Ok the title may be too grandios, but there is some great music and artists on Youtube.
I get on Youtube on a regular basis and just surf it for hours and hours looking at homemade music, be it original music or simply singing known songs.
Recently on one of my nights of doing this I found 2 singers that I simply love and thought I would share them with you.
My first is Grannypanties30 she is simply wonderful, she sings around the house; from the closet to the restroom and has a wonderful voice. I am simply in love with her voice and how she just puts up a camera and sings.
At the moment this is my favorite video from her. I just love the energy and the fact that she's signing with gum in her mouth, just like Meatloaf.
A friend of mine mentionned that this video was made in the restroom, I'm not sure about that. You can see what looks like a water tank that looks just like the ones on a toilet.
My second is Ysabellabrave she is also simply wonderful and fun, according to her profile she's a director and have a wonderful voice. Some of her videos have really good production values compared to Grannypanties30.
This is my favorite video from Ysabellabrave, I just love the funnest of it (ok funnest is not a word):
And last but not least, Youtube is a place for well known established artists to put their videos up for their fans.
This is one of my favorite Canadian artists, Jann Arden.
My favorite songs from Jann are the sad songs (they may not be really sad but they feel sad) and my favorite right now is I'd die for you.
So if you feel that your local radio station isn't really giving you want you want why don't just drop by Youtube you might just find something that you'd never hear because of commercial radio.
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
Nostradamus, the prophecies, the events, the double CD by Judas Priest
Judas Priest, one of my favorite bands, recently released their new CD/Album/Digital Download (call it what ever you want in today's age) and this is my review of it.
I purchased the Nostradamus EP that was available on iTunes a few weeks prior to the release of the full version, it contains 2 songs including the title track, and Nostradamus had been playing on Sirius' Hard Attack too prior too so I was familiar to a couple of new songs before the release.
Nostradamus, the title track didn't impress me that much but I did like the Glenn's and KK's guitar work on the song. I always feel that Glenn and KK are dualing.
I got Nostradamus the day it was released on iTunes, yes I get most of my music from iTunes now and from The End Records for the really hard to find Metal.
I never give my impressions of new music on my first listen because because how I feel at the time it may influence the music. My first impression of the new Judas Priest music was blah! it's not that hard and where is Rob's screaming.
It's been in my playlist for the last few weeks and it as grown on me, I would say it's as good as their previous release and it's a good long listen at 23 songs (and you can't go wrong for 9.99 on iTunes).
So with all the blah blah that I've done to now you know the following it has 23 songs and I wasn't impressed with it, but with that said it as grown on me and I do like it.
This is a concept album (yes I used the album word) and it stands very well with other concept albums. Each song threads a story, a story of gloom based on Nostradamus' prophecies.
Some songs are tremendous, such as Pestilence and Plague, The Four Horsemen (slow song that is dominated by Rob's vocals) and some are just a plain good listen.
Overall the album (oh no that word again) is full of strong music by great musicians. If you are a fan you will enjoy the new offering from Judas Priest, if you aren't there's no way you will say this is bad and if you aren't into metal or heavy music you won't run screaming away (though some of the song titles are a little scary).
I can comfortably recommend this to anyone...
Don't forget that Judas Priest are on tour.
Monday, October 24, 2005
Chicken Head - Texas State Fair 2005
Another year, another State Fair.
This year was a pretty great fair, we (my wife and I) went to the fair on the next to last day and it was great. The temperature was sunny and in the 70s and we were there most of the day.
We walked, ate, shopped, saw some pigs racing and played some games. I won several stuffed animals for my wife and I didn't really spend all that much to get them, one came I spent 50 cents and got a really decent one and the next game I played I won a really huge one for 3$.
And I got my chicken head.
We went to the fair using the Dallas transit which was decent.
Going back home wasn't so decent.
They need to put more trains when they have an event of this size. The light trains run every 20 minutes on weekends and during an event like this where they encourage you to use the transit system (and shuttle) the light train runs every 20 minutes as usual (for those that aren't familiar with the light trains it's kinda like a subway).
I'm from a city where they take their transit system seriously and on weekends the subway runs on a schedule of 20 minutes (like the Dallas system) but when they have an even like the fair they bump up the service to every 5 minutes on the line where the event is.
