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Well since the guide actually includes watching and reading the original source material which the anime is adapted from, it's very spoiler heavy xD Honestly in this case I think it's better to follow the guide first and spoil the anime... for several reasons in fact. The Songs which the entire series is based on are worth being in the know about since that just makes the experience so much more worthwhile when they appear in the anime. And really I'm digging the anime right now, but there is definitely some stuff that is lost from the source to the adaption, not to mention since it is SHAFT some things are a little confusing if you don't know the source before hand.
 
So I recommend following the guide and spoiling everything because the enjoyment level of the anime goes up tremendously after that, but then again it's up to you. I will say that that confusing feeling will disappear if you follow the guide. because not only do you read and watch the original source materiel but the blogger also explains everything about plot and story elements as well. So there no reason to be confused.

so going to cologne

ok, right upfront, am i the only one, that deson't really get all the exitement about this album? it pretty much falls into the cathegory "appreciate the effort, but no thanks"
i'll start with what is (very!) good about this release.
you can tell that there went a lot of effort into all of these tracks.
there are tons of different and interesting ideas incorporated into pretty much all of these songs
by every single member and the production team aswell at some points.
it is also great that everyone seems to have stepped out of their comfort-zone a bit
doing things a little different than in their previous bands to create something new.
also there isn't any performance that only goes by the standard procedure of a bass/git/vox/drum formula.
everyone tries to add something unique to it, so it doesn't become a "kyo+friends"-sideproject.
with all this effort, with all this willingness to take a risk, with all the creativity-input from every side,
i really really really wanted to like this record.
i tried hard to, but now after four listens or so i think i don't, and here is why.
------------
unfortunately the songs in their completed stage don't work. that is as themselves, and as the 16-track combination that is this album.
you can tell that this is a very new project, that hasen't really accustomed to each other yet.
you can tell that there is always eclectic stuff going on in the guitars, some eclectic stuff with the bass and some offbeat drumming going on,
all buried under eclectic multilayered falsetto-choruses from kyo, but none of this really fits the other.
it feels more like an endless stream of random ideas in each part, that every member had lieing around somewhere on their harddrive
added afteranother and layered over another.
there is very few occasions, where one of the parts actually serves the other or compliments it.
furthermore there then is very little developement or dramaticality in the tracks, they start at some point, morph their initial idea/groove a few times around and then at some point they end, like a shapeless form of music, that just happens to be as long as it is.
no progression, no (or very little and poorly executed) transitions and very little to be exited for then.
this results unfortunately in an album where very little sticks to the mind and which is, despite all its originality, pretty boring.
there are only 3 or four tracks that manage to make a slight dent in my memory,
but even those are only kinda meh-ish, all the rest is a shapeless blob of random noodling.
-------------------
and now for the obligatory (current!) DEG refernce,
deg members have most of the time a very similar, boxy and eclectic, un-catchy type of playing,
even their "melodic" tracks aren't really that melodic at all.
but they have managed to put all their weirdness together.
to know when to take a step back and just do chugchug, when to abruptly end phrases to get into a completely different gear for a bridge/chorus/whatevs.
despite everyone sucking pretty bad at their instruments of choice, through knowing and considering each others abilities and giving each other space they managed to incorporate their ungroovy ideas to create breathing and obscure lively behemoths of songs that keep you on the edge of the seat.
this is the very quality, that sukekiyo still lacks greatly,
a good songwriter/arranger to put all that creative brilliance into good use in a dramatical and organic song.
not doing a track by track, but in general this album would probably get sth like a 6/10 (4 of that for effort), who knows, mabe it'll grow on me, but i doubt it.

i never got the full hang of doujin music unfortunately, i guess most of the time the horrid sound of the production made me back of a bit it is definitely a field that i should explore more, because it essentially is like the nerdiest thing that humankind has come up with so far. selfpublished powermetal covers with computergenerated voices to songs of hardcore indie vertical-scroller bullet-hell videogame soundtracks.... that sentence oozes nerdism out of every particle
 
that beeing said, there is one artist(/circle?) that grabbed my attention, which is DEMETORI
 
he is (like most of them) a damn rad guitar-shred machine, but also has the skills for a very fine production of his also pretty sweet arrangements

 
shameless self-promotion ahead
i even did a Cover/Reproduction of one of his tracks (a re-recorded cover of a rearranged cover so to say...)

