http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:AuntyRichie&section=today deviantART RSS for by:AuntyRichie en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:34 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/28656992/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/28656992/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:34:07 PST I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
cleansing I've endured within"

It's been a while since I've updated my journal. Lessee.... Well I had a blood test today and almost passed out. Which is strange cause I've never almost or even fully passed out ever. What a strange and scary experience that was. Luckily I just had to lie down for a few minutes and I came right. It was most likely due to not eating anything that morning. Moron, lol. Oh well, although it was creepy when it was happening I kind of knew in the back of my head not to panic or worry which was good. Plus Lorilei was there too and it always helps to have someone you know around. Thanks Paz! <3

Picked up the self titled album by 'Them Crooked Vultures' the other day. It's pretty cool. It's like an old school style Queens of the Stone Age. It's alot more bluesy than QotSA though. 'Elephants' is probably my favourite song so far.

Had our first jam session in about 3 weeks yesterday. It wasn't too bad. We tend to be a bit rusty after short breaks. I'm sure next week will be epic though, lol. We're making some good progress with 'Anna Molly' and 'Lost Art of Keeping a Secret' though. Me and Lorilei have been practicing them just the two of us so we can get them down before adding in JD's drums. It's a little easier that way, especially with new songs. Once we get those two down we plan to do a song by 'A Perfect Circle'. We have tossed a few songs around but nothing that everyone has agreed on just yet.

Haven't done an aweful lot of artwork over the past month. I have one unfinished drawing that I'd like to have up before the new year. It's Seras Victoria from 'Hellsing'. I'm quite happy with it but even so I haven't really been overly motivated to finish it just yet. I'm pretty sure that due to my NEW LAPTOP!!!! I got a new Acer laptop the other day and I've been on it so much lately it's taking up all my time, lol. No life! Haha. I'm sure the novelty will run out eventually.......or not -_^

Anyhoo, I'm out of crap to yabber about. Catch ya.

Lyrics for this entry from '46 and 2' by Tool from the album Aenima.

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/27310968/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/27310968/ Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:39:03 PDT
Oh man, got the new Muse album 'The Resistance' the other week. It's friking brilliant. So different from the last album. It's quite electronic based as opposed to 'Black Holes and Revelations' which had a sort of Spanish tone to it. Standout tracks for me so far would be 'Uprising', 'Undisclosed Desires', 'Unnatural Selection' and the first part of the 'Exogenesis' symphony. Truly epic. The rest are growing on me pretty quickly also. God I'm getting tickets as soon as it's stated that they're coming here.

In other news (lol) I stretched my left ear to 8mm this morning. Holy f*** did it hurt. So much more than 4mm. It's still aching now even. It looks pretty good though. It's a black taper around and inch and a half long. I'll leave it as an 8 for a while I think. I'll go onto a 10 once my right ear has been stretched. Which might be a while cause it was only pierced about 4 weeks ago.

My band has made some awesome progress. We're sounding really good now and our batch of covers is coming together nicely. We've resolved most of our timing issues and even started a new cover today. 'Bohemian Like You' by the Dandy Warhols. It's like the easiest song ever but it sounds real good. Basically pulled it off in one jam session today. Epic. We even had an audience. My mum and sister and a couple of my friends came round to watch. Hope you guys enjoyed the show. We'll be even better next time -_^ Can't wait for next Sunday now, haha.

End transmission.

Title of this journal is from 'Exogenesis part II: Cross Pollination' from the new Muse album, 'The Resistance'.

Buy it.

Now.

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/26438101/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/26438101/ Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:54:57 PDT
Hmm, what to say. I'm basically only writing a new journal cause I'm sick of the old one, haha. Ah, thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. It was much appreciated ^^ I had a great birthday. Well, the day itself wasn't that great. I had to work (it was a tuesday) and my workmates forgot it was my birthday but bleh, it's not so bad, everybody else remembered. Anyhow, I had a shindig on the weekend following the tuesday which was rather fun. Hadn't drunk anything for ages so it was nice to break out the alcohols and all. The next night I went to a dinner with the family which was just as good. It was an all you can eat thing. Can't go wrong with all you can eat, that's for sure -_^ All in all it was an epic weekend. *sigh* back to reality now......but I'm sure a bourbon would fix that.

