cold weather, music purchases, and other things

[illusion_is_mine]

     I woke up this morning to snow, and ice. The news has been predicting that we would get a bit of ice by Monday of this week. I'm so glad that I'm off work because I hate driving in the ice. Many people here can't even drive in the rain let alone the ice. I would take pictures outside of the weather but I'm in my PJs, and I'm too lazy to put on a coat and go outside xD!

     Here a few pics of some new vinyl records I ordered recently. One of them is album by a newer band I mentioned in another post called PVRIS called "White Noise"[pic 1], and the other is Christian Death's "Catastrophe Ballet." [pic 1, pic 2, pic 3] I love both albums so I'm glad I was able to find them in colored vinyl. The Christian Death album is my favorite album by them. They also sent me a CD copy of the last Christian Death album from 2007. Now I'll just be honest and say I only liked them with Ross Williams as their singer, so while some of the songs were ok I didn't really like it that much.




     I also purchased a Siouxsie and the Banshees boxset called "At the BBC" [pic 1], and it's amazing! They were a fantastic live band, and if there's any band I would go back in time and see live it would be them. Here a couple of quick screen captures from the DVD. I mainly bought it for the DVD so the 3 CD's with BBC recording sessions, and live songs were quite the added bonus for me. I love the fact that despite them having so many guitar players they all manage to have that signature Banshees sound. Good stuff.

     I've been doing more drawing lately. I'm trying to get my creative juices to flowing again. For a while after I graduated art school I didn't want to even look at a sketch book. Being an animation major was pretty stressful when my portfolio review came up so I think I got really burned out on doing artwork for myself after that. I finally feel like now I can do work for myself, and be totally selfish with what I want to do creatively.

 

     I also pulled out my bass guitar the other day. I felt like I'd been neglecting playing it so I played a few songs. I felt good to hold the guitar in my hands again. I recently purchase a new practice amplifier for my bass. I was surprised at how loud, and good it sounded for being a somewhat small amp. That was my goal when I bought it though so I think it worked out.  I'll probably have another post this week updating on a few TV shows I've been watching.