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My Impression of Death Magnetic…So Far
Posted by Matt Fowler in Everything on August 24, 2008
Well, I could tell you every little aspect that I’ve heard of Death Magnetic from MissionMetallica.com; but i’m not like that.
I’m going to just write a little blurb about the two songs that have been released to the public in the past few days.
Cyanide: I really like this song, I love the way they throw in the bass. They really let Rob hold a strong part in this new album. It’s heavy, it’s got a nice break down, and it’s James’ old voice. What else can you say about this song other than awesome? The music on this song is phenomenal, I really love the way they arranged it. They have a powerful beginning, exciting break down, a powerful solo, and an elusive yet ever-recurring chorus to finish it off. I also really like the lyrics. “Suicide, I’ve already died, it’s just the funeral I’ve been waiting for. Cyanide, feeling dead inside, break this empty shell forevermore.” It’s just amazing.
This one was first released live at Ozzfest in Dallas, TX. Premium Mission Metallica members were able to download the whole entire show. (Which also included an awesome Mercyful Fate rendition with King Diamond singing)
Though most people aren’t big fans of songs that clock in anywhere from 7 to 8 minutes, I enjoy it. Especially when it’s a Metallica song. They always keep me entertained.
The Day That Never Comes: I first heard this song when I streamed it off of MissionMetallica.com, then I saw where they were letting Premium users download it, so I couldn’t resist. From what I understand, this was their competition/sequel to the 1991 hit “One”. The song starts out slow, just like One, then takes a quick jump into what Metallica really is. With the solos sounding just as amazing as they did on “…And Justice for All” (I’m talking about the whole Album!) Then towards the end once the lyrics have all been said it 
gets heavy, and I mean really heavy. I was telling people “Slayer” heavy, but it’s not that intense. It’s about as heavy as if Metallica covered Raining Blood. OK, I’m not very good at describing levels of heavy-ness, just listen to it on the radio. Be looking for the video coming out soon. (I’m hitting YouTube up every day in anticipation) Also, just like Cyanide, the lyrics in this song are outstanding. Though I don’t know for sure what the song means just yet, I’m guessing it has to do with a woman who gets beaten and she’s waiting for the day for the guy to be punished, or for her to find a man that isn’t like her previous ones. (In other words, a good man minus the beatings)
Although I could probably write an entire short story on my impression of Death Magnetic so far, I just wanted to touch on the two songs that have been released to the public. Be sure and nab a copy of Death Magnetic in stores everywhere September 12th. Or sign up for MissionMetallica.com premium and get the CD delivered to your house at 12:01 midnight.
Star Wars: FLOP
Posted by Matt Fowler in Uncategorized on August 22, 2008
I should have done some researching before I went and saw this movie. First of all, I didn’t know it was a kids movie. That really upset me. Second of all, it just all out sucked. Kids movie or not, the plot was weak, the storyline had little parts in it that were cute, maybe funny, but all around idiotic.
Here is the saddest part: The droids are the best actors in this movie. They gave the droids (a lot like they did in the Star Wars Clone Wars Mini Series on Cartoon Network) dialouge and some of it was actually pretty funny.
That was something else I didn’t like about this movie. When you watch Star Wars, don’t you think of long winded lines that are strong in intelect and can have up too 3 different meanings all at the same time? Yeah, well this movie was full of “one liners” and what I call “Captain Obvious Lines”. Here’s a good example: “The ship is failing. Oh I hope we don’t crash!” — And that’s a whole scene right there. Not even joking.
I really tried to get into this movie, but I just couldn’t. Maybe I hold too high of standards for Star Wars movies (but, seriously, can you blame me?) And what the hell was up with Jabba the Hut’s uncle Zero? If you don’t know what I’m talking about then search on youtube for Zero the Hut. WOW.
And Jabba has a kid too, in this movie, which is basically what the whole plot is surrounded by. Please tell me the Hut family asexually reproduces. Nightmares.
I really hope George Lucas was on vacation when they made this.
That’s all.
Wow!
Posted by Matt Fowler in Everything on August 9, 2008
I was shocked when I checked AwStats last night. I’m usually not one of those people who really cares how many people go to my site, because I honestly thought that I only had a small group. Well, I did when I first started with this site.. I remember back in 2004 when the domain was first purchased and there was just a place holder, I would get about 1-2 hits a day, averaging about 40 hits per month. That seemed good for me, considering that nobody knew about my site other than the people I had told.
I guess when you have a site for 4 years things really do catch on. I looked at AwStats and my daily hits (average) were anywhere from 2000-4000…DAILY! That’s pretty good for a personal site! Then I looked at Mointhly averages and it ranges anywhere from 6500-10,000 visits a month. I’m not talkin about hits, I’m talking about Unique visitors… DAMN! I had no idea I was actually that popular.
But my only question is this: I have so many visitors, yet nobody ever comments what I write on here. I guess people come here, read it- and they are done. I wonder if I stupidly have it set up to where you have to create an account to post a comment. I’m pretty sure I don’t, though. Then again, doing that stops spammers. (Though I still get a few spam comments that I have to deny every once in awhile — you know the ones I’m talking about. They use you for your trackbacks.)
That was one thing that concerned me – are all these hits Spammers? — But AwStats is fully functional and tells me where they came from, what browser, etc. And I don’t think they are all spammers. I think about 50-100 of the hits & visits are spammers, and the rest are real people looking at my site.
I’m touched, and if I could I’d thank everyone who visits my site, but since I don’t know them, I can’t. So I’ll just say it on here (just in case there are some reoccurring visitors!) THANKS!!
Ok, I’m done for now. I just wanted to share this newly discovered fact.
Oh, and if you don’t have AwStats for your page, you really need to get it. http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
Damn
Posted by Matt Fowler in Uncategorized on August 9, 2008
I’ll admit it, I’m jealous.
Called Telephone Piano. Yeah, woah.
Time waits for no one…not even me
Posted by Matt Fowler in Everything on August 7, 2008
Confused about the title? Look up the lyrics for “Time – The Beginning” by Megadeth. Located on the Risk album.
Been awhile since Brick Hill Publishing has seen a new face, but I figured since I completely upgraded my site it was about time I upgraded BHP. I took about a week out to work on it, and I’m happy with the results. Everything is much more clean and straight forward. I designed it to where a 10 year old could log onto it and purchase a book if they wanted to. (And if they some how had a credit card…must have stole it out of Mommy’s purse)
With new design comes a new logo. I think it is a lot better than the old one. I would show you the old logo, but it was disgraceful compared to this one. Check out archive.org if you really want to see what Brick Hill Publishing used to be. I believe you’ll find that I’ve out done myself this time around.
I also started messing with Dreamweaver’s Spry integration. I didn’t do a whole lot with Spry, but I did some nifty little effects like the Collapsible Content script. You can see the results on the book pages and the contact page. I also used it on the web version of the mail-in order sheet. Used it to verify CC#’s, phone numbers, etc. — Just little things that I never thought about putting on the site until now.
Plus, the site actually looks like a business site again, rather than just a home made site that happens to sell things. Makes sense right?
Anywho, that is about all I’ve been up too lately – at least that’s all I’m going to report. Sure, I do random things every day. (Like get lost in Kentucky! But that’s another story)
Ha, I haven’t posted on …
Posted by Matt Fowler in Everything on August 6, 2008
Had quite a few friend requests – that made me feel popular!
The link is my site. The blog is no longer hosted 3rd party. Now comes directly from the same server.
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