Classic DF – 4/8/03

April 08, 2003: [•] US forces continue to pound the living daylights out of the now defunct Iraqi military. [•] Work has begun by US officials on getting an Iraqi government together that represents its citizens. [•] Meanwhile Iraqi “Information Minister” Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf continues to say that his forces are winning despite no one believing a word he says at this point. [•] Yahoo! has tweaked its search engine yet again in an attempt to become the choice search engine. [•] Infants breast fed require a Vitamin D supplement to prevent health issues. [•] A rose is a rose by any other name except when it shares the name of a terrorist. Then it is a suspect held at gun point and subjected to scrutiny. [•] A new antibiotic that fights pnuemonia and bronchitis is now showing strength in fighting anthrax. [•] IBM has literally run out of stock shares. So now what? [•] The product key for Windows Server 2003 has leaked onto the Internet. [•] Sun previews its new CPU code-named Jalapeno. Spicy! [•] Intel and Via have settled all outstanding lawsuits against each other. The result is Via can continue making chipsets and Intel gets a cut of the profits from them. [•] There is a security hole in the *NIX application called Samba. [•] The whole total home network thing doesn’t appeal to me. I mean I’ve had my web site hacked before and that was bad enough. I can only imagine having to re-mirror my entire house because someone hacked into my refrigerator through a buffer exploit, set my ice maker on high, and covered my floor in ice cubes. Then dropped the temperature in my apartment to 20° and froze my cats to the kitchen floor. Doh! [•] The Warwick School District budget is up 8% from last year and it looks like even an austerity budget won’t save residents an impending tax hike. [•] It’s time for some new music and here’s what came out today that’s worth buying: Autechre, Atari Teenage Riot, Johnny Cash, Fear Factory, Godsmack, Jay Z, and the X-ecutioners. [•] SARS is spread by cockroaches. [•] McDonald’s is going to start selling healthy food. Believe it or not that isn’t a joke. [•] A US air strike targeted Saddam Hussein may have killed the dictator though no one knows for sure right now. [•] US Forces found what appears to be the chemicals used to make Sarin gas. Further testing is being done, but if it comes back positive from a lab Iraq is in deep poop. [•] The Deftones have launched a club tour. [•] Staind is going to do three free shows to celebrate the release of their new album 14 Shades of Gray. Also, Meatloaf is launching his final world tour. [•] DJ Shadow says he’s only produced three tracks for Zach De La Rocha’s new album and the rest were produced by Trent Reznor. Very cool. [•] BMW has premiered its new 5-Series sedan at its latest German world headquarters press conference. I’m not quite sure if I like it or not. I’ll give this– it’s different. [•] Supposedly it’s Spring here in Southern New York State. All I have to say to that is; HAH!

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Classic DF – 1/11/01

Mermaid poised this: “I encourage everyone to make a “Desert Island” list. Readers of my site who have sites of their own, post it on yours. It will be interesting to see what everyone picks. The rules are simple. Given that you know you’ll be stranded on a Desert Island,.. if you could pick only 5 Albums that you could take to listen to for the rest of your life, what would they be? You can’t create mix tapes and CDs, they have to be legitimate albums. ”

5: Marilyn Manson: Antichrist Superstar – The resurrection of both Industrial and the concept album started here. Beautiful and scary at the time, the overall story is an intricate look at the down fall of a human by the fault of his own desires and needs. This is the model of the perfect concept album and lends itself to the story not only by word, but by texture and sound as well. I lived on this album for about a year on constant repeat in my stereo and played along till I knew every guitar note.

4: Deftones: Adrenaline – The first real metal album in years the Deftones blew up the 1995 rapcore scene way before Limp Bizkit ever appeared and they did right. The guitars mix perfectly with the shredded vocals, smooth bass lines, and break-beat drums. Chino Moreno is definitely one of the top vocalist of our music era. Very cool stuff. Every other nu-metal band wants to be them, but has no hope of ever coming close. Another album that I left on repeat for a year and learned every guitar note to.

3: Snapcase: Progression Through Unlearning – Real straight edge hard-core– If I had to name one band that fit that bill it would be Snapcase. When I saw them perform live I was beyond impressed and couldn’t help, but be drawn in. The album describes perfectly how society has become a lazy drug ridden and addicted mass that owes its life to poison breeding corporations full of greed. The truth has never been so apparent and perfectly spoken before.

2: Tool: Aenima – If I could take everything I liked about my previous three choices and combine it into one album without breaking the no compilation/mix tape rule it would be this album. Tool is simply the best groove based hard rock band on the face of the planet. Their songs have real meanings and themes like a concept album, but aren’t limited to one direct idea. They are hard like metal, but at the same time able to create soft beautiful melodies. They are aggressive like hard-core, but introspective like industrial. From the whooshing stacked chords of Stink Fist to the Satanic sounding spaghetti recipe Die Eier Von Satan and the last roar of Third Eye you can’t find another album that combines and breaks every music genre better. Brilliant.

1: Nine Inch Nails: Fragile – One hundred and two minutes of bliss. Sonically much softer then his previous work Trent Reznor has managed to create an album that isn’t easy to swallow in one sitting. It literally takes hours of listening and introspective reading of the lyrics book to begin to comprehend the time, as well as, passion put into this double album. Every portion, note, texture, sound, lyric, and graphic in the entire package has been obsessively looked at. Every single moment has a meaning. The feeling can be felt in the air around you as you listen to it. Fragile manages to prove that sometimes the loudest sound is the one that isn’t said at all.

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