On another note, the band is almost at the stage of putting singing with our songs. I've gone through 'The Red' on my own and can pull off the entire song playing and singing at the same time. It's not as difficult as I first thought. Hopefully this weekend we can do the song in it's entirety, including lyrics. Fun on a bun. We have another song lined up to cover too, 'The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret' by Queens of the Stone Age. These guys are brilliant. They're all I've been listening to lately. Bought all their albums (at least the ones I can find. Their first album is hard to come by but I think it's being re-released sometime later this year, I'll pick it up then) and each one is entirely different from the last and they're all brilliant. I don't understand how I didn't find these guys sooner -_- Hopefully we can pull this cover off.
Epic.

Oh and found out last week that the original cast from Futurama will be coming back for the 6th season. Woohoo! Originally I'd heard that the entire cast was being replaced cause Fox couldn't pay them enough. Luckily all was resolved and they're coming back. My prayers to the Robot Devil have been answered ^^

Song in the title for this journal is 'Martini' from the album 'Monuments and Melodies' by Incubus ^^

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/25425355/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/25425355/ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:34:20 PDT With words we make shapes
And our angles can align'

Okay, I've had 'Monuments and Melodies' for almost a week now and have listened to it basically twice every night. Wow. It is breathtaking. Especially the rarities disc. Not just that but the two new songs on disc 1 are great too. Yep, that's right, 'Black Heart Inertia' is growing on me too, lol.

Anyhoo, here's my thoughts on the new songs:

'Black Heart Inertia'
- Originally thought this song wasn't overly great. But after getting the album, it started to grow on me. I'm still not the biggest fan of the Chorus, but the versus are ace and the bassline is awesome. Especially near the end. The solo is pretty impressive aswell.

'Midnight Swim'
- This was the other newly recorded song. Upon first listen I was kind of disappointed, but everytime I listen it gets better. The bridge part is epic and then when it repeats at the end it's even better. It's like a wall of sound. I noticed it has a similarity in song structure as some of Ben Kenney's solo stuff, which is pretty cool cause his stuff is great. Jose's drumming in this one is an epic win also.

'While All the Vultures Feed'
- Totally. Awesome. This track is my favourite of all the new ones. The verses are brilliant, the guitar and the bassline are ace. The breakdown after each verse is awesome too, reminds me of a Muse bassline, but without distortion or a fuzzbox effect. This has got to be one of the best Incubus songs ever. How this missed an album is beyond me, lol.

'Anything'
- A Morning View track that didn't make it. I wasn't overly impressed to begin with but now I dig it alot. The rawness of the sound is great. It's easy to tell it's from Morning View but it seems to be less 'glossed' than what appeared on the album. You can actually hear things like the guitar vibrating through the snare drum, it's rather trippy. Very cool track. Get's better each time I listen.

'Martini'
- This is one of my favourites. It has a 'Zee Deevel' type quality about it which frikken rocks. The way Brandon Boyd sings in the verses sort of reminds me of Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20. Then there's the solo, it has a huge similarity to the solo from 'Rogues' which was one of my favourites from Light Grenades so when I heard the 'Martini' solo I almost peed myself (well...not really but I was close to almost). Epic. This should have been on Light Grenades...

'Let's Go Crazy'
- This one is a cover of the Prince song. Took a while to grow on me though. Incubus does an awesome job at it. I'm not a fan of the spoken part at the start but the song itself is pretty fun. Then again, Prince's version was too. Mike does an awesome job on the solo in this. I'd say this would be pretty fun to see live ^^

All I can say is that I'm looking forward to 2010 when hopefully they release their next full album. They are brilliant and I can't wait to go see them live again too ^^


Lyrics used in the title of this journal are from the song 'While All the Vultures Feed' from Incubus Greatest Hits album, 'Monuments and Melodies'.