 
also i need to mention one particular circle/album, which is just too damn addictive (and the production is sort of just listenable enough ^^)
and that is the one album by Undead Corporation, where they mixed their powermetal/metalcore with taiko drums and flutes and ditched the shouting/scrreming vocals to create some of the most epic and melodic tracks i have discovered in the wide field of anything "metal" so far...

this is relevant

ok, right upfront, am i the only one, that deson't really get all the exitement about this album? it pretty much falls into the cathegory "appreciate the effort, but no thanks"
i'll start with what is (very!) good about this release.
you can tell that there went a lot of effort into all of these tracks.
there are tons of different and interesting ideas incorporated into pretty much all of these songs
by every single member and the production team aswell at some points.
it is also great that everyone seems to have stepped out of their comfort-zone a bit
doing things a little different than in their previous bands to create something new.
also there isn't any performance that only goes by the standard procedure of a bass/git/vox/drum formula.
everyone tries to add something unique to it, so it doesn't become a "kyo+friends"-sideproject.
with all this effort, with all this willingness to take a risk, with all the creativity-input from every side,
i really really really wanted to like this record.
i tried hard to, but now after four listens or so i think i don't, and here is why.
------------
unfortunately the songs in their completed stage don't work. that is as themselves, and as the 16-track combination that is this album.
you can tell that this is a very new project, that hasen't really accustomed to each other yet.
you can tell that there is always eclectic stuff going on in the guitars, some eclectic stuff with the bass and some offbeat drumming going on,
all buried under eclectic multilayered falsetto-choruses from kyo, but none of this really fits the other.
it feels more like an endless stream of random ideas in each part, that every member had lieing around somewhere on their harddrive
added afteranother and layered over another.
there is very few occasions, where one of the parts actually serves the other or compliments it.
furthermore there then is very little developement or dramaticality in the tracks, they start at some point, morph their initial idea/groove a few times around and then at some point they end, like a shapeless form of music, that just happens to be as long as it is.
no progression, no (or very little and poorly executed) transitions and very little to be exited for then.
this results unfortunately in an album where very little sticks to the mind and which is, despite all its originality, pretty boring.
there are only 3 or four tracks that manage to make a slight dent in my memory,
but even those are only kinda meh-ish, all the rest is a shapeless blob of random noodling.
-------------------
and now for the obligatory (current!) DEG refernce,
deg members have most of the time a very similar, boxy and eclectic, un-catchy type of playing,
even their "melodic" tracks aren't really that melodic at all.
but they have managed to put all their weirdness together.
to know when to take a step back and just do chugchug, when to abruptly end phrases to get into a completely different gear for a bridge/chorus/whatevs.
despite everyone sucking pretty bad at their instruments of choice, through knowing and considering each others abilities and giving each other space they managed to incorporate their ungroovy ideas to create breathing and obscure lively behemoths of songs that keep you on the edge of the seat.
this is the very quality, that sukekiyo still lacks greatly,
a good songwriter/arranger to put all that creative brilliance into good use in a dramatical and organic song.
not doing a track by track, but in general this album would probably get sth like a 6/10 (4 of that for effort), who knows, mabe it'll grow on me, but i doubt it.

