God put a smile upon your face

Yeah, it's been a while, I know. I've had a lot of weird stuff going on in my personal life that I don't really want to elaborate on, so I'll just sum up 6 months in a few points: 1) Fell out with friends 2) Bleached hair blonde 3) Had really short relationship with someone who later admitted she was using me the whole time 4) Fell out with friends more 5) Spent more time trying to improve myself so I could attempt to rebuild friendships 6) Dyed hair brown again 7) Some dickhat I used to be friends with made gay jokes, and when I told him to grow up, accused me of calling him a bad father 8) The burnt bridges with friends? Yeah, basically they got firebombed from both sides 9) Found some friends that don't suffer from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder 10) Found a Girlfriend who isn't a total bitch, happiness restored. So, yeah. That was a weird few months.

4 man house LAN

So, if you know me in reallife, you'll know i'm a gamer. Today for the first time me and my friend set up 4 computers at his house. Sure, most of the weekend we played League of Legends, and mostly lost due to a dodgy net connection, but we had fun doing it.

27

Amy Winehouse's death is quite tragic. No matter how many drugs she was on, or if she was killed by withdrawal for that matter, it's just sad that someone died at such a young age. Yet, it's so common among musicians...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

Look at that page, it's unbelievable how many musicians die aged 27. I'm a musician myself and I really don't want to die aged 27. I'm 18, so that would be two-thirds of my life gone already. What have I done with them? Nothing. By the time Amy Winehouse was my age, she'd been performing for 4 years.

Don't remember her as a drug addict, just remember her as someone who died way too young.

Sorry

Sorry for everything.

Sorry that I constantly left the house a mess.
Sorry I rarely cooked for us.
Sorry for yelling at you when I didn't wake up in the morning.
Sorry for staying up until 4 am, then not waking up until 2 pm.

Sorry I never told you that I love you, unless you asked.
Sorry I never picked anything up, unless you asked.
Sorry I felt the need to insult Jeff whenever there was an opportunity.
Sorry I never realised how badly I was treating you.

I guess, sorry for being the person I've always been, and not realising that I needed to change.

Sorry for everything.

Music Critic: Lostprophets - The Betrayed

Yeah, I know it's been out a while, but I'm reviewing it anyway. I have the version with the bonus tracks on it.

Track 1: If it wasn't for hate...
This is just an intro, but it's not bad.

6/10

2: Dstryr/Dstryr
Weird, in the same year, both Lostprophets and MCR release an album track with the word "Destroyer" being spelled badly...

Anyway, this is a really good song. The guitar riff at the start flows well from the last song, the chorus is great and the lyrics actually make a song. My only gripe is the verse vocals sounding like Ian Watkins is whispering, but trying to shout at the same time. The end of the song sounds a lot like Bulls on Parade, and also flows perfectly into...

8/10

3: It's not the end of the world, but I can see it from here.
Okay seriously, quit it with the long titles.

Opening riff is great, I'm really liking how dark this album sounds. Ian is actually singing the verse to this one. Good. Song sounds perfect, but what's the point of having an interlude if you're just going to repeat the chorus again?

8/10

4: Where We Belong
Clearly they were listening to U2 when they wrote the start of this song.

Yep, he actually did the same "hoooooo" from With or Without You. I don't care, I love that song. I mean, I love Shadow of the Day and that's pretty much a blatant ripoff, this sounds more like a tribute to U2.

Weird, the structure of this song gives it 2 parts, that could be considered a chorus, and the end is them being sung over eachother. I like it.

7/10

5:Next stop Atro City
I only just got the joke in the title.

Oh god, the scream/whisper is back. This one's a lowlight. Just because the word Atrocity is in the song title, doesn't mean you have to shout it randomly.

1/10

6:For He's a Jolly Good Felon
Weak weak WEAK title joke.


They started playing this song live in 2006, surely they had time since then to rework it/not phone in the album tracks? I'll admit though, I really like the chorus.

After the main part of this song finishes, there's a 2 minute long interlude, which could probably go to replacing the entire song.

7: AC Ricochet
Lostprophets doing a heavy metal song? Nice. This is their heaviest song since Shinobi. I think that the last 2 songs must have deliberately been awful so they could hightlight how good this one is. Weirdest thing is, this is only actually on the special edition of the album.

My rating?


8:A Better Nothing
I think they must have been trolling with tracks 5 and 6, because these last 2 sell the album on their own. This sounds perfect. If you can make songs of this quality, then stop dropping turds like those other 2.

9/10

9: Streets of Nowhere
So now we have a U2 tribute and a Jam tribute? Prohets really know their musical history. This sounds like A Town Called Malice for the modern generation.

10: Dirty Little Heart
Notbad/10 Ends with another long interlude

11: Sunshine

OK, clearly they've had an argument with the producers that ended with them getting to spread the good songs out, rather than placing them all at the start (Killers, I'm looking in your direction)

I'm really loving the lead guitar's sound on this album. Whatever effect he's using, I NEED to get it.

12: Darkest Blue
See what I mean? this is the second to last song, and it's almost as good as AC Ricochet. Probably the only actually cheery sounding song on this album. This is good, because the last album was absolutely full of them.

13: The Light that Burns Twice as Bright...
...burns 20 minutes long?

Okay, I'll try to listen, but I'm not making any promises.

After about 5 minutes, the song starts being taken over by a robot repeatedly saying "fail", and then stops completely after 6.

*fast forwards*

Okay, it's now 11 minutes in, and some synth stuff has started, but the robot is back too. This gradually turns into something that reminds me of Coma White, and it sounds really sweet, but it then fades into some 90s trip hop. Oookay? Random. Then there's some piano music, so I'm guessing this is just 10 minutes of them being bored.

Don't really know what to say about that song, apart from that it is followed on my Media Player by Shinobi, and they flow surprisingly well.

Overall Rating: 7/10. There were some really good songs on there, but they're let down by the crap.

I'm not an armchair politician, I'd need an armchair or that.

Jeremy Grave isn't my real name, but I'm using it for privacy purposes.

I got Jeremy from the Pearl Jam song of the same name, and I got Grave from the evil organisation in Megaman EXE (I was a big fan as a kid, it just kinda stuck).

My political views are quite liberal, but I'll vote for the person who's full of the least crap (eg, I don't trust anyone with the names Blair, Bush or Brown after the debacle that was Iraq. I'm for abortion, but that doesn't mean you should be an idiot and forget birth control. I'm for legalisation of cannabis, but that doesn't mean I think people should be high all the time.

I live in a nowhere town, in a nowhere county, and I get payed $85 a week to help me try and find a job. It sucks, but so does life.