Aggro Femme

This is the first album in a LONG TIME that I can listen to straight through, and the cover art looks like something Stephen Gammell would do. Google him and look at his stuff. He illustrated a book called Scary Stories, which I own, and it is good.

Anyway, I think my favorite song is Roadside.

**Edit**

So Amazon.com classifies Rise Against as “alienation rock,” whatever that means. I think I’d go with hardcore punk, but I’m sure all you musical genre nazis out there have a seven word compound for whatever you think they sound like. (I don’t go in for that multi-prefixed genre labeling.) And I liked “The Sufferer and the Witness” so much that I went out and bought “Siren Song of the Counter Culture” after John F. told me about “Swing Life Away” (which I remember hearing on the radio now that I’ve heard it again. It’s okay, but I prefer the ballad [Roadside] on Sufferer rather than “Swing Life Away”). “Siren Song” is rougher, and Tim McIlrath’s (lead singer) voice is more gravelly. I’ve listened to the Sufferer several times through already, so maybe I’ll post another edit once I’ve done the same with Siren Song.

“The Sufferer and the Witness”
1 - SUCK!
2 - I guess I should at least finish it…
3 - I kinda liked this one.
4 - Love it!
5 - One of my favorites of all time.

5 out of 5. w00t!

“Siren Song of the Counter Culture”
1 - SUCK!
2 - I guess I should at least finish it…
3 - I kinda liked this one.
4 - Love it!
5 - One of my favorites of all time.

Forthcoming.

This stuff is awesome. Dark, surrealist, gothic, definitely for me.

Erlend Mork

Digital Apocalypse/Chad Michael Ward

Amelies Welt

Apparently, all Chuck Palahniuk books are the same. Largely deprived, with the main character spending the entire book getting knots in his rope and the last two to three chapters somehow magically unraveling them. Several characters and incidents aren’t what you think they are until the end. Still several thought provoking one liners, though. By this point I’m tired of Palahniuk books, so I give it 2 out of 5.

1 - SUCK!
2 - I guess I should at least finish it…
3 - I kinda liked this one.
4 - Love it!
5 - One of my favorites of all time.

I’m reading books that I’ve bought but allowed to collect dust until I can find/afford Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently books. I’ll probably start a Kathy Reichs book, Deja Dead, until I can get to the library, or until my next check.

I am going to return to speaking my mind without much forethought whatsoever. I hope I get over the reaping what you sow phase soon though, and become able to roll with the punches I throw.

You’ve been warned. ^.^

If you’ll excuse me, I have to find out how to get all these feet in my mouth. Man I hate that idiom…