2 Bits of Ayreon News

Yesterday (well, by this time the day before yesterday) 2 new posts were made on Arjen Anthony Lucassen's website.
The first telling us of a fan meet even to be held in amsterdam for 250 people on the 15th of September this year. A coverband will play some Ayreon songs, apparently also some from the new album.
for more info check here...

The other one was the announcement of the name of the 2nd vocalist for the album. This time it's Simone Simons from Epica who also have a new CD coming on September 7th 2007.
for more info on Epica and Simone Simons check:
Official Epica Website
Epica @ MySpace
Simone Simons @ MySpace

Circus Maximus - Isolate

Artist: Circus Maximus Album: Isolate Year: 2007 Genre: Progressive Metal Origin: Norway Tracklist: A Darkened Mind Abyss Wither Sane No More Arrival of Love Zero Mouth of Madness From Childhood's Hour Ultimate Sacrifice

When I first heard Circus Maximus I was quite surprised. It was during a time where I was bored with most new things I heard since they didn't sound fresh, they had no edge, it was all barely even progressive. Circus Maximus, at that time, had an excellent sound to them, a little heaver then most progressive metal I'd heard in a while. Later I saw that they were to perform live at ProgPower EU and I discovered that they were working on a new CD, due very soon. I've heard it for the first time today, it's just damn awesome! I can't say I'm disappointed. I'm happy, better then anything I expected!

Internet Legacy

I'm all across the Internet. I have accounts on almost everything I can find. As you can see in my pages panel, I have a last.fm account, I have a site at freewebs, I have my blog here, I have a blog at pownce, I have an anime list at anidb and one at myanimelist.net, I have a TV show list at myepisodes.net, a CD list at both metal archives and one (outdated) list at MP3.com and then there are probably some I can't even remember.
Even though I have all these things, none of them actually get any visits at all. Sure my anime list has had 166 hits (in the, what, 2 years I've been there?), most of them (if not all) are made by myself (changes, lookups, etc). I have some friends on these sites, most of them don't know me though, some rarely visit at all, others never. I have actually, I think, only one person on these sites who added me and I have frequent contact with. And even she is slipping. And ofcourse there is the person who invited me to Pownce, I have a lot of contact with him, mainly because we follow the same .NET course and because whenever I post something he instantly gets to see it on his page and when he posts something I get to see it on mine and I usually reply.
Even as I write this post I know for certain that nobody will read it, so why do I bother?

I guess I'm hoping that one day someone will read it and find it either mildly interesting or highly annoying and comment or something.
Also I like to test stuff out, so websites like del.icio.us hold interest for me in that respect (as do websites like this and pownce and such).

Of course that nobody reads these things or talks to me anywhere is also because I have nothing interesting to say. I also don't know the right people, where I live I only know maybe 3 people who really listen to metal, only 1 of which I speak to, and none of them listen to any of the sub-genres I listen to. My favorite bands are never shared by others around me and things that others like don't hold my interest that much either most of the time.

Though probably the biggest reason I refuse to stop doing these things is that the thing I'm really scared of (I don't know why), is that I will be forgotten... Which I probably will no matter what I do...

Accordion Hero & Modern Life

Lol, I've never played Guitar Hero myself, but of course I've seen several videos of it on YouTube (my friends are big fans, of Rock Band too). And it does look fun, but when I was looking at del.icio.us' front page and noticed a flash game that was described as 'Like Guitar Hero, but Accordion' I had to take a look.

Being a Pop 'n Music veteran (well, not really, 5 buttons only) I did't really have a lot of trouble, but since it is more like what I think Guitar Hero is too, it was some adjustment. Seeing as how you have to press the right button + space. Funny...
Check it here...

On another note, right after I'd checked the accordion hero game out I came across an image that was funny because it's true...
Check it here...

Too much...

It's all becoming just a little too much, I'm going to try to keep all my blogging and stuff to this site and my Pownce page...