Next year we're going to take our car, that's what we said last year after going through the same experience. I guess we forgot, hopefully next year we'll remember that the ride home using the train was the low point of an otherwise very pleasant day.
See ya all next year at the fair.
This year was a pretty great fair, we (my wife and I) went to the fair on the next to last day and it was great. The temperature was sunny and in the 70s and we were there most of the day.
We walked, ate, shopped, saw some pigs racing and played some games. I won several stuffed animals for my wife and I didn't really spend all that much to get them, one came I spent 50 cents and got a really decent one and the next game I played I won a really huge one for 3$.
And I got my chicken head.
We went to the fair using the Dallas transit which was decent.
Going back home wasn't so decent.
They need to put more trains when they have an event of this size. The light trains run every 20 minutes on weekends and during an event like this where they encourage you to use the transit system (and shuttle) the light train runs every 20 minutes as usual (for those that aren't familiar with the light trains it's kinda like a subway).
I'm from a city where they take their transit system seriously and on weekends the subway runs on a schedule of 20 minutes (like the Dallas system) but when they have an even like the fair they bump up the service to every 5 minutes on the line where the event is.
Next year we're going to take our car, that's what we said last year after going through the same experience. I guess we forgot, hopefully next year we'll remember that the ride home using the train was the low point of an otherwise very pleasant day.
See ya all next year at the fair.
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Geeky...no really geeky
Saturday was a really great day, it was a geeky day. I went to my 5th Dallas Comic Con since moving to Dallas 5 years ago.
On this geekiest of days I got to meet some of my favorite stars such as: Jonathan Frakes, Genie Francies (oh I loved Laura and Luke when I was a wee little lad, oh I still love her now that I'm a strapping older gentleman) and the jewel of the day Miss Carrie Fisher (too bad she didn't let me take a picture of her).
After standing in line to get their autograph I needed a break so I went to Kevin Sorbo's Q&A. His Q&A was OK, not the best I've seen and the highlight of his Q&A was a gag real from Andromeda (which was funny).
I really feel like I'm a geek, I go to 2 or 3 of these conventions a year in the Dallas area but after meeting a couple of people this year I don't feel so much geeky anymore as they went to way more than my 2 or 3 a year and went all over the contry following their favorites.
My next convention is in 3 weeks and it's Wizard World in Texas and I already have my VIP pass for it.
So see you there geeks.
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Hello EKO and goodbye =( Sam
I don’t really blog that much, I’ve had this place up for several months and I’ve only put up minor things now and then.
This is my second post to my blog in a week, I’m getting better at it. Hopefully I’ll keep this up for a while, get better had it and maybe become decent.
One can only hope!
We recently added a new member to our family, EKO, he’s a Sugar Glider. He’s been with us a whole month and he’s getting much better at tolerating us; at least he’s not as angry when we take him out of his cage. Hell he even sticks his head out of is pouch when we call his name.
If your wondering where the name EKO comes from it’s from a character from Aspend Comics, I’m a big Michael Turner fan.
Here’s EKO with me:
Here's EKO with my wife:
Look closely you will see him, he's there I tell ya.
It is also with great sadness that I have to say that we’ve lost Sam one of our cats, Sam is the white one in the picture. He ran away about 2 weeks ago, I’ve been to the animal shelter a couple of times to see if he was there but he wasn’t. I will go again this week in hopes that here’s there.
It really didn’t affect me this much when Sam disappeared but now seeing a picture of him it really makes me sad.
This is my second post to my blog in a week, I’m getting better at it. Hopefully I’ll keep this up for a while, get better had it and maybe become decent.
One can only hope!
We recently added a new member to our family, EKO, he’s a Sugar Glider. He’s been with us a whole month and he’s getting much better at tolerating us; at least he’s not as angry when we take him out of his cage. Hell he even sticks his head out of is pouch when we call his name.
If your wondering where the name EKO comes from it’s from a character from Aspend Comics, I’m a big Michael Turner fan.
Here’s EKO with me:
Here's EKO with my wife:
Look closely you will see him, he's there I tell ya.
