Gone with the Hurricane

I have just recovered sufficiently to write cohesively. (I think. I may not have. Tell me if I haven't. If you understand this.) I have been blown away by two things very key to my life as a whole: technology and music. I just downloaded a music video by Evanescence: Going Under (live), loaded it onto my iPod, plugged my iPod into my guitar amp, turned the lights off, turned the volume up, and watched it. I can't believe the resolution on the iPod video! crystal clear! the pixels on the screen are tiny! It is phenomenal! Beautiful! The color range and precision! Gorgeous! And the music? Amazing. This is one of my favorite bands (obviously, as it is the same band I have posted at the moment) and they have done some very nice things to their music. While the recording wasn't as clear as I have heard in the beginning of the song, it does clear up a bit. Downs of the song include the fact that Amy Lee's normally crystal clear voice is distorted as if by pain in the second verse, and is almost totally wiped out in the first verse by the recording and the distortion used, but in the third verse it is back to the standards I have come to know and admire in that band. Ups include many things. They finally added a guitar riff to the song! Very cool. Also, the synth work in the background adds a new level to the complexity of the song, meshing the intense guitar perfectly with the rest of the music, giving the song a unity that it didn't have before. My congratulations and thanks go out to Apple and Evanescence for the very high high I just had.

Reponsibility

Blah. In next to no time at all I shall be 18 and shall have to bear up under governmental irritations such as taxes and the draft, and get sent off to Iraq and shot for all I'm worth! I still don't have a drivers license... I wonder how much longer that will last. Hopefully another six months at least. Ah well, birthdays aren't all evil: I got a music stand! And a musheda! Tallesin will recall how wonderful those can be from our travels to far off exotic islands... This one is really nice: its blue, very dark blue, and has gold colored stitching in it. Its wool too, so it should be nice and warm on airplanes and such. I like it a lot. Anyway, I finally noticed that the song wasn't all the way loaded, so I fixed that. (I hope.) It is Sweet Sacrifice by Evanescence on the album The Open Door.