Songs Passed:
58 of 58

2-Stars:
58 of 58

3-Stars:
58 of 58

4-Stars:
58 of 58

5-Stars:
56 of 58

6-Stars:
30 of 58

100%:
10 of 58

Total Score:
8,014,652

Overall Rank:
800th

Heck. Yes.

Just gotta get that FC count higher.  I’ve got 17 counting DLC tho. 54 DLC 5G*.  How indecipherable is that if you dont scorehero?  FULL COMBO DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT FIVE GOLD STARS.

Anyway 8mil is a nice score I am pretty satisfied with 8,000,000.  Next step is 9mil >:]

There is no way i am getting nine million before school.  I’m pretty sure that entails FCing the setlist with bad pathing.

Although when it comes down to it, Rock Band scoregrinding is an allegory.  Much as I spent several hours yesterday playing Train Kept A Rollin’ and Run to the Hills, do we not, as members of the church, spend several hours grinding our callings?  Maybe we should take time out to reflect back on what needs to be done and think of creative ways to get it done.  I gained 25,000 points playing those two songs and I was still 50,000 away from my target goal. But then I sat down and I gave it a think.  It occurred to me: try an easier song from a different angle.  At first I thought it would be useless. I surely must have milked all the potential points from these low tier tracks.  But sure enough I booted up Seven, and bang quick scored 75,000 points higher than my recorded best.  But wait, how does that apply to my calling? Let’s say that this month you are lagging behind on your home teaching.  You keep calling to make an appointment but you and your family’s schedules always seem to clash.  Remember that your responsibility as a home teacher isn’t that of a lecturer! Maybe you and your companion can bake up a small plate of cookies or lemon bars and leave them at your family’s doorstep with a little note.  Inside the note, leave an inspirational scripture along with a message assuring them that, no matter what, they can always contact you!  Remember to leave your names and phone numbers, lest they forget ;-]

Okay so I uh got the discographies of Tarkio, In Flames, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, and Turisas.  I was listening to a lot of Eluveitie and thought “hmm maybe I can listen to some bands that are similar.”  They toured with Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, and Turisas on Paganfest I think.  I got In Flames because the comment thread on last.fm said Eluveitie is really Gothenburg inspired and I’ve been meaning to listen to some more Gothenburg melodeth.  More than Blinded By Fear on Rock Band, I guess.  So far I sort of popped around on the albums, listened to a few tracks here and there. Left Rasputin on repeat for hours.  But the other day I listened to the first two In Flames albums and they are pretty unremarkable. I like the Jester Race way better than Lunar Strain.  The growls were much more approachable.  I really dont like that whole screechy black metal scream.  Give me solid death growls please.  I’m also starting to dislike cleans over metal. Unless its like Beauty & the Beast Epica stuff.  Turisas is an exception, but they’re basically power metal and if you are growling power metal you are doing something wrong.

I think the real draw of Turisas is how even though they’re trying to throw this pagan, viking appearance of raping and pillaging etc, they’re really a family friendly band. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its a real boon to me when I find good metal that isn’t Fistfucking God’s Planet with Christraping Black Metal. Sometimes I don’t want to compromise my morals when I listen to music I love.  I just want to sit back and enjoy the riffs. I think its important that a Young Mormon in today’s world have the chance and opportunity to sit back and enjoy a moment immersed in music that, while maybe not as spiritually uplifting as say MoTab, isn’t utterly repulsive to the Spirit. I’d play Rasputin for President Monson if he wanted to hear a cool song.

JC Chasez made the best album ever.  Seriously, music should have just stopped in 2003.  Schizophrenic is a collection of songs that are jaw-dropping in every possible way.  A mix of dancy electro-pop, mellow electro-pop, electro-funk, and full on boy band, its astounding the absolute groove you get into when spinning this disc.  All Day Long I Dream About Sex (AD[L]IDAS) is like the catchiest song I have ever heard.  Apparently JC is supposed to release a new album this year??? If its anywhere near as good as Schizophrenic, it will be Album of the Year 4shure. And the real jimmy on this sundae is JC being an ex-member of N*Sync. I was not a fan of N*Sync back during the glory days. I called them N*Stink whenever I got the opportunity, including the one time I got on the air on Radio Disney. I was a diehard Backstreet Boys fanboy, I had all their albums, I had posters, I had VHSes, I saw them live for goodness sake. I feel dirty, like I’m betraying the Boys, but Schizophrenic is so amazing. Part parody of Justified, part sincere solo work, part over-the-top, Gunther-level sexual grooving, its too good to let pass by.