It is also with great sadness that I have to say that we’ve lost Sam one of our cats, Sam is the white one in the picture. He ran away about 2 weeks ago, I’ve been to the animal shelter a couple of times to see if he was there but he wasn’t. I will go again this week in hopes that here’s there.
It really didn’t affect me this much when Sam disappeared but now seeing a picture of him it really makes me sad.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Where life has taken me
Well I haven't blogged in a while, so here we go again.
Here's map of where I've been in the US
create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.
As for countries well the US, Canada (home sweet home) oh yeah US home sweet home (for now), France.
That's it, not much of a traveler am I.
Just thought it'd be cool to see where I've been.
I'd like to thank Josh Howard's blog for reminding me that I have a blog too, aren't I cool I've got a blog!!!!
Man can I be more random?
Here's map of where I've been in the US
create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.
As for countries well the US, Canada (home sweet home) oh yeah US home sweet home (for now), France.
That's it, not much of a traveler am I.
Just thought it'd be cool to see where I've been.
I'd like to thank Josh Howard's blog for reminding me that I have a blog too, aren't I cool I've got a blog!!!!
Man can I be more random?
Saturday, November 27, 2004
Why oh why?
Why do I look so mad?
In 2001 I had a kidney transplant and ever since then I've been taking all these anti-rejection medicines.
In the last year or so I have been very depressed and miserable, I always look like I'm mad or something and deep inside myself I am mad and upset and I don't know why.
I've read up on depression and transplants and there seem to be a lot of people that get depressed a few years after they've had their transplant and some are saying it's related to some of the meds that we take, I wonder if that's right?
Look at the picture and how mad I look and this should be a happy day for me because I just got this great gift from my beautiful wife and my mother-in-law, and yes it's a computer.
It's a top of the line computer and I should know computers being that I've been in IT for the last 20 years.
It just saddens me so much to think that I am hurting my wife with this depression thing and everything.
What am I to do? I've already talked about this to my transplant doctors and they recommend me going to a psychologist and that's not something I really want to do.
This is probably paranoia and everything but since moving to the US (from Canada) I don't really trust the medical establishment and insurance companies here and I'm afraid having a psychologist in my medical records will be trouble even if my depression is caused by some of my anti-rejection medications.
What to do?
Laura (my wife) does want me to go and see someone but I don't know.
I just wish I could be happy again.
Sunday, November 21, 2004
A new weekend, new vandalism
Vandalism
Well here we are now another weekend and I've been vandalized again, this time it wasn't my car but my home.
It's something real stupid but could've cost me and my family a few thousand dollars if I hadn't caught it.
Someone turned on the water hose and pointed it it at a window, the window was the computer room window. I went into the computer room and there was this weird loud sound and I couldn't figure out what it was, I went to look outside at what the sound could possibly be and the carpet near the window was all went and it sounded like there was an heavy downpour of rain outside.
Great the window's leaking I thought.
So I went and got a towel and and put it so the rain wouldn't come in, my wife asked if it was raining outside and I said yes that it was pouring and it was getting in the computer room and the seal on the window was defective or something.
After I went to the front door and looked outside to see how bad the rain was, it didn't look like it was raining! I then went outside and saw that someone had turned on our front hose on and pointed it at the window. If I hadn't checked the computers before going to bed the water damage to the computers would have been bad and not to mention the cost of the water.
Recap
So let's recap, my car has been broken into twice this year and egged twice and now someone tried to flood one of our rooms on the house.
In the last 3 weeks my car has been broken into, egged and now the house thing. I suspect that someone in my neighborhood doesn't like me.
Is it because I'm a foreigner and that I am French?
Or maybe it's because I'm catholic? I know when we moved down here my wife said that The Baptists and Catholics really didn't like each other, until I moved down here I didn't know what a Baptist was and that I needed to not like them.
Ok, Ok, kidding aside I really am afraid that all the things that have happen recently might be because I am French speaking.
But then it could be teenagers going around causing mischief, who knows! It's just that the damage done is costing me and I really don't know if I am being targeted for any particular reason or if it's just random and deep down it's making me nervous.
The funny thing about all of this is that I live in a nice part of the Dallas area and my brother in law said something how crime was high in the inner city and I replied that I'd feel a lot safer living in the inner city. I've lived in inner cities before and I have to confess that I felt a lot safer living there with the druggies, drug dealers and every other time of... than I do living in the suburb. Here in the suburb you don't know who to look out for...