ok, right upfront, am i the only one, that deson't really get all the exitement about this album? it pretty much falls into the cathegory "appreciate the effort, but no thanks"
i'll start with what is (very!) good about this release.
you can tell that there went a lot of effort into all of these tracks.
there are tons of different and interesting ideas incorporated into pretty much all of these songs
by every single member and the production team aswell at some points.
it is also great that everyone seems to have stepped out of their comfort-zone a bit
doing things a little different than in their previous bands to create something new.
also there isn't any performance that only goes by the standard procedure of a bass/git/vox/drum formula.
everyone tries to add something unique to it, so it doesn't become a "kyo+friends"-sideproject.
with all this effort, with all this willingness to take a risk, with all the creativity-input from every side,
i really really really wanted to like this record.
i tried hard to, but now after four listens or so i think i don't, and here is why.
------------
unfortunately the songs in their completed stage don't work. that is as themselves, and as the 16-track combination that is this album.
you can tell that this is a very new project, that hasen't really accustomed to each other yet.
you can tell that there is always eclectic stuff going on in the guitars, some eclectic stuff with the bass and some offbeat drumming going on,
all buried under eclectic multilayered falsetto-choruses from kyo, but none of this really fits the other.
it feels more like an endless stream of random ideas in each part, that every member had lieing around somewhere on their harddrive
added afteranother and layered over another.
there is very few occasions, where one of the parts actually serves the other or compliments it.
furthermore there then is very little developement or dramaticality in the tracks, they start at some point, morph their initial idea/groove a few times around and then at some point they end, like a shapeless form of music, that just happens to be as long as it is.
no progression, no (or very little and poorly executed) transitions and very little to be exited for then.
this results unfortunately in an album where very little sticks to the mind and which is, despite all its originality, pretty boring.
there are only 3 or four tracks that manage to make a slight dent in my memory,
but even those are only kinda meh-ish, all the rest is a shapeless blob of random noodling.
-------------------
and now for the obligatory (current!) DEG refernce,
deg members have most of the time a very similar, boxy and eclectic, un-catchy type of playing,
even their "melodic" tracks aren't really that melodic at all.
but they have managed to put all their weirdness together.
to know when to take a step back and just do chugchug, when to abruptly end phrases to get into a completely different gear for a bridge/chorus/whatevs.
despite everyone sucking pretty bad at their instruments of choice, through knowing and considering each others abilities and giving each other space they managed to incorporate their ungroovy ideas to create breathing and obscure lively behemoths of songs that keep you on the edge of the seat.
this is the very quality, that sukekiyo still lacks greatly,
a good songwriter/arranger to put all that creative brilliance into good use in a dramatical and organic song.
not doing a track by track, but in general this album would probably get sth like a 6/10 (4 of that for effort), who knows, mabe it'll grow on me, but i doubt it.

ok, right upfront, am i the only one, that deson't really get all the exitement about this album? it pretty much falls into the cathegory "appreciate the effort, but no thanks"
i'll start with what is (very!) good about this release.
you can tell that there went a lot of effort into all of these tracks.
there are tons of different and interesting ideas incorporated into pretty much all of these songs
by every single member and the production team aswell at some points.
it is also great that everyone seems to have stepped out of their comfort-zone a bit
doing things a little different than in their previous bands to create something new.
also there isn't any performance that only goes by the standard procedure of a bass/git/vox/drum formula.
everyone tries to add something unique to it, so it doesn't become a "kyo+friends"-sideproject.
with all this effort, with all this willingness to take a risk, with all the creativity-input from every side,
i really really really wanted to like this record.
i tried hard to, but now after four listens or so i think i don't, and here is why.
------------
unfortunately the songs in their completed stage don't work. that is as themselves, and as the 16-track combination that is this album.
you can tell that this is a very new project, that hasen't really accustomed to each other yet.
you can tell that there is always eclectic stuff going on in the guitars, some eclectic stuff with the bass and some offbeat drumming going on,
all buried under eclectic multilayered falsetto-choruses from kyo, but none of this really fits the other.
it feels more like an endless stream of random ideas in each part, that every member had lieing around somewhere on their harddrive
added afteranother and layered over another.
there is very few occasions, where one of the parts actually serves the other or compliments it.
furthermore there then is very little developement or dramaticality in the tracks, they start at some point, morph their initial idea/groove a few times around and then at some point they end, like a shapeless form of music, that just happens to be as long as it is.
no progression, no (or very little and poorly executed) transitions and very little to be exited for then.
this results unfortunately in an album where very little sticks to the mind and which is, despite all its originality, pretty boring.
there are only 3 or four tracks that manage to make a slight dent in my memory,
but even those are only kinda meh-ish, all the rest is a shapeless blob of random noodling.
-------------------
and now for the obligatory (current!) DEG refernce,
deg members have most of the time a very similar, boxy and eclectic, un-catchy type of playing,
even their "melodic" tracks aren't really that melodic at all.
but they have managed to put all their weirdness together.
to know when to take a step back and just do chugchug, when to abruptly end phrases to get into a completely different gear for a bridge/chorus/whatevs.
despite everyone sucking pretty bad at their instruments of choice, through knowing and considering each others abilities and giving each other space they managed to incorporate their ungroovy ideas to create breathing and obscure lively behemoths of songs that keep you on the edge of the seat.
this is the very quality, that sukekiyo still lacks greatly,
a good songwriter/arranger to put all that creative brilliance into good use in a dramatical and organic song.
not doing a track by track, but in general this album would probably get sth like a 6/10 (4 of that for effort), who knows, mabe it'll grow on me, but i doubt it.