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/25101025/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/25101025/ Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:38:17 PDT

Wary indeed.....not of water though. Maybe electricity.
My bathroom light literally blew up about 15 minutes ago. What the hell. I flipped it on. Looked up and BOOM! It blew up! Random. Anyhoo, that's not the worst of it.......it knocked out the rest of the lights in the house. Luckily it only knocked out the lights and not all the power but man I was creeped out that the thing was going to burst into flames.....it smelt so bad after it happen. You know, that electrical fire type smell. Scary stuff. Not to mention it gave me the biggest fright of my life. From now on the bathroom window stays open when I'm home so that NO dampness stays inside (I'm gathering that's the reason it happened). Can't have a repeat scenario of what happened here tonight, lol. I'll ring the landlady tomorrow about it. Hopefully it can be fixed quickly. I feel like a cave dweller or something, haha!

PS: My heart is still going at frikking 100 miles an hour and it happened almost half an hour ago, lol.

Anyhoo, on a good note, my favourite band Incubus is bringing out a greatest hits album on the 16th of June titled 'Monuments and Melodies'. I'm psyched. Usually I don't care for greatest hits or best of CDs. But in this case, the album has two new songs, 'Black Heart Inertia' (Heard it and it's not bad. Sort of So-so although it has a great bassline and a cool bridge) and 'Midnight Swim' (Heard a 30 second snippet and man it sounds epic!). On top of that the album has a bonus rarities disc (which I'm looking forward to the most) with a bunch of B-sides and unreleased material on it. Not to mention the CD will allow you to access an eclusive 'vault' on their website to get even more awesome stuff. Two weeks to go!! June is going to be a good month ^^

PPS: Obviously the title of this journal is an Incubus song. 'Beware! Criminal' from the album 'A Crow Left of the Murder'

Peace out Napoleon.

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/22645679/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/22645679/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:08:16 PST
Wow, it's been a while since I wrote a journal.
Let's see.

My sister came to stay with me last week, which was cool. The main reason for coming was to look for a job in little ol' Napier. It was pretty good to have someone to yak to when I got home from work. Hopefully she can get a job at Hells..... might get free pizza, lol ^^

It was one of my best friends birthday today. Happy Birthday Lorilei. Hope you had a good one ^_________^ Me and JD went halves and bought her a bass amp and blue Cort Action bass guitar. Which leads me to the next thing I wanted to say......

The band is back! Yep, new name, new line up (well, basically the same line up with one less, lol) and a new jam room. The jam room is now in the lounge of your's trully. Cool thing is, there's still plenty of room for it to stay a lounge. The drums took up less space then I thought they would. We have a few new songs we're going to cover too. The most difficult being 'Hysteria' by Muse. It's a tough song mainly cause of the speed but I'm sure we can pull it off. Oh, by the way, the name of our band is FazeOut.

I'm still working through my Rita comic. The goal is to get the first volume done before the end of the year (seems a long time but I'm sure it'll go pretty quick unfortunatly). At present I'm going back through my old pages and reworking some pictures, then I'll continue from where I left off. Wish me luck ^^ I might post a couple of the new pages at some point so watch this space!

Adios!

PS: Title is from 'istola' from the album 'A Crow Left of the Murder' by Incubus.

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/21180387/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/21180387/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:14:44 PDT
The band wrote a new song recently, it sounds really good. We worked on it today and it sounds awesome. That makes two songs so far. Neither are completely finished and do need to be practiced so they sound better but they are coming along well. The first song we wrote is titled 'Yellow Paper'. The name came from the fact that I was writing the tab on yellow paper, lol. It's just a working title but you never know, it may stick. The new song, which we worked on today and is the reason I'm so amped and excited, is called 'Relocation and Relief'. The name for this song was chosen after I moved house. Makes sense. Point is, I'm really proud of the band achievement thus far. Haven't had a chance to play 'Relocation and Relief' as a full band yet but hopefully will be able to this weekend. Fingers crossed.

I'm also really happy with my artwork at this present point in time. My latest cartoon of Lulu from Final Fantasy X is my favourite cartoon yet. I feel as though I've reached a new pinnicle with my illustration. It's rather uplifting. I have a feeling that me being able to express myself musically as well as on paper has helped. I'm hoping all this creativity will continue. It's a great feeling ^__^

Anyhoo, ramble over.