Okay just read the JC Chasez article on Wikipedia.  Apparently he worked on Unbreakable with the Backstreet Boys and his new album, Kate, is due out in 2008 after being postponed from last year.  I hope the intervening years havent corrupted him, since Unbreakable totally blew.  Listening to Treat Me Right (the JC/AJ team up track off Unbreakable) and really its unmistakably Chasez influenced.  The claps and the goofy synth that are his trademarks are pretty strongly present here. These Backstreet harmonies are really hurting the track though.  The synth melody sounds a lot like With or Without You P:,’

There is one (1) good track on Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor.  Sailor Song.  But it is such an amazingly bright gem in the otherwise boring gravel pit that is Soviet Kitsch. Yeah, Regina, you’re right.  Maryanne is a bitch. Why doesnt she just take her dress off, I mean she’s kissing til her lips bleed as is. Americana, Tropicana.

I uh Procured like six gigs of Van Morrison the other day, and let me just say I long just to hold you tight so i can feel you, sweet lady of the night.  I shall reveal you.  Turn it up, turn it up, little bit higher, radio.  Turn it up, thats enough, so you know, its got soul. Radio, radio, turn it up, radio.

As hard as i tried, still forgot.  Oh well.  In the mean time, since the last post i have:  Seen Eisley, The Myriad, and Regina Spektor, downloaded like 50 more Rock Band tracks, and very nearly finished high school. I also got a first place on a hard vocals track, broke 100 on an on-disc expert guitar track, and got myself banned from SH.  All in all a good couple of months.

I’m using Windows Live Writer which is v.jizzworthy at this point.  Still figuring out how to use it, and i doubt ill be taking most of its significant features into use but hey its pretty slick.

• Backstreet Boys
• Weird Al Yankovich
• Flogging Molly
• Gogol Bordello
• Dropkick Murphys
• They Might Be Giants

Bands I Want To See Live

• All of the bands ever

i havent written anything in like forever. :-[]

i really like the guitar hero games. not even just guitar hero, basically any rhythm game. guitar hero, dance dance revolution, rock band, karaoke revolution, ouendan, stepmania, so on, and so forth. i am pretty good at rhythm games in general. but the real passion is in guitar hero/rock band.

i spent a few days last week playing through guitar hero 2 with the intent of entering mad scores into scorehero. and this i did. you can see my scores here. i am pretty good. 1200th best career score, aint got a problem with that number. i have been playing a lot of rock band recently, but i am way too lazy to put my scores in. just played ten speed between this sentence and the previous one. 118.934, 6*, 99%, 335 streak. this is not a bad score ladies and gentlemen. but the issue i take with it is, why am i chuggin all the time it takes to get proficient at this game into it? i think i should take up a real instrument, but then i give it my darndest and either get hella bored hella fast or no there is no or i just get bored. why are real things less fun than video games.

anyway i guess they decided that Hyperspeed is a legitimate play method which is pretty unsurprising. i dont know anyone who seriously plays who doesnt use hyperspeed. i dont know too many who casually play that dont use hyperspeed. at least in gh2. but it is officially recognized on scorehero now! top news headlines all up over there. golly that site is probably one of the worst on the internet.

Rock Band Tuesday

i figure i can use this play to go off about rock band dlc. today two songs i dont care about and Roam by the B-52s dropped. i did not download the two songs i dont care about. Roam on the other hand is $$$$. havent sung it yet, and my drums are Out for Repairs, but it is v.fun. not a difficult song, but a fun one nonetheless. very poppy, very nice. i think my les paul’s batteries just died.

anyhow i also downloaded Wonderwall by Oasis today. that was from the Oasis pack from two weeks ago. that pack also had two songs i dont care about. i downloaded Wonderwall. i downloaded it not because i like the song, or because the notechart looked neat. i downloaded it only because there was an episode of Lost where Charlie is standing on a corner and he is playing Wonderwall and Desmond comes up to him and goes “I know you, brother, you were on the Island, brother, brother, brother, i used to be a monk” its a fun song, pretty good altstrumming practice, probably the best in rock band. X-Tream is still the best in all the gh games tho as far as altstrumming is concerned. one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three, alright.

going to use one of these WordPress Pages or whatnot to list the DLC i have and s/o it if i talk about it in this blurb on these Rock Band Tuesdays. if i remember this blog exists it can be a regular feature who knows.

Well, uh, not totally sure why exactly i made this. i guess the blogosphere is wave of the future or whatever, i better hop right on the bandwagon before it leaves me behind.

blogosphere is an ugly word. should have used something more aesthetically pleasing, like aesthetic or transient. those are some attractive words, i would easily date those words.

WordPress is significantly more robust than Blogger. it has a word count thing. right down there at the bottom it is counting my words. eighty-five, eighty-six, et cetera. going to write exactly one hundred and that will be this.