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[edit] Music/Poetry
Music is my poetry, I don't read poetry regularly but I do sit down and listen to a song until I know what it means exactly or what it means to me. If you like music, and I know you do, you should check out a few of these great bands. They are great to listen to and very inspiring.
Maynard
- Tool: an excellent band, the best infact. They use a lot of different sounds and are just over-all are unique. My favorite band hands down. Tool go here.
- A Perfect Circle: Maynard's other active band.
- I know that he is not the sole creative influence in either of these bands but the guy has the best goddamn voice ever.
Alternative: Not your mainstream "alternative" music.
- Our Lady Peace: I love this guys voice. One of the best canadian rock bands out there. Clumsy is easily their best album, but that is not to say the others are bad.
- Deftones: Loud, cryptic, and beautiful. The Deftones are also up there in the upper echelon of music.
- Audioslave: Chris Cornell can do wonderous things.
- Rage Against the Machine: Rage did a great job making rock music that has a message popular.
- The Tea Party: an underexposed Canadian rock band. Similar to Tool in some senses, especiall in their instrumentals, very eastern at times.
- 10 Years: Heards them first in concert and was very turned on to them ever after that. The vocals are very pleasing.
Metal: Head banging and moshing is what this is.
- Killswitch Engage: better with Jesse Leach.
- Korn: self titled and live all the way. have since gone down hill but does not change the fact they were once great.
- Disturbed: Fisrt album was the best.
- Marilyn Manson: You may be a bit of an ass in person (supposedly) but you make some great music and are a rather intelligent person.
- Mudvayne: What a live performance. Crazy costumes, loud agressive, emotional.
- Slipknot: So many people. What other band has nine(9!) members?
- Static-x: Wayne, I want your hair.
- Sugar Ray: Origianl Rugar Ray was some good metal, then they took a 180.
Grunge: Some dirty rock post 1988.
- Alice in Chains: if you like the grunge movement and the Seattle Sound then Alice is for you. I definetly reccommned the MTV Unplugged album.
- Nirvana is another great grunge band. Their first album is rarely heard and is one of their best: Bleach and personally, I really enjoy the acoustic/live sound so I really like MTV Unplugged in New York.
- Stone Temple Pilots: can't go wrong. They also had an MTV Unplugged session but it was never turned into a CD like Alice and Nirvana. I don't know why, it was good and would sell well.
- Pearl Jam: literally hundreds of albums! Of course Ten is their best album and Do the Evolution is their best song all around, I never get tired of listening to it.
- Soundgarden: Chris Cornell's first popular band. They did a great job being part of the Big Four.
Some Oldies: but of course the best oldies...
- Talking Heads: crazy good late 70s/early 80s progressive art rock. David Byrne, I love you. Check out the Fear of Music alubum, I think it is their best. Also Speaking in Tongues and 77 are of highly notable mention.
- Pink Floyd: Just know...Wish You Were Here (album) and Animals (album). It gets no better.
- Black Sabbath: Just coming into discovering Sabbath and am very impressed.
- AC/DC: If you want to rock this is loud and hard.
[edit] Music Wish List
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- Pearl Jam: Live at Benaroya Hall, acoustic
- Salival
- Pearl Jam: Ten
- MTV Unplugged for Nirvana, STP, and Alice in Chains
[edit] Ostrolphant (the story behind the name)
The infamous ostrolphant is a legendary creature originating in the Roman culture. It is the result of the evolutionary and breeding tendencies of three separate species. The ostrich, the troll, and the elephant are combined into one ideal creature.
The ostrolphant began its evolution in the early Roman Empire, about the time the arch was developed. The arch allowed the Romans to create bridges; large, flat, level areas that attracted various creatures to dwell in their various nooks and crannies. The bridges particularly attracted a strange species of northern European human: the troll. these trolls required the shade of the bridge during the day to keep from turning to stone. They eventually dominated the bridges, pushing the other weaker creatures away.
However, there were others that no matter what, the troll could not control. The Romans, for instance, traveled in large masses, needing to carry and tow heavy loads. For many of these tasks they employed the services of elephants. Bridges were often linked to roman strongholds and thus the elephants and trolls were often in contact. Both being strong creatures neither became dominant, rather they co-existed.
The bridges when not in use by the Romans and being the excellent "landing strip" style area that they are obviously attracted large migratory birds. The ostrich being the most prevalent in those areas was often landing and taking of from the bridges. The trolls, ostriches, and elephants were all attracted to each other’s strengths. The ostrich having the long neck and the ability to fly, the troll with its aggressive fighting behavior and strength, and the elephant with its high intellect and precise senses (such as hearing, and touch, especially around the feet). At some unknown point in time the three creatures are believed to have mated in an awkward manner where the elephant is being double penetrated.
The result: the ostrolphant. No photographs are known to exist of the creature, and only crude drawings represent it (and their accuracy is the subject of much debate). The ostrolphant is to be revered and respected for the influence it has had in many classical teachings, religious debates and classrooms internationally.
Over the many centuries the creatures that have come to make the ostrolphant have changes in many ways. The ostrich has lost its ability to fly and the elephant can no longer
A majority of the story has been lost in the years since its original transcription, but he gist of the meaning is still present.
