Steve Vai, Fire Garden
Another fantastic record, though a few more vocals than I really like. (Exception: "All About Eve," a tremendous song w/ great vocal performance.)
Album sectioned in 2 "phases" (kind of like the "sides" we used to have on these "vinyl record" things--ask your parents), & I like the 1st phase better (yep, fewer vocals).
Highlights: track 7, "Hand on Heart," & another masterpiece, "Fire Garden Suite." Pretty much, is a song has "suite" in the title, it will be great or terrible; this is the former.
SIDE (FAMILY) NOTE ALERT:
Got a few gift cards for Christmas, & spent 2 today. At Rhino Records I picked up a Michael Hedges retrospective, Beyond Boundaries: Guitar Solos" . . .& since I can;t buy myself anything w/out giving some love to the family, I let the kids choose some toys.
The list:
Aodhan--a toy gun that shoots out a "BANG" flag; also, some plastic dog poop
Finbar--toy handcuffs (I have NO idea why, but he's been arresting his brothers all evening)
Cedric--rubber-band shooter
Don't know why they were all guns-&-arresting, but, we have fun.
Also, picked the lovely wife up some "zombie mints":
& a "Beeker" air freshener:
Finally, thanks from my family to the good folks of 1st period--we enjoyed some excellent Chili's burgers tonight.
Juniors:
Library for Ooper (aka Handbook--look at the cover).
You MUST read the poem "To His Coy Mistress" & the short story"Young Goodman Brown" by Monday 10 January.
You'll find 'em on pages 299-315, or full text online.
We will look at the Prologue tomorrow & discuss the "precritical response."
& remember, it's octopuses, though octopi & octopodes are lesser but acceptable.
Sophomores:
Grammar, here in the form of parts of speech, specifically nouns.
Nouns name persons, places, & things (I consider "ideas" to be "things").
More tomorrow.
be cool
I want Aodhan's gun. If he ever gets bored of it, I'll buy it.
ReplyDeleteI'm serious.
The story was appropriately depressing. And reminded me too much of [underline]The Crucible[/underline], a bad book. Not a bad book, but I book I did not like at all.
good news: they're only $1.99 so when this one breaks I'll get another & grab you 1
ReplyDeletere: the story . . . yeah, especially the final paragraph, which I love in a sad way: "his dying hour was gloom"
but bug huzzahs for the word "quoth" & the subtle imagery of Faith's name
oh, & I just noticed that w/ out the comma it looks like A's gun shoots BOTH the flag & the poop (it's only the former, & behold the power of the comma!!) . . . so you'll see it corrected above
ReplyDeleteOK, went w/ the semi-colon . . . a good night to all
ReplyDeleteOK--1 final comment, to Mustafa: listened to Celtic Frost in the car on the way to Chili's (Linda's choice) . . . after that weird intro, reminded me of earlier Metallica w/ growlier vocals & some real cool guitar
ReplyDeleteI think it was track 5, "Eternal Summer," that I liked most.
Also, really cool Giger cover art.
Thanks . . . tomorrow: Entombed!!!
I love punctuation!
ReplyDelete"Let's eat Grandma!"
"Let's eat, Grandma!"
Chloe: yeah, that was good . . .
ReplyDeleteby the way, the Zombie Mints are "brain flavored" and well, there may be some truth to that. Ingredients include "meat flavoring" and best I can explain the smell is like . . . old beef bouillon cubes. That were stored in a shoe. But still, I appreciate the thought from my 4 boys.
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