Brushstroke 6

This is my weekly update on my listening habbits and includes my two cents on music news, and a rundown on gigs I have been to. I have three main listening styles.... My music I listen to before going to bed (I have chronic insomnia, and I cant go to sleep without something playing), the music I listen to on Triple J, and the albums I listen to at other times - I normally by a new one every two weeks, which gets high rotation - for a while anyway... I also have music on my computer at work, for when my MP3 battery is charging. I go on about metal a lot, because that is where my passion lies, but I haven't been listening to that all that much lately... just because I mostly listen to the radio... Some of these songs will be repeated weekly - I dont change my MP3s much...

Night Tunes: Ani Difranco - Knuckledown

Day Tunes:
Albums:- Rise Against, Tool, Dredg, Opeth, Morbid Angel,
Loose MP3s:- Anima, Bertie Blackman, Deep Sea Arcade, Metric, Sarah Blasco, Yves Klein Blue, Boy and Bear, Mumford and Sons - basically all the ones I downloaded from the JJJ website this year LOL

Radio Tunes I've taken note of: "Little Lion Man" & "Thistle & Weeds" - Mumford And Sons , "The Number One Cause of Death" by The Basics, "Mexican Mavis" - Boy and Bear (its now a free download at triplej.net.au), "Down to the Cemetery" - Kid Sam, "Drumming Song" - Florence and the Machines, "Brushstroke: An Elephant in Delta Waves" - Dredg, Scarabs - Karnivool, "Prescilla" - Bat for Lashes, "Black Cats" - Bertie Blackman, "Here" - VAST, Tegan & Sara, Nine Inch Nails, and Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt.

CDs purchased: Opeth's Watershed... It broke my $10 rule, but I am seeing them in November, and its the only CD i didnt have... favourite band, so i guess it is justifiable to spend a bit more (??)LOL

Reflections:

• Im going to the All Hallows Eve Ball as part of the Under The Blue Moon festival tomorrow night... Its an awesome goth/alternate dark culture festival held in Newtown every year. Im going to the markets in the morning, and then the Ball that night... I'm not really familiar with the bands, but I looked up The Mansons on myspace last night and liked what I heard... Im really going for the fashionshow - but I think i will be appreciating the music too... I couldnt afford to buy an outfit, so I bought 6m of tulle and netting and i am handsewing a skirt tonight LOL Wish me luck...

• Im getting excited... Just ONE WEEK until the first EVER Australian Metal Awards!! And Sami is flying to Sydney to go with me! Fuck YEAH!

• Opeth is in a months time! I got my ticket in the mail w00t!

• Also, I went onto myspace and looked up mitch's band "Captain Twilight and the six-shooters" and i love their song "All I Can Do is Cry" - You can find it at http://www.myspace.com/capntwilight I've been friends with Mitch since I was 6, stood next to him in choir, watched him later as he got into entertaining with music and puppetry... If you are in Brisbane definately try and catch a gig.. I just wish I hadnt had to say no when he invited me to a gig last month... I had flown into Brisbane the night before, and I had an engagement party to attend in Toowoomba... Sucks...
  
  *the naming convention of this series is from Dredg's El Cielo album...