No, I am not listening to Europe (ugghhhh...) but Velcra's first born 'Consequences of Disobedience'. As all the enlightened know by now, tomorrow Velcra's third will officially see the daylight. I'm sure there are some poor bastards who have decided in their almighty stupidity to download the promos of 'Hadal' to the Internet, but fortunately (for once) I don't know where to look, nor how to download them and quite frankly I don't care to know. I'm the kind of person who likes the feeling of unwrapping a concrete CD out of the plastic; to see it for my own eyes instead of a punch of pixels on the screen, to feel the paper of the booklet, to read the lyrics from that booklet, to look at the pictures inside... The whole digital music idea without the real thing I find actually quite lame. It's the same thing with those idiots who want to publish some bloody e-books. Fine, as long as there are also the real books available, books whose covers and pages to touch, whose pages to turn and hear the paper rattling, whose scent to smell; the one you can read even if the power goes out.
"When when's today, the machines say, what is a man to do..." (Sonata Arctica: The Worlds Forgotten, The Words Forbidden)
But to go back to the countdown... As I am writing this, there are approximately thirteen hours eleven minutes and 48 seconds to the moment I walk outside Anttila, sit down to the market square to change some other album into Velcra's 'Hadal'. This is to happen at noon tomorrow before my parents burst in. Maybe even sooner in case the beloved teacher doesn't show up for her office hours at ten a.m. (inhuman time for a nocturnal being like me). But anyway, I just listened to the samples of most of the songs in ‘Hadal’ at http://www.velcra.com/music_hadal.htm, and I am thrilled! The ones to catch my full attention were ‘New Recruit’, ‘Dead End Lane’ and the name song ‘Hadal’. The weirdest (in a positive sense) is so far ‘We Must Start Again’. I CAN’T WAIT!!!
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I'm nearly finished with Nathanael West's 'The Day of the Locust'. There are two things I need to check; the locusts (and try to come up with an explanation why they were chosen for the title; maybe it's a reference to the bible? In that case I have to... mmm... *get* to watch an X-Files episode in which Mulder quotes the bible about locusts). The other includes the symptoms of schizophrenia: I am convinced Homer is schizophrenic. I also have to check the correct spelling of the word; if I get to express my Homer theory I want to get the words right. Nothing undermines a theory better than continuous misspelling of an essential word(s).
