Birthday in Off Topic

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May 23 2005, 8:59 pm
My birthday was awesome. My mom made me The Cake Of Doom ™. It had 3 layers, tons of chocolate, and cool swirly candles on it. That was awesome. I got a Dream Theater T-Shirt from Cheryl, an ebay gift certificate from my parents, and a cool radio pen from my neighbor. I found a use for the pen I hadn't thought of when I got it. I can use my iPod to broadcast music on an fm radio station and therefor listen to my iPod wirelessly, so I can walk up to like, 3 feet away from it. Ofcourse my head phone's wire is longer than 3 feet anyway.

I bought a bunch of cds from this guy who was selling em' on the john petrucci forum (dream theater's guitarist) for really cheap. I got:
Joe Satriani - Is there love in space?
Joe Satriani - Flying In a Blue Dream
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
OSI - Office of Strategic Influence

Next I've got to get some of the albums Mike H recommended to me. These just came by for such a good deal I couldn't pass em' up. I'm really digging ALL the CDs so far. As a bonus, I found a Queensryche and Metallica CD at a local consignment shop. I found my old Pantera - Vulger display of power CD and Stroke 9 cd in my sister's room and decided I wanted them back. Life is good!
#1 May 24 2005, 11:25 am
Happy birthday man :)
#2 May 24 2005, 6:02 pm
Here's my present to you: a commemorative blog comment, suitable for framing. Happy birthday!
#3 May 24 2005, 10:43 pm
Happy birthday, sounds like it was pretty good!

I have 3 of the 4 CDs you got (all but the Iron Maiden) and like them a lot. Satriani is pretty much my favorite guitarist so that goes without saying. :) Kind of funny that those 2 albums have 8 of the 10 songs he's sung on. For the most part, I like the instrumentals better, but I have to say the 2 vocal songs on Is There Love In Space? are the best 2 he's ever done IMO. Lifestyle could have been a big radio hit if it was promoted that way.

On Flying In A Blue Dream, I didn't really care for Strange or I Believe until hearing them live. He did I Believe in a really cool acoustic mini-set on the 1998 Crystal Planet tour, and Strange in his recent webcast from last month. They really jam out on that tune, making it way better than the album version. The webcast is pretty awesome, highly recommended everyone check it out. I was able to capture the audio and import the tracks into iTunes as a special album - cool!

Anyway I'm babbling so I'd better stop taking over your blog! :)
#4 May 25 2005, 12:50 am
May I also suggest some mid-to-late Savatage albums such as Streets, Dead Winter Dead, The Wake Of Magellan, and Poets And Madmen? (I prefer The Wake Of Magellan myself, but Streets is up there too.)

...Of course, I think I bring up Savatage in every music thread slightly related to progressive metal so perhaps this comment is redundant.
#5 May 25 2005, 7:03 am
I like Joe Satriani's vocal tunes as well. His instrumentals are generally better, but at least he can sing better than Yngwie Malmsteen.

I've heard about Savatage and I've been meaning to check them out too. They're low on my list though. I've got to get some Arch Enemy, Soilwork, and other melodic metal stuff, as well as a bunch of guitar virtuoso stuff.
#6 May 25 2005, 2:47 pm
Happy birthday. Unless you are the death metal type, in which case may you languish for eternity in the deepest pits of hell while large breasted demon women torment you.

Either way, have a good time :-)
#7 May 25 2005, 7:49 pm
Happy birthday! On a side note, aside from my older brother, I never met anyone outside of BYOND that knew of Joe Satriani before they met me (and at 22 I'm not in that young of a crowd). Is that not the strangest thing? I want to see the huge rock that these people have been living under.