I wish a most happy holiday season upon you all. I am having a great night trying out a slightly new look. Which can totally look festive and jolly for the occasion too.
Right, following up on the last entry, I guess I figured out the gender identity thing to some degree. Which means that I will now identify as female. Again, I spoke about it in detail on my Tumblr, but ultimately I am now ready to be myself and this is the first step towards that. So that's nice, I guess.
It's been a long time since I used the blog, eh? Might as well do a little life update thingy, as it's been a strange month or two for me. Right now I am approaching two months of having worked in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, which is pretty far from home. It's a job for an Austrian company, which looks like it will last around half a year. I'll occasionally fly back home to London for holidays and stuff, but for the most part I'll be living here, which has been pretty interesting. It's nice to
Time for an updated Ghost in the Shell collection post, now that I have all the new Arise stuff. We have the DVDs: Ghost in the Shell / Innocence / Ghost in the Shell 2.0 boxset Stand Alone Complex 1st GIG boxset Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG boxset Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man Stand Alone Complex - Individual Eleven Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Borders 1 & 2 Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Borders 3 & 4 Ghost in the Shell: The New Movi
15 - Asia, Urban Dance and Warpath by Boris I'm going to treat these three albums as one for the purposes of this list, just to make it easier. Which should be fine, since they were released at the same time, and are obviously meant to be part of the same trilogy. They released a pretty big album last year, so for the most part this is just Boris relaxing a bit and doing some noise and drone rather than writing songs, and as usual, doing it very well. Usually one probably wouldn't describe
Well, my laptop might be screwed, which would be rather unfortunate. And just as I started to get a bit more back into gaming too. For those curious, basically I restarted it last night, and then it simply failed to boot up. It would get to the welcome screen, flash blue and restart again. If I try doing start up repair, it gets stuck on a black screen with a movable cursor and nothing else. After lots of Googling, didn't really find all that much. As you might be able to guess, start up repai
Been a while since one of these music collection updates. Received the new Paradise Lost live album on vinyl + DVD today, and it's quite nice: Really looking forward to giving it a listen/watch later. The first half of it is done with an orchestra and seems fantastic from the teasers.
It's time for an updated Emilie Autumn collection post, since I recently made a few acquisitions: On the left we have the albums: Enchant Opheliac (The Deluxe Edition) Laced/Unlaced (Limited edition digibook, limited to 2000 copies) Fight Like a Girl And on the right we have the compilation and EPs: A Bit o' This & That (Limited edition digibook, limited to 3000 copies) Liar/Dead Is the New Alive EP (Limited edition digipak, limited to 3000 copies) 4 o'Clock EP (Limited edition di
Note that the friend in question is the guitar, not the cat. Cat's been here for a few years already. She does love the guitar bag though. But yes, I have this guitar now. Which is exciting. I've still got a couple pieces of equipment to arrive in the post in the next couple of days, but then I'll be all good to go and start failing at playing it. Here's a slightly better picture as well. As it turns out, black guitars are not great for taking pictures of in the night with a phone.
Well, here is my recently completed Björk collection: ^Click for a bigger picture Debut Post Homogenic Selmasongs: Music from Dancer in the Dark Vespertine Medúlla The Music from Drawing Restraint 9 Volta Biophilia Vulnicura Got to say I'm not overly fond her newest album, but I love pretty much all of the other main albums, especially Post and Debut.