Well here we are now another weekend and I've been vandalized again, this time it wasn't my car but my home.
It's something real stupid but could've cost me and my family a few thousand dollars if I hadn't caught it.
Someone turned on the water hose and pointed it it at a window, the window was the computer room window. I went into the computer room and there was this weird loud sound and I couldn't figure out what it was, I went to look outside at what the sound could possibly be and the carpet near the window was all went and it sounded like there was an heavy downpour of rain outside.
Great the window's leaking I thought.
So I went and got a towel and and put it so the rain wouldn't come in, my wife asked if it was raining outside and I said yes that it was pouring and it was getting in the computer room and the seal on the window was defective or something.
After I went to the front door and looked outside to see how bad the rain was, it didn't look like it was raining! I then went outside and saw that someone had turned on our front hose on and pointed it at the window. If I hadn't checked the computers before going to bed the water damage to the computers would have been bad and not to mention the cost of the water.
Recap
So let's recap, my car has been broken into twice this year and egged twice and now someone tried to flood one of our rooms on the house.
In the last 3 weeks my car has been broken into, egged and now the house thing. I suspect that someone in my neighborhood doesn't like me.
Is it because I'm a foreigner and that I am French?
Or maybe it's because I'm catholic? I know when we moved down here my wife said that The Baptists and Catholics really didn't like each other, until I moved down here I didn't know what a Baptist was and that I needed to not like them.
Ok, Ok, kidding aside I really am afraid that all the things that have happen recently might be because I am French speaking.
But then it could be teenagers going around causing mischief, who knows! It's just that the damage done is costing me and I really don't know if I am being targeted for any particular reason or if it's just random and deep down it's making me nervous.
The funny thing about all of this is that I live in a nice part of the Dallas area and my brother in law said something how crime was high in the inner city and I replied that I'd feel a lot safer living in the inner city. I've lived in inner cities before and I have to confess that I felt a lot safer living there with the druggies, drug dealers and every other time of... than I do living in the suburb. Here in the suburb you don't know who to look out for...
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Crime and Super Heroes
OK so I'm a geek and I know it, my wife tolerates it because she loves me.
Crime
For the second time this year my car has been broken into, the first was exactly a year ago this month.
The first time that they broke into my car they didn't steal anything but this time they stole my satellite radio, I have Sirius if you want to know. It cost $357.17 to get everything fix, 297.69 to get the passenger window replaced and 59.48 to have the satellite radio replaced. I have to say that Sirius were really nice they replaced my stolen radio for less than $60.
Oh yeah my car was also egged this week, second time this year. I wonder who I must've pissed off in the neighborhood?
Super Heroes
Well for the 2nd time in 2 weeks I've been to a comic convention, the Wizard World Texas 2004, I had a pretty good time.
Got a few authographs, Michael Turner, Ethan Van Sciver, Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica not the Survivor guy), Josh Howard.
When I went to WW my goal was to get the new Dead@17: Revolution premiere issue with the WW variant cover and I got 2, 1 signed and 1 un-signed. WW was a success!
I was at the convention for 5 hours on the last day and 3 of those were waiting in line to get a couple of my books signed by Michael Turner and Ethan Van Sciver. I didn't go to get any of my Supermans signed by Jim Lee, even though he's like the top artist I'm not a big fan and the lines were long for him.
I tried to go on Saturday but couldn't make it, I suspect the crowds were big on that day because that's what I call general public day where they have the guests that aren't really comic related, this year they had David Goyer (Director of the Blade series starring Wesley Snipes) and Jessica Biel (star of 7th Heaven and Blade: Trinity).
Well that's it for now, I hope that I get better at this and I start putting up stuff on a regular basis.
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Saturday, October 30, 2004
My neck hurts
My neck hurts from sleeping in a weird position last night!
Oh well on with the post...
A few pictures from the Dallas Comics convention held last weekend, October 23rd and 24th 2004.
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I bought 30$ worth of comic books for 3$, after getting home, inspecting them and making sure they were in NM/M category (and they were woohoo) 3 of those comic books had a minimum value of 5$ each. Not bad.
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