i never got the full hang of doujin music unfortunately, i guess most of the time the horrid sound of the production made me back of a bit it is definitely a field that i should explore more, because it essentially is like the nerdiest thing that humankind has come up with so far. selfpublished powermetal covers with computergenerated voices to songs of hardcore indie vertical-scroller bullet-hell videogame soundtracks.... that sentence oozes nerdism out of every particle
 
that beeing said, there is one artist(/circle?) that grabbed my attention, which is DEMETORI
 
he is (like most of them) a damn rad guitar-shred machine, but also has the skills for a very fine production of his also pretty sweet arrangements

 
shameless self-promotion ahead
i even did a Cover/Reproduction of one of his tracks (a re-recorded cover of a rearranged cover so to say...)

 
also i need to mention one particular circle/album, which is just too damn addictive (and the production is sort of just listenable enough ^^)
and that is the one album by Undead Corporation, where they mixed their powermetal/metalcore with taiko drums and flutes and ditched the shouting/scrreming vocals to create some of the most epic and melodic tracks i have discovered in the wide field of anything "metal" so far...

i never got the full hang of doujin music unfortunately, i guess most of the time the horrid sound of the production made me back of a bit it is definitely a field that i should explore more, because it essentially is like the nerdiest thing that humankind has come up with so far. selfpublished powermetal covers with computergenerated voices to songs of hardcore indie vertical-scroller bullet-hell videogame soundtracks.... that sentence oozes nerdism out of every particle
 
that beeing said, there is one artist(/circle?) that grabbed my attention, which is DEMETORI
 
he is (like most of them) a damn rad guitar-shred machine, but also has the skills for a very fine production of his also pretty sweet arrangements

 
shameless self-promotion ahead
i even did a Cover/Reproduction of one of his tracks (a re-recorded cover of a rearranged cover so to say...)

 
also i need to mention one particular circle/album, which is just too damn addictive (and the production is sort of just listenable enough ^^)
and that is the one album by Undead Corporation, where they mixed their powermetal/metalcore with taiko drums and flutes and ditched the shouting/scrreming vocals to create some of the most epic and melodic tracks i have discovered in the wide field of anything "metal" so far...

Well this is my first discussion topic, I haven't seen this kind of topic so I made it
 
I know some of the member here love the doujin music!
 
First this is the definition of what is doujin and doujin music for noob according to wikipedia (because I am too lazy lol)
 
 
 
Usually this kind of music is published at bigger event like Comiket or M3 (Music Mix-Media Market), although it is also published at smaller event like Vocamas (Vocaloid Master), Reitaisai, or Touhou Kouroumu, etc. The group of people who made the doujin music is called Circle, although the circle is referred as a band or solo singer too, sometimes. The genre? Doujin music scene has a wide range of genre, from pop/rock, EDM, power metal, melodic death metal, indie rock, ambient, metalcore, post hardcore, trance, gothic, denpa, jazz, hip hop, bossa nova, classical, I think there is a possibility in any genre. In doujin music term, there is original and arrangement song (the most famous one is Touhou arrangement! ). Both are great, although I prefer to listen the original one because its originality makes more awesome!
 
Post your favorite doujin circle/music here, and share your opinion how good the doujin music is! I will share my fave music soon. This thread can be used for upcoming release or other information related to doujin 

Marking their 15th anniversary, D'ESPAIRSRAY will give one reunion concert at 2014/07/29 Zepp DiverCity Tokyo during the event "-Angelo Presents-「THE INTERSECTION OF DOGMA」". Other bands performing: Angelo, FAKE?, RIZE, lynch.
 
