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Extract from Game Room Haven

United Nations

Glassjaw and Thursday have always been some of my favorite bands ever.  Well, when I found out that Daryll (singer of Glassjaw) and Geoff (singer of Thursday) made a band together, my first thought was...when will the new Glassjaw album ever come out?  So, I took a listen to it and it was so fucking heavy.  Not normally one to really like music that heavy, but there was something about the music that kept me listening.  Daryll just screams througout the whole thing and Geoff urgently sings and calls out for action.  After the first listen, I listenened to it again and could not stop.  The breakdowns, screams, and singing are perfect.  This is a hardcore classic album like The Refused, The Shape of Punk to Come.   Updated for  a new generation.  My favorite songs on there are "Filmed in Front of a Live Studio Audience" and "Revolutions in Graphic Design".  Also check out "Say Goodbye to General Figment of the USS Imagination"  The saxaphone solo at the end is pure music bliss.

[audio https://www.box.net/shared/static/ryvlqh7irg.mp3]The Spinning Heart of The Yo-Yo Lobby

Mogwai: The Hawk is Howling

I've loved Mogwai for a while.  I saw them at The Cure festival a couple of years ago and were one of the loudest bands I had ever seen.  Also the second band I had ever seen with 2 bass players ( other was Ned's Atomic Dustbin).  My favorite album from them had been Come on Die young.  Well, I managed to get my hands on The Hawk is Howling ( release date is Sept 22) and was just amazed with this album.  It is moody as hell.  It's like a roller coaster ride of emotion.  There is not one vocal on this album, but it really doesn't need it.  The song that make me keep rewinding it right now is "The Sun Smells Too Loud".  Take Mogwai and throw in a little My Bloody Valentine into the mix and thats what it sounds like.  Here's a clip I found on youtube for one of the songs on the new album.  This is "BatCat"

It’s been almost three months with the guy I’m seeing and he pretty much has all the qualities I look for in a guy. Sense of humor and all that yadda, yadda. But one of the qualities I really dig in a guy this dude has in buckets and buckets full which leaves me scratching my head as to what the hell the relationship is in reality. What is that ocean-full quality that has inspired this post? Well it’s ambition, folks. Good old fashion over-achievement, high ideals and self-serving success. I enjoy a bit of ambition and I think I have quite a bit of it. Of course that is if I can get my head out of my ass long enough to really get where I need to be by now. I’m doing OK but I could do much, much better — so I get it. I get the whole ambition racket and all the trappings it can have. However, this characteristic can easily be a four-letter word (technically eight) just as it can be admired in a person. In this case with my boyfriend (?) I’m smack in the middle. I should be happy to know that I’m not dating a couch potato but we have a committed relationship in which I’m pretty much in fifth place on his priority list. I would say the whole “he’s just not that into you” but I think it’s more like “he’s that into you, but into other things first.”

I’m not going to get into all of his aspirations because that isn’t really the point. What is the point is while he is trying to acquire all of his dreams, and apparently I may be one of them, I don’t really spend what I consider quality time with him. This is quite funny now that I think of it because before it was all about how I felt a bit smothered in the first three weeks of the courtship. It’s still early yet, but I’ve met the family and had the whole vacation test with him.

So why does it feel like I don’t have a boyfriend? I mean I could literally put myself back out there as a single woman, and I am afraid to say that I would actually feel that I was one. What makes it even more complicated is that coming to the conclusion of being more positive about being unattached means that while distance makes the heart grow fonder, it also makes the heart go a bit stagnant and start having wanderlust. He has told me I’m important to him. But so are documents that have to be signed to complete a transaction.

Am I a bad person or is this a situation you have been in yourself? Please share.

Extract from Brian Lee Studio