PS: Subject title is from the Incubus song 'Light Grenades' from the album of the same name.

Toodles ^^

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Oh my goshk! We'll be setting up our new drum kit tomorrow! Can't wait! It'll be somethnig for the record books cause it marks the first time the entire band (members and instruments) will come together! Oh yeah, we aquired a drum kit by pure chance when the lead guitarist entered a competition for Cadbury chocolate where you could win a drum kit....and he won! People dont win things?! The band must have been destined to be ^___^ We're not doing half bad considering we haven't been playing together for half a year yet. The songs we can play so far are:

'Seven Nation Army' by the White Stripes
'Zombie' by the Cranberries
'A Kiss To Send Us Off' by Incubus
'Dimension' by Wolfmother
' Pure Massacre' by Silverchair

Other songs we have in the works are 'Revolution 1' by the Beatles, 'The Red' by Chevelle and 'Say It Ain't So' by Weezer.

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/18671827/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/18671827/ Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:56:25 PDT
Woohoo, guess what. I've joined a band! So cool. Me and two of my mates decided it'd be a great idea to start a band. I play lead and rythem guitar (depending on the song). We don't have a drummer yet but we aren't too worried for the time being, it's only a bit of fun. We set up and play in the bassist's sleepout (she's so lucky to have that place). We've only had a couple of jam sessions but we already have two songs we're not half bad at and a bunch of others we know parts of. So far we can play 'Seven Nation Army' by The White Stripes and 'Zombie' by the Cranberries. We can also play peices from 'Wish You Were Here', both the Pink Floyd song and the Incubus song, 'Say It Ain't So' by Weezer and 'Anna Molly' and 'A Kiss To Send Us Off' by Incubus. Pretty cool ^^
No name just yet although we've tossed a couple around.

Anyhow, that's it from me. Nothing much else is happening at present. Just stinkin' work.

By the way, the song in the title is 'Make Yourself' from the album with the same name by Incubus ^^

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/17002345/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/17002345/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:57:47 PST
Or there, considering I'm talking about something that happened just last night....

I SAW INCUBUS LIVE!!!
Holy s*** they were so good! So much energy and awesomeness! Lol. I was buzzing the entire time, it was epic
I was quite surprised they played more of the pre-Light Grenades stuff than I thought they would. Okay so they played (I can't remember the proper order but this is as close as I can remember)

Quicksand
A Kiss to Send Us Off
Anna Molly
Beware Criminal
Warning
Talk Shows on Mute
Nice To Know You
Vitamin
Pistola
Drive
Wish You Were Here
The Warmth
Sick Sad Little World
Oil and Water
Megalomaniac
Stellar
Dig

I'm pretty sure that was all of them.

Great concert and one of the most legendary bands ever, in my opinion. I'll be uploading some of the photos I got on bebo in a couple of days. They're not the greatest quality cause I took them on my phone but still, you get the picture ^^

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/16741099/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/16741099/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:29:58 PST
Woohoo! I'm going to the Incubus concert on the 21st of Febuary!!! I've been wanting to see them for so long. I missed them last time they were here in 04', which is the pits. But I told myself I wouldn't miss them this time and I didn't! I's gots tickets!

PS: The lyrics in the top of this journal are from 'Nice To Know You' by Incubus, of course ^^

]]> ~AuntyRichie http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/16264590/ http://AuntyRichie.deviantart.com/journal/16264590/ Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:31:53 PST every piece contains a map of,
IT ALL!

So here I am finally. I have honestly been planning on joining here for around two years now, lol. My sisters talked me into it in the end.

Took me a while to get my gallery together as I had quite a few drawings I wanted to upload. Of course, this isn't even half of them but these were the ones I thought worthy. I'm my own worse critic, lol.

Hopefully I make a few new online friends while I'm here and learn alot from other peoples artwork. Anyhow, kudos to all!

PS: The lyrics at the top are from the song 'A Crow Left of the Murder' by my favourite band, Incubus.

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