The band's message from Facebook:
 

not a bookreader aswell, and i also find it not really out of character for jamie tbqh. it was just a harsh reminder after a period of -not that ill-mannered behavior- that he is the one that basically started all this by happily trying to murder a 10 year old boy, just to protect a "secret" that everybody knows anyway. shocking yes, out of character, not really (if anything his tameness before was more surprising, but this ambivalence in the characters is what i like so much about the show )
 
also @zess at a show with more than 1 sources like this you might want to specify if it's book or tv-show spoilers
 
EDIT: also, yes nudity etc doesn't ruin anything, but the rather systematic and simple "tits/dicks of the week" concept is rather annoying. i might even find it pretty offensive compered to the otherwise thought through and well executed series/episodes. that's just like putting mayonnaise on each and every meal, including the dessert (and i love me some mayonnaise...)

love the new season so far, that new southern prince character is super cool!

Just a buncha random, funny shit I've found lying around my HD. Feel free to add to the craziness:
 
 
 
Only panda:
 

 
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SOMEBODY HAD A BAD DAY AT WORK:
 

 
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sai gives THE BEST advice:
 

 
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Our admin is suspicious:
 

 
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Go home mediafire, you're drunk:
 

 
BAD-INFLUENCE ATSUSHI SAKURAI MEME:
 

 
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Oh really? Tell me more
 

 
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I think the desktops have a message for us:
 

 
 
 
THE THIRST IS REAL:
 

 
 
PANDA AND I HAVE SEEN THE APOCALYPSE:
 

 
 
FLAWLESS Japanese p2p trading ettiquette
 

 
 
SRSLY?
 

 
KNEW IT:
 

 
COULD YOU TAKE A COP WITH THE LENNY FACE SRSLY? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
 

 
 
TELL US MORE, KAI-SAMA
 

 
 
JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL:
 

 
STUDENT BECOMES...TEACHER?

 
DO NOT FUCK WITH THE MODS:
 

 
 
WE DON'T LOVE DEM KPOP HOES....apparently:

 
 
DELKMIROPH....STAHHHHHHHHHHHHP

 
TAKING THINGS OUT OF CONTEXT AND CHOPPING OFF TEXT IS FUN!
 

 
 
Lovely filenames...
 

 
...k
 

 
TAKING THINGS OUT OF CONTEXT IS FUN [2]

 
MY RELATIONSHIP WITH WHAT.CD:

 
OBNOXIOUS STAFF NAMES:
 

 

wow, look at me beeing un-interesting!

I FUCKING DON'T WINE!
 
I SIMPLY DID MISUNDERSTOOD THAT BAD RIPS ALSO WILL BE LABELED AS TRANSCODES.
 
And the answer is simply: YES, everything with LQ = Transcode, including the WMP rips etc.
 
 
But I'm so fucking done with MH.
 
goodbye. I will never speak a word nor contribute something to this forum.

the pictures i posted in the "Gear"-topic in the musicians sub-forum show quite a lot of my room, so i'm just gonna relink them here
to the left of my room-door you get this__________taking a picture from that blue couch will look something like this
___
changing the position to the right with still focusing on the guitar-wall gives you the back of my table/workspace which acts as a room-divider which looks like on the right
___
(right picture taken just now with the crappiest cameraphone in the universe...also yes, the amp isn't here right now, it's still in the studio for now)
rotating around the guitar-amp leads to the second to last corner with the bed (behind amp+desk. very important, laptop-table in front of bed ^^)
___
and the single remaining corner (obviously again taken just now with my primate-communication-device) contains nothing spectacular.
mainly my closet, a little pizza-oven named steven, a broken laptop-lcd hanging above the max-payne-poster and the blue couch to the right, where we started....

me untidy? why yes, how did you know??

DS is finally live! We're a bit exhausted at the moment as we've been finalizing a lot of things today in anticipation of the launch. So forgive me for not having much to say right now!
 
