twice and they don't do that but they sound to me like they don't necessarily want to stray away from their new-found power. And that's fine, but don't make a habit of it. Because the production is almost the same and the direction is close to what their 2009 effort stored in for us. 8/10.
Now were done with music and might I say that Alice In Chains and Trivium were the two bands that kept me in tow throughout 2013 and to see what they released was modest but shameful. Yet I knew full well because the direction they endured on their 2009 and 2011 releases proved it. I just wished they hadn't gone through with it though. Come on! Djent is annoying and Trivium are using every tactic to sound like it and that Stoner/Sludge Metal stuff on Alice In Chains Reformed is sounding ever similar.
2013 in everything else.
Well I got into a few things this year and let me tell you some of them:
From top to bottom here it is.
My first drug experience - I know I say I like drugs and all that but I'm no guy that is constantly looking to get away. I like drugs and so I keep saying but let me finish. I like them and they are fun to do and my first high was something let me tell you: My friends and I were camping at my grandpa's because he was away in Edmonton for about a week, so my friend Justin and Brandon decided to camp while I and my friend Damon originally were staying there as house sitting and me and him didn't do drugs or anything like that and though we aspired to try it (particularly me, Damon was more of a drinker and he liked alcohol) *I'm sorry you didn't know Dalton* Damon doesn't like Justin. Never has because Justin did awful things to the guy like beat him up and stick things up his ass. That sounds very wrong and I get it, it does. But he didn't literally do it, he would just anything in my room and use it as a weapon when Damon was living with me and would beat the shit out of the boy. I usually just watched because a part of me liked it and yes I did, oh boy did I love it. But a part of me knew why it had to be done because, and I'll explain this in my Whatever Happened To Friendship...? story. Damon was a fucking dumb idiot sometimes and both him and I knew he did it for a laugh and to be brought into our group i.e. my friends and I. We all genuinely love the guy except Dalton and Justin. But hassling Damon was our way of approaching him because its all we ever knew when communicating with him. He's a great guy and he is my best friend and the closest thing to what I have as a brother in real life. Me and him are tight as friends and nothing's going to break that bond. I'll explain it all in my self-insert story and yes, its been done. But from what people say i.e. Rotorix, the narrative is quite good. And I'm making changes still because the story has to be perfect.
Anyway's Justin was camping over for a couple nights and Damon hated it. He fucking hated it all the way through. Justin got prissy and invited Brandon without my consent. So he came over and I told him that I was going to be meeting with an old acquainted of mine and my other best friend Graham so we can get high and Damon was proud that I was finally going to experience drugs and I was proud that he was happy that me and him got to have our first beer together. Together and not our first time literally. I'm just going to say that we had experiences at different places at different times. The problem was that when we left I forgot to mention to Damon that Graham might not want him there and also, Graham doesn't like Damon either. Damon tagged along and Graham was annoyed the whole way. He didn't want him and I tried hushing him away but I needed Damon because he was my confidence man. Graham use to hang with Marcus and they go way back but somewhere during grade 7 I no longer qualified as Marcus's friend and me and him were friends since we were five years old. We were mates and now we were at odds because both of us are still afraid to approach each other as old pals. Graham didn't want Damon because of Marcus's seeing and Marcus didn't want Damon because he was a little kid. You know I'll explain that in my HiE story just so you'll understand my friends and boy its going to be funny. Graham and Marcus kept texting each other throughout our walk to the center of town. For some reason he wanted us to meet him there, I don't know why. They were both replying to how they needed to get rid of Damon because he was going to be a hassle and here's my opinion to that. (A how the hell was he going to be a problem besides him being years younger than us. (B the guy has done stuff before and he got into far sicker shit than I have been. Lets just say that he could've been a crack addict had he been with his other friend when he was living in Peace River *Oh Dalton, Dalton you better not fucking tell*. What happened was that Marcus eventually showed up and much to Graham's dismay about Damon staying because Damon was stubborn in that and I'm so happy he stayed. Marcus rolled his eyes and was fine after that. Him and us battled on how my Dad would be leaving for work at 11:00 PM because it was like 9:50 when he found Marcus after we saw him cruising with his long board past the post-office. We were about to head back but Marcus insisted on how we had to get high with him and I was a nervous wreck the whole way. Trying to say the right thing but eventually everything smoothed out and we were soon talking like we were kids again. Just pure friendship. Something that I missed about Marcus and I. Graham was talking to him and he was sounding like they were buddies everyday, all day. But I'll get to that later in my HiE story.
