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As I'm getting ready to have a four day weekend, in celebration of my favorite holiday in the world, I thought I'd post today to wish everyone a...:: Monday, October 18, 2004 ::
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :)
Me, I'll be heading up to St. Louis tomorrow, to spend the weekend shopping, and to go the Lemp Mansion Halloween party on Saturday night... recap when I return...
In the meantime, for those who haven't already heard, I have a new car... :) It's a little green 2004 Saturn Ion, and it's absolutely adorable. I've named her Pyretta, and if all goes well, that'll be on my license plate... :)
Overall, life is good, and I'm glad it's fall... though I could do without all the rain, making the leaves both smelly and slippery... :)
:: Dawn 10:43 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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So yeah, it's another day for a rant.:: Monday, October 04, 2004 ::
First on the agenda is DJ Sammy's version of "Heaven," by Bryan Adams. No. Just no. It's not that I particularly like Bryan Adams (though I did see him in concert many years ago), or that I particularly like that song (decent, but not my favorite by him), but the song was simply NOT meant to be a happy dancy song. That's just wrong.
And I'm beginning to dislike Snake River Conspiracy's version of "How Soon Is Now." It's becoming a song that shouldn't be covered at all...
I think those are the only true travesties that I heard on Saturday night/Sunday morning... :)
Oh, and the best quote I have ever heard... (name of the person it was about is withheld to protect the innocent, but those of you who were there know what I'm talking about...)
"He couldn't get laid by a willing stick!"
Yeah. That rocks. :)
:: Dawn 1:27 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Well yes, I think I shall talk about something other than bad covers here... though I have another one to talk about as well... :)
So, last night Gabe was reading through the cheapo TV guide that comes in the paper, and found something about a movie called "The Irish Vampire Goes West." Pop over to IMDB, and here 'tis Comes out on Feb. 10th of next year. It looks to be an Irish movie, probably not big budget or anything spiffy, but there's a vampire, and he's Irish... so that makes it kinda kewl, right? :) Eh, if it comes to C-dale, I'll probably see it! :)
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And now for the latest in Dawn's cover rant-ettes. I call this one a rant-ette, cuz I'm still not entirely sure of how I feel about this song overall.
So A Perfect Circle has covered "Imagine," by John Lennon. Mmmm... bad idea. John Lennon was an amazing artist, and "Imagine" is an amazing song. It would be really hard to improve upon it, and there's too much of a chance to screw it up.
That being said, here's what I think. I really like what they've done with the music. It's very multi-layered, and quite gorgeous. HOWEVER (you knew that was gonna happen, didn't you)... Maynard changed the melody of the lyrics, and it just seems off. Like, not quite out of tune, but coming really close to that. I'm just not sure why he decided to do that, because the original tune of the lyrics was just fine.
So the overall view: I'm not going to put A Perfect Circle, or Maynard, on the list of bands who need to be smacked. Part of this is the fact that I love A Perfect Circle and Maynard. Part of this is that I guess it could have been worse. But overall, they shouldn't have done it. The world could have been an okay place without a cover of "Imagine."
:)
:: Dawn 11:07 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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