If you'd like to read more, we have a fairly detailed post of what's coming up next in development here: http://deadeyes-star.com/blog/2013/12/introduction-to-deadeyesstar-1
 
I'd also like to introduce our staff! Be sure to give them some love!
@Aion @AmeToMuchi @Biopanda @Champ213 @Friederike @Ito @karin-adele @Kaye @meat @Peace Heavy mk II

i don't know how frequently you listen to music on headphones, but if it's more than just once/twice a week do not underestimate the significance of quality earplugs!!!
i never understood how apple could create an mp3-player with fairly decent soundquality (the ipod) and then ruin all the efforts of the sound-department
with sort of the worst headphones this universe ever crapped out, that is simply beyond my comprehension.
seriously, i once bought earplugs in the supermarket for 5 bucks, with flashy words like "ultra-bass" and "power-whatever",
usually quality indicators for sub-garbage-quality, and even those sounded better than those ipod-noise-vomiters.
i for myself was pretty lucky, as i started with sound-engineering/producing etc..
i looked for mainly studio-headphones, which would also occasionally work on an ipod and in public aswell
and ended up buying those on ebay for 80 bucks (new would be around 200), just because someone recommended them to me.

Grado Labs Prestige Series SR80
so i didn't originally buy them for the everyday and everytime musiclistening but mainly for work.
that was five years ago now and in the end i would say i spend 30% of the time of the day with those on,
simply because listening to music is so much fun in high quality, i'd never have expected to listen to so much music before.
of course one doesn't have to spend that much on headphones, but don't just go with "those look cool" and/or "knowing myself i'll brake them in two weeks time",
quality sound can really open new worlds for the intelligent and good looking music-enthusiast ^^
you can already get some good earplugs somewhere in the 20-40 bucks pricerange, the problem is to identify quality products.
so this is what one can do.
take your ipod with some of your favorite albums to the sound-shop of choice (the bigger the selection of headphones, the better)
then listen to some of your favorite tracks on the most expensive headphones they have there.
after that grab all the headphones of your pricerange of choice and compare, which one comes closest to that ridicculously pricy headphone of before.
key trick is to pay close attention to the bass-frequencys, because that's where the most bogus happens.
i don't know what kind of music you listen to, but assuming it's somewhere in the heavy-rock-genre focus on the bass drum.
if you happen to put on a headphone where you think "jolly unicorn-testicles, now that is a lot of bass!!!" put them down and immediately cross them of your list
this is usually a gain-raise in the somewhere not-so-bassy-frequencys to distract from the actual lack of real low-frequencys.
assuming the mix of your song of choice is top notch, the most prominent sign of quality is to actually still hear the kick-drum in the really loud parts
not just the stereotypical metal 4khz 'klacklack', but in some bass-range that if heard live or over huge speakers would punch you in the stomach.
aah crap, look at that shit, i wrote a fuckin 2000-pages epic again, meh...
tl;dr:
1. compare headphones of your preferred pricerange to the most ridicculously expensive you can find and pick the one that comes closest
2. do NOT EVER underestimate the power and joy, that comes from quality sound and headphones!!!
particularly if you're pretty much constantly on the move = constantly listening to something on your headphones
EDIT: and don't pay any attention to the frequency-scale that supposedly is provided by the headphones, those numbers are the bullcrappiest bullcrap any bull has ever crapped...

OK I've officially caught up. The first 2.5 episodes feel like a cheap SAO clone. Everything after that is when Log Horizon grows into it's own thing.

jesus, totally forgot about wakusei! i actually downloaded it and put it on my ipod when it came out, but then it completely left my brainworks
this shit is seriously cool, very tokyo jihen-ish, in a good way!
thanks for pointing them out again (over the winter-holidays i will be hanging at my parents place and be very very bored, ideal for listening this whole list through and maybe reviewing the stuff that caught my attention )

jesus, totally forgot about wakusei! i actually downloaded it and put it on my ipod when it came out, but then it completely left my brainworks
this shit is seriously cool, very tokyo jihen-ish, in a good way!
thanks for pointing them out again (over the winter-holidays i will be hanging at my parents place and be very very bored, ideal for listening this whole list through and maybe reviewing the stuff that caught my attention )

jesus, totally forgot about wakusei! i actually downloaded it and put it on my ipod when it came out, but then it completely left my brainworks
this shit is seriously cool, very tokyo jihen-ish, in a good way!
thanks for pointing them out again (over the winter-holidays i will be hanging at my parents place and be very very bored, ideal for listening this whole list through and maybe reviewing the stuff that caught my attention )