Feb 13 2006
And so it begins; the week from Hell. This week I have an unusually high amount of tests and projects for school, and it just so happens that it is also the week that my boss is on vacation. Therefore, I have to work almost 40 hours. Nothing beats more than a full-time class-load at school and working full-time. I will be lucky to find time to sleep.
In a self-reflective good luck ceremony, I say:
“May the force be with me”
–Zach
Feb 08 2006
I was just up in my Child Psych professor’s office and she showed me this really cute flash movie. Instead of hogging someone else’s bandwidth, I decided to put it on my site. Not only is the kitten cute, but it does different playful things with you hover your mouse over certain areas. See if you can find them all. I’ll give you one to get you started; hover the mouse below the cat’s left paw (that would be the one on your right). Even if you’re not a cat person, you have to admit this is fun.
If you can’t see that animation, you need to download Macromedia’s flash player. You can get that here or by going to http://www.macromedia.com.
Thanks for showing me this one Evelyn! 🙂
–Zach
Feb 06 2006
Well, now that I’ve owned the new Coheed and Cambria CD for over 3 months and listened to it more than 100 times all the way through, I feel that I can write an adequate review. For starters, let’s talk about the title of the disc. In the Coheed tradition, this disc featured the long and intricate name of Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness.
At first listen, I didn’t really know what I felt about this album in comparison to the others. This disc starts off with a more quietly aggressive feeling by continuing the common sonic theme present in both The Second Stage Turbine Blade and In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. After the variation of a familiar tune in “Keeping the Blade,” Claudio opens with a passive-aggressive song called “Always and Never.” At this point, I wondered if this successfully melodramatic ambience could be more than an introduction and could possibly carry throughout the album. At the precise moment that the thought entered in my head, the crushingly powerful “Welcome Home” started. I knew instantly that my beloved Coheed had not softened, but had also not hardened to the over-zealous rigidity of certain dark metal bands out there.
From that point forward, Coheed provided unique yet familiar sounds and constructed both flowing consonances as well as seemingly fiendish dissonances. From the tenderness of “Wake Up” to the power-pop beauty of “The Suffering” to the steadiness of “The Final Cut,” Coheed does nothing less than stun with the latest of their masterpieces.
Wonderful job guys! 10/10