It's been a while since my last music collection post, so here's my recently completed collection of Rage Against the Machine related stuff: ^Click for a slightly bigger picture So, here's what we have, going left to right: The special edition 20th anniversary reissue of the self-titled album. Rage Against the Machine stuff consisting of: Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire The Battle of Los Angeles Renegades Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium Bulls on Parade single Guerrilla Radio s
I've spoken enough about how much I hate those barcode stickers that get put on new CDs from the US, so here's another pet peeve I was reminded of today: It's rare, but every once in a while when I order a used CD online I'll get something like this. I don't know if I even want to commit the effort to trying to remove that cleanly. I takes a bit of the joy out of the purchase. I know it's not the seller's fault. It's the fault of some record store employee who decided to put a sticker st
Received my copy of the 20th anniversary reissue of Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse today. One of the most well regarded and influential black metal albums, and for very good reason. That cover art is so good. It's a 2 CD package, with the first disc containing the remastered album, and the second containing a previously unreleased alternative mix of the album, along with a few rare tracks from EPs and demos they did around the time. This is also a good excuse to show off my collectio
Hey, something that actually merits a blog entry. Gonna have a bit of a spontaneous trip to Paris for New Year, because why not I guess. I'll be leaving tomorrow morning, and staying for about five days. It'll be really nice to get away from everything for a short while before my January exams start. Really not looking forward to those, I'll admit. Not sure what the internet situation will be like, but hopefully I'll get some access. I'd like not to be too late with my albums of the year li
Recently acquired a copy of the second volume of the Ghost in the Shell manga, so now I have this little collection: DVDs: Ghost in the Shell and Innocence boxset (plus the Ghost in the Shell 2.0 remaster of the original movie); Stand Alone Complex 1st GIG boxset; Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG boxset; Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man; Stand Alone Complex: Individual Eleven; Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society Manga: Ghost in the Shell; Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface; Gh
Having done my last exam a couple of days ago, I have now finished my second year of university, which feels pretty good. The exam in question was really nasty, and I don't think I did very well on it. Still, I doubt it was bad enough to not even pass, and my assignments were good, so that will bump the grade up. This year hasn't been anywhere near as good as the last. It's been really stressful and I'm glad it's finally over. It feels really nice to be able to relax guilt-free for a while and I
Before I do my top albums list, I thought I'd give a quick mention to some albums that didn't quite make it, but still deserve to be recognised: Kveikur by Sigur Rós - A beautiful post-rock album with hints of dream-pop and a rather dark and foreboding atmosphere which makes for a pretty interesting listen. Sunbather by Deafheaven - A fantastic cross between shoegaze and black metal that pulls you in and doesn't let go until the album ends. Seesaw by Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - The s
Well, I'm officially 20 years old as of about an hour ago. 20 is a nice number and all, but obviously it just goes downhill after 18 because this song doesn't fit anymore: http://youtu.be/vMCyX0P_dGE
Well, after a couple of days of unpacking we're starting to settle into the new house. My room is pretty much done now, although not that it matters much anyway, since in just over a month I'll be packing my things up again for university. Still, just need to unpack a few more things and hang up some posters and it'll be set. It's a fair bit smaller than my room in the old house, but again it doesn't really matter as I won't be spending much time here once I'm back at university. Took some pi
Well, I thought I'd share an album I recently discovered and am loving: Hadal by Velcra. Velcra made some great industrial metal with their first two albums, but the fantastic third album Hadal is more of a combination of industrial rock, electronic and trip hop. I almost want to say that it's like a heavier, industrial version of Portishead.
Unfortunately, I am completely unable to find a copy of the album for sale anywhere. The best I could find was the MP3 download on Amazon, but no s
Well, tomorrow morning I'll be moving out of my university accommodation and back home to London for the summer. I guess I'll kinda miss this room, even if it's not all that great, and thus I decided to take a few pictures of it before I started packing my things: [1] [2] [3] [4]
So, I watched all four seasons of Community over the past few days. Now that that's done, I'm not really sure what to do with my life anymore. At least until season 5 starts.
Just finished my last exam, and so my first year at university comes to an end. It's been a fun year and I enjoyed it. Met lots of new people and made some new friends, although with us all being from different parts of the country, I probably won't see many of them over the summer. Not sure when I'll go back home to London, but I'll probably stay here for another week or so. My lease doesn't end until the 23rd, so might as well make some use of it. I'm not entirely sure if School's Out by Ali