Damon was trying to talk but we all kept shoving him out and we soon got Marcus's grandma's house and holy fuck this was it I thought. My dad would find me and I would be dead, but to no avail that didn't happened and he soon let us into his little shack he had in the back of their yard. The place was dark and the light was peeking out from the sun. What was left of it I mean, the room was dark and bees were trying to get in so Marcus had to use a bug zapper I think. The smell littered with weed and he had this home made bong from a sprite 2L bottle and he started getting the shit together while we all impatiently waited. I wanted to get high but I didn't want to leave just as my dad left because he was working nights and since it wasn't snowing anymore he was more obligated to patrol houses since his job was patrolling college houses and campus. He has three jobs and he works a lot, so I can respect why he would be grumpy sometimes. Graham paid Marcus $20 for another gram of the stuff the next day, though I'm not sure if he ever got his money's worth. Marcus had this bottle of water right beside him on the table and we all were sitting down when we did this by the way. The water was there because we all were going to be doing lung and lung fucking hurts. It hurts and its a bitch afterwards. Marcus took a long hit and he started coughing a little bit, not as much as the rest of us. Graham took the second hit after Marcus loaded up the second batch. He was trying his darnedest to not burn his fingers in the process with his lighter. Graham took a long hit and was making some weird swooshing noise with his mouth. Marcus didn't tell us but he sprinkled it with angel dust so we got really fucking high, jk. No but after that he asked me if it was my first time and I said partially because Graham and I had two shitty experiences previously together. I was really eager to get stoned so I said yes and he said when I sucked up the smoke from the bottle, I had blow the air out of my lungs first for the drugs to take effect and be efficient. I did that he said with his raspy voice, "Take the hit man!" so I went down and did what he told me and I sucked a big one, but apparently I did a small amount because I didn't suck hard enough on the bottle. So I coughed, wheezed and spit into the garbage between my legs and I was supposed to be the smoke inside my body for about 5 - 10 seconds after smoking. I fortunately did that and at first I didn't feel anything but they all glowed and looked at me with a twinkle in their eyes and said. "Don't worry man, it'll come." Graham was smirking the whole time and Damon was nudging me because he wanted to see the results. Graham had stood up previously to see if the stuff was working and him and Marcus bickered over it for a moment or two. They told me to stand up so I did and nothing happened. Damon said he wanted one and Graham disagreed, but Marcus said okay. It surprised me because maybe the high was making Marcus's previous thoughts delirious since he was now sharing his weed with Damon. Damon went in and followed the rules and he sucked an even smaller dose of the sensational drug. Damon lowered his head in disappointment and that was when, or I think I was sitting down...Yeah I was sitting down when Damon smoked before I got up.
I got up and I didn't feel anything different. But I noticed that Graham and Marcus were suddenly saying, "Huh" to each other more frequently than say ten minutes earlier...
It took me a second before I realized that they were asking me something and I was to busying thinking of something. I said, "Huh" and that was it.
I was finally high.
I just want to say before I continue this story that Graham told me months afterwards that I was between really stoned that I couldn't speak to being just mildly high.
Soon Marcuse started playing XYLXLO, or whatever the song goes by and there is not a song that made me feel more trippier than that. I wanted slowly descending with the music that I almost fell back because the music was rocking me back and forth like a boat, like Titanic man. Marcus was like, "Whoa! man are you alright?"
I said, "Yeah, man...yeah."
Damon was saying stuff like I was finally high and then Graham flipped out and said we had to leave and I agreed with him. We soon left after Marcus kept procrastinating and said he had to show us something. Graham said, "No Marcus we got to go. Enough with the wait shit, dude. Jeremy's dad is going to find out."
We left and that was when my high first hit me. I started walking and everything felt harder, very harder. I felt like I was walking a big stressful hill. We head to the pavement and Graham fucking decided to turn left. LEFT! FUCKING LEFT! You don't understand that we had a straight ahead beeline for the house aside the fact that we had to turn left then right before we got on the street were supposed to be on. It was about ten something at night and we were across town an from where we were. We were at least 2 miles from my Grandpa's house, depending on which direction you went and we took the long direction where we instead had to cross 14 different streets instead of passing a minimum of three streets. I was bugging Damon throughout and telling that I was high and he was always saying yeah you are. He started quizzing me questions on my experience and I kept telling him to fuck off. I also kept badgering Graham on his illogical approach when retreating to my Grandpa's house. He later told me that he was trying to play the scene off of Saving Private Ryan and I don't know if I can ever honestly believe that. We ended up back in the house after what felt like forever in walking and I immediately went for the couch and I kept laughing for some reason because my landing felt so good that I couldn't describe the feeling besides good. I was sweating like a pig from that walking and Damon was getting hassled by his old/current/old girlfriend down the street just before we got in. Justin was extra giddy and Brandon was in fucking shock. He was just floored on how we got high. Graham kept telling them that we weren't high and then Justin started asking me and I just said that we weren't while struggling to keep a straight face. I had this big blanket over me so they couldn't see my face. Graham wanted me to play games and I told him later on and we never did together. Damon was in complete flux about food and he was eating old cake from the fridge, old yogurt, old butter. The guy just went fucking banana's for food, no pun intended. That was what made him become less high after about forty minutes.
In the end of it all. I'm sorry the story is cut short, but I have to make this brief.
No! Fuck that. I'm going to continue it later one. Don't worry, for the 2013 Pt. I and Pt. II mini blog saga shall be commenced and completed later on today. I started this about 12: 30 AM and its 3:35 AM now. So I'm going to have a good shower and I'll finish the story plus extras in a while, so see ya!
Also, I really wanted to make this a long blog, so sorry it was cut short and I'm giving this story a more brief luxury for the HiE story.
Mother of god, this blog's length... how do you have the patiance to write so much?
Looking later to the other posts, though.
O woweee you have smart happy news old month day happy good bye 2013 bye hey 2014 wow hey look superdupercharger yay new year bands
Bro..... the fack did i just read?
Mad Season + Alice In Chains = Layne Staley Best Pone
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Huh? Was that a compliment.
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Hey man! I'll be fixing the edits today and I'm surprised, I mean surprised you know Mad Season. I was glad someone caught on to that band!
Oh and hehe, sorry if the blog was too long.
1672807 It's fine i like to know more bout ya creepy
OFCOURSE i know who Mad Season is son!!!
Wake Up -
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Yeah man. I'm sorry its too long, really I am. I just decided that I might as well use this as an excuse to post my 2013 best moments or at least, the most memorable ones.
Patience? Man, I don't know really. When I'm interested in writing something like this. I intend to just write, especially if I remember the details clearly that is. The patience began to wear off midway for the story so that is why I cut it short. I was pretty frustrated that I didn't get to take a shower at that point.
Glad you are looking forward to Part. II
All the best, friend.
1672797 It was something
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Hey man, it ain't creepy. Its only creepy if you perceive to be as such.
Wake Up was a sad one.
Personally though, I like River Of Deceit, I'm Above, Artificial Red, Long Gone Day and All Alone.
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Alright then.
1673038 I agree with all those ESPECIALLY Long Gone Day
Mark Lanegan
You n u too
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I am Mr Fucking Grimdark